Our Wedding Day - Part 1

So it finally arrived, the 16th of July, the day we were to get married. Despite the poor forecast, the sun was shining when we woke up and so one of our concerns was solved right away. We had breakfast with Marion, Caroline’s good friend from Germany and her five year old son David. They arrived a few days earlier from Cologne and had been checking out Stockholm with Caroline. I drove to collect the flowers and did some errands together with David, while Caroline got ready at home. At one o’clock, Hannah and Emma arrived and then Caroline and I set off to walk to the park to meet up with the photographer, Alicia. We found her on the net via her web site that had some great pictures which we both liked immediately, so we had chosen her just a few weeks before the wedding. We spent about an hour in the park with Alicia photographing us in different settings. She was very easy to work with and her relaxed style made us very as ease. Just before three o’clock we met up with Hannah and Emma, who had come together with Martin and his wife Lotta. Martin is a good friend from Sweden who I have worked with and known for many years. Finally Elizabeth arrived, the official who would be holding the ceremony, and everything was ready.

The short service was held in “Ekotemplet” or Echo-Temple, which is a classical park pavilion, built by the Swedish King, Gustav III in the 1800’s. Before we exchanged rings, Caroline and I read our personal vows to each other, which made the ceremony more personal and special for us. It was a perfect location and together with our witnesses Marion and Martin, with Lotta, Hannah and Emma and the sunny park in the background, we couldn’t have wished for a better wedding.

After the ceremony, we had a champagne picnic in the park. We spread out some blankets and served Eton mess, a strawberry, whipped cream and meringue dessert, which made a perfect complement to the champagne. It was really very enjoyable sitting there in the sun and enjoying the day and the company of our guests.

The pictures here we taken by us during the day.
You can see some of Alicia’s photographs on her blog...
http://aliciaswedenborg.blogspot.com/2008/07/caroline-richard.html