The whole family (both brothers and their families) were waiting for us when we arrived at 7pm, and then Borys and his daughter showed up to meet and greet as well, so our first night saw us going to bed at 4 am London time.
Next morning, me and the girls did a quick shopping trip to seek out a handbag to match the shoes I was wearing to the wedding. Who new that white patent leather would be so hard to find?
Then, Christina’s wedding. Held at the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, I thought for sure that it would spell certain disaster with Adriana being there. But luckily, she was either at her best behaved, or the staff secretly hid the ceramics every time she walked by, and no damage was done. The ceremony was lovely, the bride gorgeous and the groom cried; all the elements of a successful wedding. The reception was held in the same hall as the ceremony, so we spent some time either wandering around the exhibits or just taking family photographs while they changed the chair setup for dining tables.
The meal was provided by Jamie Kennedy’s kitchen, a famous Canadian chef, so it wasn’t the typical Ukrainian wedding fare of shnitzli and pyrohy. Although I loved the food, I was worried the whole time that Adriana was not getting a decent meal at all, turning up her nose at everything that arrived to the table. So the lovely salad, the pea-filled ravioli, the beef tenderloin with scalloped potatoes sat virtually untouched. Even the appetizers that had been passed around earlier didn’t pass muster (the home-made fries were apparently “too brown”). Orest even tried to convince Adriana that the ravioli would be “just like spaghetti” and even consulted with the kitchen to have them remove the sauce from her portion alone to try and have her eat something. All for naught, the sum total of her consumption that evening was:
5 peas (that had been used as decoration on the ravioli that sat untouched)
2 pinches of bread (the rest being deemed too crunchy)
And water
There was contest going that evening as to who ate the least and it looks like Adriana may have even beat out the oldest member of the family, Didush having no problem eating the brown fries, even though they were served in a paper cone. The photo of him here looks like he's afraid someone's going to scoff the only good food he'll have all night.
The kisses between the bride and groom were limited to those initiated by a song from the participants with the word ‘love’ in it. So Adriana (with lots of coaxing) managed to give them a rendition of “Love, love, Jesus is love…” You can always tell the good girls who go to Catholic school.
It was a lovely wedding and Christina and Mike deserve all the happiness in the world.
5 peas (that had been used as decoration on the ravioli that sat untouched)
2 pinches of bread (the rest being deemed too crunchy)
And water
There was contest going that evening as to who ate the least and it looks like Adriana may have even beat out the oldest member of the family, Didush having no problem eating the brown fries, even though they were served in a paper cone. The photo of him here looks like he's afraid someone's going to scoff the only good food he'll have all night.
The kisses between the bride and groom were limited to those initiated by a song from the participants with the word ‘love’ in it. So Adriana (with lots of coaxing) managed to give them a rendition of “Love, love, Jesus is love…” You can always tell the good girls who go to Catholic school.
It was a lovely wedding and Christina and Mike deserve all the happiness in the world.
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