day 3 - the wedding

Today was the big day! (Well, not my big day, but my flatmates)

To start the day off I went for an early morning walk with Marg. Went went up to a local dam and did a circuit up the hill with awesome views of the sunrise...

The rocks in Central Otago are SO cool!

And Jake had a good walk too (the plan was to tire him out before the wedding!)

One thing about central is that there are very few native plants - especially ones higher than 10cm... One of the few relatively large natives was this kowhai tree, it had made it to an impressive 1.2m!

I also saw some Raoulia which is a very cool alpine plant

Back to Burn's house to get everything ready of the wedding - the reception was going to be here after the ceremony in a local church

And Jake struck a pose with the view behind him.

This is the view from 'the peninsula' at Burn's place - her garden is basically wild Otago and there is a rock peninsula which juts out covered in rocks and wild thyme. The view is VERY impressive!!

After that I spend a bit of time taking picks of the local wildlife - HEAPS of Californian Quail and lots of skinks on the rocks too

One of my tasks at the wedding was to send Jake down the aisle with the rings around the neck - we both did a good job of that!

Nick, Honor, Me and Chris

Everyone gathered round for the cutting of the cake on the peninsula

Chris and Nick being very romantic and ridiculously good looking!

The night went really well, with lots of very funny speaches. Our MC was Richard - a good mate of Nicks with a great sense of humour - here is a snippet (sorry the lighting is crap)