Current location: Kitzbuehel
11.11am, In town, getting things sorted for the wedding. Bree and I started the day with a run to the Schwarzsee and a swim in the water. It is seriously stunning here!!! Almost unbelievably so.
We headed back into town to do a few last-minute jobs for the wedding (including get some helium balloons blown up, which we failed at) and then it was time for a quick nap and to start getting ready.
Bree had bought me an amazing Gorman dress for the occasion (what a kind sis-in-law I have!) and Andy and I got scrubbed up and went downstairs to get on the coaches to the barn venue. As we approached the venue, we were all pretty blown away (not least because the coach almost fell on its side getting up the mountain track!). It was literally a beautiful barn on a mountainside with the most stunning views I think I’ve ever seen. Remarkable. They’d decorated it so nicely and we all milled around and went inside, waiting for the bride to arrive. The sun was shining and everyone was just so happy!
She arrived…. Speeding into the barn in a vintage Mini! It was so funny and so cool. The ceremony was absolutely beautiful, in both German and English, and had everyone both laughing and crying. They’re such a beautiful couple. After they were pronounced husband and wife, we all spilled back out into the sunshine for beers and champagne, and gorgeous photos with a ridiculous backdrop.
As the afternoon drew to a close, we got the bus back down the mountain to a gorgeous little restaurant, with spectacular views of the Wilderkaise mountain.
The next few hours saw us eating phenomenal food, chatting to the bunch of bloody legends on our table and creating new games such as ‘Eat it or put it on your head’ (the clue to the rules is in the name). The speeches had us all laughing (even the best men’s, which went on for 20 minutes and thankfully couldn’t be translated into German) and then the dancing (and more eating) began. It was just the happiest, funnest wedding full of delish food, hilarious people and never-ending drinks.
Bree and I lasted until about 3am, then I left Andy to it (he was about to start DJing I think) and we got a cab home with a few other friends, singing our fave pop songs all the way at the top of our voices. We even got the cab driver to go the long way around because we were all having too much fun to get out.
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