Before the wedding we decided to head up one of the peninsulas to a light house. Once there we decided to wander out into the bay and put up a flag of our being there.
Here is Dave trying to get the board slash flag out into the bay:
And another action shot:
Jose and Dave celebrating:
Again:
Dave preparing the ground:
The flag:
Everyone dressed up for the wedding:
Yachi and I went to see our close friends Sara and Sergio get married at the Barking Frog. We got there pretty early and wandered over to Chateau St. Michelle to hang before the wedding and made friends with some fowls:
The wedding was pretty awesome and we had a really good time. Yachi looked beautiful as usual:
And I did not look that shabby:
It was interesting seeing a more traditional Persian wedding. The setup was beautiful:
Sergio’s family also made some great masks which I wore all night cause they were just that awesome:
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Calla Bridal got a nice write up in NW source which is pretty cool. hopefully it translates into more people coming into the store :).
A wedding related photo of Adam and Cindy dancing at their wedding:
As heard on the radio in this land of Buicks and Oldsmobiles. That's right this version of the holidays is coming to you straight from the great lakes state.
It is always good to go home. There are a lot of things that are uniquely Michigan and it is great to see and experience them. It is also a lot of fun to catch up with family, both old and new.
Yachi and I have spent a week here shuttling between her and my families homes to see everyone. Along the way we have run into some great things.
We started out in Lansing (after a brief stop for rest, food and TV in Detroit) where we got to catch up with my family. We got to see the home of Jiffy <Link here> mix for delicious corn bread and muffins after having a spectacular lunch at the Common Grill. Surprisingly that was my fist time eating there and I am glad I finally was able to sample their wares.
We also were able to see a trailer park in the shadow of a landfill which I think wins the award for worst place to live. I also managed to develop quite the addiction to Project runway by watching the entire Third season and all the Fourth season episodes that exist now.
On Thanksgiving it snowed quite a bit which made for a really beautiful day. It was a wonderful day with lots of food and family.
I also got to see Trixie who has to win an award for cutest and smelliest dog ever. She is 14 and about to die so appropriately she smells like death. She had a great Thanksgiving as well as she managed to scarf down half a blueberry pie and step all over the pecan one. She is getting frail and there was some discussion of digging a grave for her now before the ground freezes. I am pretty happy that I was able to see her and spend some time with her.
We then went back to Yachi's parent's place and had another Thanksgiving dinner with her family (on Friday). Her mom brined the turkey for about 36 hours and it showed. Normally I do not really eat much turkey (the night before I just had a lot of my Aunt's outstanding stuffing) but this turkey was good. I mostly ended up eating that.
Saturday we had a reception for Yachi's family friends whom were unable to make it to the wedding which was cool. Great food and fun times were had by all.
Overall a most enjoyable holiday and fitting with the whole theme of what I picture Thanksgiving to look like and be about. Hopefully everyone else enjoyed theirs.
It took a little while but here are all the collections of photos I am aware of right now. I will continue to update this as I find more online ones to see.
Tama's
Ann's
Mine
Jong-Raye's
Carmen's (The photographer)
Robbie's
Holly's
This is the best example I have seen in a while of why I am not a model. My face is not what you would call photogenic. My sex appeal is purely in person (As opposed to Luke who exudes photogenicness, bastard).
The best thing about this photo is that it was before I started drinking. I cannot even imagine what the rest of the night looks like.
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Now playing: The Postal Service - Brand New Colony
via FoxyTunes
My schedule might be open. All I ask for is some Morcheeba and Steinlager.
Tonight I decided to get even more in touch with my crafty side (I think I might have to cut off all contact with women besides Divya as they are pushing this craftiness). I made the seating chart for the wedding. By my lonesome. By first copying everyones name to a word document and sizing them to be small notecards. By then cutting all said notecards out of the paper with scissors. By making piles of notecards into appropriate dining groups:
By organizing groups into small model sized tables with the help of my trusty lion cat:
By realizing I had not included Yachi and myself who are now at a table of our own :(:
All while Yachi caught up on some much deserved rest:
Even if you blow up the picture to see who you are sitting with chances are it has changed as I had to redo it all once I realized Yachi and I were sitting dolo.
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Now playing: Morcheeba - Almost Done
via FoxyTunes
One of the most enjoyable aspects of this wedding thing is the ability to go to tastings. Yachi and I treated ourselves to one recently at Sugar Rush bakery. They don't have a full blown "here taste some of our cakes" tasting soon so we made our own. 1 dozen cupcakes later we thought that they looked rather forlorn with half of them gone and the rest in various states of disappeared.
Primarily orange and pink ones. If you have not seen me or I have blown off social obligations it was to make these beauties. I am not traditionally very crafty but this past weekend Yachi and I made our invitations. It was a 10 hour marathon followed by a shorter 6 hour one on Sunday. We finished them for the most part though and I felt really accomplished. The only part to do is address the envelopes which I get a free pass out of because my hand writing looks like someone has a pen in their mouth while having a seizure.
Continuing the throwback to last year tradition here are some pics from Brian's wedding which took place in St. Louis.
Which loves the US:
And lets you carry a gun everywhere they don't have one of these signs:
The whole weekend was a lot of fun and I can only hope that my wedding carries on in this fine tradition.
We all started out the wedding looking so nice:
But it went down hill so quickly:
One of the greatest shenanagans occurred in the middle of dinner and led to many cameras being confiscated and pictures deleted. Little did Woo-Jin know that you can recover deleted pics:
Brian ended the reception by getting up on stage and playing for a while which was great to see. It reminded me of the first house party I saw Hoover Conquest play at:
After such a shenanagan filled night you know it had to end with someone passing out in a random uncomfortable place:
And maybe another:
While looking at my father's guest list for my pending wedding, I realized that Gmail was trying to tell me something.
The best AdSense association ever:
