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''Members Only'' We didn't get to go into the second floor. |
Reception Begins Can you tell that we got in a bit late? |
Head Table Shots Jeanie, James and Chuck sit and wait for the signal to go get our food. |
Pud Table James' old friends, the Puds, got to sit together. |
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Karen and Seth He was saying something odd, I'm sure. |
Lame Bunny Ears Caitte, I'm sorry to say that you weren't giving bunny ears to anybody at that angle. |
Dinner Line The waiting for food has begun! (And nobody told me). |
Allen Dinner Line Around now was when I figured out that I should have been in line a while ago. |
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Punch Fountain But I still had to get a shot of this marvel of modern engineering. Or whatever you want to call it. |
Family Table Old family pictures and memories. |
Memory Table This was for the departed family members, it seems; plus, it served a major role at the upcoming Vietnamese ceremony. |
Cake I was happy to discover that there were ~4 varieties of cake mixed into there. |
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Chocolate Fountain Setup It made up for the flowing poison on just the next table. |
A Completed Table I figured it was worthwhile to get a shot of what they finally looked like. |
DJ Table "DJ Rebel". ROCK! |
Jeanie and Bears Beanie Babies for Jeanie. |
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Flower Arrangement It was on our front table; it needed at least one picture. |
Banners These were just behind our table. |
Chuck and DJ Rebel Discussing when he needed to use the mic. (You can tell that he's getting tired.) |
Full Reception Hall Behold! There are a lot of people! |
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Chuck Announcement Basically, instead of the "chime your glasses to make the couple kiss" thing, they went for "sing a song with the words 'love', 'kiss', 'James', or 'Jeanie' in it". |
Singing Table Of course, the Allenites came up with "James and Jeanie sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G!". |
Kissing Couple That's four kisses! Muahaha... |
Ben and Isabelle "Now don't you go taking pictures of my daughter!" |
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Isabelle Defintiely a cutie. |
Gift Table They had a fair bit of loot, I'd say. |
Bohall Table James' Aunts and Uncles all sat together, right next to our table. I don't think they came up with a song. (Represtented are Washington State, Washington DC, Massachusetts, and Illinois) |
Visiting the Pud Table Their first stop at visiting tables was to the Pud table. This didn't surprise me much. |
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Chuck, High-Up Setting up for later things. He didn't really rest for days afterwards. |
Chocolate Fountain Begins Oh well. At least I got to eat some of the strawberries. |
Dancing Kids The little kids were having a ball. |
Lighting Candles What she was doing work was beyond me...but at least she was doing with James, and they were together. |
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Lighting Candles Together According to Chuck, they were doing this so that they would know which tables they'd visited. Good idea! |
Buffet Line It was worth getting at least one shot of the Vietnamese buffet. |
Eva and Darren Eating Yeah, eating things with *chocolate* on them! Ick! |
Laura I don't see her enough lately. |
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Tim and Eva I don't see Eva enough either...really, I don't see any of my friends enough. |
Best-Man's Speech Chuck's speech went over *extremely* well. |
Maid-Of-Honor's Speech Trinh's went over well too, but it wasn't quite as sappy... |
Jeanie's Speech Jeanie's speech was also sweet, though perhaps a bit longer than the other two put together. |
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James, Jeanie and Eva James was getting quite good at his sincere smiles by this point. |
First Dance Preparations Getting ready to dance the first time... |
First Dance ..and the two of them bounce up and down for a while! |
First Dance, II Hehe! It was so James... |
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First Dance, Part 2 They eventually settled down into a normal dance. |
First Dance 2.1 She looks like she's about to cry. |
First Dance 2.2 And that's definitely out of joy... |
First Dance 2.3 It's really fun to watch these things. |
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First Dance 2.4 Plus, I got to see James spin a girl! |
First Dance 2.5 I'm really happy for him, you know. |
Daddy-Daughter Dance He's a proud father, obviously. |
Daddy-Daughter Dance, II It's really easy to say that kind of thing at weddings, in my experience. |
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Daddy-Daughter Dance, III Perhaps it's just because I haven't been to one that left recriminations... |
Daddy-Daughter Dance, IV But still, it's so nice to see the family proud, and the kids happy with that pride. |
Daddy-Daughter Dance, V I...oh, gotta interrupt the reverie. Spins! |
Daddy-Daughter Dance, VI His spinning-smile is infectious. |
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Waiting on the Side Lines Is he waiting for Jeanie, or to dance with his mother? |
Waiting Kids I think they just want to be able to dance again. |
Mother-Son Dance I wasn't shocked to hear them dance to "The Rainbow Connection". |
Mother-Son Dance, II I like how proud James looks in this picture... |
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Mother-Son Dance, III ...and how proud Mary Jane is here. |
Mother-Son Dance, IV They were good parents to him. |
Mother-Son Dance, V And they'll all stay in touch, which is nice to know. |
Couples Dance And here's the part where I get to dance with Angie. |
