Laura's wedding, what an incredible event! It was held at the gorgeous restaurant Les Pins Penches.
The ceremony took place outdoors overlooking the Mediterranean, a beautiful backdrop. She did her vows in English and he said his in French which I thought was very appropriate. The ceremony was performed in both languages, but primarily in English. It surprised me how international the gathering was. People flew from the west and east coast of the states, England, Germany where she has family, the middle east where he worked for a while, her Iranian father and aunt were there as were many of the groom's french family. I heard at the rehersal dinner there were seven different first languages present. Luckily for me most people understand English.
The ceremony was followed by a cocktail hour. Whilst a jazz band performed us guests enjoyed champagne and canapes. And did we enjoy canapes! There were at least five rounds of delicious treats served. Top rate sushi was followed by an assortment of breaded seafood, seafood rolls, mini sandwiches and finished with caviar, asparagus coolie and absynth mousse. I may have left something out. I started to doubt we were to be served an actual meal. During this time I enjoyed chatting with Laura's girlfriends from Seattle and catching up with Katie Rad from my sorority. I was feeling full though, and we did have a meal ahead. Tom was a bit overly full he enjoyed the canapes so much, we new we needed to make room somehow.
The party was led down the lawn into a large permanent marquee for the reception. I liked how they did the seating, with each table named after a place the couple have been together and labeled with their picture. I forget now which location we were. We found our table near the dance floor, and then our place card. Tom and I were lucky to be placed at a table of young couples; one from Vancouver, a paris couple who own the apartment Laura was living in when we visited her, and a french couple who live in the middle east due to work.
When the bride and groom arrived the party started! They instantly got everyone out on the dance floor setting the party mood and helping make room for the meal ahead. It was all seafood as Laura is a pescatarian, which pleased me. We first were served a started of scallops. The main that followed was to die for! It was a white fish on top a cone of sun dried tomato polenta with a saffron cream sauce. Finishing the meal was a jar of mango meringue and sorbet. My tummy started to ache it was so full, but the food was too enticing to not finish. At least there was dancing ahead.
Of course there were speeches and a bouquet toss, a couple of altered french songs from his close group of friend then cousins and cake and coffee.
Tom and I found ourselves full and exhausted and had another very good night of sleep once we made it back to the hotel.
Love
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