Marcin and Ania say "Yes!"

In the excitement of moving from The Hague to Miami, we were given the chance to celebrate the marriage of two friends, Marcin and Ania, in Tbilisi, Georgia. This is a grand old story because we have known Marcin since he was 15 years old in High School in Warsaw. Ania we have recently met several times.

Marcin and Ania decided to get married in Tbilisi, Georgia because that is the place he proposed to her, in front of the oldest church in the country. They had a civil ceremony in the living room of the ambassador's residence and the Consul officiated. It was wonderful because all of her family came from far away to be with them. Marcin's friends and sister came from Warsaw to be there also. All included there were 80 or so people from Poland, Germany, Holland AND many from Georgia.

We flew into the airport at 4 in the morning and just as the sun came up, we were driven by taxi van to our hotel in the "old Jewish quarter" of the city. We managed 4 hours of sleep and in the afternoon we all assembled for a tour of the city. The next three days went by as if we were on a roller coaster in a dream. Lots of laughter, dancing, drinking very good Georgian wine, huge lunches with lots and lots of meat(the Georgians love meat), walking in the streets where cafes had tables out and people gathered to drink, eat and sing, visiting the churches and the old synagogue, and more of the same for three days.

Marcin and Ania had a lovely idea(not just to marry) to bring people together for this huge long party. We left after 3 days on a flight from the airport at 3 in the morning and went back to The Hague to have one single day before the packers came to move our belongings into storage.