Our Civil Wedding: April 7th, 2009

Differently from the US, in Venezuela priests do not have legal authority, so we usually have 2 weddings: the civil wedding and the church one. For us the church wedding is sort of the real one, as in Venezuela the civil wedding is signing the paper but still not moving together ;o)

Then with no planning at all, time got for us to get legally married, and we did on April 7th, 2009, which became one of the most memorable days in my life: I married the love of my life and I confirmed that I have very good friends in Cincinnati, who came to share our happiness even when we got married on a Tuesday @ 2.30 pm.

It was a very interesting day. I worked from home during the morning so I could get some make-up and dry my hair to be pretty for the pictures. Around 2 pm we run to the get our "Marriage license" and from there to the court to get it sign by the judge.

We got to the license office where pictures where not allowed and where we realized we did not have a camera.. stress... my civil wedding day and my pictures were being taken with Jon's mobile phone :o(... but well, better mobile phone pictures than none. So, in a 30F day (no chance to wear a sexy dress without my winter coat) we went running from one building to another (we were sort of late), and I had the best ever surprise when I entered the walkway and I saw Jack with an amazing camera making pictures like a professional photographers: "I will have real pictures from my civil wedding" :o)

And after the ceremony we went celebrating to Palomino's, the place where I remember seeing Jon for the first time on May 23, 2004 and telling to my friend Carla: "Ese chinito esta chevere y es super cuchi" (see picture below) and here we are celebrating our wedding almost 5 years later.

The second celebration in Cincinnati previous to the big Venezuela event ;o)

As many of our dear friends could not make it for the Venezuela celebration, we decided to have a "Cincinnati celebration" @ Andy's Mediterranean Grill.

Our very good friend Andy let us used his launch room to have a lot of fun. We started with an early dinner for those friends with kids that could not stay late and the party went until 4.00 am. Until midnight at Andy's and after that in our house with dancing and non stop champagne ;o)