Vicky & Raphael's wedding Sat Dec 17th

Here is detailed an account of what happened on our way to Vicky & Raphael's wedding on Saturday. we eventually went into the city for Vicky & Raphael's wedding but I had not finished working on all of the preparations for the Christmas dinner for LBF. so we decided to miss the ceremony and make it to the reception at 6pm, at Yang Sing in the Rincon center.

so poor william had to run around at 1pm to print all of the packets out for me once i had them all formatted. this was for the after dinner game - guessing who's who based on baby photos. he asked how many copies were needed and i told him 40 (we were expecting about 37-38 people). he informed me that 40 copies, with 15 pages each was over 600 pages, lots of copies. well gee, i had never thought of it that way. but it was true - i really had not thought about the fact that it was 600+ pages. on top of that, he had to print out 60 envelopes and 60 mail merge letters for LBF (our follow-up pastoral search networking letter). both of which I also was finishing last minute.

so i started calling all of the places that offer printing services (kinko's, office depot, staples, etc) and found that printing is not cheap! what happened to 3 cent b&w copies!!! all of the places pretty much across the board charged 7 cents/page to laser print. after that many charge 6-7 cents/page for self-service B&W copies. what a rip off! anyways...

while he was printing, he decided that each couple was only going to get one packet. so that cut it down to 20 packets. poor william - now i was feeling really bad about leaving this for last minute.

by the time he gets home (4:30), he is fairly grumpy. i had a plate of food ready for him because we had woken up late that morning and really hadn't had lunch. but he didn't want to fill up too much before big chinese banquet though. so we got ready - but even that took longer than expected and we ended up not leaving until 5:30. as anyone knows, you can not get into the city in 30 minutes on saturday evening at 6pm. so we are both grumpy sitting in bridge traffic and hoping that we were not missing too much.

i apologized for the last minute rush and causing him stress on what should have been a more relaxed day. he said that it was like handing in a final term paper at the last minute - did not like having to do that one bit. so i apologized again and told him that i know i should have finished the packet on wed or thursday but that last minute photos kept trickling in. so i left it to the last day to prevent re-work to paste in last minute photos. i told him that i was really frustrated that we had left late, causing us to have to sit in traffic anxiously. now i was getting hungry and thirsty and i don't like feeling hungry at this stage, b/c it probably means that the baby is hungry.

william pauses when i say this. turns out the real reason william is so frustrated with the day is that i have been volunteering to do a lot for church lately when he has really wanted me to just rest, eat and walk - be a little selfish for myself and for him. instead, i am having to sit on the computer for long stretches to fulfill the items i committed to in the board meetings. that has been upsetting him (awe... actually very sweet of him and makes me feel like a big jerko b/c he is thinking about me/us, not all the printing problems). so he has purposely not committed to anything, thinking in his head that he is going to have to help me with my to-do items anyways. *sigh* most of it was phone work up until this last week so it really was not a problem. but he really wants us to think more for us - and we only have 2-3 weeks left before the baby comes and lots still to do to get the house ready. i think i am still in partial denial that this baby is coming. we have been married for nine years (NINE!) with no kids and it is hard to imagine how this little kid is going to turn everything upside down...

anyways, we finally arrived at Yang Sing - a little after 7pm. turns out they were still doing toasts and hadn't started eating yet. all that rushing for nothing. and william couldn't get a glass of wine because the bar was instructed to stop serving wine after 7pm - and we had just missed the cutoff. he could get wine once food started coming. so we sat there starving for half an hour while the toasts finished and finally started eating. the food was marvelous - a full, 10 course, gourmet chinese seafood banquet. sooo soo yummmy. we sat with phebe & don kuo, who were happy that we were there because they didn't know anyone else at the table. it was very nice to catch up with them. their boys andrew (15) and jonathan (13) used to be so quiet and nerdy, are actually getting into girls and clothes now. funny.... also saw andrea & pastor Johnson and their girls, felix, and grace & albert with daughter Catherine.

vicky looked so beautiful in a simple strapless silk gown with silk flowers bunched in the back, and a ruffled organza silk train falling from box pleats in the back of the skirt. the wedding cake was this beautiful tiffany blue 3 layer cake - but it didn't taste as good as it looked so we capped off our meal with 2 bowls of mango pudding. double yummy!

ugh, my posts are getting too long... :p ramble ramble...