The End and the Beginning

Check-ins will be brief while we're on our 10-day trek around the island, but we wanted to send along a HUGE thank you to everyone who has written, blogged, posted, and, of course, attended the wedding! We know what a huge sacrifice it was for those who came from as far as California, and the more we tell Icelanders that we got 50 Americans to travel to their country (and spend their tourist dollars here!), the more amazed we are that it ever came together. So thanks, all. We love you.

Here is how it ended.

And here's how it began.

See you when we get home!

AWAY MESSAGE

We have officially departed for 
OUR WEDDING IN ICELAND.

We will update from abroad if our plane ever leaves New York.

Work Party!

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It takes a village to make "The Real Housewives of Atlanta," and we are lucky to know every one of these people. Thanks, guys!

Just a Post about Weather

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And now, as boringly promised, your first look at the ten-day forecast.

Current wedding-day prediction: 55 degrees and mostly sunny I WILL TAKE IT.

Kulchuh!

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Because we are awesome, the Rogge Wedding Group will be in Reykjavik for one of the biggest days of the year: Reykjavik Culture Night! What does that mean? I have no idea...the website is in Icelandic! But the day has a reputation for being incredibly fun...here is some proof in English!

Don't get used to this level of information. Starting in like one minute our wedding day appears on the weather.com ten-day forecast for Reykjavik and then I'll be obsessed with whether it's going to rain on the wedding day and NOTHING ELSE.

[Thanks to Aunt Mary Lynn for the links!]

Gnome Ain't Just a Town in Alaska

 
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Here's something to read!

even though i booked my ticket back at the end of march, it feels like my departure has kind of snuck up on me out of the blue

Yup. And here's a "To Do" list from favorite guest Vickie, who MIGHT be nervous about her Icelandic travel because it's overwhelming...OR it might be might due to her self-professed "fear of gnomes." This cannot be helping.

Couldn't be going to be a gnome-ier place. I'm SO sorry.

Barely Legal

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Speaking of "over 300 days ago," it is nearly impossible to believe that I ever wrote this and wondered how it was going to get done. Especially considering that a mere 342 days later, we received the following email from the ritari (secretary) of the Sýslumaðurinn í Reykjavík (District Commissioner of Reykjavik):

Our lawyers here have gone through your documents and they are okey. We just have to get the originals on the 15th of August. Then we also have to make copies of your passports.

And then from Bryndis:

When we meet you have to make sure you have the document from Sýslumadur í Reykjavik - Hjónavíglsuskýrsla.

I KNOW WHAT THAT IS AND THE LAWYERS SAY IT IS OKEY!

Totes married.

 

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It has been over 300 days since we put this news out there, and here comes very helpful news from Tara:

Everyone else coming to your wedding might already know this because they are smart and I am dumb, but you might want to share with your guests that they will need power adapters for their devices: http://goscandinavia.about.com/od/icelan1/f/eloutleticeland.htm