Matrimony

I apologize having gone practically the whole summer without posting anything new, however I was little busy getting married. This summer has been everything but boring. I first flew back to Minneapolis at the end of June to see my brother get married. It was a quick weekend full of celebration, laughter, joy, and fun! 

Then I was back in Italy, busy, getting ready for my own wedding. It was so wonderful to have my family come over to celebrate. It was a busy week between Bologna and Tuscany. The ceremony took place in San Gimignano in Sala Dante. We then headed on over to Villa Sorbigliano in San Casciano to continue the festivities. It was a long exciting day that started getting ready at noon and didn't finish until 3am the following morning. 

 

As much planning you're able to do before the big day, there are still stressful moments, funny moments, and some little mistakes. We didn't have a rehearsal and so we laughed when Luca had to ask when to exchange the rings, and I think we made everyone wait with great suspense before the cake cutting as we stood and waited in front of it for a good while until the chef came over and told us we needed to cut it.

The middle of the evening was interrupted when his friends played some pranks on us and we had to sing in front of everyone and recite declarations of love with some of the oddest words such as: eel, spoon, shark, and refrigerator.  Our evening ended with the hotel manger, very upset, that we woke him at 3 in the morning to show us our room, as our friend failed to tell us which building it was in at the large hotel site.  

After a wedding, a reception in Minneapolis, and traveling to Brazil for our honeymoon, we're finally back in Bologna after 6 weeks and getting ready to slow down a bit.