Thomas Tanya Wedding

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We met together to celebrate and witness Thomas and Tanya's wedding and these pages give a small flavour of the event, the experiences of the international guests when they arrived and before they headed home and a celebration in the UK for those who couldn't be present in South Africa.
Follow the links above or below [scroll down] to see all the posts.

0.  Introduction     That's where you are now, post 0
1.  Invitation   The invitation.
2a. Arrival   Part 2a: Tanya's parents arrive.
2b. Arrival   Part 2b: Thomas's parents arrive.
3a. Prelude   Getting to know fellow guests and settling into the wedding venue.
3b. Prelude   Our first evening together, sharing food, chatting and playing games.
4a. Wedding day morning   Breakfast and a toast to absent friends.
4b. Wedding day morning   A walk round the reserve and a late lunch.
5.  Wedding ceremony   The ceremony.
6.  Wedding day evening   Braai and sitting round the fire pit
7a. Heading home to Cape Town   The guests become tourists. Part a: Leaving Tulbagh.
7b. The guests become tourists   Part b: Kirstenbosch Gardens.
7c. The guests become tourists   Part c: Some to Hout Bay.
7d. The guests become tourists   Part d: Some to UCT.
7e. The guests become tourists   Part e: All together again at Kalk Bay.
7f. Heading home to the UK   Part f: We finally leave.
8.  UK celebration   A gathering of their friends from student days.
9.  Acknowledgements   Acknowledgements and links.

When the tTs decided to re-locate to South Africa, they talked about their jobs, the university and the wonderful country where they would be living and working. All this was vey reassuring for their parents but nothing could beat actually going there and seeing for themselves. So although their time in South Africa was short it was also a chance for the parents to get a glimpse of the country and the lives the tTs were living there.

Of course we made a list of things we would like to do, Tanya's parents wanted to go on a safari, Anne-Marie wanted to visit Kirstenbosch Gardens and Chris was curious to see the university in session and the latest progress on the tTs research projects.

emails have long provided the thread that connects and binds our family and have served us well in bridging the geographical distances between us. [US, UK and ZA] These posts follow that email thread and where possible, quotes from them have been used to introduce or illuminate topics in the posts.