{"id":6282,"date":"2023-06-06T09:45:35","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T09:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hebridespeople.com\/staging\/?p=6282"},"modified":"2023-06-06T09:52:44","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T09:52:44","slug":"a-look-back-on-cuidinish-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hebridespeople.com\/staging\/a-look-back-on-cuidinish-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A Look Back on Cuidinish (part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\" has-medium-font-size eplus-wrapper\"><strong>with Neil MacCuish, Horgabost<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\" wp-block-heading eplus-wrapper\">House weddings<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">When you came in to the far end of the Cuidinish road there was a branch going up to the MacLennans\u2019. That was where the Poll Garbhadh people came from, down at the head of the sea. When you turned left, there was a big house \u2013 a big long house with two families in it \u2013 Big Angus and Little Angus. Little Angus went to Cheesebay and married Rachel Morrison there. Big Angus came to Pairc an t-Srath at Borve after his father died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">The road into Cuidinish was made after the war. The first wedding after that was \u201cRobert\u201d \u2013 Iain Morrison \u2013 and Mary MacKinnon, and after them Donald Morrison and Kate MacKay \u2013 they came one after the other. Then John MacLeod and Kate \u2013 they got married on the mainland. Dougald MacKay and Rachel, Mairi\u2019s aunt, and then Donald MacLean and Sheila \u2013 they were married in Cuidinish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">The weddings were in the houses. There was the reiteach first and after that the wedding itself. The weddings were good. The reiteach was about three weeks before the marriage. Not so many went to the reiteach. The women would be apart in the small room and the men sitting at the table. The man who was looking for the wife would be seated at the head of the table. But it wasn\u2019t him that was in the chair at all. They would say that they had come this night and they were wanting something particular. They would say that they didn\u2019t think that he would find anything there that night. Then he would say that he was looking for a wife for this man. Someone would say that there were plenty looking for a wife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">They would bring out the first girl, and he would look her up and down. \u201cO, I won\u2019t take her at all,\u201d he would say \u2013 and she was a reject! She didn\u2019t make the grade! The next girl, and the third, and so it went on \u2013 talking and arguing for a long time! At last someone would come in with the bride-to-be. She would suit him very well. \u201cYou won\u2019t get her at all,\u201d came the answer. \u201cThat\u2019s the one I want,\u201d says the suitor. \u201cHave you no shame?\u201d the man at the head of the table would say, \u201cYou aren\u2019t going to get a good woman like that!\u201d At last they would ask her if she would have him, and she would say yes. They would take her then and set her beside the bridegroom-to-be. It was great fun. There was always someone who would get the others going. Calum MacLeod from Cnoc Esgan was always there \u2013 he was very witty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">The drams would start going round and the plates would start to clatter in the kitchen. Then they were brought in with the food, and then the songs would begin. Before the wedding, the women killed hens, plucked them and cooked them. The couple went around the houses inviting people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">We had a saying, \u201cDonald is going to marry\u201d. Paddy was going to marry, and he came to our house. I remember him saying to my father: \u201cWell, Iain, did you hear about Donald?\u201d My father understood that he meant himself, and said that he had! They felt so awkward going round inviting people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\" eplus-wrapper\">They would walk to Manish for the wedding to the Church there. Mr Kennedy was the minister then. Some asked the minister at Tarbert to marry them. Then they would set of home, singing, \u201cI am coming home, and I\u2019m married to her\u2026!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>with Neil MacCuish, Horgabost House weddings When you came in to the far end of the Cuidinish road there was a branch going up to the MacLennans\u2019. That was where the Poll Garbhadh people came from, down at the head of the sea. 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