The Romanian Wedding

After a too short night and a quick shower we met with Julia , one of Nadia's friends who was to take me to the hairdresser at 11:30am. I'm glad she showed us the way because from the outside the building looked like a normal building not like a hairdresser / beauty salon place. 30min later I was done with my hair nicely arranged on the top of my head.
We had a quick lunch and then changed. We arrived at Nadia's parents place a bit before 3pm where the wedding would start.
PS: at that point I lost Wolfram to photography. He had been asked by the Nadia and Andreas to make pictures (on top of the official photographer - with whom Wolfram started to talk technique and settings :))
PS 2: I took some pictures myself which I will share but only a few as I know I can always get the great ones from Wolfram.
There you go...
Step one:
Some people go to the house where the groom is to bring him to the house where the bride is. It's like a procession in the streets of the village with music of course.
In the meantime at the bride's house, everybody is getting ready. They place a red carpet to show the way to the bride and people stand on the side waiting for the groom. The moment you start hearing the music you know hes coming and excitement is growing in the crowd.

Here comes the groom well escorted! and Nadia's parents are waiting for him.


Obviously a very happy (and high emotion) moment for the parents and the Andy.

The maid of honor and the best man (nice blue shirt isn't it :))

Step two:
Andy reached the door of the house to find a bride. Now is it his bride? He came with a pair of shoes (like Cinderella) and made the bride try them. Did not fit :(

Someone was trying to fool him with another bride.


He had to negotiate with the brother to finally get Nadia (his bride) to come out and nicely fit in the shoes.

Step three:
Here comes the bride! A beautiful stunning Nadia!



Step four:
Dansing... As I mentionned Andy arrived with musicians and those guys would play some tradiotional Romanian music.
During about 1 hour different people were dancing with the bride and the groom.


As you can see the whole village was there.

Step five:
We left the house for the church. Nadia and Andy in a carriage, the rest of us in the cars.
The celebration was short (half an hour) and all in Romanian so I have no idea of what was said :)

We then spent some time in the garden of the monastery for pictures and drove to the restaurant.


Interestingly the dinner in Romanian wedding is long, very long as it is spread over 8 hours or even more. Basically between each dish there is music for people to danse or animation. We had the chance to see two groups of dansers performing traditional danses.
Around 4am they brought the cake. By then you are too tired to eat anything and shortly after the cake people start leaving.
What a day! What a wedding!
Congratulations Nadia and Andy!
and thank you for letting us be part of that fantastic day.


Of course I could not finish this entry without a picture of the 2 most elegant men of the wedding