Hello everybody!

Now it's time for a wedding-blog - yay.... I hope I remember most of the stuff, the important stuff anyways...

So, my husband did a master study here in my country. First day of the "wedding-week" he had his final, oral exam of his master study!!!! He was studying and working for it for a few weeks very hard already, so he had absolutely no time for wedding stuff. But he passed! It was an awesome feeling and I was so happy. Now we could both concentrate together on the wedding.

So, the week before the wedding was very stressful... I was late with everything and we really only printed everything to the finish on thursday before the wedding on saturday... it was awful.
My husband's (yay) brother and sister arrived on sunday before and his parents on tuesday in Vienna (2 hour trip from our hometown). They decided that they wanted to stay one night and invited us... I really wanted to go and stay, but felt very stressed because I still had so much to do... On that same tuesday in Vienna, we met a lot of my husband's family already, that were going to stay in Vienna until friday before the wedding. It was very nice seeing them and spending time with them.

On thurday then, it was my brother's good-bye party, because on sunday morning after the wedding was going to leave for an exchange year in Norway. So we went to the party and for weeks and weeks before that, I was planning to surprise my then-finacé with the arrival of his best friend, of whom he didn't know was coming (suspecting something but not knowing). It went a bit "wrong" that day, because his best friend and 2 of his cousins arrived very late at the party and René was not there when they arrived, because he picked up an uncle and aunt at a very close airport. They surprised him though when he arrived back at the party and he was very very happy. I thought it could be some kind of bachelor-party for him, because he didn't have one, but I think how it was, just catching up with them, was the best for him.

The next day, friday, on day before the wedding, we went to the castle to put the tables and decorate everything. We were a lot of people. But we had only about 3-3,5 hours to do everything.... we all were very stressed and it was really awful. We didn't finish everything and had to leave, my cousin stayed alone for 1 more hour and was not able to finish because they wanted to close up the castle for the day.
The reason we had to leave so early that day was, that it was also the graduation ceremony of my fiancé's master study. It was at 5 pm, night before the wedding. It was such a nice ceremony and very good dinner.
After that, we wanted to get home early. That was the plan anyways. We didn't make it though. I was going to sleep in my parent's house and he in our flat, it's a "tradition" to sleep apart the day before the wedding.
On that evening, we tried to find his godparents, who were exploring the city, without cell-phones and fixed time and place. It was one of the most awful evening in my life. I broke down crying in the car, because of exhaustion, fear of not finding them, feeling bad for the hosts of his godparents.... and a lot more. Worst part, I was waiting in the car for him, in a non-parking zone, while he went to the city to find his godparents. And what happens? The police came up to give out tickets and possible tow cars. Even worse: my bf had the car keys so I couldn't leave. I talked to the policewoman, started crying, completely out of my mind, calling my bf to run back to park the car somewhere else. After all, the police told me not to drive in that state and that they hope I have a better day tomorrow on the wedding (I told them the whole wedding not finding godparents-story :P). It was just awful. We parked somewhere else and after a while he found his godparents and everything was fine.

I slept not very good that night, maybe like 3-4 hours really.
Woke up a bit after 5 am.
Did my nails, ate a bit, checking for taxi numbers, .... not sure what else I did then. At 7.45 was my hairdresser and make-up appointment which took like 1,5 hours.

The civil wedding was going to be at 10.30, so I had like 45 mins between appointment and having to be ready to go to the ceremony.
Everyone was stressed and 3-4 people helped with putting on my dress. :P
It was very warm in the room and I was sweating, it was awful. My mum and godmother and sister-in-law still needed to get dressed.
I had the feeling my hair was already ruined after all the sweating :P - it was awful.
At around 10 I heard the first people arrive, including my then still-fiancé.

Around 10 past 10 I was ready, and told my mum to tell my future husband to wait in the garden for me. We were going to see each other for the first time completely alone. He was so handsome when I saw him (I knew his suit, I helped choosing).

Our car was already waiting for us (an oldtime, we loved it) and after leaving the house together, we got into the car to drive to the civil wedding place (the guests were walking).



The ceremony was beautiful, the speech very nice, we had a translator, 3 songs of the Piano Guys playing and I nearly cried the whole time.
Then it was time to put the rings on each others fingers, I was barely able to put it on him .
After the official part, the officiant said we should come to sign, and what do I do? I sign with my old name :P. Crossed it out and signed with his last name for the first time (I regret now not having tried it before). It was funny in the end.
Everyone congratulated us there and nearly everyone was crying. It really was beautiful.
We did one group picture after and then my husband and I went back to my parent's house with the car.

We did some pictures with our photographer in our garden.




After that we left to take pictures just the two of us in the castle before the religious ceremony at 3 pm.

While we took pictures with our photographer, my cousin (angel of this wedding) finished what we couldn't finish the day before, with the help of 2 of my brothers and one girlfriend of one of them. (Missing were the "Guestbook"-table, the seating chart, candles and chocolates on the table.)

The next part will be the religious ceremony and the party!!