Below is a photo of Mathis playing with a ball with GrandMama.
I caught Beck being very caring with Maile's baby doll.
As we get older and our circle of friends remains the same, we have less and less weddings to go to. But the weekend of 9/18, we had two -- Emmet and Emily's and my friend, Dean's.
We unfortunately didn't take any photos of Emmet and Emily's wedding and any photos with Haniel and Anita. Emmet and Emily's wedding was fun and very personal, and we knew a lot of people. Actually, outside of their family there didn't seem to be many guests from the older generation. Jim flew out from Minneapolis to attend. It was great seeing him, but strange to see him without Joyce, who was due any day, and Payton. Luckily, their baby girl, Mackenzie, did not come early.
Emmet and Emily had their own spin on the old "how many people does it take to change a light bulb" joke when it took four people to get the rings untied from the ring pillow. It definitely added to the light-hearted nature of the ceremony.
For the reception, they had the same Balloon Lady that was at their engagement party. She was a hit with the kids but a bigger hit with some of the adults (friends who went to rival colleges).
I felt some pressure when Caroline reminded us to do our scrapbook page and said she was expecting something good since she considered us creative people. Well, we definitely disappointed. That was one ugly page. Didn't help that Hansel had a lot to drink.
The food was yummy although I missed a dish or two while I was trying to salvage our scrapbook page. The speeches were touching and funny. I especially liked Rich's "but" story, where he recounted how he knew Emily was the one when, after asking about their first date, Emmet simply replied that Emily was nice and not "she's nice but..." And, I liked the slideshow. I'm a sucker for slideshows.
We actually have one photo from the wedding. Caroline took the below for the scrapbook and made me an extra copy.
Our second wedding was on Sunday at Foreign Cinema in SF for Dean and Tiffany. Dean was the first person I met on the Taiwan Study Tour (aka "The Love Boat"). We were in different groups but became good friends and remained friends. Dean found Tiffany when he was searching Craigslist for cars and came across her personal post looking for a fellow foodie.
They had a Shanghai 1930s themed wedding, so the bridal party was styled accordingly. For the processional, they played Bittersweet Symphony while a friend of the bride accompanied the song on a violin. Dean's brother-in-law was the "officiant," and they wrote their own vows.
The food was passed hors deuvres, which doesn't sound like much, but there was actually a ton of food. They had like 30 different appetizers and plenty of vegetarian and seafood options. At first people were attacking the wait staff whenever they came out, but later there were plates of food waiting to be eaten. Their cake was a Croquembouche (pronounced crow-come-bush), which comes from the French words "croquant" meaning crunchy and "bouche" for mouth. I knew what it was since I had seen the owner of Citizen Cake make it on a Food Network Challenge. If any couple was going to have that cake, it would be a pair of foodies.
In the gallery, they had a slideshow going and a table set up for guests to take photos. They printed two copies of the photo -- one for the guest and one for the couple. So below is the photo we took.
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