O casamento de Ricardo e Aga em Olhão, Olhão

Pusemo-nos em contacto com um decorador muito simpático que tomou conta das flores, do gazebo, dos centros de mesa. Para tornar o nosso sonho em realidade, era necessário gastarmos um bom montante de dinheiro. Decidimos que iamos seguir outro caminho - o divertido. Foi um dos momentos mais divertidos da semana do casamento. Convidámos os nossos convidados para um projeto de team building e pedimos-lhes para construirem o gazebo para nós. Sabíamos quase de certeza que seria totalmente fora do convencional. Desde que as pessoas se divertissem a construí-lo, a forma do gazebo não era o que realmente importava. Resultou perfeitamente. Foi muito divertido observar os nossos convidados a trabalharem no seu projeto, a divertirem-se, a fazer piadas, a serem felizes juntos.

O dia

O dia chegou. Nós, claro, esquecemo-nos de alguns detalhes, o cabeleireiro e a maquilhadora perderam-se a chegar à casa (tal como todos), o celebrante que ia oficializar a cerimónia chegou atrasado, pessoas corriam a apanhar as ferramentas de jardinagem na área do casamento uma hora antes. A Aga observava esta feliz confusão desde o seu quarto ouvindo a lindíssima música instrumental. O Ricardo estava a fazer com que aquele jazz não fosse demasiado louco.

O celebrante chegou. Era o momento. O momento mais feliz desta semana, deste ano e provavelmente um dos melhores na vida. Uma amiga estava a traduzir a cerimónia do português para o inglês para a Aga. Ela preparou tudo tão bem e foi tão querida por se ter esforçado em ajudar todos a entenderem o que estava a acontecer. E para ter a certeza que a Aga concordava apenas em casar, amar e respeitar o Ricardo e não lavar as meias dele até aos finais dos seus dias. Os pais da Aga, como crianças na última fila da sala de aula, estiveram na conversa todo o tempo! Um momento muito emocionante e divertido. O casamento mais tranquilo de sempre.

Queríamos um casamento fora do normal e conseguimos que isso acontecesse. Não nos arrependemos das escolhas que fizémos.

E agora a parte mais bonita - agora tentaremos fazer um ao outro o mais feliz possível para o resto das nossas vidas.

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And we've lived happily ever after

All the closest people with us in amazing Algarve, enjoying the time together and a most relaxing wedding we could imagine - that was our plan! It worked out perfectly, better than we could have imagined. Still, I'm not sure what to expect, but I do not know what to do.

Starting from the beginning

We met on the last weekend of May three years earlier on a hiking trip none of us actually wanted to go. Two years later, also on the last Saturday of May, we got engaged. We decided to get married on the last Saturday of May the following year as well.

The plan and careful execution

We imagined it would be perfect to rent a house for a week, invite all guests there and get married in the same place. When we finally got all our papers organized in the offices in Poland and Portugal, we were left with just over 3 months to execute our plan. House - done, dress and suit - done, invitations - prepared and sent out, photographer - chosen. Aga wanted instrumental music so we hired an amazing violin and bass duet. After that, DJ would take over.

We got in touch with a really friendly decorator to take care of the flowers, gazebo, table centers. It turned out though to make our wish happen, we would need to spend a little crazy amount of money. We figured we will go about it another way - a funny one. That was one of the most amusing parts of the wedding week. We invited our guests to a team building project and we asked them to construct the gazebo for us. We were almost sure the gazebo would turn out to be very unconventional. ​​As long as people would have fun making it - the shape of the gazebo did not really matter. It worked out perfectly. It was very fun to watch the guests working on their project, having fun, making jokes, being happy being together.

The day

The day had come. We, of course, forgot about a few little things, the hairdresser and the make-up girl got lost trying to get to the house (as everyone did), the official who was going to run the ceremony was late, people were running around picking up some gardening tools from the wedding area one hour before the wedding. Aga was observing all that happy mess from her room on the first floor listening to beautiful instrumental music. Ricardo was making sure all that jazz is not going to go too crazy.

The official arrived. That was the moment. The happiest moment of this week, this year and probably one of the best in life. A friend was translating the ceremony from Portuguese to English for Aga. She prepared so nicely and it was so sweet of her she put all that effort to help everyone understand what is going on. And make sure that Aga agreed "just" to marry, love and respect Ricardo but not to the dishes and wash his socks until the end of her days. Aga's parents, like kids in the last row of the classroom, were chatting all the time! So much fun and very emotional moment. The most relaxed wedding ever.

We wanted a non-standard wedding and we made it happen. We do not regret any of the choices we made.

And now the most beautiful part - we will now be trying to make each other happy for the rest our lives.