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Found the right words: Wedding orator Christian Tannek at a wedding with the bride and groom.
I get goosebumps every time I say yes.
Wedding orator Christian Tannek © private
Anyone who has married over 100 couples can tell you a lot about love.
Christian Tannek from Dachau works part-time as a freelance wedding officiant.
On Valentine's Day he explains what oil-smeared fingers or a bowl of fruit salad have to do with love.
Dachau – The music is playing.
Wedding guests, wedding officiants, groom, everyone is ready.
But whoever doesn't show up is: the bride.
Christian Tannek saw live how there was a happy ending despite the groom crying.
He was the officiant that day and the story is one of his favorites.
What does that mean?
Love?
Sure, if two people want to get married voluntarily, there has to be love involved, at best a lot of it.
But what does that actually mean?
Love?
Christian Tannek is a part-time freelance wedding officiant and has had a lot of people say “yes” to each other.
He has married over 100 couples in the past five years.
And he has long since experienced not only what many understand as romantic love, but also many other forms of love.
Those from children, from parents, or those to people who are no longer there.
Even today, when he tells some of the stories, they move him so much that he sometimes sheds tears.
“Everyone understands something different about love”
Christian Tannek
“Everyone understands something different about love,” says Tannek.
What remains in the end as the lowest common denominator is just the word itself, love.
“However, what that looks like is always completely different.” For some, love is so “beautiful that it can hurt”, for others it means being able to stick your head under the hood of an old car with your fingers smeared with oil Tannek knows how to screw things up.
He is there when it comes to the big emotions, when even the toughest dogs shed tears
He listens carefully to the different love stories.
He is there when it comes to the really big emotions, when even the toughest dogs shed tears, those who say to themselves in advance: “I won't cry at the wedding”.
Even today he “gets goosebumps every time he says yes.”
Because “it is an incredibly special moment when you are a part of two people publicly making this promise to each other.
The promise that they want to spend their lives together."
At a private wedding: the car no longer wanted to, quite the opposite to the bride.
The couple who wanted to get married in the forest also wanted to make this promise to themselves.
Everything was ready.
Music, wedding guests, groom.
But: the bride didn't come.
And didn't come.
Nobody could reach her on her cell phone.
Tannek finally sent a guest by bike to the next village, where the bride had a room.
The groom in the meantime: completely distraught.
“He couldn’t believe she wasn’t actually coming.
I simply encouraged him,” says Tannek.
And suddenly: a tractor appears, honking wildly.
In tow: the bride in an old Beetle.
The car didn't want to go anymore, quite the opposite to the bride.
And so it turned out to be a wonderful forest wedding.
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The desire to make her dad happy was greater than the desire for a perfect wedding.
Or there is the story in which a bride, out of love for her dad, risked that not everything would go according to plan.
Because her dad owned a shipping company, she thought about driving up in a rubber dinghy.
The exit point: not an easy one.
She just informed her brother in advance, gave Tannek her bridal shoes shortly before the wedding and wanted to get to the boat.
“I wanted to talk her out of it.
What if she had missed the exit?” But the desire to make her dad happy was greater than the desire for a perfect wedding.
In the end everything went well, everyone was touched.
Christian Tannek knows exactly what is important
Christian Tannek is lucky that he not only gets told special love stories, he also lives his own.
He has been married to his wife Kerstin for ten years, and three boys complete the family.
That's why he knows exactly what's important.
Trust that you can count on others when things get tight.
Thanks to his family, Tannek made it to the wedding on time
As close as the time he almost missed a wedding because all flights were canceled.
But after a 15-hour odyssey by bus and train, he arrived at Munich Central Station two hours before the wedding, unshaven, not showered, but very special support was already waiting.
His wife picked him up, with all three children in the car - due to the lack of a babysitter.
Tannek had instructed his wife from the road about what technology he needed for the wedding, and she prepared everything perfectly for him.
“And in the car, a small hand suddenly touches me from behind and pushes a fruit salad into my hand,” says Tannek, tears in his eyes again.
His son was worried because he believed that his dad “certainly hadn’t eaten anything sensible.”
Thanks to his family, Tannek made it to the wedding on time and, showered and shaved, gave a moving speech.
The magic of love should not be lost
The optician still doesn't want to work as a freelance wedding officiant full-time.
Precisely because he cares so much about talking to people about their love stories.
“If I wanted to support my family from this, I would have to do a lot more weddings.” And he doesn’t want that.
So that the magic of love is not lost.
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