A Love built on Nintendo- Our Wedding Trailer hehe^^

Gary and Michelle Wedding Trailer from Steven Tang on Vimeo.

This was just me and gary being silly and not really knowing what to do while they were filming us. hehe hahaha totally improvised and then caught on tape ^^ haha

Steven is awesomely Talented! =) We got to film our welcome video with the help of John Yao (simplytwo.com) and his amazing equipment and ideas! it was so much fun! I can't wait to see it all come together, we had some crazy creative juices flowing for this one =) We'll be showing it at the beginning of the reception! i really hope you guys enjoy it! Here are some pictures I stole from John Yao's facebook.. hehe >_<

The Partyyyy

I'm totally sick with the flu from the weekend.. but it was simply amazing. My brain is a bit groggy... so i will decorate this post mostly with pictures (and videos). But i really wanted to express just how loved and special i felt.. and how much I really appreciated everyone coming! Thank you Jeanna for organizing driving all the girls from SD, Joy for arranging the tickets and hotel, Timin for flying in last minute all the way from Norcal, Brandy for driving my sister over, and just everyone who made that extra effort to make it =) My bridesmaids are amazing for putting this together. I felt so insanely loved and special. Disneyland was way to much fun, i didn't want it to end.

Heres a video of us on the way there =)

The view from our Disneyland Hotel Dream Suite: (view of the Neverland pool)

Were way to cool for school.

Definitely one of my new favorite rides

a nice old mad on the sitting near us orchestrated this cute picture idea =)

A super delicious dinner at the Jazz Kitchen, everyone looked so amazingly beautiful!

hehe then!! we partied.... and we warned whoever went to sleep first would have their face mysteriously attacked by liquid eye liner.. muahaha...





















Then we passed out.. for 3 hours with one eye open.. all afraid we would be the next victim. hehe =)

relaxing by the neverland pool the next day =)

The Five love Languages

Just finished reading the book: The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman. Has to be one of the most eye opening book on relationships that I've read. The version that I read was on married couples but I think it applies to even everyday relationships. I highly recommend this book for those of you in relationships.

I learned so much from it and even reflecting on my relationship with michelle, I can see how i wasn't learning to speak her love language. I can see how our arguments become never ending circles that just keep going on and on. The resurfacing of past arguments, the frustrations that come with it, and also the inability to do anything about it. A lot of times, I tell myself that I'm loving michelle in what i'm doing for her (my love language is acts of service), but to her it might not seem like love. To her its probably spending quality time with each other or one of the other ones (she didn't read the book yet, but she will ;) ) The most important thing I learned is to really discover one another's love language and to develop it and use so that we can speak to each other. I guess this is another way for communicating :)

Anyways pick up a copy of the book and read it, its an easy read and it even made me think about my relationships with my family. have fun with it.

cupcake tower!

Cupcake tower construction begins!

step 1. Obtain thick cardboard boxes! (if you work at a lab this should be easy hehe)


step 2: use a protractor to draw circles (or a really long a holey ruler from moji) and cut it out with an exacto knife (or in jamie's case a pocket knife)


step 3: Cut lots of different sizes! and then.. make inbetween slot thingies to hold it all up =)


step 4: Cover the cardboard with pretty material, we pinned it all on first with push pins and then glue-gunned the edges on

Step 5: cover the edges with some pretty lace

Step 6: take a break, rest and go to sleep! haha =)

were totally not done yet.. but! it was quite fun and entertaining! Thank you so much to Joann Ihui Hunter and Jamie for helping me with all the cutting and gluing and constructing till the wee hours of the night!! ^__^ haha. its coming out alot cuter than i expected ^________^

I also tried to make a pomander with a 6" foam ball..... but..! it took up ALL my flowers! haha so i think im going to buy some smaller 3" foam balls ^_^ so i can spread out the flowers a bit more



Good night!

love,
Michelle

bridesmaid dresses!

GUESS WHAT?! The bridesmaid dresses arrived yay!! thank you jeanna for picking them up from LA. they're soo prettyyy! We ended up going with the Jasmine B2 bridesmaid line =) All of my bridesmaids are soo beautiful but very different in shape and heights, so i really wanted them to be able to pick a dress they liked, and had re-wearability points =) It was so amazing they each picked such a beautiful dress but every dress ended up being so different! I can't wait to see you guys try them on =)




oh and Happy Mother's day to all the mommies out there! ^__^ heres a 15 "carrot" diamond ring we made my mommy. hahaha ^__^

Marriage License!

hehe guess what were filling out?? ^_______________^

Rings

this story actually starts couple weeks before. Several weeks ago, started looking for our wedding bands and we scouted out some places at UTC. Michelle found one she really liked at Charles Koll and we put that one on our high priority list. Checked out couple more places (went back to blumenthals) and didn't find too much that stood out. This past weekend, we went back to Charles Koll and made our purchase for the wedding bands. Michelle got a nice brushed 18K white gold band and I ended up with a tungsten carbide band. this is when I realized how wishy washy i was (since I had no idea what i liked). I was stuck between tungsten carbide and titanium but ended up with the tungsten carbide because its virtually unscratchable :) Its also lot heavier than titanium but oh well. The weight will remind me of who i'm attached too :)

So yup, we made our purchase and we'll be picking them up sometime next week! Both our rings are from Charles Koll (UTC). Nice people and quite knowledgeable.