We celebrated our wedding on August 26 this year. The road to them was not so quick and easy, but now we are excited about how beautiful, simple and relaxed the wedding turned out.

Neither as a child, nor as a teenager, nor as an adult, did I think about what my wedding would be like.

I knew they would be, I knew I wanted them to be beautiful, but that's all. So it was a big surprise to me that as soon as we announced the engagement, everyone immediately asked if we already knew the wedding date, place, theme and more all sorts of little things. I can only shrug my shoulders and say that I haven't thought much about it because I'm in a hurry to celebrate the wedding we didn't feel it.

For a long time we could not understand "where", "when", "how" and actually "why" to celebrate a wedding. The question "why" was very pragmatic - we have been together for so long and experienced so much a lot, so we were sure that the gold ring on the finger would not change the fact that we would stay together. Others followed suit pragmatic and logical decisions. We decided to invest all our savings in the construction of our family house, judging that it is only reasonable to direct the saved money to the house and not to a one-day hangout.

in the summer of this year at a family celebration, when, as usual, everyone asks: "so when is the wedding?" the first time we said out loud that with the house and with financial recovery after its construction, we will get married only in 3-4 years. We ourselves were embarrassed because we never realized that we were postponing the wedding for such a long time. So we threw everything aside and decided in favor of a small but beautiful wedding already this year - while it's still summer. The budget was really not big for us, but we did we just wanted to call each other husband and wife.

As a result, we organized a wedding for our own pleasure within a month.

Including what we want and without remorse, discarding what was not important to us. Free we chose which traditions and to what extent we would implement them - the cake was part of the process without much fuss and emphasis on we simply skipped eating it, the first dance, while preparing gifts for our parents took almost as long as we planned a wedding, and the folkloric group Putni led us to a full program of michos.

Only our parents and ushers were guests. We invited the parents to the ceremony and then we sat together enjoying snacks with champagne. Interestingly, it encouraged our parents to start communicating with each other, as a result of which they are on this day organized themselves and went to have lunch together in a restaurant. In fact, we have to say that we are very lucky because the parents at were very supportive of all our 'unconventional' wedding decisions and happy we were able to be be brave and celebrate the wedding as we wish. We spent the next day with the guides in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere.

We went to take photos together with the wonderful Kristini Klupša ( VOW Photo ), who was able to capture feelings in one pictured, is amazing and allows us to now look at our wedding pictures, reliving the whole wedding day over and over again. Later, we each completed a task prepared by a guide, and in the evening we painted in pairs under the guidance of the excellent Maija Muižniece, as as a result, both us and the conductors have a commemorative painting painted by ourselves. The day was full of peace, love and beauty. For that, we must also thank our decorator Ginta Abricka ( Brightly Events ), who for us took care of more than we could have imagined.

Did something change, now that the ring is on the finger?

Was it worth worrying for a month, planning and hoping that everything would work out that day? Definitely! We are happy because we can to say that it was truly a wonderful, unforgettable and fantastic day that we can call the beginning of our marriage. And to my great surprise, I feel small, yet changes - everyday we remember our vows to each other well we promised, and the little question in the deepest corner of the mind "or our relationship" has disappeared “will work”? and in its place has come the much larger and more powerful question of “how those "will work?". This makes us care more about each other, make an effort and makes us compromise once in a while, seeing both in yourself and the care and love of the other.

/Katrīna & Jānis/

Our wedding day would be unimaginable without:

Wedding photographer: KRISTINE KLUPšA / VOW PHOTO

Wedding salon: LIGHT ROOM RIGA

Decorations: GINTA ABRICKA / BRIGHTLY EVENTS

Floristics: AMIE ZIEDI(bridal bouquet, hair ornaments and husband's pin)

Make-up: DITA GRAUDA

Hairstyle: AĞONA LIEPIņA

Folklore set: BIRDS

Wedding activity: Painter / MAIJA MUIŽNIECE

And, of course, to our parents and guides ❤