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The wedding was really fun. The weather was perfect, the bride and groom were lovely and radiant, and we suffered not at all from our halting German - though as always, I decided that I will try and improve it, I really will...

German weddings are not that different from Swedish ones, except that the church wedding is not sufficient on its own - the legally binding ceremony is civil, and can take place before or after the church wedding (which is not obligatory). In Sweden, couples can choose a civil or a religious wedding, but if they go for the religious version they don't need a civil one as well. Anyway, in this case the happy couple had been legally wed for a month already, not that that detracted any from the ceremony in the church! I admit that I did not quite understand all of the priest's speech, but to sing hymns in German felt quite natural.

The wedding cake was magnificent and very yummy - and quite rich. Fortunately, we got a few hours to get hungry again, before the dinner which was excellent. I don't think I'd had Sauerkraut before, it's definitely a taste I would have remembered. I wonder where I can get it in Sweden.

According to a couple of the other guests, and the bride, many German weddings include a lot of games for the guests. (Well, so do Swedish weddings, come to think of it.) This one didn't, which gave us lots of time to talk to the other people, those we knew and those we didn't. The entertainment was splendid, too.

Our pictures are here. (There will be more of them soon, I believe - I managed to hide some of the best photos so Johan couldn't upload them to flickr.)

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