Banquet Menu ^__^

Well, we haven't found Gary's car just yet. But were hoping whoever took it really needed it and that it blesses them in some way. =)

On to some yummier news! this is our Delicious banquet menu! =)

五福大拼盆
鴛鴦蝦球
雀巢蒜子牛柳粒
海味大生翅
北京片皮鴨
游水海鮮
蠔皇海參鮑螺片
避風塘龍蝦
海鮮炒飯
芒果布甸


Translation:

Pearl BBQ Cold Plate
Crystal Prawns and Walnut Shrimp
Cubed Filet Mignon with Garlic in a Bird's Nest
Braised Shark Fin with Dried Seafood
Peking Duck
Steamed Live Fish
Abalconch w/ Sea Cucumber in Oyster Sauce
Sauteed Lobster in Spicy Garlic
Seafood Fried Rice
Mango Pudding


That's right, its a 10 course meal. Better come hungry! Don't eat to many snacks during the cocktail hour ;) haha




OO and TA DA! This is our rough draft design for the menu! Not to shabby? haha ^__^ Christine helped us ^_^ I didn't know the chinese part for the longest time! ^_^

gary's car stolen =(

scooter GPS running shoes and all

please pray that we'll find it.

Gary very sick =(

Gary is very sick =( We think he has the flu. He's been fighting terrible coughing, fever: chills, overheating and nausea for the past 3 days. Please pray for his speedy recovery

On a much much more happy note!! On Valentines day we had the pleasure of taking a 2nd set of engagement pictures with Crystal and Disneyland!! Joy signed us in and it was soOOO fun!

a few teasers I stole from Crystal's blog:

I can't wait to see the rest!!

Bridesmaid photoshoot

Here's the link to the Bridesmaid photoshoot

Bridesmaids Photo

It was a pleasure working with all of the bridesmaids and capturing them. You girls were awesome especially braving the cold at such early hours!

Thanks to Jamie and Brandy for being my assistants with all the random holding things and switching out lenses to capture these beautiful girls!

Shout out to my Michelle for doing lots of the post-processing.

Hope you guys enjoy!

Bridesmaid Photoshoot ^__^

Yesterday! Me and my beautiful bridesmaid had a fun photoshoot out at La Jolla Shores it was FREEZING cold! but.. still so much fun! thanks girls for enduring the cold for the sake of beautiful pictures! and thank you Gary for taking such beautiful pictures ^^

me and gary spent all day editing them, we still have a few to go through, but here are some teasers ^__^ we'll upload the rest later!

The Engagement Photos

WOO!! thanks to some awesomely fast editing by Daniel and Jenn. We got our engagment photos back already!!.. and they're soo awesome!!! ^_________________^

Just some teasers, a few of my favorites (okay I couldn't just pick one or two.. i liked too many)

We had so much funn!! thanks Jenn and Daniel!! =)

More of our engagement pictures can be viewed here on Daniel's flickr! ^__^ Enjoy!!

Engagment Video

for those of you who weren't able to get your hands on this linky

Here it is: Our Engagement Video

Super special thanks to JeanBean (jeanna) and Dai Loh (Daniel) for editing this for us!

Yes.. I clearly had NO idea what so ever! haha sometimes I wish i did, so I could have had a better reaction than like.. "awwwwwwwww ::puts hand over mouth::: or *tear*" BUT no... the first thing that comes out of my mouth is "WHAT?!?!?" Haha, but yes I was very shocked and surprised and had no idea what was comming. Joann, Dan Daniel and Jeanna were the engagement ninja spy team... you guys totally had me. =) Good job.












February 7th, 2009- Today we took our Engagement photos with Daniel and Jenn! It was so much fun. We went to this super beautiful woody area with super bright green uncut grass. It was the prettiest grass I've ever seen ever!! It started sprinkling a bit, but it made it that much more memorable and fun! We took some fun ones on our scooters, and OF COURSE.. the Biomed library ha-ha-ha I know.. were such nerds! but that's where we spent most of our time getting to know each other =)

I can't wait to see how they turned out, I'm so impatient! haha

so what has Gary been up to this whole time???

Spending lots of money and signing lots of contracts but it has all been fun and interesting. i can't believe i know all about dress styles and cuts, not to say that i'm an expert but i can tell the style of dresses now. it kinda creeps me out but its good :) Will be going out with some guys this week to start looking for tux/suit rentals.

Gary

SAVE THE DATE: June 21, 2009

Ceremony

Location: Rancho Bernardo Inn Golf Resort & Spa: North Lawn www.RanchoBernardoInn.com

Ceremony Start Time: 3:00pm

Address: 17550 Bernardo Oaks Drive
San Diego, CA 92128

Reception

Location: Pearl Chinese Cuisine http://pearlchinesecuisine.com/

Reception Start Time: 5:00 pm

Address: 11666 Avena Place

San Diego, CA, 92128

wedding gown.. check!

Yes! i found "THE dress" woopie! I'm so happy. This past weekend was so much fun. I went shopping with my mommy, Auntie Susan (gary's mommie), Uncle Henry (gary's daddy) and gary too. We took the dress straight off the mannequin to try on haha. We all knew when I put it on that this was definitely THE ONE. (trumpets in the background)

But you can't see it till the day of the wedding hehehe! But i can tell you its by Maggie Sottero. Theres really love lace detailing and crystal beading all around the dress and the train. (but not overwhelming, just enough so it fits in to the dress really nicely) I also really love the back as well. *sigh* and the train too!

^___________________^

From the start I was totally in love with Maggie Sottero's wedding dresses.. but not so in love with the prices. Bleh! I had intended to rent a wedding dress, since i had no idea what to do with it after the wedding, and I heard it was much more economical. However there was an unexpected turn of events! We found out that if we were to rent this particular dress it would be slightly complicated, because they never cut rental dresses when altering, they said altering the dress shorter to accommodate for my height would look a bit funny due to the sheer organza top layer and they would have to end up sewing it in under the gown, instead of having two nice flowy layers. But if I bought it, they could just chop up the dress, and it would be fine. =) haha

SO.. after some (super) intense bargining and chopping about $400 off the sticker price, buying the dress turned out to be only $250 more than renting it. ("cash" only of course) So we bought it!! I was so happy to have gotten such an awesome deal for a Maggie dress. woot! Go awesome mom bargaining skills! oh.. AND we were able to get a super sweet deal for all the bridesmaid dresses too.

All in all a totally awesome succesful weekend.