THEY SAY YOU HAVE A YEAR RIGHT? // We finished our thank you cards!

For our wedding thank you cards, we wanted to avoid a situation like this, which we got ourselves into while we were making these.  So this time around, we tried to find a way to do something really simple and affordable and something that did not involve any remote form of cutting, scoring, folding or going to printing places of any kind!  And yet, even with all these precautionary measures, we still managed to take forever!  I think once we exited wedding mode, it was really hard to get back into it.  (Hmmm, so tonight- should I eat ice cream on the couch with Taylor and watch NetFlix, or should I write thank you cards?)  But anyway, here we are, fully aware that it is over 8 months after the wedding, but nevertheless, we are still totally pumped and ready to send these puppies out as if we got married yesterday! 








Also, we've been wondering:
We got some awesome salmon colored towels and a beautiful white plate and cup set set with pink flowers, both from Amazon delivered as a wedding gift, but were not able to tell who gave us those. If you gave us either of those gifts and happen to be reading this, please let us know, because we love them both and really want to be able to thank you personally for them! 

And of course, many thanks to the lovely:
EPLove for the city photo, and Cakeflix for the night time photo which is actually a screenshot of the amazing wedding video they made for us!

WE ARE SO CHINESE// I hope you like the color red

My parents decided to host a Chinese banquet the next day for their friends. I was totally exhausted by this point (when I went to get my make up done, I literally fell asleep repeatedly in my chair), but some of my favorite memories of our wedding weekend were at that banquet. Any time my entire family is together is a good time.

First the night started off with some impromtu speeches.
I think this is is probably of of my most favorite pictures of my parents. It was really nice to see them in their element, even if they were speaking in Chinese and I couldn't understand anything, except for the English word "Tay-lah" interjected in their speeches here and there. Turns out my dad and Taylor use the same speaking pose. Already like father like son in law.








**Images from my parents' friends and personal pictures

THE RECEPTION

PHOTOBOOTH TIME!
These pictures made me smile and crack up. I wish I could have posted all of them  Many thanks to our friend Andrew Hao and Tiffany for setting this up!!













** Images are a combination of EP Love, personal pictures, and Andrew Hao's photobooth software (Thanks again Andrew!)

THE CEREMONY

**Images primarily from EP Love,  some personal pictures and Andrew Hao

OUR FIRST LOOK

PS: Some pictures we took six months after the wedding for our amazingly talented friends at Cakeflix for their promo video (they also did our wedding video, which i LOVE) .  Be sure to check them out! they are awesome.  They managed to make us look super polished despite the fact that we were super tired coming back from a retreat that day, and even more so that I forgot to brush my teeth and had to suck in like crazy to fit in back into my dress! haha!


**Images primarily from EP Love, Cakeflix

BEFORE THE WEDDING

**Images from EP Love and personal pictures