The wedding evening started out at about 3 pm yesterday. The ceremony was a very nice quaint civil service with no religious overtones. Emma looked amazing and Laurence was looking pretty sharp too. I think that he was a bit nervous, but you can't blame him, and the after ceremony playing of "Another One Bites The Dust" was an interesting touch to lighten the serious mood of the whole event.
After the ceremony, we had seemingly hours of time to get to know all the international guests at the wedding, who were pretty all Australian friends from Emma's side. They were a lot of fun to talk to and gave us a more full picture of Emma's life pre Stanford.
The dinner started and I didn't quite realize that the room gathered about 300 people from the time that we got there to the time that the food was ready. Prior to this point the wedding had been fairly balanced between Chinese and Australian things, but for the rest of the night, Chinese tradition was dominant. It started with a 12 course meal and lots of speaches by the family members wishing good luck for the future and lots of babies. It was a very extravagant event with tons of pictures, memories, and loud chatter.
So where are the pictures, dear? I am curious to see your attire at the wedding. In fact both Erik and You dress very nice at such festive events, based on what I have seen in your previous albums. I particularly recall your picture in the satin silk green gown at some other wedding event you had attended earlier.
ReplyDeleteI look forward to your pictures on this one too....looks like it was an austaintatious event.....