Her name is Una...

... like the most beautiful river in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
She was born on Tuesday, January the 23rd and she is my boss's (but before everything my friend's) firstborn baby girl.
Bojana, I am so proud of you and Una!

The white season

Muslims all over the world have 2 major holidays: Ramadan Bayram and Kurban Bayram they are exactly 2 months and 10 days apart and it is believed that organizing weddings in the middle of those two is bad luck.

Since we have a lot of superstitious people in Sarajevo who are mostly Muslim, the agency (event management agency) I work for has not been doing a lot of weddings at the end of the last year.

The Kurban Bayram passed at the end of December and everything changed.

Last weekend we had two enormous weddings and more are on the way. I was the coordinator and wedding planner for one of those.

The custom here is to get married on Wednesdays (if you don’t want a big party) or Saturdays (if you want to have a huge celebration and for the whole city to know you are getting hitched).

Anyways, most of the weddings we organize are on Saturdays. I was in charge of everything from flowers, decoration, wedding cake, to music and making sure everything goes according to the agenda.

A day after this wedding, I get great news that my best friend from Turkey (she is Bosnian but lives in Turkey) is getting married to a Turkish guy who was here last summer but since I was in Singapore we missed each other and I didn’t get to meet him. Now, I am supposed to be the maid of honor at her wedding.

Then I have my first trainee (an Indian girl in London) getting married to her long-term love in April (I am supposed to visit them as well). Another uni friend is getting married in a matter of months in Sarajevo and not to mention 2 of my close friends got married last year…

What is up with the wedding seasons?? Is it just me or all of my friends all getting hitched at the age of 22-24. Ouch!

The season looks white, and it’s not cause of the snow.

January the 4th 2007.

Today I am officially: Merima Baralić dipl. ecc.
:)

A perfect start to 2007!!!

Happy New Year

What would one wish for 2007?

Hmmm…

Lots of health, love, luck, success, amazing experiences, travels, smiles and tears of joy, less stress, less sleepless nights, less worrying, more walks by the river, more sunny days, joy and laughter, more friends, more spring showers and blossoming trees, more received roses and kisses from the ones we love. I wish you all more moments with your families, more home cooked meals, more relaxing baths and more romantic dinners in two. I wish you all less moments of waiting, more moments of enjoying, more dancing, more music.

I wish you all what I would wish for myself, because this is the year that will change our lives.

May your most wonderful dreams come true in year 2007.

Mine are coming true while you are reading this post :)