Wedding Day!! Romanian style!

Hello,
I'm not feeling particularly inspired today, but i feel that someone else ought to be adding posts other than poor old abandonned vix!

So Zoezoe and I went up to Brasov this weekend for the wedding of two of my friends from my time here before! It was a beautiful rainy day! The bride was only 15minutes late! The flower girl was grumpy and the ring bearer (aged 4yrs) fell asleep!! I also am lammenting the loss of the beautiful body of the best man...who has gained 20kg in weight over the past 10months!(its so sad!!)

Anyway...It was actually a really lovely service, Dan (the groom who is British) said his vows in Romanian and Simona (the bride, who is Romanian) said her vows in English....it was beautiful...i cried!!
The reception afterwards was true Romanian style...six course meal served over 11hours with lots and lots of dancing in between each course (yes i did have to dance with the sweaty, minging, drunk, middle-aged, next-door neighbour too many times! Ugh!!) We also had dancing waiters, lots and lots of lush traditional Romanian food...stuffed cabbage, meat, mamiliga (maize stuff) and deep fat fried vegetables! (its good - we should try it!!) Then the men plotted and stole the bride and the groom had to go and chase them and bring them all beer in exchange for his bride! (Dan looked really upset when Simona was taken away!- Bless!)

It was great though, Dan and Simona both worked at the house in Brasov where i was a volunteer in my gap year working with special needs kids and young adults, and a lot of the kids and their parents came to the wedding and reception, so i got to see them all too, and it was a lovely atmosphere, all the kids from the house were dancing (we even got the people in wheelchairs on the dance floor and spun them around) and all the people from church (who agree with dancing) were dancing and then lots of us volunteers from the house were there especially for the wedding, and then all of Simona and Dan's families were there...it was lovely lovely day...if a little long....zoezoe and i were very very tired by the end of the evening.

Right thats about all for now...i'm going home for a nap! ( we might have been talking till very late last night!...oops)

The Hannah Lady