What I forget to mention before: after the civil wedding we did pictures at my house and when we finished that, my husband started eating pica-fresas (mexican sweet-spicey candy) and he PUT red something on his white vest and tie!!! Right after I told him not to eat it because of that. Thankfully it cleaned kind of off, so it was only visible to me after
So, now back to our wedding day. I think I left off when we finished with the pictures.
We had a few bites of bread sitting on a comfy couch, then I helped with preparing all the stuff that was still missing.
Had a short call with our priest, he was already in the church.
My husband then went to the church to help him with something Spanisch and I stayed for like 20 more mins with my cousin in the castle before going to the church.
For the whole day (well afternoon) it was predicted to rain, I was very sad and kind of pissed about that (I know I cannot do anything about the weather but still – it didn't rain for weeks before nor the day after, really just on that saturday).
There were 2 main reasons, well 3 for me to want no rain:
1. I organized a mariachi-band as a suprise for my husband and his family for when we all leave the church. And they could only play when it was not raining.
2. I also organized a bow-shooting for my husband!! Of course also this could only take place when it was not raining.
3. I wanted the „cocktail“-hour to be held outside, because outside the castle it was so beautiful.
So, when we left the castle to go to the church it was suddenly sunny and not even very cloudy anymore. I got very excited and we went to church.
What I forgot: to give my husband my wedding ring back to give to the priest, because we
needed them in the chruch.
So I gave them to my godmother, who thankfully was in the castle and left for the chruch before me. So, we went with our old car to the church, waited a bit in front, so people can all get into the church. I got off only when everyone was already inside.
In front of the church were only his and my immediate families. I wanted a proper entrance for all of us. First went my husband with his mum, then all our siblings and then my mum with his dad and in the end, when everyone was already seated, my dad and me.
The ceremony was beautiful!!!! I loved it!
Highlights:
the songs we chose (Can you feel the love tonight – our song – for the entrance (in three languages) / Cada Vez / All of me / A thousand years / Das Beste / Halelujah (specially for weddings with our names in the song) / I don't wanna miss a thing / Strong (Cinderella Soundtrack) //
our priest (he did the whole ceremony in 2 languages, some parts in German, some in Spanish, and he doesn't even really speak Spanish!!! he was amazing!)
our families and a friend of mine reading texts
the texts we chose for the ceremony
that we greeted our guests in the beginning in each others languages (me in Spanish, he in German)
reading our vows (he in Spanish, me in German) – couldn't put on his ring for the second time that day
Downside:
I fell! (that was horrible, right after greeting everyone we went back to our chairs, and I slipped on the carped and fell one stair down... that was so embarrasing, but everyone was scared when it happend, so now it's kind of funny, some even thought I fainted :P)
So when the church was over (around 1 hour 15 mins) the people left the chruch and we waited, we wanted to be the last ones to go.
So we went and some guests were waiting with an aisle of flowers for us to go through. And the mariachi band was there starting to play.
Then, to my complete surprise, someone gave my husband a silver shoe on a pillow and he put it on my foot like in Cinderella!!!! How cool it that!
(He knew about it, I didn't)The weather was already getting bad at this point, very windy, very cloudy. So we went to the car pretty quick, which was not ideal, and went to the castle.
On the way (like 2 mins by car) it already started raining.
In front of the castle, I wanted to do a group picture with the photographer, which was very difficult because noone wanted to be in the rain – so that sucked a bit, but the picture turned out not so bad.
I was completely conviced, that the bowshooting was not going to happen, so I told my husband about the surprise. To my own surprise, my cousin called them a bit later, they were still there and waiting for us!!!
So we went and shot a few arrows in our wedding outfits (cool pictures came with that). And the guests loved it too, even with a little rain, a lot of the (young) guests tried it out!
For us, we went inside (or I think that was before we went bowshooting), and people went to us to congratualte. We mada a presents-table and were standing there, kissing, hugging, talking. A few of the most individual presents: A self-made castle, a piñata and a self-painted fairy tale picutre.
For the tables: Each table was it's own fairytale, it was very cool. My cousin drew the fairy-tale couples themselves and we chose a symbol for each. For example table 2: Snow White: Symbol apple. In front of the castle we had circles on a string with the symbol and table number and the names. It looked amazing, I am so pround of my cousin for drawing all of that.
The menus we had enrolled on the tables. It looked so nice.
