A LETTER FROM A SWEET COUPLE THAT NEEDED SOME EXTRA HELP WHEN PLANNING THEIR WEDDING ON THEIR OWN.
Experiencing a wedding as a foreigner offers a unique perspective on love, celebration, and cultural traditions
Hello Yana!
I promised you a longer story of our wedding, here it is!
You might have worried that we had fallen off the planet after the wedding. However, everything is perfectly fine. We are happily married and looking back on a truly wonderful and amazing day.
Before I share more about our day, let me sincerely thank you for your support throughout the process. This is also on behalf of my wife. You advised us, helped us connect with trusted partners, and were someone we could always rely on when we faced challenges.We truly appreciate that support.
For example, your help with the program was invaluable. You would not believe how much time we spent creating a detailed schedule. After all, we both work for a planning software company, so planning is literally our profession. Even so, your tips were extremely helpful, especially when it came to the folklore group.
In addition, we included several traditional Bulgarian elements. For example, there was a live horo lesson led by Valentina, one of our witnesses and a Zumba instructor. Impressively, she got nearly everyone dancing on the floor. This was quite an achievement, especially with so many Dutch guests, since dancing is not our strong point.
Moreover, we took part in the traditional bread-breaking ritual, and we quickly discovered who would hold the biggest piece. We also performed the pitka ceremony with salt and honey. Finally, the witnesses’ committee tasted the wine and loudly proclaimed “gorchivo!”, adding even more joy to the celebration.
The weather on the day was fantastic, the forecast for August 3 was rain and thunder, with clear blue (and warm) days before and after that. When we discussed this with Pastor George from the church in Varna, he half jokingly said he would talk to his Boss (…), and suggested we do the same.
He did, we did, and in the end the weather was the best we could imagine. Not too hot, with a bit of clouds protecting our guests from the direct sun during the first ceremony. Then just after the pastor had started his ceremony a strong wind came, almost blowing Diyana’s veil off the cliffs, chasing the clouds away so breaking open the whole place and at the same time offering some coolness our guests. A truly special moment. The lesson here: have faith!
We learned a number of lessons:
– Having an overview of all topics with all todos in there and keeping that up to date really helps in maintaining peace of mind. We used an excel file with many tab pages.
– People of which you would be sure to attend did not attend, others of which you were not so sure right from the start confirmed and were there celebrating with us. I guess you just never know. And that is fine. We were surprised
– The photographer and videographer will take more time than planned. We weren’t too strict on it, and I believe we will have the most amazing wedding photos (still waiting for them), it did mess up the program a bit. As said, we are still waiting for the results, but I can already say it was really a pleasure to work with Yana Peneva and her boyfriend Alexander.
– Call in the experts!We had your guidance throughout the process. At the same time, we listened carefully to others who had already gotten married or attended weddings. In addition, we were lucky enough to visit a few weddings ourselves before our own. From all these experiences, we took the good ideas, kept the things we liked, and also learned what does not work. For example, we decided to use one main language for the wedding, English, and translate only some elements into Bulgarian, while not translating anything into Dutch.
That was a good decision as it kept the pace during the wedding. We were still short in time in the end! Which was good, everyone said it was such a great evening with such a great program. And that’s what it is all about. A friend of mine didn’t get to read out his speech, he just read it to me the next morning over breakfast.
– That is another lesson: organize something the day before and the day after for the guests. The day after we got together at the beach and in the botanical gardens in Balchik, and then gathered at the restaurant down the botanical gardens (Korona). That worked out well. What worked out less well is that in the end we drove to Cape Kaliakra for the fotoshoot, that obviously took some time, so we left our guests for quite some hours. In hindsight, we would have done the photoshoot a day later, so 2 days after the wedding so we could focus on our guests the whole day after the wedding.
We plan to only get married once, so we are very happy with how it turned out, for other couples this probably good advice.
All the best for now,
Bernd,
with greetings from my lovely wife Diyana
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