This is the church in Landerneau where they got married.I'm so unprepared to write about somebody else's wedding. This was the first time I had ever met the couple. I thought it was very nice that they included me in their celebration.
So what is a french wedding like? How is it different from a wedding in the states? I'm not sure that I can provide a sociological commentary based on one wedding, but here are just few things I noticed:
The wedding ceremony was only thirty minutes long and it was a catholic ceremony! Catholic ceremonies are nearly always 1.5-2 hours long. Needless to say, I was grateful it was so short...as most of the other people probably were. I doubt there were many people wishing they could sit there for another hour after their ass was starting to go numb.
Its French law to sign the legal documents before the religious portion of the ceremony can be performed. They actually signed the documents in the church while everybody was watching.
Don't ask me what sort of prayers were read because I don't have a clue.
A snapshot of the inside.After the wedding ceremony, there was a small reception. Everybody that was invited to the wedding was also invited to this ceremony where wine and cookies were given to everybody. After a couple hours, there was a dinner. I would say about half the people at the wedding were invited to the dinner.
Obviously, this is the back of her wedding dress.At the dinner, we were served four courses: starting with a seafood place (I gave mine to Flo since I don't like most seafood. He ate mine, his, and Pouich's plate.), next we had a sort of Pork Roast which was quite tasty, assorted cheeses and then a really neat wedding cake. Which, it wasn't really a cake...more like a bunch of tiny little pastries with this tasty creamy stuff inside. Dinner was followed by dancing... of course.
Vena's bride's maids:
Then strangest thing was that we went back the next day for a lunch. I thought Flo was joking when he told me that.
1 comment:
very short Rebecca
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