A beautiful outdoor wedding in Iceland

Perhaps outdoor and wedding sounds like a strange combination with Iceland. Include a forest and it might sound like I´m doing advanced storytelling. But it is true and quite possible, and definately beautiful.
My brother in law, Loftur and his now wife, Edda, invited my wife and myself to be part of their wedding. Of course the medal had a flipside, it was named Labour, but to be honest, working a couple of days in a lovely forest to prepare for a wedding under the midnight sun is quite allright by my standards.
Here is how you do it:
Invite some close friends and family to arrive a few days before the actual wedding.
Use all your contacts to get hold of all you need like, aaahh say, a tent, flooring, chairs, heatlamps etc.
Make sure your phone is fully charged in case of urgent help needed.
Invite some more people if it seems that deadline is coming a bit too fast.

Our family has experience in this area. This was the third consecutive successful outdoor wedding we´ve held on the east coast of Iceland. The first two was in a greenhouse so this was different but the work crew was up for tha task.

None of us being experts on putting together a tent to hold several hundred people meant that the first night of montage included a lot of plundering and confused looks. After a couple of phonecalls it all came together quite nicely.




Here are parts of the crew having a short break.


And then we started on the decorations. May I point out that this is from the night before the wedding and at times I believe that more than 20 friends and family were taking part. isn´t that just great? At least I think it is lovely.




Allright, just to show that I have a slightly artistic side. Here is one of my artpictures.



And then they got married under the tree´s. Call me a easily touched but I think that is seriously romantic. Just dont quote me on that...



Out of respect for privacy I´m not publishing photos from the actual party were faces can be seen. If you were attending the wedding and want to see more pictures, send me an email to get access to more pictures.

For everybody else. Pleas make sure you either have a outstanding weddingplanner and a huge amount of cash, or very good friends and family (read a healthy workforce) before you step into this kind of event. In the end it is totally worth it, if ever you should be in doubt. The memories, the memories...