September 12, 2004
The Big Day Out. Part 2
Well just before we went to Spain Ron and I managed to get hitched AND enjoy it, which for both of us, was rather a relief! Even the weather played along with a rainy cold morning turning into a sunny, tepid, but SUNNY, afternoon just in time.
The morning we spent driving to Utrecht and back to pick up my clothes which were being altered since I had bought them only the day before. We then had just enough time to feed Jacob and put him down for a nap and do a quick shop on the market during which I bought some flowers to carry as a sort of bridal bouquet.
The ceremony at the Oud Zuid Town Hall on the Konningeweg was led by Claudine Kolloff who even wrote a poem for the occasion. (......Its a Dutch thing) It managed to be both short and sweet and she did a marvellous job of translating what we'd told her about ourselves into something that was meaningful, reasonably accurate and didn't make us want to throw up.
We made a small detour to the rotunda in the Vondelpark owned by Oud Zuid where Jaap did a manly impersonation of a photographer and Edmee a pregnant impersonation of a photographer's assistant, before joining everyone else at Tjing Tjing in De Pijp for champagne, delicious food and gezelligheid. Not to mention a touch of Dutch cabaret as provided by Mischa, not one but TWO Amsterdammetjes, a family of clogs and hordes of other gifts. And THE most delicious wedding cake from Pattersons in Melbourne!
Michael and the chef kok from Tjing Tjing did us proud with the food, the decorations and the service which was all fantastic and meant everyone was able to have a great time and our wedding was in the end exactly what we wanted it to be, just a great party!
Jacob gave up expecting his three o'clock feed about 5.00 and fell asleep in desperation before Mira took him home for a quiet evening. Tanya took hundreds of photos of her middle finger and Analu did that Budha baby thing of looking on wisely, from a safe distance.
Sunday morning we woke up married, hung over and with a car parked streets away stuffed full of clogs and ammsterdammetjes. Stranger things have happenned!
The first of a never ending stream of photos are here. Courtesy of Jaap.
Mariska's photos should be up any minute now too.
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