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Sharina & Carlos
Simone & Dierck
company. Warm regards to all the faculty members and students from Brig
who remember us. We would like to thank you for everything and to wish
you all the best in the future.”
vera.smorodina@ritz.edu and alfonso.maiz@ritz.edu
Carlos and Sharina Wilk-Enciso chose 25 March for their wedding. Family
members and friends came from Asia and the United States to attend the
civil ceremony in Havre de Grace, Maryland. Sharina moved from Myanmar
to Schweinfurt in Germany where her husband currently works for the US
Army. Their church wedding will take place in December.
sharinaelena.wilk@ritz.edu
The wedding of Felix Chi Wai Wong and Carol took place on 7 April at
the Conrad Hong Kong, where Felix works as Meeting Services Manager.
“We went to Europe for our honeymoon and spent three days in Geneva.
Unfortunately, our schedule did not allow us to come back to «César Ritz»
for a visit. As I would love to see some old faces, I will try to come to the
alumni reunion in Switzerland in May 2007!” felix_wong@conrad.com.hk
20 May was the big day for Isabel Yanguas Balmaseda, when she said
“I do” to the man in her life, Cesar Guardamino. Isabel writes: “I work in
my family business in Madrid, which has been running olive oil farms for
several centuries in the South of Spain. We are taking up a new challenge,
not only producing the olives but making our fi rst production of the fi nest
olive oil next year. Our target is a very high class gourmet industry and we
will export all over the world.” If anyone is interested in trying Isabel’s fi nest
olive oil, you are welcome to contact her at isabel.yanguas@ritz.edu.
On 29 July we celebrated the wedding of former «César Ritz» students
Simone Back and Dierck Kersten, who found love while studying at the
University Centre «César Ritz» in Brig. The wedding was held in Simone’s
hometown of Messkirch, not far from the river Donau, in the South of
Germany. Since graduating in 2003, the newly-weds have been inseparable.
After spending a year and a half together in Colorado, they now reside
in Bavaria, Germany. Dierck’s family and friends fl ew in from the USA to
celebrate the marriage. Simone’s family and friends went to great lengths
to create the dream wedding the bride and groom greatly deserved. The
wonderful reception afterwards was held in traditional German style, with a
lot of joy. Helene Tichawa, Arne Christian Meyer and Fredrik Svensson
represented the «César Ritz» family at the wedding.
dierck.kersten@ritz.edu and simone.back@ritz.edu
On 26 August, Mathy (Vanmathy Wickramasingam) and
Marco Sommer shared their important moment with family and
friends, in the picturesque village church in Gruyere. It is always a
pleasure for us to be invited to our alumni’s weddings, especially
if the couple’s love story began while they were studying at
«César Ritz». This was refl ected in the invitation: “Love fi lls a
moment, a moment fi lls a lifetime, a lifetime begins eternity,
our eternity begins here at our wedding.” The «César Ritz»
Family was represented by Mathy and Marco’s fellow students
Sandra Ganguin from Switzerland, Hannaneh Tanha from
Sweden and Ida Krohn Venas from Norway. Marga Cretton,
Trude Gulbrandsoy and Christian Konrad truly enjoyed these
very special festivities, which offered a perfect combination of
the two cultures (German and Sri Lankan) and to which the
colourful saris added a special touch. In line with her Swiss and
European tradition, Mathy wore white to the wedding ceremony
and then changed into a beautiful, heavily embroidered pink
sari for the reception at Villars sur Glane, where she grew up
and where her family lives. The traditional Hindu Wedding took
place the next morning at the Sri Kalyanamurugan Temple in
Bern and was the special highlight of the festivities.
Marco.sommer@ritz.edu and
mathy.wickramasingam@ritz.edu
Mathy and Marco surrounded by
«César Ritz» family members
Felix & Carol
Isabel & Cesar
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