Wedding

Ronald and Blue got married monday april 2nd 2007. A beautiful day ful of happiness, sunshine and symbolism, that we were lucky to share with our familie and friends. A number of weddingenpicture can be found in our wedding album.

Our wedding was full with symbolism and not all thought up by us... The date was very symbolic to us for it was 8 years to the day and to the hour that we had first met. And we were married on the same spot aswell, in the Drents Museum in Assen. And when we say to the hour, we really should say to the minute! 5 minutes past 1 we said our 'I do' s

Our rings

The inn (now a restaurant) where Vincent van Gogh stayed for 3 months when working in the area.

Somehow the person of Vincent van Gogh was also linked to our wedding. The last weeks before the wedding Blue (as a museum guide) gave a number of guided tours along the exposition that could be seen in the museum: 'Max Lieberman and his Dutch friends'. During these tours she would tell the people how Vincent staid in the village of Nieuw-Amsterdam for a few months and traveled to Zweeloo in the hopes of meeting Max Lieberman there. He did not succeed and returned to Nieuw-Amsterdam. Every time she told the story, she added that in a few weeks time she would be married and having the party after the ceremony in the same building as were Vincent stayed those few months, for the building is now a restaurant.

And that is how on mondayevening the newlyweds found themselfs in the small bedroom of Vincent in Nieuw-Amsterdam. It wasn't untill after the ceremony (in the beautifull 'Statenzaal' of the Drents Museum (the prettiest place to be married in all Drenthe!), during the reception that Blue all of a sudden remembered that the place where Ronald proposed to Blue also had a clear link to Vincent. Ronald made his proposal after two friend were married inside a little old church. The question was asked in the graden of the curch wich is also the church where Vincent van Gogh's parents were married.

The church where Vincent's parents got married.

On there way to the wedding Ronald gave Blue a beautifull gift, a pandora bracelet with two charms that in itself had a very symbolic meaning to them. What Blue didn't know is that Ronald had asked the guests if gibe pandoracharms as a wedding gift ans many people did. at the end of the day there were more charms then fitted on the bracelet so a seconde one was bought. So Blue wears not one but two pandora bracelets that are not only very beautifull but because the charms were all gifts from friends and family, it gives the bracelet a much deeper meaning then just being a beautifull piece of jewelry!

We both injoy this wedding gift every day and it is a constant reminder of not only our weddingday itself but also of all the people we love and who made this day unforgettable. To all those people: thanks!