The event took place in Horea commune. The wedding of Gheorghe Trif’s daughter, Nicoleta, aged 19, took place according to the traditions of the area and began in the afternoon, according to AFP. The groom, a young man from the commune, came with processions to take his bride from home, then all the bride and groom went to the town hall for the civil wedding.
The religious wedding was officiated at the “Saints Michael and Gabriel” Church in Horea, the commune where the plane carrying the medical crew crashed. The godparents of the two young men were the doctor Radu Zamfir and his wife, Diana. The wedding was also attended by Dr. Cătălin Pivniceru and co-pilot Răzvan Petrescu, who were also injured in the plane crash in Apuseni, as a result of which Adrian Iovan and Aura Ion lost their lives.
Around 350 people attended the wedding party and it took place at the cultural center in Horea, the menu being a traditional one in the Apuseni Mountains area.
Gheorghe Trif asked the doctor to be his godfather
At the end of August, the bride’s father, Gheorghe Trif, asked Radu Zamfier to be the godfather at his daughter’s wedding, because he has many memories of him since the plane crash.
“I talked to Dr. Zamfir on the phone then, before we started looking for them, I and Aura Ion and I went down the mountain to take them to the ambulances,” said Gheorghe Trif.
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