Wedding Photograph of Ben Morse and Richard Mason
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Title: Wedding Photograph of Ben Morse and Richard Mason
Creator: Julian Hargreaves
Date: 2007-09-23
Description: A photograph of Ben Morse (VC Class of 1993) and Richard Mason walking up the aisle during their wedding (civil partnership) ceremony on September 23, 2007 in Glasgow, Scotland, which was unofficially the first openly gay ceremony to be performed in a church in Scotland. He had a green herringbone tweed suit made by a local Edinburgh tailor, and his partner still fit into the bespoke suit his father had made for him when he was 18.
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Identifier
Morse_Italian_Vanity_Fair_11_Oct_2007_2.jpg
Title
Wedding Photograph of Ben Morse and Richard Mason
Description
A photograph of Ben Morse (VC Class of 1993) and Richard Mason walking up the aisle during their wedding (civil partnership) ceremony on September 23, 2007 in Glasgow, Scotland, which was unofficially the first openly gay ceremony to be performed in a church in Scotland. He had a green herringbone tweed suit made by a local Edinburgh tailor, and his partner still fit into the bespoke suit his father had made for him when he was 18.
Creator
Date
2007-09-23
Subject
Weddings
Clothing and Dress
Relation
For Better and For Worse
Type
Still Image
Spatial Coverage
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Rights Holder
© Julian Hargreaves for Italian Vanity Fair, all rights reserved
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Document
Donor
Ben Morse
Public Information
from the donor: "To the Vassar Costume Department,
I am attaching a piece Italian Vanity Fair published on my wedding (civil partnership). Wedding was in Glasgow, Scotland, on 23 Sept 2007; piece was published 11 Oct 2007. Also attaching the English translation.
I wore a green herringbone tweed suit made by a local Edinburgh tailor, and my partner wore a bespoke suit his father had made for him when he was 18 (which still fit). There were at least 10 Vassar grads in attendance. We had a Scottish Episcopal ceremony at which Jews and atheists took communion, and we were somewhat unofficially the first openly gay ceremony to be performed in a church in Scotland.
The inset photo on the fourth page is from our version of a rehearsal dinner -- a drinks party in a Victorian greenhouse two nights before the wedding. I'm wearing a seersucker suit by Dries van Noten.
Enjoy!
Benjamin Morse '93
(Will be at the upcoming reunion.)"
I am attaching a piece Italian Vanity Fair published on my wedding (civil partnership). Wedding was in Glasgow, Scotland, on 23 Sept 2007; piece was published 11 Oct 2007. Also attaching the English translation.
I wore a green herringbone tweed suit made by a local Edinburgh tailor, and my partner wore a bespoke suit his father had made for him when he was 18 (which still fit). There were at least 10 Vassar grads in attendance. We had a Scottish Episcopal ceremony at which Jews and atheists took communion, and we were somewhat unofficially the first openly gay ceremony to be performed in a church in Scotland.
The inset photo on the fourth page is from our version of a rehearsal dinner -- a drinks party in a Victorian greenhouse two nights before the wedding. I'm wearing a seersucker suit by Dries van Noten.
Enjoy!
Benjamin Morse '93
(Will be at the upcoming reunion.)"
Citation
Julian Hargreaves, “Wedding Photograph of Ben Morse and Richard Mason,” Vassar College Costume Collection, accessed September 23, 2023, https://vccc.vassarspaces.net/items/show/4015.
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