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Title: Congrats Windmill Boy! Post by: Bob S on June 26, 2005, 04:00:00 AM Congratulations to Eric and Shi Hui who yesterday (Sat. June 25th) had their official wedding ceremony (though were legally hitched at the city hall many weeks ago).
Hey Eric, be sure and post pics! Bob & Akiko Title: Re: Congrats Windmill Boy! Post by: Windmill Boy on June 30, 2005, 04:00:00 AM ... in response to Congrats Windmill Boy!, posted by Bob S on Jun 26, 2005
Thank you Bob ... and everyone else for remembering our wedding day this last weekend. Over all It was a good success and went off quite well. Kathryn and I just returned this morning at 5 AM driving back to Rochester from Boston after decompressing for a couple of days. Serves me right for leaving Boston at 9 pm ha ha ha with a 6 hour drive and a couple hours to snooze in the car at a rest area enroute. It has been an exhausting and challenging couple of months to plan an American styled wedding in such a short time. Kathryns family is in China and were unable to help. My mother is elderly and could not assist us other than financially. Kathryn does not drive yet and was unsure about American wedding practices. So basically 3/4 of the burden of planning the event fell on my shoulders. I certainly got a crash course in wedding planning. Being that I am a pastry chef I also took it upon myself to provide cookies at the church and I made the cake and pastries for the reception that we held at a local chinese restaraunt ( a 9 - 10 course meal). We went to a local vietnamese hair dressor guy do the makeup and hair. It cost alot more than supercuts but it was worth it she looked good. About 100 guests all in all and the ceremony was nice and appropriate. My best friend did the official photography and we hired a Videographer to capture the ceremony and provide us with DVD and VCD versions so we can share the event with her family back in china. It was a nice day but I am glad it is over and I can become a normal person again. I told Kathryn she better not divorce me because I never want to go through this again ha ha ha. I would like to share pictures when they are available but Kathryn is reluctant to be put on the web any mre than she has to so we will see what happens. Thank you for remembering ERIC Title: Re: Re: Congrats Windmill Boy! Post by: Ray on June 30, 2005, 04:00:00 AM ... in response to Re: Congrats Windmill Boy!, posted by Windmill Boy on Jun 30, 2005
Congratulations and best wishes Eric & Kat! Just like the weddings in the Philippines where the gay hairdresser is usually the biggest expense (LOL). I understand your bride's feelings about posting pics, but I really would like to see a photo of that cake :-) Ray Title: Re: Re: Re: Congrats Windmill Boy! Post by: Windmill Boy on June 30, 2005, 04:00:00 AM ... in response to Re: Re: Congrats Windmill Boy!, posted by Ray on Jun 30, 2005
Ray about that Cake.... the cake was the quasi fiasco of the marriage. first of all I could not design my ideal cake because I was not able to deliver it myself and I could not use Buttercream or a chocolate icing because of fear of melting as the day was 90 F. So I designed the cake so it would be built Ford tough. I filled the cake a couple of days ahead of time and I had my coworker wrap rolled fondant around the cake while I did work for her the morning of the wedding as it was a very busy week at the club. So we hussled it out the door putting it on a pedistal and into my car. I was driving slowly but after 5 - 7 minutes I looked in my rear view mirror and I saw the Cake stand but not the Cake and I said to myself OHH NOOOOOOOO. I arrived home and the cake was still relatively in one piece. so I placed it back on the stand and I rushed it into the house. I yelled to my brother to rush to the church nearby to pick up the flowers that I ordered for the cake top and to grab some other flowers from the arrangements at church. in the mean time I was tucking and folding and prodding the fondant to have te cake resemble it original look somehow. With the flowers laid on top it covered most of the problems. I wrapped the cake with plastic wrap so it would not slide off the pedistal again and then my brother rushed the cake to the chinese restaurant with the pastries which opened at 10:30 and the ceremony started at 11 am. with the way the cake was designed and the way it looked we pulled it off that it did not look too bad. It tasted good but we really did not focus on the pictures of the cake. well there has to be a hitch at every wedding but I did not imagine to be repairing the cake 1 and a half hours before the wedding ha ha ha. ERIC Title: Re: Re: Congrats Windmill Boy! Post by: Jeff S on June 30, 2005, 04:00:00 AM ... in response to Re: Congrats Windmill Boy!, posted by Windmill Boy on Jun 30, 2005
Well done Eric, and best wishes for a wonderful life together! - Jeff Title: Good for you WB! Post by: Jimbo on June 29, 2005, 04:00:00 AM ... in response to Congrats Windmill Boy!, posted by Bob S on Jun 26, 2005
Eric, Your story is a great one and I admire your persistence. There's a lesson there for the newbies. After the Japan trip with the one who didn't work out, and the pastry quest :-), you kept at it and went to China and found your sweetheart halfway around the world. Fantastic! Best wishes for both of you in the years ahead. Jim |