And the Mexican wedding was...

So, finally, after so much paperwork and a few unintended detours, we got hitched! The day started early with all the last minute preparations. We had a very hard working crew headed by my father and all the Drottja kids. Then, Johan, Emil, and I got started on the garland that Annika was gonna wear. We had purchased an Arabian Jasmin bush from which we cut a few twigs with flowers so we could make it.

After this, all of us walked to the justice of the peace offices where we turned in all the paperwork which cost us so much in time and sweat to obtain. We waited in the building for a while while they processed the information and the judge got ready to officiate the ceremony so the kids got a chance to explore the building inside and out (we're lucky they didn't ask us to leave!). After about an hour we were called inside the judges chambers and we had a very straight forward, simple ceremony. We signed all the legal papers, got our parents and our witnesses to tell the judge we were free and clear to be married to one another and the judge finally got us married before the Mexican government.


After the ceremony we didn't have much time to gloat on the fact that we were ALREADY husband and wife because we went rushing to the hairdresser who did a very Mexican (read: overdone) hairdo on Annika -- which she had to tone down a bit when we got home.



Back home, we got through the last few adjustments and got ready to marry again! Except this time was gonna be more symbolic and meaningful for us and our families. Rune, Annika's dad, got us married before God with a very simple, yet nice ceremony which was both in Swedish and Spanish (my brother, Sal, did a good job at repeating in Spanish what Rune was saying).