My first blog post will be about a very important thing in my life. In the past months, after living together for several years, two of my best friends decided to finally join their lives and get married. There were some complications concerning bureaucracy at the beginning, but finally they could settle everything. The most interesting thing about this wedding was that the bride (now wife) is Indian and the bridegroom (now husband) is Hungarian.
Being their good friend, I helped them with some of the preparations, like picking up the Hungarian translation of the bride's birth certificate from Szeged, or taking her home from the cosmetician, or picking up a couple of guests from the train station. As for the preparation, everything went well (apart from about 10 people thinking they will come with me in my car that is uncomfortable for even 5), eveyone banded together, and we went to the place the ceremony took place, Csipkeház in Kiskunhalas.
The bridegroom was wearing a dark suit with a red bowtie and a red spanish belt, and the bride was in a beautiful red and gold Indian dress. As the best friend of the couple, I had the honor of holding the rings to them when they had to ring each other's finger. Unfortunately, the bride's parents couldn't be present, because they didn't get their visa in time, but they were connected through Skype during the whole time of the ceremony.
For the time of the wedding party, the bride wore a beautiful, white wedding dress. We had dinner at 6PM, there was chicken soup and lamb stew followed by roasted meat and bakery stuff, according to Hungarian customs. During dinner, a local band called Five Non Bonds played some contemporary music for younger people, so we went a bit out of custom here, when many of us stood up in the middle of dinner to dance and enjoy ourselves.
After dinner, the original band came back, continuing casual wedding music, though up to that point, our moods were "elevated" enough to enjoy it, and we had great fun until 11:30, when the bride and bridegroom danced slow waltz and went to change clothes. At midnight, the "menyecsketánc" took place, the now husband wore a red shirt and the wife a beautiful red and white dress.
Sadly, after 1am, people started going home, so by 3am, only about twelve of us were dancing around. Around 2am, I suffered a minor injury while, namely I have sprained my ankle, but I didn't care about it (until the next day) and kept on dancing. The party ended at 3:15, everyone went home.
This concludes my first blog post, it turned out to be a bit long, I'll work on the length in later posts. Also, expect pictures in this post, when the wedding photos arrive =)
The bridegroom was wearing a dark suit with a red bowtie and a red spanish belt, and the bride was in a beautiful red and gold Indian dress. As the best friend of the couple, I had the honor of holding the rings to them when they had to ring each other's finger. Unfortunately, the bride's parents couldn't be present, because they didn't get their visa in time, but they were connected through Skype during the whole time of the ceremony.
For the time of the wedding party, the bride wore a beautiful, white wedding dress. We had dinner at 6PM, there was chicken soup and lamb stew followed by roasted meat and bakery stuff, according to Hungarian customs. During dinner, a local band called Five Non Bonds played some contemporary music for younger people, so we went a bit out of custom here, when many of us stood up in the middle of dinner to dance and enjoy ourselves.
After dinner, the original band came back, continuing casual wedding music, though up to that point, our moods were "elevated" enough to enjoy it, and we had great fun until 11:30, when the bride and bridegroom danced slow waltz and went to change clothes. At midnight, the "menyecsketánc" took place, the now husband wore a red shirt and the wife a beautiful red and white dress.
Sadly, after 1am, people started going home, so by 3am, only about twelve of us were dancing around. Around 2am, I suffered a minor injury while, namely I have sprained my ankle, but I didn't care about it (until the next day) and kept on dancing. The party ended at 3:15, everyone went home.
This concludes my first blog post, it turned out to be a bit long, I'll work on the length in later posts. Also, expect pictures in this post, when the wedding photos arrive =)
