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Carlsbad, United States. It was indeed a beautiful day. The wedding took place on Sunday, September 8 at the Catholic Church of St. Elizabeth Seton in Carsbad, California, a coastal town halfway between Chino and San Diego on Interstate 5. The couple are active members of the Basque community, specially Jacqueline, a Chino Gauden Bat dantzari, involved for years in the NABO Udaleku both as a camper and as an assistant instructor.

The ceremony was very moving, as were the vows they told each other. At the exit of the church Jacqueline's Gauden Bat fellow friends, dressed in their costumes, formed an arch through which the newlyweds left. At the reception, male dancers danced Banako for the bride and the women of the group did the same with San Juan for the groom.

[Jacqueline and Cristophe with the Lanathoua family]

Jacqueline and Christopher will depart on November 10th in their honeymoon. They will visit Morocco and from there will travel to Gibraltar, Madrid, Barcelona and other places to reach then the Basque Country and take part in a barnetegi in Lazkao to learn / improve their knowledge of Basque. They plan to visit Aldude and Ezterenzubi, where they will spend Christmas.

Jacqueline and Christopher met at the Basque picnic in Bakersfield, California, in May 2011 and got engaged in Chino Basque picnic in September 2012. Jacqueline's maternal grandparents are both from Ezterenzubi (Irigaray and Lanathoua), while the groom's rooths are in Aldude (Uharriet) and Gamarte (Irigoyen).

-Hella Basque writes on the wedding