Holy Matrimony! Three Updates In One Day!

I would be remiss to wander off the blog today without mention of the wedding I attended last weekend. Fellow volunteers, Simone Gardner and Kenney Wijesinghe got married last Sunday in a beautiful Buddhist ceremony. Here’s the happy couple:
They had intended to get married this past January, but Sri Lanka was so hard hit by the tsunami that their plans went on hold. For the past couple of months, Simone has been living with Kenney and his family here in Colombo. Kenney’s mom was getting increasingly distressed by their lack of haste in rescheduling their wedding…apparently she stopped feeding them. Drastic yes, but she elicited the desired response. They threw together a lovely wedding in about three weeks and during that time were being fed once again by Mrs. Wijesinghe. All the VI family chipped in and we booked them a lovely suite at the Taj Hotel for the weekend of the wedding. It worked out great since Simone had two of her brothers over from Australia and they too were staying at the Taj. Many of the women wore Saree’s (don’t…every joke, every pun done to death, believe me) and several guys wore sarongs. We had a great time and were all happy to be there for our wonderful, relatively new friends, Kenney and Simone.