Going to the Chappel

Doug and Lucianna got married on the bulwak of Fortaleza dos Cinco Pontos the Fort of Five Points. It's a dutch fort from the 16th century with a great inside court with huge palm trees. The ceremony started forty minutes late (also known as on Brazillian time) but mercifully did not include a full mass. It was mostly conducted in portuguese although Doug said his woves in english and his god father did a reading in english (which Doug's father repeated in portuguese). Although Luciana is Catholic they had an Episcopalian ceremony (Doug's confesion) because Catholics won't let you marry outside a church (I'm now trying to convince Jennifer to switch, but I'm not holding my breath).

For the wedding Doug wore his kilt and scottish jacket and looked quite dashing (although I still don't like the colors of the McLean tartan). Luciana wore a beatiful dress with a short train but very long veil and looked lovely as can be.

After the ceremony we descended into the court yard of the forts where a huge tent overlooked the huge buffet filled with appetizers. There were over four hundred guests (maybe forty of them from Doug's side) and food and drink a plenty. They had a live band which played continuously, starting with American classics (New York New York, etc.) and progressing into Brazillian stuff. They only took a break during the increadibly drawn out speach that Kurt, the best man, tortured us with. We were actually a bit disappointed since were hoping to play the CDs we prepared for Doug, alas we were thwarted. The sound guy did play a cople of songs of our CDs - he played Mambo # 5 at least four times and cut everything else short.

The selebration came to a close around 1:30 in the morning. By this time most of the guests had left but the dance floor was still packed. Luciana's mom was still dancing to the last song and it seemed that her aunt Fatime never left the floor.