Today was a unique day for the WCCS Dominican trip in that we worked until lunch in preparation to attend the wedding of Dario and Darhania, a couple who are members of the chirch. They planned their wedding around our trip because of the deep bonds developed over the past 8 years with the Bagleys and others in our group.
After continuing work on several projects, we had lunch, cleaned up, and loaded 2 buses with our Domincan friends and drove to the city for the ceremony and reception. It was held at a very nice facility in Santo Domingo and everyone was ecstatic to enjoy air conditioning once again. Camilla and Olivia were attendants in the wedding, and other than the obvious language barrier, the ceremony was fairly similar to American tradition. The unique things were that the ceremony and reception was in the same room, the 6 photographers roamed freely between the attendants and the bride and groom, who were all sitting (until the vows), and the atmosphere was very informal with lots of laughter, cheers, and applause throughout. It was also unique that although the wedding was scheduled at 5:00pm, it didn't begin until after 7:00. The Dominicans don't often get in a hurry, and even though they are a passionate, hard working people, members of the wedding party were very casual about coming in and getting started. After the cerremony, a meal was served to all the guests while musicians played and sang a variety of genres. Other than a single performance by a couple, there was no dancing.
Our kids looked terrific and really enjoyed this new and interesting experience.
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