It felt like the whole town was crammed into the white clapboard church that sits in a prominent place on the town's only real road. There were 14 bridesmaids and groomsmen. All of them slowly danced and swayed down the aisle. Nice and slow, no hurry to finish to get to the reception because this, the ceremony, was the main event, and it was being savored.
Yali was gorgeous. She is so teeny tiny, with beautiful skin and a calm spirit. Her now-husband was one big smile the entire day. The sweetest thing was how he relished saying 'my wife' at the reception.
Fern, Celtina and Margine's friend from Bluefields, now our friend from Bluefields, was shameless in getting the best photos at the wedding - and she wasn't the only one!
After the ceremony the couple walked down the main street to the reception and all of the guests trailed behind. No one passed them or walked at their side but stayed to the back, symbolic of how the community was behind them but ultimately the walk was their own.
They'll live together in the Cayman Islands, where he found work years ago. She'll leave the community she grew up in as he already has but in a way really leaving the nest is the best way to start out a new life. A good split between old and new, the future and the past.
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Now that looks like a fun crazy wedding. Did I could 6 flower girls? That's a lot of pint-sized princesses to wrangle!
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