Texas Renaissance Wedding

We had the opportunity to videotape a wedding at the 35th Annual Texas Renaissance Festival in Plantersville, TX (45 miles northwest of Houston) recently. This particular festival covers the English Renaissance period (Henry VIII – circa 1540) and is open each weekend during October and November. While there are several Renaissance festivals operating throughout the country, the Texas Renaissance Festival of Plantersville is the nation’s largest and most acclaimed Renaissance theme park, according to its promoters. This particular festival is a re-creation of a 16th century English village on a 53 acre park.

In addition to a grand procession in her horse-drawn carriage, the bride’s arrival to the wedding ceremony is accompanied by bagpipes, a sword arch and a variety of festival characters (all dressed in Renaissance-period costumes).

This particular YouTube clip is a condensed version of the wedding ceremony produced by Bruce Blackwell of American Video Productions: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQSxRA3BRT4