Wedding - Milena & Stan

The decisionStan and Milena to get married came out apparently unexpectedly. However, Stan proposed Milena alreadyfew weeks after they first met. Since then, he did not change his mind and it took himlottime and effort to convince Milena to add her consent, which happened on May 14th 2006. Without our parents,informal wedding ceremony was then scheduledless then two weeks for May 27th 2006 and it took place at romantic southern pointRoosevelt Island. AcrossEast River stood Manhattan skyscrapers dominated byUnited Nations.

Our friends Katka and Jaroslav Nemcok served as our marriage witnesses. They actually witnesseddevelopmentour relationship frombeginning. We could not makebetter choice because Katka and Jaro took very good careus including music accompaniment, photographing, wonderful marriage gift,wedding photo album made onsecond day and overall maintenancevery nice and entertaining atmosphere. Our wedding photos are available on this website thanks to Jaro Nemcok and we are very grateful for this. We also acknowledge their three sons Michal, Tomas and Josef for their very original and humorous video recordingthe ceremony.

The wedding service was carried out by Rev. Kelly-Ray Meritt, whom Stan knows for many years from Russian Chamber ChorusNY. He sang for usCzech song with English text that he composed on his own! The other attendeesour wedding are as follows: Peter Novotny, Nathan Siktberg, Jana Skripalova and Michal Sadlon.

Afterceremony, we have moved to Bohemian Hall and Beer GardenAstoria, Queens. We tooklunch and celebrated our wedding among our natives, Czechs and Slovaks. We drank Moravian Slivowitz and enjoyed Slovak music and folk dancers.