Getting Married in Iceland
Two weeks before the rocking Philadelphia Reception, Matt & Alison will be getting married in a small ceremony the remote reaches of Iceland.
Why Iceland?
Matt & I had been planning the wedding for a few months before we got officially engaged. And then when we were officially engaged and started to tell people about it, the big question we kept getting was 'Why Iceland?'. For whatever reason, I didn't actually expect people to ask me this question and I didn't have an answer!
I think it started with our desire to have a small destination wedding. That seemed the most 'us'. And we looked at the map. If my memory is correct, I think this rather large decision consisted of me asking 'Do you want to get married in Iceland?' and Matt saying 'Sure'.
When people started to ask, Matt's go-to answer was often 'because our families are Icelandic'. Ahh, Matt humor. Mine is generally that I think the idea of me getting married at all is so crazy that this is the only thing that does it justice.
The Iceland Trip
Iceland is a pretty outrageous place. They have volcanoes, glaciers, geysers, waterfalls, black sand beaches. There's no other place like it. We'll only get to see some of it, because we're dragging our immediate families (the only people we would dare impose this slightly grueling trip on) to fly 5 hours from Boston, then drive 6 hours to the beautiful middle of nowhere, get married, then drive and fly back.
There are no hotels where we are going, just 'guesthouses'. And shortly after where we stop, the road is no longer paved. Iceland only have 300,000 inhabitants and most of them live in the main city of Reykjavik, so evidently the rest of the country is rather sparsely populated.
Iceland is not *that* cold.
Greenland is all ice and Iceland is green. Evidently Eric The Red, after being exiled from Iceland, named his new home Greenland so people would move there. It will probably be 50 degrees when we get married, far from toasty, but not freezing either. Since Iceland gets the jet stream, they don't get as cold as Boston or New York.
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