A Warsaw wedding
17 October 2006 @ 8:56
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We had a very enjoyable weekend in Warsaw. Our train journey to Gatwick was very smooth and although our flight was a little late and our bag took a long time to emerge in the terminal we got there safe and sound. We stayed up chatting until midnight and then to bed. The wedding day dawned - and stayed, sadly - murky and grey. We headed off in to Warsaw’s centre for vodka shopping and a visit to Chicken’s grandparents’ flat. After returning to Mr C’s Aunt’s we lunched and beautified (in our case, this took fifteen minutes!) before leaving for Warsaw once again and the wedding. The mansion called Palacyk Szustra which was the venue for the ceremony was housed within a pleasant park area and had a real piano during the nuptials. After the “I do’s” there was a general meet ‘n’ greet for the newly weds and then off to the Balkan restaurant they had chosen for the reception. The food was really nice, despite me being warned there would very little veggie food, and we ate and drank well. There was dancing and in general a very nice atmosphere. The next day there was a “post-wedding breakfast” with the young couple and much of their closest family - and us, of course! It was strange - but nice - to eat wedding cake at 10am! Then Chicken and I left for Gatwick once again. A slightly wobbly landing got us home and then we had a train journey to Reading and then stood up all the way to Taunton, where my Dad collected us. It is strange how, even if it is only for a day or so, like in this case, you really miss home when you are not there! But we were home with a bump, back to work for us both yesterday. Well, our own wedding next, I guess… |
