Dan & Heidie's Wedding Reception Ideas

Heidie's colors are turquoise and green. They are beautiful together. She is doing a Disney princess theme too. I found some stuff at yard sales this week that we might use at the reception in July. The garland is a beaded garland and I thought it looked like something a princess might have. We can put a bowl of fruit on the green chair. I also found a cement frog for the garden that was fun so I might sneak that in somewhere.

Crys and Alan at the Portland Temple

Crys and Alan were sealed in the Portland Oregon temple at 1 pm on a Friday afternoon. My mom was there and all the brothers! Robert and his family stayed long enough for photos and then left to take baby Zach to the ER room. He wasn't breathing right and just laying in his arms. We found out later he has asthma. More pictures to come as these were just some Bruce took.

Waiting for the tea Ceremony gave us a few fun photos.

We loved the dragon at their home.

Crys and Alan knelt before us and presented us with 2 cups of tea on a plate. We each took a sip. As we returned it to them we wished them 1000 years of happiness and a child to be born the first year. They knelt before the couples that were older than them.

We were then fed a wonderful feast of fried rice, noodles, pork, spongy coconut cookie things, egg rolls & fortune cookies.

Kitchen

Here are the before and after photos of the kitchen.

Bruce fixed the cover for the drawer next to the dishwasher.

We took part of the hanging utensils down.

I made a space for the dish drainer under the sink.

We left an open shelf above the cabinets.

Bruce painted all the walls.

Ta daa!

Chinese Wedding Reception

As part of our only daughter's wedding we attended a Chinese 8 course meal in Seattle, WA. There were 350 in attendance.

Alan San Lee Crys' husband's grandfather had 3 wives. The grandfather came from Cambodia to America and earned enough money and sent for his family of 200. The reception invites all the descendants. It was loud & fun! They did Chinese karaoke.

We ate at the House of Hong.

The American tables had Won Ton soup, egg rolls, sweet & sour pork, Sweet & sour chicken, Chinese noodles, coconut shrimp with sugared walnuts, & Red Bean soup, and a coconut cookie.

The Chinese tables got Won ton soup, lobster, pigeon, a whole Talapia (fish), fried rice and the other stuff we got. The Chinese bring red envelopes with money and the Anglos bring gifts from the couples registration at Target and other stores.

The couple cut a 3 tier cake and we got a piece of that. The wedding couple sang a song in Chinese and Alan's mother & father sang a song. Our son Dan and his fiancée, Heidie sang "Beauty & the Beast" in English.

During the meal the parents of the couple & the couple go around to each table and "toast" the people at each table and say "thank -you for coming" & click glasses.