For me it all started like 2 weeks before the actual wedding, when I started searching for a nice outfit for the wedding. After a short period of time I found a nice "suit" and I bought it (it was extremely cheap!). For the rest of the family, everything, the preparation and organization for the wedding started like a year ago. They've chosen the date for the wedding a year ago, planing to be in the amazing colorful fall. My host mom was working like all the time, the whole year on the flowers for the wedding.
So the wedding day was coming closer and closer. In the American weddings, the night before the wedding, they have a rehearsal dinner. So the night before the wedding - 18.10.2013 we (usually the parents of the groom) hosted the rehearsal dinner. We had a huge tent in our backyard. We decorated the tent very beautifully with lots of flowers/decorations that my host mom designed. The weather and the colorful fall trees in the background make the event to look completely awesome.
So around 7 pm all the people that are in the wedding ceremony (the bride, the groom and his friends, the bridesmaids etc) and the family that traveled long way started coming. We had dinner ordered from restaurant, it was so delicious. So basically the rehearsal dinner is not really for rehearsing, but more like a get together for just talking to all the people, relaxing and having fun. Our neighbor had made an amazing pinata too.
The pinata was the castle where the wedding ceremony and the party will occur and at the gate it had a picture of the marrying couple. It was so beautiful but pinatas are for being destroyed, so all the people that were in the ceremony destroyed it (it was tough at the beginning). So after 3-4 hours everyone started going home. The bride and the bridesmaids went together to a house where they spent the night and the groom and his friends in a other house. After everyone was gone, we cleared the tent. This night I was the picture guy! I took loots of great pictures and I had lots of fun as well!
The next day, 19th October was the actual wedding. The day came when all the effort for organizing, and preparing the wedding paid off. We woke up early, finished clearing up the tent from the rehearsal dinner mess and started preparing for the wedding. After everyone got prepared, we went to the place where the wedding was - the amazing Searles Castle. My "job" that day was to record videos of everything important! That day I discovered that I'm very good with recording cameras.
Everything was ready and perfect at the castle. Everything looked completely magical. The castle was amazing, especially the inside of it.
The groom with his friends were in one room of the castle preparing and the bride and the bridesmaids in other room. I guess it was same like on the movies, the man room completely chill and relaxed and the women room panicking. After they all got ready, the groom saw the bride in her wedding dress for the first time. It was very nice moment, the groom was standing in the yard of the castle and the bride tapped him on his shoulder to turn around. After that the other guests came and the ceremony started. It was like on the movies! Everyone was siting and then the wedding officiant came, then the parents of the groom and bride, after them, the groom with his friends came, after the groom the bridesmaids one by one came. Then when the bride with her father started coming, everyone stood up. The father gave blessing to the groom and handed over his daughter. The wedding officiant started the ceremony and after a while, they put the rings that the best man had and they got married!
Something that was special for this wedding ceremony was that the marrying couple have had written letters to each other how they love each other and they put those letters in a box that they will open after 10 years just to remind them how happy and in love they are. After the ceremony, the guests one by one started congratulating the married couple.
And then finally, the party! Next to the place where the ceremony occurred was a wicked huge tent where the party was. It was interesting that we had to solve a small math puzzle in order to find where we sit. Then the people that were in the wedding ceremony made an amazing fun entrance. The bride and the groom had their first dance as married couple. The best men(s) gave the speeches (they were really funny) and the married couple cut their cake. It was really fun and ~live~ party. Everyone was dancing and having so much fun. That party kind a reminded me of the parties in Macedonia.
Everyone was having such a great time and even the 98 and 86 year old grandmas were dancing!
During the rest of the night they cut their wedding cake, they danced with the parents, the bride of honor and the best mans (there were two best mans in this wedding, the groom's brother and the groom's best friend), the bride threw the bucket from one of the towers of the castle. From all of the american weddings I saw so far (on movies or), this one was definitely the best and most fun one! The plot was kind a similar to the plot of Macedonian wedding but there were lots of differences too, like the american weddings have bridesmaids and the groom has friends, the parties are different because there is different music etc.
To sum it, I had extremely great time and I will always remember this wedding! I really liked having this kind a busy day(s) with lots of people in our house. I'm so thankful for being hosted by this family because I got this amazing american wedding experience!
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