Having spent yesterday morning preparing a brief order of service to
show, I walked into town at lunchtime to meet a couple from
South East London. They've asked to renew their wedding vows at San
Miguel on Wednesday. They've been married for twenty three and half
years, and they'd planned to do this for their twentieth anniversary but
a couple of family bereavements led to them postponing to a better
time.
Rather than delay any longer they decided that now is the
opportunity to take, so they've brought four of their five children, and
a couple of boyfriends to celebrate. So, it will be a small gathering
to plan in a large church, but I have ideas how this can be nicely done.
They told me how they'd been led to buy and renovate a holiday cottage in a rural Bulgarian village long before the country joined the E.C. - for the price of a small car - they said. Over the years since then, they've visited several times a year, learned the language and become welcome visitors in a simple community whose way of life has hardly changed in centuries. Going off-grid regularly has provided them with a needed respite from the demands of metropolitan living, and no doubt has helped bond them together as a family.
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