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22-29, 2008 Daughter's Wedding in Vienna Quick trip to Europe for worthy cause... |
FROM VIENNA, AUSTRIA
The Big Day: Wedding Ceremony
NOTE: At Tanja's request and out of respect for her and Bertie's desire for privacy, I have removed the video clips form YouTube. So the links below are inactive. But if you would like to views the videos, let me know and I can upload the files to you directly. Bob Dj.
VIENNA, Oct 25, 2008 - Tanja and Bertie's big day started out mostly cloudy, with temperatures in the 40s even in early afternoon.
The neighborhood around the Kinsky Palace (far right), where the wedding ceremony was to take place, is surrounded by ancient churches. The palace is a stone throw away from the Hofburg Palace, home of the imperial family at the time of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Inside the elegant baroque-style Kinsky Palace, however, where the wedding ceremony was to take place, everything was bright and sunny. The place looked every bit as beautiful as any royal residence I have seen across Europe.
The domed chamber in which the wedding ceremony took place was similarly beautiful (two left shots). The arrival of the bride and the groom (right) was accompanied by the traditional wedding march, played by an excellent string quartet (middle right). Here, you can check it out yourself in this short video clip...
October 25, 2008, 01:01 AM PDT; Time: 00:37 mins
The ceremony that followed was quite elaborate. It lasted about half an hour.
The official who conducted the wedding proceedings (in black robe - left) spoke in German. The woman behind him translated into English. The official said noted that this was a very international wedding. The guests in attendance had come from as far away as the U.S. and Canada, as well as from Britain, Russia, Switzerland, Spain, Serbia, Poland... He then apologized in case he had inadvertently neglected to mention a country some guest were from. :-)
At the end of the ceremony, the bride and the groom signed the marriage papers, as did the two witnesses, the bride's sister and the groom's best man.
The ceremony concluded with another beautiful performance by the string quartet...
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What followed was a brief reception in the elegant room adjacent to the domed chamber in which the wedding took place. All the while, the wonderful string quartet were playing classical pieces, although this time in an empty dome chamber...
October 25, 2008, 01:21 AM PDT; Time: 00:17 mins
The room in which the reception was taking place was once heated by the ornate tiled stoves, like the one shown above right. After about an hour or so, most of the guests boarded a bus (above) to be taken to Grinzing, a charming old part of Vienna nestled among the hilltop vineyard, where the dinner and the party were to take place.
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TO BE CONTINUED... CLICK HERE TO GO TO GRINZING DINNER & PARTY
