For Whom the Bells Toll?

Yay, wedding time! After the aberration of Thomas getting married right after college, none of the fellas have taken the plunge until this past weekend when Richard and Suzanne got married. Congrats!

We ran through the rehearsal on Friday afternoon. Following dinner, the groomsmen all crashed at our place in Sunnyvale. We had intended to go out that night to hang out, but given the early morning wake up time, we just stayed in instead. There was still plenty to do. For example, most of the suits the guys brought were now wrinkled and we stumbled our way through flattening them out. Apparently the trick is to either use steam and/or have a shirt in between so you're not ironing the suit directly:



While we were busy doing that, Richard also knew that one of his challenges the next day would be to play a song, so we went to go practice while sporting a classic tshirt:



The next morning, we were up bright and early, taking a quick picture out in the driveway before taking off; given how studly we look here, I'm sure we look ridiculously hot in the professional photos that were taken:



The first stop of the morning was to Stanford, which was a convenient, nice place to take some preliminary photos. We bummed around the area while the couple took a lot of photos. Some random tourists got in the act, starting to snap pictures of the couple as well. It was a little weird as they got really close to take the photos.. but we managed to get in a few shots and entertain ourselves:



After that, it was off to Pulgas Water Temple, a nice little location just off the 280 where the ceremony would be held. It was certainly a scenic place and we took a couple more pics before the guests arrived:



Eventually, the ceremony started. The cutest arrival in the processional was of course Richard's one and a half year old niece as the flower girl. She would pick up some flowers, take a few purposeful steps, look around, and unceremoniously dump them from her hand:



After the flower girl made her way to the front, it was finally time for the bride to head down the aisle!



Part of the ceremony included an "earning of the bride" section where Richard had to play his song. The introduction to that section was a physical challenge, of which the groomsmen also had to participate by doing jumping jacks?? That was not part of the rehearsal...



Felix presided over the ceremony as the officiant and did a fine job, making sure they got through their vows and could officially be married. Congrats to the new couple!



This Picasa web albums stuff is pretty cool, too.. check out the rest of the pics in the album