Second time around...

We got married...again... to each other. I must say that trying to explain that in Spanish to a Chilean is quite the complicated situation. But indeed, we did the whole party again, and this time 100% in Spanish.

Six months to the day from our first wedding in Leavenworth, Washington, we were married in Chile outside of Santiago, at Victor's family's countryside house. We could think of no other place to tie the knot, as it is a very central place for our life in Chile, as well as being a beautiful location with the perfect yard.

While the day started out with some impressive thunder, the afternoon opened up and we had pure sunshine for our outdoor wedding.
I will let the pictures speak for themselves.

These (photos below) are the two gentleman who married us. They are friends of Victor's from the Jesuit Novice House. Christian and Pepe were ideal, as they know Victor well, and helped us create a ceremony that fit our needs, but that also fit within the cultural norms of a Catholic wedding. We had live music as Victor's Uncle (the gentleman in the photo to the right with the white shirt) has an incredible voice and he, and a few equally talented friends of his, sang for our ceremony.

After the ceremony we had passed hors d'oeuvres on the lawn outside of the countryside house, under the trees in the warm summer sun. I must say that the difference in the summer/winter of the hemispheres has been advantageous, as we were able to have 2 summer weddings 6 months apart, which is unique.
The majority of Victor's family joined us for the big day, and as his mother is one of 9, that made up for about half of the crowd. Here are some of the special guests:

Victor's Aunt Tere and Grandma Nelly O'Connor

(doesn't get more Irish than that but she is indeed 100% Chilean)

Victor's Mom Maria del Carmen (Carmela) and Victor Sr.

My parents had their first trip to Chile for the wedding and it was a great time. While we had the wedding in the States translated for Victor's family I am sorry to say that my parents had to play it by ear. Imagine attending your kid's wedding and not understanding a word.

My good friends Julie, Maya, Ande and Stacey (and Rusty not shown) all

came to Chile to join us for the wedding.

It was so good to have them here and we would like to send a thank you

to all of them for making the long trip down to join us!

Here is the whole family.

Following the photos and appetizers the party moved to the tent (which was on the back lawn) for the food and dancing. Here the real party begins.

Instead of The Gambler which was our first dance in the States we decided to have a more Chilean choice. This second time around we decided (or attempted you should say) to dance the Cueca, which is a very traditional Chilean dance (it actually doesn't get any more traditional than this). The dance is meant to imitate a rooster chasing a hen around the coop (we can just imagine the reasoning why). And how this translates to a dance is that the guy chases the girl around the dance floor almost hoping up and down. As we didn't have much practice, I must say it was quite the laugh. To learn a bit more about the dance check out (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cueca).

And then on to the real dancing...

We had Zorba the Greek pay a visit (and Victor's ankle is still paying for it).
Victor's nieces and nephews had a great time on the dance floor and here is a cute photo (left) of a group of them in their matching outfits.