The Wedding Day

Now, for a few pictures of our wedding day!  We got married on Friday afternoon at Kungsängen's city hall in front of Mama and Papa Swede, Sarianne, Magnus, Elin and Julia, who were all dressed to the nines.  When we first got engaged we thought we might have a wedding here in Sweden this spring and then another in the States during the summer, but Baby Swede came onto the scene and threw a wrench in that plan.  Since travel was out of the question for us and because it would have been nigh impossible to get all my loved ones here, we opted to keep it simple, which is much more our style anyway.  It's a good thing we did, too, because even as low-key as it was, we were both pretty nervous.  The ceremony only took about two minutes, though, then we signed our names in a book and dropped the little girls off at the sitter and headed into the city.

We had arranged for the six of us to stay at a hotel overnight so we checked in and gathered for champagne in one of rooms before dinner.  And dinner - wow - it was right up my alley.  We went to Wallmans Salonger and saw "Thank You For The Music", a tribute to the music of Björn and Benny of ABBA!  Just like the ceremony, we didn't know what to expect from the evening, but it tuned out to be perfect. 

 As tends to happen at these sort of things, they involved the audience in the show a bit and Papa Swede was lucky enough to be serenaded.

 And they announced our marriage with balloons and a special cake.  Swedes don't typically like to be the center of attention, but as you can see The Swede made an exception on this occasion. 

After the show, they cleared all the tables away to reveal a dancefloor and pumped all the greatest dance hits, including the classic American wedding song, the Village People's "YMCA".  We were exhausted - it was several hours past my pregnancy bedtime - but The Swede took me for a spin on the dancefloor as the perfect end to our perfect day.