After a year of planning, and miles (and miles) of travel, we can at
last see the white sands in the distance.
It is hot, and the ocean is singing to us. First you are standing, and
then you are floating in crystal-clear water, looking up at the sky.
Palm trees frame your view. This is paradise, and we have arrived.
Because most people nowadays have friends and family scattered
all over the globe, a destination wedding is becoming not so much
an extravagance, but the only vaguely fair and logical solution.
And that’s what led us to the white sands and warm ocean of Koh
Phangan, Thailand. Over two magical weeks filled with friends,
family and adventures, we got to cry with laughter, dance with
vigour, and watch two of our favourite people get hitched.
Here are just a few of the words, with which the mother of the
bride, so poignantly shared her feelings and those of all of us, and
with tear-stained faces, we watched the happy couple tie the knot.
‘Now you will feel no rain,
for each of you will be shelter to the other.
Now you will feel no cold,
for each of you will be warmth to the other.
Now there is no more loneliness,
for each of you will be companion to the other.
Now you are two persons,
but there is only one life before you.
Go now to your dwelling to enter into the days of your life together
And may your days be good
and long upon the earth’.
– Apache Blessing, Elliott Arnold.