Boda del Ciglo (Wedding of the Century)

I´m going to let the pictures tell this one. I´m still exhausted.


Adam and Amy. Praxis partners. Both crazy and loving every minute of each other. This one really shows the love that exists between all of us. Cheesy, but really true to the core.

Romero vive! Start of the procession from Salvador del Mundo to the cathedral. About a 2 hour walk of celebrating and laughing and dancing and chanting.

Amy, Adam, myself, and Roe. Capturing the moment.

Allison, my CC (community coordinator) and good friend. She´ll be at BC next year for the Graduate School of Social Work, and to hang out.

I have a bag on my head of beans and rice, all in little white mesh baggies to hand out to the guests at the wedding to throw at Gene and Lupita when they leave the church. Casamiento in El Salvador means the marraige of beans and rice. A traditional dish, and a traditional thing to do at a wedding.

Neto and Julio. And the flowers we made. Casa students were responsible for the decoratins at the wedding.

Couldn´t get the flower to balance. This is outside the church waiting for the bride and groom to come out. They were married in the same church where Romero was killed, La Divina Providencia, by Dean Brackley, SJ.

Lupita, the most beautiful bride, ever.

Gene and Lupita and their wedding cake.

The reception was held at a park close to the church. About 400 people came to celebrate with live music, food and friends. The food was prepared by the women down the street from us who own a struggling pupuseria. Here are Ryan and Jenn dancing to the music of Horizantes, good friends of Lupita and Gene and one of the more popular folk bands in El Salvador. When you have people as friendly and giving as Gene and Lupita getting married, you´re bound to have all of El Salvador there to celebrate.