Our big fat Polynesian wedding (part I)

In December 2006, we did the traditional Rurutu wedding, all 4 days of it!
It was quite an interesting experience - on Rurutu traditional marriages happen just once a generation, and it's actually more about paying your respects to the parents of the grooms than to us the couples - I say grooms because all the boys get married at the same time. So we were part of a three couple extravaganza. Viriamu is actually one of seven children, five boys and two girls, two of his brothers are still single and so they weren't forced to get married, though traditionally the weddings would have been arranged for them, from an early age. The photos from the marriage are in the next two blog entries. Here I want to say a few words of thanks to my friends and family who made the long trip to Rurutu to be there for our wedding. How lucky I am to have had so many wonderful people there for us!

In particular I want to thank my six superstar maids of honour - I'm so glad that you could all be there to share the experience.....

And it was quite an experience - we even made the newspaper (Tahiti's La Depeche), granted it was the Boxing day edition and so they didn't have too much else to report, but all the same it was a colour spread!