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Couples Dance, II Well, it was a slow dance for a bit, anyway. |
Couples Dance 2.1 Before it turned into "Kung-Fu Fighting!" |
Couples Dance 2.2 It was a good twist, I didn't expect it, and it again matched James well. It's good to see that he got input. |
Bouquet Toss Time to prepare for the real point of weddings... propagation! |
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Bouquet Toss, II No, not *that* kind of propagation! |
Gesturing for the Bouquet "Go long!" |
Preparing to Catch Wait for it... (I like how Beth is far in the back, and is looking at me and not the bouquet.) |
Catching the Bouquet ...and it's the girl in pink on the right! |
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Bouquet Catcher I have no idea what her name was, but she was content. |
More Dancing Children It didn't take long for them to return to the floor, did it? |
Preparing for the Garter The balcony was helpful for this, I must admit. |
Caught the Garter And a 12-year-old kid got it. Heh. We're all safe... |
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Garter Catcher I liked it on his head. |
Bear Toss Toss #3 was some stuffed animals, so nobody would feel left out. |
Bear Tossers James looks...amused. |
Bear Catchers The kids were psyched, certainly. |
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Darren and Laura Dancing Darren is good at this. Laura griped later that she couldn't keep up... |
Bruce with Purse Doesn't he look happy to be holding onto something so important? |
Regular Dancing And so the standard dancing begins, at least for a little while. |
Vietnamese Ceremony Preparations Since Jeanie is Vietnamese, it seemed logical to have a cultural ceremony as well. |
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Vietnamese Ceremony Begins Of course, this doesn't mean they told us what was going on. |
Kids in Ceremonial Vietnamese Outfits So I have to make stuff up like "ceremonial outfits". They looked cool, but I wasn't really sure what the meaning was. |
Brining the Offerings I know that offerings came in under red sheets that I'd gotten scolded for touching earlier. |
The Offerings Chuck got to carry one, which means that it was for the whole family and not just the immediate one. |
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A Gift Bruce and Mary Jane brought a rectangular box. |
Gifts with the Bridesmaids The bridesmaids got to hold the collection of stuff; the groomsmen weren't involved in the process. (Probably because our clothing was American traditional.) |
Leaving the Gift An offering to the ancestors? Perhaps. |
Candlesticks The gifts were candlesticks. Okay. |
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Lighting the Candles James' grandparents lit the candles. |
Lighting the Candles, II Note: they are quite large candles. |
Placing the Candles The mothers got to actually place the candles in the holders... |
Placing the Candles, II ...which wasn't as easy as it looked, because of the balance. |
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Mary Jane I think she liked her dress. Just a guess. |
Honoring the Ancestors Now, Jeanie's mother did some ancestor-honoring ceremony. |
Honoring the Ancestors, II Again, that's just what it looked like, so don't get angry at me if I'm far off-base... |
Holding the Candle There was a good reason for this: just before, the candle had fallen to the ground and scorched the table. (You may note that there were no pictures of this; I also dove to stop the fire). |
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Holding the Candles So, from here on in, we had the candles held up specifically by participants... |
Retrieving the New Couple James and Jeanie had been behind this whole time. |
James and Jeanie Procession And so now they come with an offering too. (And new outfits. I like the new outfit on James.) |
Offerings from the Couple Everything is out... |
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Offerings from the Couple, II ...and they offer their respects. |
Waiting for the Next Step I couldn't tell you what James and Jeanie are thinking about here. |
Next Step Explained It looks like Jeanie's mother knows, though. |
Acknowledgement It's odd to be noticed during the ceremony. |
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Explanations At this point, Trung took over explaining what was going on... and I still didn't get it. |
Jewelry A beautiful bracelet, presumably an heirloom, was put onto Jeanie's arm. |
More Jewelry I'd have to guess it's considered "a gift from the ancestors". But again, I'm only guessing. |
Drinks for the Family At this point, they opened a bottle of sparkling grape juice for James' grandparents. |
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Guarding the Candles There will be no more fires on their watch! |
Pouring the Drinks Next, the couple pours drinks for their families. |
More Pouring I like how Trinh was still working on her dress during all of this. (According to Chuck, the dress adjustments were symbolic. Neat!) |
Drinks for Family The drinks are distributed... |
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Waiting for More Drinks Does anybody else need anything? (This gives an excellent overview of how many people were watching this.) |
Words from the Grandparents James' grandfather gives his blessings. |
Listening to the Grandparents James and Jeanie watch on. |
Looking To Each Other And then they look at each other, contentedly. |
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Smiling at the Ceremony And so, it appears to be done. |
Chuck and the Candle No more fire for us! |
Vietnamese Dancing It looked fairly similar to the other dancing. |
Vietnamese Dancing, II Especially in as much as they looked just as happy. |
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More Dancing James' parents danced too... |
Even More Dancing ...as did Jeanie's parents. |
