La Boda de Javier y Carmen

On Saturday we went to Plasencia for Javier and Carmen's wedding - it was a wonderful drive (as previously blogged) and the town is very beautiful, and the wedding was great.

The wedding took place in la Iglesia de San Nicolas, which was constructed in thirteen century and later reformed in the fourteenth century. It was beautiful!


Afterward the happy couple was greeted outside of the church...

Carmen's dress was beautiful and they're smiles were priceless!

After the wedding we all walked the short distance to the Parador where their reception was held. The Paradors are a chain of luxury hotels throughout Spain that were founded by Alfonso XIII, these are often in old castles, palaces, fortresses, convents, monasteries and other historic buildings. It was a really wonderful place to celebrate, and I would hope that some day I might get to travel around Spain, touring each of the beautiful Paradors.


I've compiled a few photos from around the Hotel....enjoy the views!









The reception was very elegant, and was held in an old room on the upper level of the parador.

They had a wonderful meal with Brocheta de rape y langostinos sobre salsa de pimientos rojos veratos (a rape fish kebab with shellfish and pepper sauce - I had a salad instead due to the allergy), Medallon de solomillo de ternera retinta con salsa de trufas y patatas pera (a beef tenderloin with mushroom red wine sauce and pear shaped potatoes) and ended with a surtido de postres del convento (an assorted desserts of the convent). Super yummy!

Later they had the dancing/party portion of the reception in a cellar located in another part of the parador:


One last photo...they had their photographers taking polaroid photos of all of the guests and then put them into a book for the couple. It was a very nice idea, and our photo turned out quite well :D



Us trying to recreate the polaroid...wasn't quite the same.