Monday, July 18, 2005

Wedding #4 - Jason & Bonnie

The mad rush of weddings has now started...

Saturday was a pretty busy day. It started by waking up at 7:30 in the morning to meet up with Christina for some coffee at Tim Horton's before she was gonna drive out with her parents across the country back to Vancouver. I barely saw her during her 3 weeks here--she spent quite a bit of time at home. But I guess I would too if I had been away for so long. Strangely, catching up with Christina was easy. She's one of those friends that even if you hadn't seen in months or years, the conversations would come back easily just like old times.

Right after the quick breakfast, I rushed back home to get ready for Jason & Bonnie's wedding. The ceremony was nice, but unfortunately the church--at which I'm going to be attending 3 weddings in a row--didn't have any A/C. However, they (It was probably Bonnie's idea. I don't think Jason would have been so thoughtful. Hehe.) had an ingenious solution to this--the programs actually folded out to be handheld fans. Very very cool. Still, it didn't help that much 'in the end 'cause it was incredibly humid. Afterwards, the organization for the group photographs was pretty bad. We were sweltering in the heat/sun for almost an hour before our group finally had their's taken. We felt so gross by then, we ended up going to McDonald's for a quick bite. The afternoon felt like such a waste. I wanted to go watch a movie ("Wedding Crashers" or "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory") but there didn't seem to be enough time. I ended up going home to take a nap after lunch. Latte morning/early afternoon weddings really suck! It's practically in the middle of the day, so it's hard to plan to do stuff. So to all of you out there, please have the ceremony at 4 PM and do the reception right after! Why must the bride & groom need to take so many pictures?! :P

Anyway, the reception itself was pretty good as usual. Jason & Bonnie had over 330 guests. Nothing beats Chinese banquets--abalone, lobster, e-fu noodles, shark's fin soup, etc. Simply the best! :D It's great too when you sit with Caucasian/non-Chinese people too--you can have their portions 'cause they just don't appreciate our 'delicacies'. :) I think I had a bit too much to drink too quickly at dinner though. I actually started feeling a bit lightheaded about halfway through, so I actually had to down a couple glasses of water and go for a short walk. Everything seemed to go off without a hitch, although some of the speeches and games dragged a bit. It's bad, but i'm starting to tune out a bit during the slideshows & speeches 'cause after a while they all look/sound the same... :P

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