{"id":22703,"date":"2023-03-29T17:23:13","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T21:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=22703"},"modified":"2023-03-29T17:23:13","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T21:23:13","slug":"what-floats-your-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/what-floats-your-boat\/","title":{"rendered":"What Floats Your Boat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position: relative; padding-top: max(60%,326px); height: 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; border: none; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0; right: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23fafafa&amp;d=apr23_final_flipbook_03.21.2023-reduced&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=62&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-modals allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-forms\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p3\">Viking ceremony? Windjammer wedding? Yeah, we\u2019ve got that.<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p4\">By Keeva Jacques<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">Nothing like a Viking wedding to wake up the seagulls. \u201cShe borrowed our largest rowboat, decorated it, and was slowly rowed Viking-style across the harbor to land at our dock.\u201d No veil is required if you\u2019re wearing a horned Viking helmet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p7\">\u201cThe rowers also wore helms and carried weapons. The invasion party walked up the ramp, where she took the groom for her prize.\u201d says the windjammer <i>Angelique\u2019s<\/i> owner Candace Kuchinski, who presided over the retro-Scandi ceremony.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p7\">If you\u2019re one of the trembling guests at such a saga (actually, it was a sweet event), how do you respond? Raise your drinking horn and pass the mead bowl. <i>Skol!<\/i> Whatever you\u2019re channeling, nautical weddings are making a splash this year, and the tide is rising.<\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"s1\">Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-22706\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/What-Floats-Your-Boat-1024x536.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/What-Floats-Your-Boat-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/What-Floats-Your-Boat-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/What-Floats-Your-Boat-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/What-Floats-Your-Boat-200x105.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/What-Floats-Your-Boat-620x324.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/What-Floats-Your-Boat.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viking ceremony? Windjammer wedding? Yeah, we\u2019ve got that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1274],"class_list":["post-22703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-april-2023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22703"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22707,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22703\/revisions\/22707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}