Married in El Chalten: La Vida Casada es Buena!!

Well, El Chalten is not Vegas and it turns out you can´t just show up and expect to get married three days later. We still had some logistical hoops to jump through but they were pretty minor compared to what we went through to get here. The most work came in finding four witnesses that lived in Chalten and were available during the short hours the Civil Registry was open.


For anyone thinking of getting married in a Spanish-speaking country, be careful how you pronounce the word for "witness", as it can sound like some male naughty bits - Once when I said to Ger that we only needed two more "testigos", she just about died laughing.


On the morning of the wedding, I was actually ready a half hour early (!) so Nuria and I had a little dance party.

Despite one of our witnesses almost not showing up (remind me sometime to tell you the story of Dante, the town´s doctor, pizza chef and tango singer), we pulled it off without a hitch. Our wedding was everything we hoped it would be - low stress, meaningful, fun and romantic. In the early afternoon of February 15th, 2008, we were married!!!

Rather than spending our wedding night in a tent, we checked into a nice hotel. We were the first bride and groom that had ever stayed there and the staff were so good to us. Just minutes after returning to the hotel after the ceremony, champagne, chocolate and strawberries arrived! Everyone loves love!!









One week later, our rings arrived.
They´re beautiful, though, so well worth the wait! Mine has the Gorros on them, where Nelson asked me to marry him, and his ring has Mt. Fitzroy, the mountain that towers over El Chalten.

So far, our honeymoon has been all hiking, fun, mountains, glaciers and adventure. It´s very different than the single life, let me tell you!