Shawn & Hasnaa's wedding

Saturday, July 24, 2004

Dutch and Scots at an American-Moroccan-German-French wedding in Paris!

My American friend Shawn married his Frankfurt sweetheart Hasnaa with the civil wedding + party on this July 24. Marieke and I met up at Paris airport with Angus and Kirsty - Angus is another good friend of mine I met in Frankfurt (believe me, that city is a good friend maker if you're not a German! ) We had dinner in an excellent little African place with excellent African service, great African food and near-African prices.

The next day was the day of the wedding. The whole thing was in French & English and after the vows & rings etc. we went off to do a boat cruise over the Seine with lunch. We weren't supposed to give any gifts, but Marieke and I couldn't help ourselves and got them a big Dutch pick nick basket with all kinds of Dutch products in it: plenty of Delfts Blauw, cheese, stroopwafels, kaasschaaf, the works. The evening we spent in beautiful Paris. We had dinner with the whole group, then went for drinks and by the end of the evening the 4 of us, Angus, Kirsty, Marieke and I were the only ones standing (barely though!)

Read the full story at the entry for July 2004.