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I loooooove those days. It’s like that part of Stockholm becomes a fantasyland. Now, imagine a whole park filled with those trees.

Yes, that’s where Raishel & Matt got married a couple of weeks ago. Besides the dozens of cherry blossoms that had bloomed, we also had all kinds of weather during the ceremony, from chilly wind to rain, sunshine, and back to the rain. And thank God for the rain, because the tears were so many that it was even good the raindrops could hide mine a little: what an emotional ceremony! OMG!

To make sure we would have the best possible spot in the park, Matt orchestrated a real master plan: he had a couple of guys stand in line hours before the park would open and when the gates opened up, the guys ran like crazy to their ”chosen spot” and ”saved the ground” under the park’s most beautiful Sakura Tree. Raishel’s host japonese family had also fixed 100 cranes to be thrown at the couple as a lucky charm instead of rice in the end of the ceremony. The ceremony says they should be 1000, but we were completetly sure that with a couple that was that much in love like those two, 100 would be more than enough.

Another great tradition was having every single guest holding the wedding rings in their hands and surrounding them with happy/positive/loving vibes before they were given back to the couple for the exchange of the vows. And OMG AGAIN: what beautiful vows those two wrote to each other. No eyes remained dry.

Here you have some of my favorite pictures of the amazing circle of love surrounding these very special people I’ve learned to love, just as everybody else, during those days we spent together in Osaka.