When the day arrived for Kirsten and Jovanni's wedding, we we thrilled. We almost did not get to experience this wonderful union after Jovanni broke his collar bone, and ended up having emergency surgery in Cape Town. We had so much fun planning the event, that I swear we were going to have the wedding even if he was on a stretcher:)
But everything worked out and the ceremony took place, as planned, on the deck with all the students and staff dressed up in their best cloths and the bride and groom wearing their colorful red, gold, purple, and green Indian and Chinese outfits matching the swaths of fabric used to decorate the ceremony area (we never miss a point to celebrate multi culturalism!)
The student band played music, the captain conducted the traditional ceremony, one of our professors read from the song of songs and our academic dean distributed red string for all of us to tie around out wrists as we all joined the couple spiritually as a community. And the Morrocan students led us all in a dance around the couple that got us all clapping and cheering as lound as we could!
Everywhere you looked you saw smiling faces and everyone talked about how fortunate we were to participate in such a festival of love! Kirsten and Jovanni read their vows in Italian (which proved again that this IS the language of love) and danced the night away to music played by no other but our crew's band.
And they even played a traditional "Mazel Tov" tune in my honor while the cake was being cut!
I can go on and on, but the pictures will tell a much better story... As soon as we get to Barcelona, I will share them with you!
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