THE WEDDING OF SNOW WHITE

Snow White and the Huntsman

"So the Huntsman has returned," said the Fairy Queen to Snow White, who blushed deeply.

"Yes, Geoffrey was gone a year.  His wife died from the plague and his son was very weak after he recovered and so they went to stay with Geoffrey's mother in a far away village and slowly the boy regained his health.  Then they began the long journey home and found their cottage had burned to the ground.  But our little friends who cared for me for two years welcomed them and allowed them to stay in the little cottage where I had lived.  Anselm told them that I was now Queen and so Geoffrey came to see me and found me in the palace garden."

"And you began to spend time together..." said the Queen.  "And the Huntsman said he loved you...."

"Yes!  And I have loved him for so long....." said Snow White.

"And now you are to be married," said the Queen, smiling.

"Yes, and I want your daughters to attend me and Anselm will give me away.  And I want to be married in the forest at the home of the little men.  I am so happy!"

  

Caleb, the Huntsman's Son

The afternoon of the wedding was bright and clear and filled with birdsong and dappled sunshine.  A long table under the trees was set with so many vases of spring flowers that their scent filled the soft air.  The wedding cake was the most beautiful anyone had ever seen.  As the little men played the fiddle and the flute, the fairy twins floated down the path in matching gowns followed by their little brother, Arthur, the ring bearer and the Huntsman's son, Caleb.  Geoffrey, looking very handsome, entered from the forest and held out his hand for his bride, the radiant Snow White, who walked slowly down the path on the arm of Anselm.  As the bridal couple stood together, the Fairy Queen, joined their hands and began the wedding ceremony.

When Snow White and Geoffrey were at last husband and wife, a collective sigh rose from the assembled company of friends.  When the bride and groom kissed, all who were there on that happy day thought it was about time.  Hours of dancing and feasting followed until the sun set and the moon rose.  Never in all of time had their been such a joyous wedding.  As night fell the guests danced by the light of the moon and thousands of fireflies--the wedding gift of the fairy bridesmaids.

Before the revelry ended Geoffrey and Snow White had slipped away into the forest to a lovely secret place where they would celebrate their long awaited honeymoon.




All photographs were taken by Elizabeth Messina for Faerie
Magazine.