We are working in the wedding website---https://sites.google.com/site/mmgandjpa/
It's kind of more active/Más activo que el blog

People not RSVPing..such a waste of paper

We only considered to send RSVP cards to people getting use to this formalities (anglosaxons)...but it even didn't work. In Spain we RING RING RSVPING or GMAIL RSVP. Vive la technologie.  Save paper. Save the planet

Americans and Europeans in Alcoi: Imagine a bunch of 21st century people travelling in time to XIII or XIX centuries.

Alcoi, my borntown. Almost all my family has live in there for decades and our surnames are also incative that our ancestors were from the same kingdom...dating from XIII-XIV centuries. Seems that progress have difficulties to get to the town (many reasons, including geographical). All in all, very cañí.
What means "cañí"? Explanation to English speakers
If you like cinema, I recommend you to watch "Volver" (Pedro Almodovar) or "Welcome, Mr Marshall" (Luis García Berlanga) for capturing the essence of the Castillian word "cañí". Collins dictionary define it as "gipsy" but it's an idiom, meaning "pure, true and authentic". Alcoians through and through...rural and provincial, but not despectivly