My Wedding - Part IV (The Dinner)

I have always wanted to hold our wedding in a castle-like restaurant which gives that European flair. Well, after months of searching for the best location, believe it or not, the kinda castle that I wanted, was really hard to find in Germany. The so-called castle in Germany is just like a very big abandon house. It is completely different from the Neuschwanstein Castle thatI had in mind ;-) Anyway, after months of restaurant hunt, Maik's gf, asked us to have a look at the hotel (Mönch's Waldhotel) where she is working at. And since then, I have fallen in love with this Blackforest hotel. It is not a extremely luxury hotel but definitely has a very strong European style and very classy.

A typical German wedding ends very late, say until 4 or 5 the next morning. And of course with a lot of drinking. Therefore most of the guests stay overnight at the hotel. So when our guests arrived at the hotel, everyone was busy with checking in and having some small refreshments. We have also checked into our suite, which was barely acceptable as a "Bridal room". The thing is that Laura has shown us the nice and luxury "Bridal couple" room on the top floor and what we have got was the old "Bridal room". And of course, I have requested them to upgrade us to their 80 qm Suite! =-) So after a small pause, we went down to take more pictures with the guests and then at 19:00 dinner starts.

Alex's parents have organized live music for us. The music he played is typical German wedding/fest music. The idea of German wedding is not to have something really formal but have a fun and great celebration where people can get a bit drunk, laugh a lot and dance a lot! And of course, eat a lot! Anyway, before the dinner starts, the mother of Alex asked the musician to play a song that was dedicated to both of us. The song was about "Her son", which was very touching. The next song dedicated to the "mothers", to not be too sad about "loosing" their sons and daughters.

So after all that, the dinner started, with the so-called, Swabian ravioli, Maultaschen Soup and Swabian Wedding soup. Then came seasonal salad. And the main course is pork fillet and grilled steak with onions with red wine sauce and musroom cream sauce, serve with homemade Spätzle and German sautéed potatoes. And for dessert, we have the wedding cakes and ice-cream! YUM!

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