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A Peruvian wedding and the recent Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting have a lot in common.
That might not sound immediately obvious, but it’s true.
I’ve been in Peru for the past week. By lucky coincidence, the national Peruvian Paso horse competition (which my father-in-law won this year) and the wedding of my son’s godmother were both in Lima. So it was a solid week of obligatory celebrating (it’s been tough).
The thing is, it wasn’t your typical wedding.
The bride was a Peruvian Catholic of Jewish ancestry and the groom an Indian American Hindu who spent most of his formative years in Oman.
The guest list looked a little something like a model UN meeting. And they somehow managed to make all of that gel in a single ceremony.
Somehow… somewhere… they managed to find a Spanish-speaking Hindu priest in Lima to perform the Hindu ritual in a mixture of Sanskrit and Spanish. And they also managed to find a bilingual Catholic priest to perform the Christian wedding in English and Spanish. The only thing missing was the bilingual English/Yiddish rabbi.
It was a delightful melding of mismatched everythings. Which brings me back to how it was just like the recent
