We're having the laziest, loveliest honeymoon ever. Doing nothing but lovely things and calling eachother husband and wife in as many ways as our launguage skills make possible.
Like every time we are here I get the urge to write so I've been doing a bit of that too. Writing comes in waves for me. For quite a long time I've been writing less and taking photos more. That's just how it is and I need to do what I am passionate about whatever it happens to be in that moment.
But lately I've been longing to write so I'm trying to embrace that now.

Here's a little text I wrote about our honeymoon picnic by the beach the other day. It's in swedish but google translate made quite a good work of parts of it, if just a bit surreal. (apparently it doesn't know about whiny thermoses, egg sandwiches and sun warmed forts.)

/Lotta

Hello, hello, hello!
I am so very very married!
Last saturday David and I had our wedding and it was the most magical day ever. We had planned for it to be a relaxed and joyful day without stress and rules. And that was exactly what it was! And so much better than we could have ever imagined.
It was a sunny day, but the clouds were dangerously dark around the time for the ceremony. No reason for worry, though. All those clouds just made for dramatic skies in the photographs and the day kept on in a sunny fashion.
I OF COURSE had my iPhone with me and so I documented parts of the preparations. Some of those photos you will see here but many of these are taken by our friends and their smartphones. I've edited most of them with the VSCOCam app (Love it!) except for some of them that's edited by the person who took the photo.
We had a few friends take pictures with fancy cameras too and you will get to see them too but for now: hope you enjoy a little peek at our wedding day.
David and Lotta. August 24 2013.

The day started with preparations. Inger, a dear friend of my family, helped with the table decorations.
Yes, it's a green house. Yes, this is where the dinner and party was held. Lovely, isn't it?

My mother was in charge of the flowers. We had picked them along the roads close to where we have our house in Rörum. Wild flowers and straws and some roses from our garden.

The view from the wedding couples' seat.

Decorations in 3D...

I walked up to the place of the ceremony to wipe off spider webs and bird poop from the chairs that we had brought there the day before. It was such a weird and lovely feeling to be up there all alone only a few hours before the wedding ceremony. I stood there for a few minutes and looked at the view and tried to imagine what it would feel like when it was happening four hours later. I felt such a calm and excited feeling and skipped down the hill to do the last of the preparations in the green house before it was time for me to be dolled up by my friend Johanna.

And here we are! Our friends and family had gathered in our garden for drinks and snacks and we had time to walk around and say hi to everybody before it was time to march together up the hill.

Hello!

David and I took the longer way because my dress prevented me from climbing the wooden stairs over the fence. Our guests looked like lemmings in the distance.

All of our guests made it to the top!

Here we are, soon on top of the hill!
And this is how you carry a very large tulle dress when walking up a hill surrounded by sheep poo.

We met up with Else-Beth who was going to marry us.

And then it was time to start.

I couldn't keep from crying. It was just too emotional standing there, at that beautiful place with all our favourite people around us, hand in hand with my David.

And then we exchanged pocket watches. We didn't exchange any rings because we are happy with our wooden engagement rings. Instead we had bought antique pocket watches and engraved them in the back (You will see more of them in another post).
This was such a lovely moment, filled with joy. And both of us managed to lock the chains around each other's necks without any problems!

And David gets his pocket watch too.

And we're married!

I love these photos so much! It looks like we're standing in a painting and that is exactly how it feels up there.

After the ceremony we made mojitos for everybody and people sat down on blankets to enjoy the view and the company. And I was back to taking photos again, haha!

This is Ida, Christian, Aili and Jonas. Lovely people! Aili and Jonas were our wedding witnesses, by the way.

Joel, Olle and Maja looking good in the sunshine.

My sister and niece Hilda.

Me, my sister and nephew Alfred. And my husband (!) lurking around in the background.

Then it was time to walk down the hill again. David and I took the longer way again and I had a bag of ice over my shoulder. Lots of skirt to carry!

We took photos of all our guests with the polaroid camera. And one of us too, of course.

In the green house before dinner!
Johanna made my hair and makeup. The flower crown is made by me and the dress was made by the amazing Jennie Lööf.

This is our wedding cake.
An enormous Kanelbulle (cinnamon bun) as a tribute to my all time favourite movie Äppelkriget that was filmed in this very part of Sweden and where a car motor magically turns into a giant cinnamon bun...

The bride gets to break the cake!

