I would say that something started to happen between Adam and I while riding across Guinea in a bush taxi. The car ride back to Conakry was 15 hours and we held hands during the entire trip while we talked about home. We got married 9 months after...
Moroccan weddings are an event that can include the entire town. Early in the morning, family members of the bride wake up and march through the streets singing and chanting to let everyone know that a member of the community is about to be wed....
My counterpart married in February 2008. After the civil ceremony in town hall, the procession moved to the Orthodox church - unheated in the chilly Transylvanian winter. Then came a 200-person party that lasted until sunrise.
Celebrations; Ceremonies; Weddings; Host community friends
Between my friend Lyuba's wedding ceremony and the wedding reception we drove a few miles out into the steppe surrounding the city of Karaganda and tied a red ribbon to a pole. The red ribbon symbolizes anger and unpleasantness, which the newlyweds...
This photo was taken July 22, 2008 at the wedding of Kate and Edward on the beach in Nereingman Village, Mota Lava, Vanuatu. It was the first wedding to take place outside of a church and the first between a Peace Corps Volunteer and someone from...
My students held up a message for me to photograph. It wished my brother and his wife good luck in their marriage. The children loved being photographed and having a different activity then their normal drill. It took many tries.
A traditional part of a Macedonian wedding ceremony involves breaking a "bread of health" over the bride's head. They hold a cloth in between the bride's head and the bread so that no bread ends up in her hair! My girlfriends, both Macedonian and...
This is a picture of my husband (a Bulgarian National) and my wedding which took place in an 800-year old monastery in a village in central Bulgaria. My counterpart and his wife (the couple holding the crowns over our heads) were the Best Man and...