Severine & Charles – A FRENCH WEDDING!!! And some history…

We were very fortunate to have been invited to Severine’s Wedding (For anyone who does not know, she was a foreign exchange student from France who stayed with us in Cortland, NY back in 2001)…. One odd requirement of the dress code was that the guys had to wear BOW TIES!!!  This is the one and only occasion in his entire life that one will witness Bill in a bowtie…….. Also pictured is a drinking giraffe that attended the wedding;  a very strange couple of huge (9ft X 12 ft) portraits did hang in the church where she was wed (the presentations of severed heads on platters!!!!! Is that supposed to be some sort of symbolism of marriage in France?? Getting your head handed to you on a platter…..);  The wedding reception started right after the church at about 4pm and did not conclude till 6 AM IN THE MORNING!!!! It was held at a charming converted ~Convent Farm- the tables were arranged inside the barn where the cows ate and were milked centuries ago!! other shots include Ilea admiring some of the many wild flowers on the Island of Ferns (I’Les De Re); on same island at the beach, we stumbled upon some old WAR BUNKERS from ~1939-1944 that were utilized around the time of the storming of Normandy up the  coast a bit North of here; also shown is what appears to be a castle that is located at the beautiful old port of La Rochelle, France (this is the nicest town in France