I took this photo during my last days of service in Paraguay on November 7th, 2008 just before the wedding of a fellow Volunteer to a host country national. The wedding took place in a small rural community. Horse carts like this are commonly used...
I took this picture in Ciorescu, Moldova on 7/22/2010. The picture was taken during a Moldovan wedding. In the picture, the bride is dancing with some professional traditional Moldovan dancers. They are dancing the "hora", Moldova's national dance....
To the best of my knowledge, I was the first Volunteer in the Baltic Countries to marry a foreign national. This is a photo of my wife, Ausra (nee Zatorskyte) Hawkridge, my step-son, Raulis Petronis and me (Arthur D. Hawkridge). Ausra and I wore...
In Herero tradition, weddings are week-long (or longer) events. Throughout the duration of the festivities, the bride is kept hidden inside a house on the homestead, her face hidden beneath a veil. On the last day of the celebration, the female...
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...
A bride and groom kneel before a priest in the family's nahs (meeting house). The groom was previosly married to the bride's sister who had recently passed away. This marriage was arranged and encouraged by all the extended family to keep the...
One of the true wonders of the Peace Corps is how the lives of two people from a world apart can become so intertwined in such a short amount of time. In August 2005, this man – my counterpart – arrived at a Peace Corps conference to escort me...
This is a picture from my friend's wedding. I am with the bride and groom outside their reception/wedding site, where they greet all the guest and give them candy and cigarettes.