German Wedding!

     So last Saturday (September 6^th) I got to attend a German Wedding! It was the wedding of my host mom’s cousin (I feel like a lot of German families are much closer (relationship) because they all live pretty close to each other). First, the couple had a pretty traditional German Catholic Wedding at a church. (I had to stand several times and kneel too… may I say that the benches were super uncomfortable. I made the joke that the benches are the reason why Germans don’t go to church often (and I think my host parents agreed, lol) then it was the reception! The food was awesome, lots of traditional German food :)

     Oh, I forgot to add that I didn’t sit with my host family during the meal because the seating arrangements were done pretty early on and I think the people planning the wedding didn’t know that I was going to be there, so I ended up sitting with people I didn’t know. But, all is ok because the couple I ended up siting with actual knew really good English and we had a very good conversation during the meal, I even talked a little bit in German! The reception started at 5:30 p.m. and lasted throughout the night, my host parents and I went home at about 2:30 a.m., and there were still people there when we left.   

     The Party was very fun, they had a band there that played music that I didn’t really know but they did sing “Country Roads” and Atemlos, which made up a little bit for the other songs. For the rest of the time I mainly played with the kids (soccer in a dress and dress shoes) since there really weren’t people there my age (I did have a conversation with a guy about environmental science and renewable energy (in English) that was very interesting). All in all the wedding was very fun and educational and I am really glad to be able to attend. (there are no pictures because it’s not my wedding and I didn’t ask for permission to post the pictures)