The highlight of our day today was traveling by train out to the mission home to attend the mission president's daughter's reception. He and his wife are a wonderful couple who have been here about a year and a half. They have been married for 28 years, and when they first came to Denmark, they just had six children. The youngest two came with them. They have had two sons get married and now today one of their daughters. That is three in 17 months!
For their sons' weddings, Sister Sederholm flew back to the U.S. to attend and President Sederholm stayed to take care of his responsibilities here in the mission. But their daughter wanted so much to have her father at her wedding that she moved the whole wedding and party to Denmark! It was very sweet and obvious that she adores her father. The wedding was in the Copenhagen Temple and then one of the three receptions was here.
The bride was radiant and the groom handsome. The groom had been an AP here on his mission and went home to Utah a couple of years ago or less. I am not sure where they met, but I don't know if President Sederholm was ever his mission president. At any rate, they are two young people who carry the love of Denmark on and who have it in common.
At the end of the evening, the bride and groom danced in the middle of the floor....the crowd around them let them dance for 3 or 4 minute and then slowly closed the circle around them. When they got so close that the couple couldn't move to dance, they kissed! What a fun tradition. Then President Sederholm danced with his daughter to the song he has always sung to her, "You are My Sunshine."
There was the traditional marzipan layer cake, something I have never tasted before. A rich thin layer of chocolate brownie, topped with chocolate mousse, raspberry mouse, a think layer of yellow cake and then a layer of marzipan. If you have had marzipan in the states and didn't like it, you have no idea how good it is in Denmark!
Seriously....my new year's resolution for every new year that I can remember has been to lose weight, but this year I have got to stop eating marzipan, pastry, Danish bread and butter, ris alamande, Danish chocolate, sweet milk, etc. Perhaps with the big celebrations behind us now, I can get serious!
Don't think about it - just enjoy!!! You may never get back. The wedding sounds so wonderful - with lots of tradition. Glad you went and enjoyed. The cake sounds like a 10 pounder to me. (a friend gave me a whole loaf of fruit cake - and I had it gone in less than 2 days. Tried to put it in the freezer - but that never works) L&P
ReplyDeleteYou are funny. You and I may be the only two people in the world who like fruit cake!
ReplyDeleteL& P to you too.