We got up in the morning, had coffee in our room and then walked to the village to buy some yogurt because we thought there was no breakfast served in the castle, which turned out to be untrue. Then Wojtek, Phoebe and Jacus arrived and we helped them move into the “Black suite”, in which emperor Wilhelm the Second once stayed. It must have been a grand place at the time, but it has been left practically in the original state for a hundred years so it may seem a bit run down by today’s standards. After that we had breakfast together in the main dining room. Wojtek left to go to Opole to pick up the bride and we walked through the park to a little private cemetery where the graves of the Tiele-Winklers are buried.
At about 2:45 pm a minibus took us and some other guests from the castle to the wedding venue located a few kilometers away in a recreation complex near a small lake. The wedding ceremony was outside and luckily the weather cooperated -- it was warm and partly sunny. The ceremony + a couple of speaches took about an hour and then we proceeded inside to start the festivities. Gosia looked gorgeous -- she was styled as a young Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. The newlyweds danced mambo as their first dance together. Then the food started coming and never stopped, and the drinks and the dancing… At some point the two babies -- Jacus and Bianka collapsed so they set them up for a nap in the corner of the room with a baby camera and the festivities continued until 4 am. We ended partying at about 1 am and the minibus drove us back to the castle.
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