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Ice Photo Gallery
Monaco Royal Wedding
Mario assembled a team of ice carvers to sculpt for the Royal Wedding of Prince Albert II & Princess Charlene Wittstock- Mario Amegee Junichi Nakamura Shinichi Nakamura Vitaly Lednev Aaron Costic
Our first Glimpse of Monaco from the "Rock of Monaco"
We stayed in a Villa with a view of France & Italy
The view from the villas outdoor dining room
The team is assembled
Late night logistics meeting
Beach in Nice, France
We used Junichi's duty free cig boxes to make models of the palace wall
Giraffe head
Giraffe 8 blocks, in the freezer
The Eagles had a free concert for 100,000
Leopard in the freezer
Vitaly after a full day of work
An alley in southern France
One of the Palace walls at night
24 Searchlights choreographed to music
Inside the Monte Carlo
T shaped head table
AC on every plate, they really didn't have to go to all that trouble for me 🙂
Building the 30 block Palace wall
A crane was used to lift all of the ice from a road 30' below us
No trouble moving 8 block sculptures
or a 20 block elephant!
Giant bouquets lined the entrance
No less than 30 chefs in the kitchen
10' tall giraffe
4' tall gazelle
Leopard 8 blocks
Note the sea in the background
Cleaned up after set-up
Shinichi with his lion
Junichi with his leopard
Aaron with his Giraffe
Mario & Vitaly with their elephants
Oceans 6 ?
Guards lining the entrance
Chef Alain Ducasse
Prince Albert & Princess Charlene
Monte Carlo
The day after the set-up, Sarah & I relaxed at the beach all day