Thursday, June 8, 2017

wedding day and a few days before

First night in Paris.
Dinner at Claire and Ben's apartment
Walking back to our Airbnb apartment in the neighborhood
Afternoon in the Versailles gardens

Meeting the Feurgards, at their home in Versailles

Train home from Versailles.











Walking in the 20th arrondissement

Monet's garden in Giverny



Place Gambetta, in front of the mairie where the wedding will take place

The Villas de Mouzaia, in the 20th

The medieval town of Provins


Moret-sur-Loing, another ancient town with water mills

Lunch on the rue Mouffetard



Leigh, Nick and Andrew meet Ben for the first time when we accidentally take the same subway car on the way to dinner.
St. Denis


Meeting up with Claire at the Pont Alexandre III

Lunch at Christine's, with her granddaughter Marguerite


Montmartre

Wedding Day!  Waiting for the bus to the mairie.

Gathering on the sidewalk outside.




Ben arrives with his friends, who came over to help him tie his tie.





Waiting in the foyer to be called upstairs.



The wedding







Walking to the reception.
The reception at Comptoirs, a nearby cafe.











1 comment:

  1. Great photos! La vie parisienne! What's not to like? Everything so elegantly informal, or informally elegant. Makes me, even me, long to get married in Paris--or, barring that, to return. L'annee prochaine: Je vais voyager en France.

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