Hi all 👋🏻
Finally after a few weeks waiting (what felt like ages… to be honest) we received yesterday the wedding photographs, so I can write today my post about our wedding 👰🏻♀️🤵🏻♂️and stay for a few days in Gibraltar.
I was waiting until I could include a few photographs. As I know some of you are curious… and were waiting for this post, @chocolatescorpi @silversaver888 @mipiano and @consciouscat.
We went with the car from Spain to Gibraltar, it’s about 1 hour drive from where we live.
Gibraltar is an overseas British territory if you didn’t know and one of the countries where it is easy and fast to get married. As it is rather hard for the last 2 years with the pandemic to get married… and many weddings were postponed this is a great option.
🤩 And unique at the same time. 💃🏻🕺🏻
We went Wednesday 2 March and came back home Saturday 5 March.
Our Wedding was on Friday the 4th.
I won’t include photographs of the ceremony at the registry’s office as we had to wear masks and it just doesn’t look nice… we keep those for ourselves.
After the ceremony we went to the Gibraltar Botanical Gardens for our photoshoot and a few streets into the centre of Gib.
We were very lucky with the weather as it rained the days before and after…
I wanted to include also the following to my post;
3 weeks ago some of you may have seen and read my post about how I created my own dried flowers wedding bouquet, if you haven’t: Here is the link to it 💐, as it is relevant to our wedding and you can see it in the photographs.
Let me show you now first some of our wedding photographs 😊
They are taken by Nelly Castrillo and Andrés from Bodakids Wedding Photographer & Video in Málaga.
I just edited them a bit, as we got them how they were taken. (The photographs are ours now as it was part of their service.)
At the look out.
In the botanical garden.
The wedding bouquet I created, as you can see it matches my dress… we went for a ROMANTIC BOHEMIAN LOOK. The location of this photograph is on the entry steps to the botanical gardens.
At the little pond.
The light wasn’t ideal… but we worked with it the best we could.
Then we went into Gib…
In front of the St. Andrew’s Church of Scotland.
In one of the tunnels at Grand Casemates Square.
Yes, this is all from our wedding photoshoot… sorry hahaha (almost, 1 more at the end of this post 😉 if you have a look all the way) you know I share my posts with many many many photographs.
I just did not want to overdo it now and show you next also some photos from our explorations in Gibraltar over the days we were there.
Photos are taken with my iPhone 2-5 March 2022.
Day 1:
Look out of the hotel window… in the distance you can see Algeciras, Spain.
Sunset in the evening as we were getting ready to go out for dinner into the centre.
Along the way we saw quiet empty streets…
Details and architecture… I liked the light and shadows here and had to share.
Steps and pillars.
In a shop window I saw the moon 🌙 and just had to photograph it. I do like the moon 🥰
We find an iconic British Mailbox.
And a statue on our way towards the hotel after dinner.
Day 2:
View in the early morning out of the hotel window.
We had to show our original paperwork to the registry office to get married the day after.
Afterwards we went for a stroll through Gibraltar and headed towards the Grand Casemates Square for brunch/lunch.
On a corner of this square we find this signpost. More of them can be found throughout Gib.
On the Square we find these Iconic British Telephone booths. Every tourist visiting Gib will have a photograph of them 😉
The Square…
You see many terraces from restaurants, luckily not too busy.
A different tunnel to leave this square.
We go through it and wander around.
I see these cute steps.
If I turn around we see the tunnels and the top of Gib mountain / The Rock.
Let’s zoom in a bit, I see a castle.
After we walked for a while we enter the area: Ocean Village. One of the harbours with shops and restaurants. Let’s explore 😎
We find this anchor.
Lots of plants around us…
Restaurants in the water with high towers behind them.
Yachts around us.
View back towards land.
Let’s walk a bit further and cross that little bridge.
Next to it we see… more boats.
On top of the little bridge.
Walking back I find this bird of Paradise plant.
Back through the tunnels towards the Square.
In the square we find this map of Gib.
As you can see it is not that big… you see the border with Spain on the left. And it is divided by an airport/ runway.
Yes, if you want to cross into Gibraltar… you have to drive over or walk across the runway. ✈️🛫🛬✈️ It is quite an experience 😎
We decided to go back to the hotel and have a look at the rooftop and the bar/restaurant there.
Outside on the rooftop we see:
The top of the Rock and all the buildings against it in the back of the hotel.
We walk towards the other side and see:
The mountains of Morocco and Algeciras and the buildings in front of the hotel.
As we walk down some steps… the back view.
We are just in time inside the restaurant… the sky is getting darker as we look out of the window.
In our hotel room we see the start of the rain a few hours later.
The ships in the distance are putting on lights… they are waiting for the best fuel prices before they go in to port…
After the rain in the evening we go out again… also to find a nice spot for dinner.
This statue is in front of the hotel.
A little park.
Through it, we find these sun loungers…
Little alleyways.
Day 3; our wedding… it went so fast this day. We will always remember. Party (next month) and honeymoon much later… when we can travel safely again.
Day 4; we left early Gibraltar.
And on the Spanish side we stop and I take this shot of the Rock before we are heading home.
And with this last photograph taken by Bodakids I want to finish my post of our days in Gibraltar and our wedding…
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Have a great Sunday all 😎
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