Barrowsgate muses about June being a bad month for selling pigs but a popular month for getting married. Barrowsgate’s friend Peter Birley tries to keep a wedding day tradition alive.
Context: Blackening is a traditional wedding custom performed in the days or weeks prior to marriages in rural areas of Scotland and Northern Ireland. The bride and/or groom are “captured” by friends and family, covered in food, or a variety of other – preferably adhesive – substances, then paraded publicly for the community to see.