Stewart & Juliana’s Wedding

Stew and Juliana are two friends from the Canterbury University Tramping Club and they’ve been going out for ever and finally decided to tie the knot. They chose an entirely beautiful place to tie said knot – up at the Cheeseman ski field. It was quite a low-key event, but really beautifully done.

Here is a picture of the bride walking along a narrow path to where the service took place and a picture of the happy couple.

One key difference from Ireland is that the celebrant is the legally registered entity, not the place. This means that you can get married anywhere. This also means it can be a lot less expensive to have a wedding as extortionate prices can’t be charged by a limited number of (monopolising) venues. So… yes… a brilliant wedding – simply done but really great.

We stayed the night (drinkin’ and dancin’) and then back to Christchurch to meet some friends of Maaike’s who had arrived from The Netherlands.

I’ve said it before, and I’m quite sure I’ll say it again, the Dutch have an excellent sense of humour (at least the ones I have met). Ruud and Noor were absolutely great fun, we were merrily slagging eachother off after about, oh, 5 minutes of conversation – just like it would be with the Irish. Great times – would love to see them back here again.