ST.PETERSBURG WEDDING

At last I have got some photos of Kerry and Slava`s wedding published. Having been unable to get them on the page itself I decided to leave it to the picture tool.  I have put five on here today and later will publish some of their wedding blessing here in England.  Their`s is a lovely story. They met 3years ago whilst working together on a cruise ship. Kerry was a singer there and Slava a dancer. Luckily though Slava is from St.Petersburg, Russia, he speaks excellent English which he learnt from working on the ship.  They lived rather a charmed lifs as do most of the performers on the ships, going from one port to another, until like Kerry, you just get bored with sailing around the world ! (really ??) Anyway they eventually decided to get married. The British authorities are suspicious of the Russians, but not as much as the Russian authorities are of us ! Slava wasn`t allowed here until he was married so they decided to get married there. Now kerry had to travel all over London to get date stamps and photocopies of documents just to prove to the Russians that she was who she said she was. When she had finally done that and that cost a small fortune, Slava had to organise things from his end. It had to be a wedding of compromise. Neither of his parents had ever left Russia and for that matter nobody else in his family had either. We had a wedding blessing to organise here for friends and family. It had to be a blessing because they would already be married and the law says you can`t marry the same person twice without being divorced !  So we decided not to go to Russia, it was a real wrench but the ceremony is not the same as here and Kerry was not given away. It was going to be a huge project here, so we needed all our hard earned cash for the church event.

So, September 10th 2003 they were married. The day was chosen because the eleventh is Kerry`s birthday and this way they could have a double celebration.  They married in the Wedding Palace in St.Petersburg. Our son Danny was there and a few close friends of Kerry`s. They all had a wonderful time and Kerry stayed for a month before coming home without Slava who was not allowed here until November. 

I will tell the rest of the story when I print some photos of the blessing another day.

In the last photo, Kerry and Slava are pictured with his parents Ivan and Nadia and our son Danny. The rest are taken in the grand old Wedding Palace, a very beautiful building which must have been home to some aristocratic family before the revolution.