wedding time

It's hard to believe, I remember one of the first talk with my host family about the wedding in July. At that time it seemed so far away. and it's gone already...

but about the wedding

It's quite different than in Poland. The ceremony in the church started at 5pm, normal catholic ceremony, no surprises there, except the fact that out of around 600 invited on the mess were around 60. After that there was a long photo session with the newly-weds. Instead of wish them all the best guests were just taking photos with them.

Hungry like hell we moved to the party place. Huge hall full of tables, all in white and violet. Table for 10 people with a cake and bottle of wine (where is vodka?), nice. For food we had to wait a little bit more. The young couple arrived after more or less 1h, then someone was reading long text to make a marriage legal, the first "salut!" (without breaking glasses and cleaning) and the first dance. It was interesting, because the newly-weds were dancing with each other only a little bit and then for the commend change of partners - parents, best men, brothers and all this important people in one dance. Quite comfortable for the young couple :P

After that the food finally arrived - pachamanca. Dancefloor was getting more and more full, but nobody was asking to dance me and Karin! I don't have any idea what was wrong. More and more people were coming, around midnight almost all places were taken. Finally our neighbour also arrived, so dancing time began.

There was nothing like polish "oczepiny". Only throwing the bouquet, nothing more. I was the lucky one who didn't catch it.

Summary:

Making new friends, dancing, making people jealous, avoiding bride's father, hunting for a cookies (not so easy!), drinking wine and in general having fun. Nice night :)