the wedding setting

our son

A very two busy days we've had!  The day of the wedding was nice and warm, sunny, and no wind.  23 C! The wedding venue (Monaco Resort) was about a 15 minute walk from Angela's (Bella's mom) place - on a small peninsula that juts out into the 'sea'.  It was a short garden wedding, after which some photos were taken in the garden and then the wedding party drove into town for some photos.  Some of the guests were staying at the resort, so a lot of people hung out in their suites, waiting for the reception.  Jer and I were invited to Michael and Sheila's (Angela's sister) house for drinks.  They live in England, but spend 3 months of the year in Nelson, so we were able to meet some of Angela's friends and visit with them.  Back to the resort at 4ish, for canapes.  Supper was a buffet, and it was amazing.  Fish, ham, beef and chicken; many different kinds of salad, potato dish, cold mussels, cold cuts, etc.   Dessert was the best chocolate cake I've had in a long time, AND....  pavlova!!!!!  Yummy!  A fun evening, getting to know new people and visiting with old friends.  Bella and Andrew both looked great!  A very handsome couple. We got home late, and had a very leisurely morning here at our home today. Oh yes,  we saw ONE mosquito in our house yesterday!!!  There are no screens on any windows here.

flower girls-Bella's nieces

the girls...waiting

the guys...waiting

the couple

Jerry & Granny signing the register

Mr & Mrs Friesen arriving

table centerpieces 

the next wedding????

our grand daughter & daughter

the cake-caramel mud

Today, everyone was invited to the reserve (park) near Angela's at noon for a kiwi picnic.  Typically everyone brings their own meat to barbie and a salad, and everything gets pooled for all to enjoy.  Today the Arnold-Kelly's provided the sausages, for what we would call hot dogs.  'Getto dogs' is what Andrew calls them.  They don't have hot dog buns here; they wrap their sausages in a slice of bread spread with butter!  Kiwi's don't seem to be strong on desserts.  The only time we've seen dessert was at the wedding. Afterwards we visited, chatted, some of the younger crew played a frisbee game called 'frisbeer', somebody had brought a huge remote control helicopter.  The Canadians just tried to stay in the shade!  Tonight we can see that we've all gotten sun - even though we had put on 30 sunblock.