Then we spent our days on meetings with the florist, cellist, hotel, bakery… We bought wedding favours for our guests (small bottles of Madeira wine and a piece of a regional cake) and we arranged formalities in the Portuguese registry office. Everything was under control, so we had a few days to spend with loved ones.
Wednesday was a very much awaited day for me… Almost as much as the day of my wedding. That was the day when on one afternoon most of my relatives from all parts of the globe arrived. The first relatives arriving were a cousin from London along with her Indian husband and their sweet, sweet 2-year-old daughter. A few hours after them, my bridesmaid Anna joined us from South Africa, and soon after that I could finally hug my closest family from Poland – my brother, my parents, and my 8-year-old niece. My godparents from New York were arriving next day in the morning. They decided to use this opportunity to stop for a couple of days in Lisbon, before catching the connection to Madeira.