O! how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day!
Only someone with a coal heart could look at Elizabeth May and John Kidder on their Earth Day wedding day and think anything but “O! how this spring of love resembleth/The uncertain glory of an April day!” The couple’s radiant joy was the stuff of poetry as they exited Christ Church Cathedral in Victoria, B.C., before sharing an enthusiastic kiss in the rain in front of a cheering crowd.
Choosing Earth Day to plight their troth was poetically political. May, a high-profile environmental activist before entering politics, had organized for Earth Day since its inception in 1970 when she was in grade 10. Kidder, a 71-year-old B.C.-based technology entrepreneur who runs his family’s hops farm, helped found the Green Party of B.C. in 1983; it was the first Green party in North America.
The love-match offers a hopeful reminder that renewal is possible, even when least expected. “I’m in my 65th year; to find true love is a miracle,” May said of her engagement. What May called #mybigfatgreenwedding on Twitter would also prove a model for eco-conscious, low-carbon nuptials.
Already the shared purpose of Canada’s newest political power couple is evident. The best wedding present she could ask for, May tweeted, would be a Green Party win in Prince Edward Island’s April 23 election, a race shaping up to deliver the Greens to provincial power for the first time in Canada. There’s talk Kidder will run federally for the Greens in B.C. But that’s the future.
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