If you are fortunate enough to live long enough, you may well attend your grandchildren’s weddings.
Wenatchee grandmother Joanne LawheadReimen attended two very different kinds of granddaughter’s weddings about a month apart this year.
One was in Budapest, Hungary and one was in Annapolis, Maryland.
On Aug. 6, she traveled to Budapest to her granddaughter, Natalie Hersel’s wedding to Daniel Egly, who is from Hungary.
Natalie is the daughter of Wayne and Gerry Hersel, of Wenatchee.
Daniel and Natalie were married in a 16th Century castle in Keszthely. Joanne and other wedding guests got to stay there for two nights.
“The wedding was beautiful and the reception was gorgeous with flowers flown in from Italy,” said Joanne.
They had the traditional four-tiered wedding cake and another cake, that is a replica of the castle and is from a 400-year-old recipe. It is a Hungarian tradition that the bride smashes the cake and how many pieces of cake there are, that is how many children they will have. (Daniel said the cake smashed into two pieces, Natalie said six.)
This story is from the December 2017 edition of The Good Life.
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