She also drew us a „happily ever after starts here“ sign!!!
So that was very nice, alltogether, although a bit crowded.
At around 6.30 we started with dinner:
austrian entrée (varieties)
mexican tortilla soup
3 main courses to choose from: austrian pork, mexican beef and fish
as dessert we had the wedding cake (3 layers) with chocolate, nut and vanille, and coffee flavours. Outside white with purple flowers and green leaves and on top a white chocolate caslte with us in dark chocolate (scissor-cuts). Also there was a cake-buffet with homemade cakes from my relatives.
We also had a candy table, with lots of Austrian candys and chocolates and mexican candy baskets. Everyone loved that.
We had a red photobooth couch, were we put a camera to take pictures for the guests themselves and put some stuff to dress up (crowns for ladies and gents – or kings and queens, princes and princesses – a sword and shield, a pink skirt, a green hat a moustache). A lot of people took picutures and had fun with that.
For a guestbook we put a globe (antique-style) for people to sign and a whiteboard with us standing there, holding ballon strings, and the people put their fingerprints as balloons. A lot of people did that also.
Befor dinner even, my husband and I held a short speech, thanking people and explaining the guestbook and photobooth. First me in German, than René in Spanish.
After dinner, it was time for our first dance! We also chose the song „Can you feel the love tonight“ because it's our song. We had 3 dancing lessons before the wedding, and I think we did a decent job! My husband hates dancing and the last time he danced before the wedding was in primary school!
And he danced pretty much the whole night with me (or sometimes other people). I dances with all my brothers, brother in law and my dad and a few more people. The band was great, played super songs to dance to and everyone was having a good time. I had never ever seen my husband like that before – he is normally very laid back and calm, he was amazing that night as a host and as my husband. Everyone said we looked so happy and in love.
At around 9.30 it was time for the cake cutting. I had organized a real sword for him (found it at my grandmothers house a few years ago) and he had no idea. I thought it would be awesome to cut the cake with a sword (it also kind of fit with the whole wedding“theme“). He loved it. But he didn't let me have my hand on top :P.
After we cut it together, I thought we would feed each other, but he just ate the first bite himself. It was funny and so like him, it was perfect. Then he fed me a piece and I him.
Another hightlight was, that the band „made“ him sing a song for me, well only three word actually, which were: meine kleine Elisabeth! He sang with so much passion and it was beautiful. I loved every second of it. I never thought I would ever hear him like that!!! It just showed how much he loved me! Of course I had to sing for him too (Sierra Madre Sur) – I hate singing in public but I did it!
I threw a little bouquet – not mine because I want to keep it – and his cousin, who will get married in April, caught it.
I think I don't remember much more from the night really, just that I was walking around, talking with people, dancing and eating.
For midnight-snack we had Carne en su jugo (meat in its own juice) and it was delicious- but noone could really eat anymore. So we brought it home to eat the next day a freeze it.
Around 1 the band stopped playing and people started leaving, we packed everything up and our families went home and we stayed in a room on castle grounds for our wedding night.
My husband was very good with taking off my dress
.The next morning (we ordered breakfast at 9.30) we were the only guests there, it was nice. At around 11 we went to my parents house for the posboda (after-wedding). Some uncles, aunts and cousins were invited and all the mexican family and guest that were still here. It was awesome seeing them all. We had sausages (very Austrian) and the leftover midnight-snack. It was delicous. There was also wedding cake left and my mum prepared some dinner too.
After all the people left, my husband and I opened the presents (our mums and siblings were there too). We got lots of money and (one of) the best present was tickets to the LION KING MUSICAL in London (my brothers gave those to us). I was so happy that I cried when I opend it.
Oh, what I forgot to mention. We had to say good-bye to my brother in the wedding-night, when they left, because he went to Norway at 6 am that Sunday. It was awful, so sad. But also happy for him and he happy for us. Lots of mixed feelings. After we opened my brothers presents, I called him on Skype to thank him (still crying) because he fortunately was already in his room in Trondheim.
The week after we went 2 times to Vienna (4 hour round trip) to drop people and do some sight-seeing. We met some mexican relatives again before they went home. It was nice, but also very exhausting.
I have the feeling I haven't really relaxed since at least 2 weeks.
And now we are on our way to the honeymoon!!!
Picturetime not in a particular order (there are also like 4 pics on the Congratulations Lilly9886 thread ^^ - not posting those anymore):