Three Couples The three couples danced on, together. |
Add a Fourth Couple And then James' grandaparents entered the mix. |
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The Center of Attention They were the importance ones, still, through the dancing... |
Center of Attention, II I don't really know how much of the thing was ceremony. |
Center of Attention, III I do know that they really do love each other, and that it was good to see it honored. |
Center of Attention, IV Congratulations again, my friends. |
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Post-Dancing Waiting Preparing for the next part of the ceremonies. |
Standing Before the Cake And back to an American tradition: the ludicrous-sized cake! |
Little Cake People Aww... |
Caitte and Sam Just before we got called away to scoop ice cream, which is more work than you'd expect. |
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Cutting the Cake I missed most of this, because I was busy scooping ice cream; so you can thank Beth for getting some shots of it. |
Eva Yup. Still Eva. |
Caitte Just a bit too close-up. |
Caitte This shot, though... I like it. |
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Fred, Caitte and James Perhaps it's an odd combination, but it's amusing to see. |
DB and Raché Take Off Back to take care of their son, I'd guess. |
First Piece First something is cut out... |
The Smearing ...then it's stuffed on the others' face... |
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More Smearing At least they're trying to get it in each others' mouths. |
Cake is Cut...now what? I guess it's time to go eat something. |
Caitte and the Chocolate Fountain I think she's going to do this to torture me. |
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Caitte and the Chocolate Strawberry No Caitte, don't do it! |
Caitte and the Chocolate Strawberry, II NOO!!!! |
Caitte and the Chocolate Marshmallow Yes, I dislike chocolate, how'd you guess? |
Eva, Laura, and Caitte I look forward to looking back at this picture in 20 years and just remembering what we all used to look like. |
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Still Cutting the Cake There were a lot of layers! |
Eva with Rose I do like the shorter hair, I must admit. |
Darren Pensive? Distracted? You decide. |
Tim and Ice Cream Scooping that ice cream *sucked*! |
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Receiving Line Many hours later, we finally had the long-requested receiving line. |
After the Second Ceremony The parents are, I think, just happy that things are starting to wind down. |
Kids On Top Once they knew there was a balcony, we were all doomed. |
Tim with Apron It took me a while to realize I could take the apron back off after the ice cream incident. |
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Tim and Caitte, I I was so happy to have my sister around... |
Tim and Caitte, II I really don't get to see her enough. |
Tim and Caitte, III But at least we can always be goofy together. |
Caitte with Shawl She's pretty good at looking goofy on her own, too. |
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Tim and Beth Is it bad that I start feeling all goofy when I try to write this label? |
Tim and Beth, II Gods, I love my Beth. |
More Pictures By this point, even I was getting sick of pictures. Or at least of posing. |
Seth Chiles He's grumpy that his name comes up so easily on Google now. |
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Adam and Laura Having a good time with the Table Of Puds. |
Karen I think it's about impossible to get a shot of her with her eyes open. |
James, Tim and Caitte Old roommates, together for good events. |
James, Tim and Caitte Hooray for old friends. *tips cup of water that I'm currently drinking from* |
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Preparing Allen Crowd Pictures There's an arm in the way, but the shot of Sam and Eva is quite good. |
Allen Crowd By comparison, this shot is a bit dark... |
Allen Portrait And this is much better, even if we're a bit too shiny. (Seth, Adam, Darren; Tim, Chuck, Sam, Eva) |
Back to Dancing The dancing had actually begun again while we were taking the pictures amongst ourselves. |
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Break-Dancing Kid The break-dancing kid had never really stopped, though. |
Caitte and Beth Dancing It's good to see Beth up on the floor dancing. |
Cowboy Caitte Yes, she's learned to dance in odd ways. |
Spinning Dancing Beth went back to get some shots of me, Eva, Laura, and Caitte dancing. |
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Tim Dancing It's just nice to be on the floor with my friends, you know... |
More Tim Dancing And to carry on like a fool. But mostly to be with my friends. |
Bridesmaids on Tables You can tell there was an open bar, can't you? |
Sam the Pirate Yaar!! |
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Sam the Pirate, II This time, missing an eye. |
Hula Hoops At some point, the DJs brought out a bunch of these things. |
Departing Couple With this, James and Jeanie got to take off. |
Car Vandalism It's part of the tradition, but we aren't very good at it. |
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Car Vandalism, II There's something sweet about the way we think that makes us put "42" on a car as vandalism. |
Car Vandalism, III Its more horrifying that we did it twice. |
Car Vandalism, IV An obligatory number of tins. |
Post-Wedding Brunch The next morning, we went across the street for brunch with the rest of the wedding party. |
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Ugly Lamp I gotta say, I didn't like this lamp much. |
Actual Brunch But the food was good, the place was easy to find, and it was good to see everybody one last time. |
Couple's First Meal Well, maybe not their first. But at least it was fairly normal... |
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