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A beautiful day
The wedding outfits I mentioned in the previous post were released at the Paris Fashion Week on Tuesday. The dress, a flat hexagon that opens up into a complex, delicate form, is called Kide; here's a photo and reportage.
Which brings me to the title of the post. Today's our wedding day.
Ilkka Suppanen, a founder of the acclaimed Snow Crash design collective, had earlier formulated an idea he called “a beautiful day†as a challenge to designers. It is a call to act on the future of a world deep in the grip of change that could wipe out much of what people everywhere hold dear. The wedding is part of Dai Fujiwara's answer. He sees in it birth.
I think of the beautiful day notion simply in the context of relationships. We can make each day a beautiful one to those we love.
We're living a time when it is radically easier for people to come together than it was just ten years ago – like with these leading designers' collaboration around the wedding. This is no doubt a good thing. But there's another side to the growing intensity of interaction. People are also dropping relationships on a whim. According to a study by Rutgers University, only 63% of American children grow up with both biological parents - the lowest figure in the Western world.
Happiness requires longetivity. That you stick around in a relationship. But sticking around is hard, because you've got to keep changing yourself to renew it. A wedding makes one face this fact, I think. There are other ways to face it too, of course. But that's what this wedding and all the wonderful activity around it is really about: facing oneself without false presumptions, naked. Acknowledging that if love and happiness are what we desire, then making each day a beautiful one, that's what it's going to take.
February 28, 2008
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Sounds like a beautiful day indeed, and what beautiful words you wrote about happiness and relationships.
Congratulations!
Posted by: Pim | 28 Feb 2008 19:35:06
Congratulations Jyri and Ulla. This is very happy news and my wife and I wish you both great happiness and joy in your marriage.
Posted by: Paul Jacobson | 28 Feb 2008 21:06:27
Beautifully written, Jyri! My best wishes to you and yours.
Posted by: Alper | 29 Feb 2008 01:55:49
Onnittelut "kauniin paivan "ja kauniimman loppuelaman johdosta. :)
Posted by: Susanna | 29 Feb 2008 02:05:30
onnea!
Posted by: olli | 29 Feb 2008 04:20:48
What a lovely story about beautiful days in general and your in particular! May many beautiful days follow this one!
Posted by: Peter Boersma | 2 Mar 2008 06:35:33
I absolutely love weddings! But in all seriousness, what you say about happiness and relationships are true. Sometimes, you have to adjust yourself and your partner as well in order to achieve some sort of balance. Before my first relationship, I never really thought that things could get so complicated and that we would ever change. But if you're open enough and understanding enough, you will realize that change is sometimes necessary.
Posted by: Julie, writer Surefirewealth.com | 3 Mar 2008 03:29:35
Congratulations, and well said.
Though I don't believe longevity is a correlate to happiness, or is necessarily essential in a relationship. Everything is ephemeral anyways, and that's a beautiful truth.
My thoughts on this are very simple... that is not to have expectations of love, or of each other, but rather, 'experiences' of love and each other. Make every moment and experience be born from love, and you will not only be happy, but manifest happiness to all around you.
Posted by: Michael | 7 May 2008 03:35:25
