YES – Nature Wedding by the Sea
The word marriage sparks many thoughts and associations, it confronts you with yourself, your relationship to your partner and friends and with heaps of sensibilities and good advice from family members. We wanted to invite our friends and family to come into our world – a world full of authenticity, creativity and love for detail, a world by the sea and by nature to spend three days of lightheartedness with us.
The venue for our wedding should be connected to our relationship and love. As we both love travelling the globe, preferably to places with good surf and food we wanted to return to a place where we shared a special time in our relationship. Travelling is something that does not only unite us as a couple but also with many of our friends. Before we made our final decision we asked our closest friends whether they would come when celebrating in a remote little place at the atlantic coast of Portugal. I am still overwhelmed by the positive reactions of our friends. Next step: Invite our closest family. Best sentence heard then: “Ah, you want to have the honeymoon with your friends”. – Nope, honeymoon comes later.
Everything was pretty spontaneous: We invited family and friends in late February and celebrated on 16 August, so we had six months time for preparation. We both knew that we wanted to make everything ourselves and we wanted to surprise our guests with smiling details…so: Dubbo sweatshop GO!
We typed all invitations by hand on an old Olympia typewriter. Each guest got his own Polaroid Picture with us holdng a small chalkboard with the date of our wedding…
Time flew by in which we dyed, cut, sewed and ironed tons of cloth for in total: 570 m of bunting chain and napkins. We soldered 117 m of fairy lights. We collected and dried flowers in our selfmade herbarium for the name tags and menu.
We cooked blackberry marmelade and wrote down our favorite recipes for our guests to take home….
One week before the ceremony we arrived in Portugal.
Among other things a very big todo on our list: Manufacturing a 17 m Long table and organizing enough chairs…
No portuguese wedding without swallows
…and calming down before the big day comes…
YES! Ja! SI! Sim! Oui!
Wedding Dinner
Dancing till dawn
Venue: Chill and Surf House; Event design and Invites: metterschling; Wedding Dress: MARIANNE CARØE; Food (wedding dinner, picnic and Snack by the church: Chill and Surf House; Wedding cake: Landeau; Photography in part: Felix H.
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Wow… sauschöne Bilder, toller Post!
Thank you guys for the nice time. Lovely bloq of yours!! Keep rockin
Oh, toll! Schöne Ideen, schöne Location, schöne Bilder. Gratuliere!
Wow! Herzlichen Glückwunsch, das sieht alles sehr fantastisch aus
Yay!! Herzlichen Glückwunsch! Was für umerfende Bilder!
All the best! Congratulation!
Hallo Ubbo & Doro,
alles Liebe noch einmal von uns aus Namibia zu eurer Hochzeit!!! Wir wünschen euch alles Glück dieser Erde!
Viele liebe Grüße, Guido, Aileen und die Kinder
What an awesome wedding you two had! Your musings about the word marriage sound pretty reflected for such a young bird. Glad you didn’t heed all the advice, one never should. Did you play the YES mix at the venue? All the best to you both!
Superblog, begeistert immer wieder, bis in 2 Wochen
das machen nur die guten Fotos;-)
Thank you, Joan! I made the YES! mix afterwards, but we played most of the songs, especially song one accompanied us all the way from preparing to celebrating our big day.
tolle bilder,herzliche glückwünsche wenn auch sehr nachträglich aus dem hohen norden. gabi&rainer