Parting with the flower wreath...

At this point, it was time for me to say goodbye to my flower wreath, which is only worn by unmarried women, as I was now a wife! My sister took me for a few laps around the fire as the guests sang and got to admire me in the flower wreath one last time...Then KB got to do the honors with removing the flower wreath.
We threaded the wreath onto a traditional belt and swung it around, letting it "dance" one more time.
Then I got to present the flower wreath to an unmarried woman, who I would like to have the same luck in finding a good husband as I did. I gave the honors to IG, who was at the time still bravely waiting for her future fiance to buy his plane ticket to move here from Canada - now she is officially counting the days until he arrives in September! I say, we should attribute some of that to the magic of the wreath.... :)
Beautiful....and happy! :)
Also, today is our one month wedding anniversary! (We are not planning on celebrating each and every month, but we thought it would be fun to celebrate the first month, so we're planning a special dinner out tonight.) One of our friends told us that Latvia's ex-president, the very wonderful Vaira Vike-Freiberga, said in an interview that every year she and her husband "reevaluate" their relationship on their anniversary and they decide whether they would like to continue for another year. :) (Kind of a nice way not to take things for granted....) We checked in with each other and said "yes!" to another month today! :)