What do you see in the picture, what is happening, what is unusual, can you explain the story?
Lucy Edwards got married to her partner over summer this year. During the ceremony as she walked down the aisle, she asked all her guests to put on blindfolds. Can you guess why?
Lucy is blind and she says she wanted her guests to "live a moment in my shoes."
As the guests removed their blindfolds, Lucy's partner, Cave, kept on his, so he could feel the textures in Lucy's dress and understand why she picked that dress. Lucy says, "He was able to feel my wedding dress in exactly the same way that I felt it when I first had it on."
"This was such an important experience for us even though Ollie isn't blind, but we thought it was really important for him and all of my guests to experience what it's like for me in the most important moment of our life so far."
Lucy says when she was planning her wedding, she felt uncomfortable about people lovingly staring at her without being able to look back at them in the way she once wanted to.
"I thought, I know no one does this, but lets blindfold all my guests and we can all not see each other and we can all live in this beautiful moment together."
Many guests came up to her after the ceremony and said it was their favourite part.
Lucy says, "I wanted to show that you don't need eyesight to have vision. You don't need eyesight to have a lovely time, to experience the milestones in our lives.
There is a tiktok clip of this moment in the link above.
- why did Lucy want people to wear blindfolds as she walked down the aisle?
- How do you think the guests felt as they were asked to do that?
- why didn't anyone refuse?
- "live a moment in my shoes." what does that mean?
- "This was such an important experience for us" why was it?
- why do you think Lucy asked Cave to keep his blindfold on to feel the textures of her dress?
- why do you think guests told Lucy the blindfold bit was their favourite part of the wedding?
- "you don't need eyesight to have vision" is that true? What does Lucy mean? Do you agree?
- Does Lucy want people to feel sorry for her? Explain your answer.
- How is Lucy protected by British Law? (Equality Act)
- Which British value is this story about?
- what can we learn from Lucy?
- why is this about no outsiders?
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