Curiosities and secrets of the wedding of Almeida and Teresa Urquijo: chotis, tenderloins and a faint

The wedding of the year, the one that brought together this Saturday, April 6, José Luis Martínez-Almeida and Teresa Urquijo as husband and wife, it has been quite a parade of the finest in politics, high society and royalty, despite the notable absence of the Queen Sofia to the ceremony, although he does attend the banquet at the bride’s grandparents’ farm in Colmenar Viejo.

The mayor and the financial analyst are now husband and wife after a wedding that everyone highlighted for its emotionality and the groom’s tears. “He was much more nervous than the bride“Magdalena, the mayor’s sister, told us as we left the church.

As a curiosity, from the first moment, Martínez-Almeida wanted Madrid to be present at all times during their wedding. In fact, Telemadrid has connected live with the event in the temple.

The mayor has chosen the Night Music Parade on the streets of Madrid Luigi Boccherini like music to go to the altar. In fact, there will also be a nod to your city in the banquet, since as we have learned as a curious fact, the tables where the guests will eat are set representing the emblematic places of the city such as the Retiro Park, the Puerta de Alcalá, the Puerta of the Sun, Cybele or Neptune. The menu consists of seafood salpicón, wagyu sirloin and alternating desserts.

Although it has nothing to do with Madrid, at the doors of the church there has been a spontaneous person who has put music to the beautiful wedding, a bagpiper who has not stopped playing throughout the morning. Despite this, not everything has been joy among the public gathered at the doors of the church, because when the guests and the bride and groom were already inside the church, a lady stationed behind the retaining fences suffered from dizziness and had to be attended to. Then, now recovered, she stayed at the doors of the church sitting on a stool so as not to miss a single detail.

Surely a detail that marked another anecdote of the day has not gone unnoticed by her, the terrible coincidence of two guests: Teresa de la Cierva y Pepa Muñozby El Qüenco de Pepa, who unexpectedly repeated the outfit at the wedding.

After leaving the church, where Juan Carlos I He has posed with his two daughters and three grandchildren, Froilán, Victoria Federica and Juan Valentín, the guests have been transferred to the El canto de la Cruz farm in Colmenar Viejo, a farm owned by Teresa Urquijo’s family, of around 25 hectares. From what we have learned, the Lardhy menu with which the bride and groom will entertain their guests is made up of seafood salpicón as a starter, low-temperature wagyu sirloin as a main course and two alternating desserts.

The wedding dance, as confirmed by the mayor himself before saying ‘I do’, will be a chotis, and afterwards there will be an open bar, but not for ten hours as some had exaggerated. And according to the hired wedding planner, Eva Iglesias“lThe wedding will end like all weddings, at 11:30 p.m. or 24 p.m.“.

The details of the ceremony

A former head of state, a former president of the Government, the head of the opposition, several regional presidents (Ayuso and López Miras), two former presidents of the CAM (Esperanza Aguirre and Gallardón), the Infantas, the Duke of Calabria, the Dukes from Huéscar as witnesses are some of the illustrious attendees at the wedding of the mayor of Madrid with Teresa Urquijo, the twenty-something who tonight will have to encourage her husband, two decades older than her, to stay awake if the party goes on because , about to turn 49, the mayor recognized us as soon as we arrived at the Jesuit church that he is short of sleep: “I haven’t slept tonight because of my nerves.“, said.

Without a doubt, they help the mayor maintain his emotion and his joy. Also the dance of the party, be it waltzes or chotis. This morning, Boccherini and the passacaglia for string instruments by the gallant Italian cellist and composer, at the service of the Spanish Court from 1770 until his death in the capital of Spain in 1805, played in the temple, a work that speaks of the streets of his dear Madrid.

The bride, on her father’s arm, Lucas Urquijomade his walk towards the main altar, presided over by a Christ on the Cross, also with Tuscan music, but in his case playing Canticorum Jubilo.

Waiting for Teresa Urquijo, Almeida, containing her excited tears since she saw her enter the temple. He removed the veil, before the attentive gaze of the more than 350 attendees, with the emeritus in the front row accompanied by his daughters, Elena and Cristina.

The ceremony lasted an hour and was officiated by two priests: Father Andres Ramos Castro and father José Luis Sánchez Valero. A friend of the bride named Camila performed a song on the guitar. During the consecration, the Spanish anthem was played. Victoria López-Quesada Borbón-Two Sicilias, the bride’s first cousin, placed the train and veil as soon as she got out of the car, and during the ceremony.