| Our Wedding - July 15, 1995 - Rugendorf, Germany | ||||||||||||||
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| We were married during my
senior year at Texas A&M and my wife's junior year. That
summer we spent almost 2 months living with her parents. I
was able to get a student visa so I could work and was lucky
enough to get a decent job. My wife and I worked together
for 5 weeks at a sausage packing plant called Lutz. It was
not a pleasant job but we earned enough to pay for much of the
wedding. It is a tradition on the Thursday before a marriage, which typically happens on a Saturday that they show up at your house and throw dishes on your driveway. It was fun, but they wouldn't stop and ended up cleaning up for a few hours once they did. After it was all cleaned up a jokester snuck around and dumped it all out again so we had to clean it up again. We were married once legally in the town hall in Rugendorf, Germany and then again in the church. The pastor wouldn't let us take pictures or film in the church so we didn't get live footage of the church wedding. When we walked out of the church most of the village of 300+ residents where there. It is traditional to throw small change to all the children in the village and for the clubs that you are a part of show up in their uniforms. You can see a picture of us playing table tennis in our wedding clothes. We left Rugendorf for the reception at Hotel Dobrachtal a few kilometers away. About 50 people were invited and most came. We had great food, played some fun games and had a nice musician play the piano for us. Another tradition is that during the reception some people steal the bride and I had to drive around to 8 different locations to find her. From the time they arrived and the time I found her they could drink as much as they wanted, I had to pay. We exchanged gifts. She gave me a nice watch and I gave her a necklace with a heart pendant. It was a great day. |
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