Wedding time!
Oct 15th was Ruth and Lei's wedding. Here's a brief synopsis of the events leading up to the big day:
Thursday
I came home after work with the intention of studying for the GRE. Key word: intention. What I really ended up doing was wrapping candies ("shee-tang" in Chinese?) with Cindy for Ruth's wedding. And yes, we did experience a small episode of sugar high after performing the much needed "quality assurance" for the products that were being wrapped. Conclusion: this is more fun than our real job!
Friday
Xueyuan was in charge of Ruth's wedding reception and I offered to help. We left work early, borrowed the office's hole puncher and this massive paper cutter to make programs for the reception... and who do we bump into at the elevator? Our boss! Yes, we ran into our boss on the one day that we're sneaking out of work early, with our hands full of lab equipment. How come we never run into him when we leave at 8:00-9:00pm!?! Mike is so nice... he did not fire us. Traffic was bad and by the time we bought all the materials and drove to Chi-Wei's house in the suburbs, it was past 7. We did not finish until close to 2 am so I spent the night at Chi-Wei's.
Saturday: Wedding day!
Rode back with Andrew and Jiali to the city but were caught up in the traffic again. I had less than 30 min to shower, dress and look presentable for Ruth's wedding.
Hsing-Wen (middle) was at the reception table, signing in the guests and receiving the presents. I stayed with her for a bit and witnessed the best wedding book signing by Ethan, the ring bearer.
He wrote an E... left a space... wrote an N... drew a hotwheel with flames (or course!)... and then there was smoke... and clouds on other people's names!! We had to stop him before he took over the entire page!
Ruth had put me in charge of getting the kids (ring bearer, flower girl, and lantern bearer) ready. A job that I cheerfully accepted. Unfortunately, the kids were not as excited for their assigned roles. Here's a picture of all three of them showing their enthusiasm by collapsing on their parents' laps!
Thursday
I came home after work with the intention of studying for the GRE. Key word: intention. What I really ended up doing was wrapping candies ("shee-tang" in Chinese?) with Cindy for Ruth's wedding. And yes, we did experience a small episode of sugar high after performing the much needed "quality assurance" for the products that were being wrapped. Conclusion: this is more fun than our real job!
Friday
Xueyuan was in charge of Ruth's wedding reception and I offered to help. We left work early, borrowed the office's hole puncher and this massive paper cutter to make programs for the reception... and who do we bump into at the elevator? Our boss! Yes, we ran into our boss on the one day that we're sneaking out of work early, with our hands full of lab equipment. How come we never run into him when we leave at 8:00-9:00pm!?! Mike is so nice... he did not fire us. Traffic was bad and by the time we bought all the materials and drove to Chi-Wei's house in the suburbs, it was past 7. We did not finish until close to 2 am so I spent the night at Chi-Wei's.
Saturday: Wedding day!
Rode back with Andrew and Jiali to the city but were caught up in the traffic again. I had less than 30 min to shower, dress and look presentable for Ruth's wedding.
Hsing-Wen (middle) was at the reception table, signing in the guests and receiving the presents. I stayed with her for a bit and witnessed the best wedding book signing by Ethan, the ring bearer. 
He wrote an E... left a space... wrote an N... drew a hotwheel with flames (or course!)... and then there was smoke... and clouds on other people's names!! We had to stop him before he took over the entire page!
Ruth had put me in charge of getting the kids (ring bearer, flower girl, and lantern bearer) ready. A job that I cheerfully accepted. Unfortunately, the kids were not as excited for their assigned roles. Here's a picture of all three of them showing their enthusiasm by collapsing on their parents' laps!The ceremony was beautiful and the bride looked radiant!
A few of us left the church early to help set up for the reception at the Vesper Boat House by Penn's Landing. And I still don't understand how or why, but somehow... I ended up being the MC with Frank for the night! o_O No script, no real understanding of what was going on. All I know is that Chi-Wei and Xueyuan came to the rescue and took over whenever I had to translate anything into Chinese.
All I hope is that nothing Frank and I said did any permanent damage to the newlyweds or the guests. People seemed to have fun... or where they laughing at us?
One of my most favorite parts of the wedding was of course... the babies!
Allie, 1 year old, with her dad Dennis, who adores her to death and claims that she won't start dating until she turns 30 :)
MANY MANY CONGRATULATIONS TO THE HAPPY COUPLE!!!
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