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Shiny_Rock
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Our wedding weekend started with the rehearsal on Friday, followed by the rehearsal dinner. The rehearsal was a Chinese wedding banquet... LOTS of food (I think it was something like 11 courses). MIL invited everyone from my husband''s side of the family, and so there were about 50-60 people (I think). I wore the hand-painted chinese dress that I ordered from efushop.com. We did the tea ceremony. We also got a bunch of jewelry - DH got a gold horse (you can see it hanging from his neck in the pictures - we think it''s pretty funny) and I got an assortment of gold jewelry (I''m wearing some of it in the pictures -I told DH that if I had worn it all, I would have looked like Mr. T by the end of the night). It turned out to be a really fun night. I warned our non-Chinese friends in advance that some of the food would be kind of exotic (jellyfish, sea urchin, shark fin soup, etc.), and so they came prepared and really got into the whole thing.
Here is a picture of us:
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This is the tea ceremony:
The day of the wedding, I woke up early and went for a walk. The weather was just perfect; 75-80 degrees, sunny with just a few fluffy white clouds in the sky. Then I just chilled out at home with the family until it was time for our salon appointments. After the salon, we came home and had some lunch and then left for the church. We got to the church about an hour before the wedding, as scheduled.
This is my bridesmaids helping me get into my dress:
When it was time for the wedding to start, I got all choked up, and pretty much continued to tear up throughout the entire wedding ceremony. I never really reached the full-on sobbing stage, so I consider that to be a victory. I took a tissue with me, but it was used up pretty quick. Thankfully, our minister had my back, and slipped me an extra tissue during the ceremony
Here''s a few from the ceremony:
After the ceremony, we had a receiving line and then a mini-reception on the church lawn, with cookies, lemonade, and cotton candy! That was a big hit - it was funny, because everyone in my family assumed that the cotton candy had been my idea, and his family assumed it was his idea. The mini-reception was good because it kept everyone around while we were taking pictures, and killed some of the time between the wedding ceremony and reception.
Here we are, enjoying some cotton candy:
Here''s one of us with our adorable (and camera-shy) flowergirls:
And here we are, leaving the church in a cloud of bubbles:
After we left the church, we went for some more pictures at a different location.
Here''s one of us with our gorgeous siblings:
Well, this is taking longer that i expected, so I''ll come back later to post the reception recap.
Thanks for reading!
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