After our adventure in the mountains and Stykkishólmur it was finally time to go to Búðir. For four months, this place with the tiny little black church was on our minds daily. Knowing that not only we would get married there, we would finally get to see each other, hold each other, fall asleep and wake up in each other’s arms. While our days in Reykjavik were wonderful, we finally settled into being ‘us’ on the road to Búðir. We listened to Bach, Beethoven, and finally Sigur Rós. We drove through mountains, clouds, rain storms, and coastlines. Though we had decided to use a map from now on, we didn’t look once. We knew it would come up and the suspense of every turn was filled with more and more love. More and more connectedness, until finally, while listening to Sigur Rós’s ‘Góðan daginn’ (an absolute favorite for the past couple months), the black church appeared. With teary eyes and held breath we quietly drove up. We came ‘home’ at last.
We walked into the hotel and were greeted the with friendliest smiles, amazing smells from dinner and the cutest dog named Nagli (nails). We walked up to room no. 23 and just fell in love. The views from our room: ‘moonland’, seaside, and the church. We hugged for a long time in the open window overlooking the church. When we finally were cold and damp from the wind and rain, we headed downstairs for dinner.
The whole hotel had turned into a sea of candles! Just when we thought it couldn’t get any better we ate freshly caught salmon and drank delicious wine. From the moment we drove up the road to Búðir, it finally started to all fall in place for me. After a hot bath in the middle of our room, we went our separate ways for a little while. Jamie rewrote his vows in a postcard moleskine. I went downstairs and sat on a couch by a window overlooking the sea. After chatting with the quiet hotel manager, I ended up just copying the vows I had already written a few days before, it felt right.
Not much sleep happened that night, the rain came down hard, adjusting to the midnight sun and the excitement for the next day were reasons to not close my eyes. I was so comfortable though, next to my love and in a huge, warm, and soft bed.