Another Wedding of a Twin

Hendrik grew up with two sets of twins: His cousins Hendrik and Martin of Kwazulu-Natal and his Kempton Park friends Pieter and Servaas. Hendrik got married in January (look here) and now a month later Servaas got married.

As was to be expected, Servaas's twin, Pieter, was his best man. Pieter works in London at the moment, but flew back for two weeks for the wedding. (Hendrik does not have internet and only checks out his e-mail over weekends when he is at home and so missed the invite to Servaas's bachelor party - BIG FRUSTRATION for him!)

The wedding was held at Glenburn Lodge - a very beautiful place. But there was a problem: At the turnoff, the lodge had a name flag instead of a solid sign. When we drove past, the flag was draped around the pole and so we missed the entrance....

When we finally arrived the bride and her bridemaids were ready already, but they were waiting for latecomers - we were not the only ones who had missed the sign! (Hint to future brides: put distances on the map you include with your invitation and preferably a discription of the road as well. And put a big solid sign with your names at the entrance...)

Anyway, sorry Liesl - we should have left 15 minutes earlier! There is really no excuse for coming late to a wedding.

We were "darem" well and truly seated when the radiant bride entered. You looked so beautiful Liesl.

The front of the chapel was bathed in late afternoon light - very, very beautiful and romantic.

Message:

Phillipians 4: 4: Rejoice in the Lord always...

If you want to be happy, you have to ensure that your partner is happy.

Take all your troubles to God and be grateful.
The peace of God which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts..... The peace will be with you...(I.e. you get peace and the same peace stays with you.)
Note to self: I must take my church notebook along also when I go to weddings!

(My concentration is not the best and I remember better when I take notes of sermons, so I always take my church notebook with me when I go to church.)

After the church service, waiting to throw fresh rose petals on the couple: Adriaan and his wife Nida.

Adriaan is our Kempton Park neighbours' son. Like Pieter and Servaas we have known him from the day he was born. He is an I.T. boffin and qualified teacher. Nida is a teacher too, but at the moment she is working for a Korean concern.

Adriaan's parents, Christo and Brenda were not there: Brenda is getting chemo treatment for cancer and of course not feeling too great at times. (More about Brenda here and here.)

My two handsome men.

My good friend Elsa - beautiful mother of the groom. (Adriaan in the background).

Yours truly

Aunts of the groom: Gerda, Elisabeth (yes it the Elisabeth 0f singing couple Francois and Elisabeth) and Servaas's sister Elrika with her husband Janco. They are expecting their first child in June and her name will be Janelle. (After nearly 7 years of marriage, we were all over the moon when Elrika finally became pregnant.)

Guests still chatting outside the church, before moving on to the reception. Pieter (Servaas's twin) in foreground.

View from the deck where drinks and platters were set out. On the right Nida and Jan (sitting) and Hendrik and Adriaan (standing).

Janita with black and white (the other sister) and Elrika.

The reception hall - I got a sneek preview when I went to the bathroom. A pity I did not take more photos with the fairy lights and the beautiful table arrangements, but once we were in the hall, we visited so much that the camera was all but forgotten.

Each guest got a cute little box with nuts and chocolates.... and the food was heavenly, especially the starter and the seafood dish and the chocolate mousse.... my bathroom scale groaned this morning! (And I did take such small portions...!)

The scrumptious wedding cake.

A special pose for us: Servaas and Liesl.

And lastly Jan and I had a ball on the dance floor. Can you believe it! We had never enjoyed dancing before, because we couldn't really dance! However we had practised on our own and we figured out our own way. (Elsa het gese "Julle kan nog!" Watwou "Kan nog"... Ons kan nou vir die eerste keer.)

(Note to all young people: learn to dance in your youth, otherwise you miss sooo much.)