Mexican Wedding

Shelby and I were in in Guadalajara for my cousin Chino's wedding to Marifer. Chino and Marifer are their nicknames, their real names are Alejandro and Maria Fernanda. We arrived in Guadalajara early on Friday the day before the wedding. My uncle Pablo picked us up, but felt bad for him as it took us over an hour and a half to get through customs. 5 planes had arrived at once and there were only 2 officers to process us and at times only 1 person!
We had basically taken a red -eye flight and I only slept about an hour and Shelby less, so we were quite tired. Since we were so early our hotel room wasn't ready yet. We went to Pablo's house, had breakfast and then crashed for a few hours. In the afternoon we were taken to the art district of Guadalajara where we bought a few art items for our house.
Later in the evening Mike and Viva arrived as well as my parents who flew to Mexico City and drove from there with my aunt and cousin. We had a nice family dinner at a Mexican restaurant called La Tequila.

On Saturday we tried to sleep in a bit as we knew we had a long day ahead. The ceremony started at 1pm and we arrived shortly before. It was a traditional Catholic wedding in Spanish. We didn't understand much at all and tried to follow when people stood up and sat down. I pretended to be one of the official photographers, so I went up and took a few pictures of them from time to time.

Here is our group at the wedding.

The beautiful sister-in-laws

Here we are cleaned up a bit

The bridal couple on the way to the wedding.

As a side note the posts all had Baby's Breath stapled to them, must have been a lot of work.

Us with the wedding couple.

Mike and Viva

The first dance.

They had lots of different favours with their names on them, like this water bottle, they also had pens, candles and slippers.

Even before the sun was setting the dancing began.

Then the wild wigs, crazy hats, wacky glasses, plastic leis, blow up shoes and guitars and so on came out and the party continued on late into the night. Here are some pictures of the evening.

The wedding was a long time in making and now it finally came and went. We had a great time, it was also good to catch up with family and meet some new people as well. We wish Chino and Marifer all the best in their life together. Right now they are roughing in on their honeymoon in SouthEast Asia.

The day after the wedding we headed to Puerto Vallarta for a few days with Mike and Viva, I'll continue that on the next post.

We have to give a big thanks to all the various people that looked after our kids while we were away, muchos gracias!