Wedding Bells (blog #8)

Inside scoop on these "happy" weddings in Gilead. They are not so happy and joyful as we first thought. In my time I spent undercover in Gilead as a tourist, which wasn't easy due to there restrictions on what we can and cannot interact with. What I managed to see what these weddings were absolutely peculiar. It first starts out with twenty men lined up on one side. Note that it's not one husband to be and nine-teen best men, all twenty men are getting married at the same time. Another thing, which is more horrifying then strange is the brides. The twenty brides are in clean clothes but look dirty and weak. Almost like they've been dug up from underground caves, the light blinds them and hunger is seen on their face. I find out later from another source of information that these woman are from places that the Angles of Apocalypse have taken over to spread the good old Gilead influence. The older women are shipped to these camp areas, the younger ones are converted in these weddings. Before the weddings these women seem to be beaten, with welts on their feet, hands, and all over their bodies apparently so they stay in line. Then the wedding starts with words, not from a priest, but from a man that seems like a high ranking Commander. This Commander then places a red veil over them to symbolize them become the Handmaiden's. Unlike other weddings were the women in Gilead become Wives, these women don't get given that power, I believe it's because they don't deem the women as trustworthy. Instead they become Handmaidens. But the wedding isn't for love, them women have no say in this manner. They aren't supposed to love their new husband they are only suppose to do their tasks.