Real Italian Wedding - Nelson & Stefania

One of my good poker buddies, Nelson Nunez, invited Cyn and me to his wedding to his long-time girlfriend Stefania. Nunu is from Puerto Rico, but Stefania is from right here in Italy. In fact her family lives about 5 minutes from us in the the town of Dueville. You gotta be there for your buddies on their big day, and besides, the reception promised to be a blast. So we donned our good duds and headed on over to the church of Dueville.

It was an incredibly beautiful ceremony, but it was entirely in Italian! At least they had a nice program that allowed us to follow along with the ceremony. It went on for a little over an hour (catholics... oh sorry dad!) But they both looked great.

After the ceremony we drove about 30 minutes to a nearby town called Tezze sul Brenta. Well it took us about 40 minutes because the "Nigel Carruthers, GPS" got us a little lost. However what we found at the end of the ride was wonderful. The hotel had catered an extravagant reception that began with drinks and pupus by the pool and went on and on for an endless number of courses... I can't be more exact than that because we never even made it to the end. We had made it through the appetizers, and 2 pasta dishes, and a salad, and 2 meat dishes including, get this, Fireworks Pork! Then the dinner took a break at about midnight for sorbetto and dancing. I've never been to a meal that had a 45 minute break in the middle of it!! As much as I wanted to stay for the next few courses and the cutting of the cake, the redhead had had just about enough. The next day we heard that the hardcore party-goers had made it all the way to 3 in the morning. Che Festa!!



Best Wishes to Nelson & Stefania for a long and happy life together!

Ciao,
M