The Wedding Celebrations

Well, I hadn´t experienced a wedding until I came here to Argentina, however Naomi and Helen tell me a wedding at home is very different! Samuel and Vanina, the son of our Pastor here in "El Redentor" got married on the 7th Feb. It was a very bizarre experience but one that I will never forget. Leading up to the ceremony we gathered a week before, we began cleaning and preparing the Temple for the wedding. The "Templo Nuevo" is a new temple which at the moment you would say was a building site. On the Night of the wedding when the ceremony it had been totally transformed. I had to seat the guests which was a laugh trying to pronounce everyones names as you can imagine but thankfully everyone, I think was seated correctly. Just before the Bride came, some short fused some light which meant we had no light... that didn´t help the grooms nerves. She looked beautiful in her dress and he looked totally terrified. Thankfully when he said "I DO" he began to smile. Samuel had written Vanina a song while he was studying in Corrientes and he sang it to her at the altar. Of course at this point, all the females are saying "Aww..." It was really special because of course, the Pastor married his son. The party after was very different from what I had imagined. We arrived at this center where it had been done up and the basketball nets had been covered. They hadn´t enough tables for the guests which was a laugh so for the first while we sat at the cake table. You cant just imagine how difficult it was trying to keep Naomi away from that! Some of the friends of the couples sang a few personal songs and then our Church band played some worship music. The first dance, well the one and only dance of the night. Everyone of course looked amazing until the girls started pushing and pulling trying to catch the flowers! Then again, the men weren´t much better. Please pray for the newly married couple as Vanina moves provinces to live with Samuel and that the Pastor can relax once again.

We went to a second wedding just a few days ago. The daughter of a friend of ours was getting married. I had never met the woman before but thankfully it was obvious who she was. The one who looked very nervous in the white dress. This service unlike the Garcia wedding wasn´t held in a Church but it was a Civil Marriage. To be honest it was over very quickly and then the photographs began. This wedding did have a first dance that continued after unlike the Garcia wedding. Please pray for Rosa, that her and her new husband would find faith one day and would have a happy life together.

Over all, we had a very good time, but very different experiences.

Enjoy the photos!

Chau, Megan xx