And the night came and lots of colourful lamps and candles lit up the beautiful greenhouse.
We ate the most amazing food you could ever imagine, all made of food from the farm we were on.
We danced to our favourite music mixed with some hits from the early 1990's since David and I was a couple then for the first time.
It was the most amazing day and night and we couldn't be happier.
This will be with us for a very long time.

Now we are husband and wife. YAAY!

I have been very absent lately and I thought I'd show you some of all the things going on in my life through my iPhone.
I had 8 days off work and David and I had lots of plans for that week. First up was a trip to Copenhagen, Denmark.

We had these two happy people tagging along in our car and dropped them off in Malmö. Ida and Christian made the car ride such a joy and had even made sandwiches and home made elderberry lemonade for a short stop during the trip.

In Copenhagen! We ate a lot of nice food during our weekend. David had a pizza with potatoes on it and it was a hit!

I had this. Very very tasty.

And the day after we shared this.

Iced coffee break resting our feet.
We went to lots of fleamarkets and I took many photos with my camera so I'll be back to show you more some other day.

Breakfast sunday morning. We had plans for the day and David was eager to get going. I had to drink fast. Hurry hurry!

This is a rare sighting. David among alcohol.
We were stocking up on drinks for the wedding and since David doesn't drink any alcohol it was up to me to choose. So if we bought disgusting wine it's all on me..

Then we made our way back over the bridge to Sweden and came to my family's house in Rörum! My sister was there with my niece and brand new little nephew.

Alfred seems to be a bit confused by all the attention.

Hilda is a wild one.

Astor the cat was enjoying the calm outdoors. Poor Astor, the house was not a safe zone for him. He seemed to take it all in stride, though.

My sister and Hilda took their job as Fly Hunters very seriously. I love how Hilda is trying to make the same crazy face as her mother.

One day David and I was in Simrishamn to eat lunch at the beautiful garden café Apotekarns. This was the view from our table.

I was happy in my "Naughty farmer's daughter dress" and new sunglasses from The Shade Company (and pepper between my teeth...shhhhh).

Us.

We took evening walks among the hills and looked at "our" tree in the distance.

And we climbed the hill to see it up close too. This is where we're getting married on august 24.

And this is the feeling I get every time I'm there. It just blows my mind and makes me want to dance!

Running down that hill in a Kate Bush sort of moment.

Feeling the love strongly.
This is forever going to be a place that makes my heart squeeze. It has been special since I first saw it three years ago but now it will be associated with us too. You and me, David.

Contemplating, watching the sun set, looking at sheep.

One day we found a kitten.

I wanted to keep it.
As every cat I see.
Sadly it was not mine to keep.
And I'm a bit allergic.
Bummer.

Another evening stroll. This time under the full moon.

The last rays of sunshine brightened the straws of grass along the road.

Telling secrets to my nephew. He's not all impressed...

But here he's listening intently. Learning a lot from auntie Lotta. Who's the best auntie?

And then it was time to leave. The entire family waved us off and we went home to our quiet apartment.

This week has been all about work and preparations. I have lots of photos to show you. Part 2 from my Papyrus photoshoot with Hanna but also a post from one evening last week when we found half a bridge in the middle of nowhere.
That is going to be a great post, I know it!

See you soon!
/Lotta

Today the sun was shining brightly and the air was crisp and cold. David and I decided it was time to go for a walk and check on how The Lonely Tree was doing.

Walked past the pig and hen.

The pig seemed to have the best of times there under the hay. He lay there grunting and enjoying the sun.

The farm house in winter time.

An old caravan on the hill. In the summer time farm workers live there. I think it sounds so romantic. A summer job on a farm for a couple of months, living in a caravan surrounded by beautiful hills.

Ah, there you are Lonely Tree!

You know when you have really hairy legs and wear stockings and some of the leg hair peek through the fabric?
Well, lets say it: the ground had not been shaved recently and the fabric of snow was not enough to cover the evidence...

It was quite difficult to get all the way up to the tree today because at some places the snow was really really high. But we made it!

Looking down on the village of Rörum.

Can't get enough of this view.

And the other way has equally stunning view!

On our way down we were the first humans to walk this path for some time. Lots of cat paw prints and a few tracks from hares as well. The cats had been walking on top of the snow because they are so light so when we stepped there we just fell through the thick snow. Just one of those moments when you think it would be awesome to be a cat...

Perfect valley.

In the evening we went in to Simrishamn to eat at the restaurant Maritim. Thats the restaurant we wanted to go to on monday when it was David's birthday but it was closed.
Today it was open but we were the only guests there. Simrishamn during winter season is a very quiet town.

The food was great and it was the perfect way to end our visit to Österlen for this time.