Weddings - Dutch Style

This weekend we had a wedding reception for one of Bas's old interns from Chicago. First, I say only reception as in Holland that is usually all you are invited to unless you are very close to the bride and groom, in which case you are invited to the ceremony and a dinner afterward before the reception.

To begin, the invitation to the reception was "Scarface" themed. Not your typical wedding invite. Then a couple weeks before the wedding we received another letter in the mail. This one asking all the attendees to wear Mafia garb.

So Bas and I picked up a couple items and hoped we would fit in with the rest of the group.

Well, I wish I had brought my camera. When you walked into the reception room (the upstairs of a bar) everyone was decked out and it really looked like ...a mafia themed wedding reception.

Needless to say the boa was itchy and it was soon way to warm to be wearing something around your neck, so off it came and hung on my purse the rest of the night, the same with Bas's hat.

I also learned from this reception that I am getting old. It began at 9pm and ended at 2am. Bas and I left around 1:30am and since it was in Den Haag we weren't home until 2:30am. It is 2 days later and I still don't fully have my voice back and I needed to nap today when Max went down. I can't keep up with these Dutch people...but I did have fun dancing.