For a girl, being a bride has always been a thing to which to look forward, even for a Fairy like me and when I married Housemistress Alystra, I was so full of pride that I was in tears as she lifted my veil and kissed me and like all Fairy brides, I still dress in bride's clothes and still get a little misty-eyed when Alystra Kirilise Floricette lifts my veil to kiss me. And we have been married for over 200 years.

This was not always so for Fairies, in fact, during the time of Tiarandra sryl'Floricendri, being taken as a Bride was a thing to be dreaded as it usually meant being kept in rubber. In most cases, at one time and sometimes even now, the girl whose misfortune it was to be a bride was little more than a doll for her Housemistress and the wedding ceremony included laying the bride on a rubber-covered bed, lifting her short little bride's dress and wetsying her in front of all to show what she was. It is no esaggeration to say that the poor bride's skrt was lifted before her veil. Starting with her brides' outfit, all her dresses were well abouve the knee and all her clothes were rubber. If the bride did not scream and cry then it was considered a bad omen and that the housemistress was inferior. and for soooo long we had the phrase "cry like a bride". Also "wet like a bride".

This book was written very long ago. As you can see, the writer does not have three names as we do and the way her last name has been written with "sryl'" has not been used in over 2,000 years and most Fairies would be appalled at the very idea of doing the things she has recommended. But then. Marriages were to a large extent about power and status. Brides were often taken from families that were in bondage to the prospective Housemstree' family. Even girls that were not fit to be brides, but rather, housemistresses, would have their marriages arranged by the greater family to brides from other clans.

The "sryl" wedding was a 3 person affiar. Two "sryl" and a brida. "Sryl" is an old word that has pretty much fallen out of use and meant "sacred chosen elite caretakers"from "sacre regine y l'estellae" and was the title given to all dark-haird girls. The two sryl were Housemistress (Kasamistresa) and First Lady (Primadona). The ceremony was in two parts, the bonding of the two sryl in the morning and the vriding in the afternoon. In all this time. syrl weddings have not been outlawed and every Rubber Lady hopes to officiate at least one. Since we have no more dark haired and because we are close to the wonderful D'Arielle laides, all the participants in a sryl may be light haired and we accept non-Fairies from the D'Arielles. I have in mind my little girl and a lovely little one named Andrea Lynne. We have the perfect little bride for them, too. Plus I get back at Lady Tooth and Lady Tiara for giving me sooo much trouble over that little harriden

This is mostly a book for the greater family about selecting, cultivating and treating a bride for their daughters. It was never really an official text but more of an advice book. However, this being in the middle period of the Pink Horror, when dark-haired Fairies made slaves of the light-heaired leading to the Second Great Rebellion and which left us unable to wear anything pink on our bodies and with the Curse of the Violet Eyed, pretty much all of what is in here had offficial sanction and was adhered to. I put it here at RUFFLES & RIBBONS GIRLS' HOME for the persons here to enjoy and learn some things about my people from and this Girls' Home is becoming the place for all things having to do with the feminine use of rubber on Little Girls. Also as a fun thing for Nurse Bridget Alicia La Rochelle to read since I wrote the "Bride Test" article for the Rubber Little Girl Treasury. Maybe she will read it as a bedtime story to some poor Little Girl being chastized with rubber to give Little Rubbergirl something to think about before lifting the little babydoll dress and.... If only I could be there to hel...er...watch [sigh]