Clutch gets hitched!

Front view.

View looking from the altar, down the aisle.

View from the "groom's suite", above, after dusk.

Here's me with some of the out-of-town guys before the ceremony. I'm in the center; my brother is to the left of me and my best friend and best man is on the right. My friend Kio, a South Korean, is on the far right. By random chance, he's also a BW fan.

The "double-happiness" wedding cake.

The guest favors were personalized chopsticks -- corny, eh? (the take-out boxes have traditional Brazilian wedding sweets in them).

Nerdy touch: all the tables were named after famous physicists (we met in a physics grad program).

At the salon getting all gussied up!

Close-up of the "hardware". The engagement ring is a blue diamond.


With her dad on the way to the site. (We rented some kind of faux-old style car for this. Like a Rolls-Royce, but not really...)

Her entrance.

At the "altar".

We read poems before the vows.

At the end of the (Western) ceremony, a kind of communal vow was taken by everyone in attendance.

We did a tea ceremony, as well! Some of us had to be brought up to speed on this part.

First married kiss!

One of the 5000 posed photos that the photographers made us take after the ceremony.

In the ride.

After a while, it got so tedious that we even started laughing during the "solemn" photos.

Re-entry in the hall. This was one of my favorite moments.

I made a retrospective with pictures from our childhoods and from when we met each other, in the form of a fake "movie trailer". That was a lot of work, but super fun to watch with everyone in attendance.

The best man and maid of honor during the toasts. My best man got pretty emotional (he's never going to hear the end of it...heh heh....).

For some reason, we decided to not do a "first dance", but instead replaced it with a "first song"... for which we sang a karaoke duet of "All I Ask of You" from Phantom of the Opera. So in addition to all of the other planning we had to do, we also had to rehearse in the days leading up to it. This part, I have a feeling, I will never hear the end of.

During the reception, she changed into a more traditional Chinese "qi pao" dress. Very pretty. I hadn't seen either dress before the day.

Spontaneous shot of everyone on the dance floor! One of the things i noticed about being at your own wedding is that anyone you see, immediately asks for a photo. And, also, anyone you see wants to give you a drink. I think I literally received 20 different drinks from people, many of them people who were just working there! I don't think I finished any of them (thank God, cause I am a lightweight...)

The time-lapse video was shown during the cocktail hour and everyone loved it!