From the category archives:

Wedding

Almost A Portuguese Wedding, part II

September 9, 2010

Part Two continues and if you want to read Part One first here it is. Thursday is a long day, writing about it now makes me realise just how exhausting. The Letter of No Trace, Thursday am. A lot was riding on this letter. What Bikerboy was told by the registrar in the UK was that […]

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Almost A Portuguese Wedding, part I

September 5, 2010

Do you make plans and then have the events turn out completely different? Or is it just me? The week leading up to the wedding turned out to be the week from hell and forced our plans to change the event dramatically…but we did end up with a beautiful day, a memorable day, one that […]

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It Ain’t Over Till….

August 10, 2010

Looking at this photograph brings back the memory of 6 years ago, us one afternoon having a drink in a Hotel that sits on top of the hill in a town called Viana do Castelo, an old Portuguese style hotel with a big veranda overlooking the town below, the river and sea beyond. Every time […]

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So Here We Go…

August 5, 2010

Well after being at the consulate from 10 until 5 practicing patience and a taxi ride to divorce courts, we have all the official papers in hand that are available for us to have. We have translations done, translations legalised by the foreign office, we have the consulate paper signed again by the divorce court […]

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Something Is Telling Us Not To Get Married…

August 3, 2010

We have been bombarded with numerous omens telling us, we are just simply not suppose to get married. There was the disaster we had five years ago that meant postponing the wedding. There’s an old Steve Martin’s film, I think it’s called the Man With Two Brains, a quirky comedy, where Steve Martin’s plays a widower […]

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Bikerboy and I Are Getting Married…Finally

April 11, 2010

Finally Bikerboy and I are getting married this summer and it’s been a long time coming. We’ve been engaged for seven years and it feels strange finally doing it, we had everything planned to be married 4 years ago but had to cancel because of Bikerboy’s mum diagnoses of cancer. All the hurdles we’ve had […]

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