Wedding Pics, finally

Well, the people have spoken (ok, just Dad and Matthew), so here we offer some more wedding pictures to tide you over until you can see the rest. These were taken near Shen Rong's hometown. Some were at a park, and others were at an old town near her home called Tong Li.

We know Shen Rong is wearing a lot of makeup, but we thought we should make it clear that she doesn't normally wear any at all. She is all natural, baby! The wedding dress was borrowed from the photography company, she got her real one later on a trip to Suzhou. She has three dresses now for the wedding; at Chinese weddings, the bride usually changes outfits several times, so SR has one for Wujiang wedding, one for Shanghai ceremony and another for the reception afterwards. Pretty nice, huh, girls?

I am wearing my own suit in these pics, had it tailor made and the photography didnt have any clothes in my size. I think i will get a new suit made for the wedding.

In other wedding planning news, i have asked M to be my best man, and SR has asked an Indonesian friend of hers (Risah) to be the maid of honor. We have also asked Abi to be a bridesmaid. We are trying to decide who else we want to stand up there with us.

We have a cool venue picked out for the reception. It is just down the street from the church in an old redone villa. It is entirely enclosed with a nice yard area. a cantonese restaurant, called Abundant Green Garden, pretty sweet, huh? It has a nice deck and fountain with fish in it. So the ceremony will be at 10:30 am, with the reception following at noon - 3pm. we are still working on the plans for the rest of the afternoon and evening.

we are working on the invitations, but are planning on chinese-style, with english and chinese writing.

i know i havent posted in a long time, i will try to be more regular. but you know, we have been busy.