A June wedding in Norway

Some other news:
Although we got married in August 2008, we decided to wait with the party and wedding ceremony in a church until we were ready and our guests had enough notice to book international plane tickets and such. So we had our wedding in June 2009.

It was a very special occasion and my husband and I agree that it was the happiest day of our lives. I enjoyed the church ceremony the most. We had the ceremony in the stav church in Torpo that was built in 1130. We had both hardanger fiddle music played by my fiddle teacher Øyvind Brabandt, local singing by Margit Myhr (a young local aspiring singer/dancer/musician/actress), accordion playing by Jo Asgeir Lie and Ingunn Stræte Lie, and an incredibly touching song sung in French by my friend Sarah Nagell, who was my roommate in Rauland. We asked our sisters to read the Bible verses, and our "forlovere" Birgitte and Gunnar helped in the ceremony as well.

I loved dressing up and having my hair done and carrying the bridal bouquet and doing all the fun things that the bride gets to do. I had a crown to "top it off" and it felt like everyone treated me like royalty. I definitely recommend that any girl wear a crown if she gets the chance.

My current image is of me on my wedding day, June 20, 2009.
I will post more pictures later.

Now: sleep is calling.