Wedding

I am a little late with posting this, but better late than never. At the end of March our friend Marc and his wife Rachel held a wedding party in Schroecken. They had already gotten married in Singapore last year and were having their party/ reception at their ski resort for all their European friends and family. Marc and I had studied together in Innsbruck and we once shared an apartment together with our friend Maria. We always joked that our apartment was actually for 5 as our friend Michael was always hanging out with us and Maria's boyfriend Stefan was there every night too. Those were fun times and we still have lots of crazy stories to tell....

Weddings in Austria are full of traditions and they usually involve the people attending the party. We decided to pick a few things for them and started weekly planning meetings at the beginning of March.

We had great plans to decorate their room with lots of ballons - which in theory sounded really fun, but at the end the execution was not that easy and they also have a baby girl (the idea was to have the whole room full so they would have had to pop all the ballons before they could have gotten into bed). At the end we agreed on "being nice" and decorated their bed with roses and prepared a snack/ breakfast table for the day after. Unfortunately only Rachel got to enjoy it as Marc did not get to bed until breakfast :-)

Our next idea was to create our own photo booth. We prepared an album for people to put in their pictures and write a note for the couple. We brought several frames to take pictures with and as the party was a theme/ costume party we did not need any other props. Marc's family also happened to have a great new digital polaroid camera with lots of film.
Everybody had fun taking pictures and Marc and Rachel really loved the album. Especially the next day when you could see all the people in the pictures getting happier and happier the later it got.

The food was delicious and I ate it all!

For midnight we had prepared our last surprise for the happy couple. We had taken a famous apres ski song and rewritten the lyrics to fit for Marc and Rachel. Michael our "Austrian Alpen Elvis" had brought his guitar and we lined up to sing the song for them. I have to admit, we are not the best singers, but the wedding couple liked our effort and the other guests joined us in singing.
We deserved a big glass of champagne after that!

Happy couple Marc and Rachel with Anya!

The theme of the party was A. Ben was an American Cowboy and I was an Ampel (traffic light).

And we spent the night in a rustic hostel Jaegerheim.