First of all, congratulations to Erick and Phoebe for getting married! For their wedding they had asked me to help play the violin…
Oops! Looks like I needed to wipe those strings down! Anyway, after practicing for the past three weekends, no embarrassingly rude screeches came out during the ceremony, so mission accomplished!
I’ve known Erick and Phoebe since the old College Fellowship days. Back then they were newcomers… how much have things changed!
Phoebe seemed nervous and stressed before the ceremony, but as we can see in this picture, joy took over as the ceremony progressed.
Once the ceremony was over, everyone started snapping pictures! This was also when Erick, who had to exercise restrait from his inherent goofiness during the ceremony, reverted back to himself as we can see from this next picture:
and receive the consequences of his actions by roasting his finger…
The following picture is most indicative of the marriage life of Erick and Phoebe…
…a life of goofiness. Hmm, sounds disturbingly similiar to my marriage.
Afterwards we went to the Columbia Winery for the banquet, where Erick and Phoebe arrived in style…
Later we had dinner, slideshow, toasts, the cake cutting…
and the bouquet and garter tosses…
By the way, about the slideshow, two weeks before the wedding, Phoebe came to me with an emergency request of redoing the slideshow. Apparently the videographers’ version and was a plain vanilla slideshow with cheezy music, nothing you would want to show at your wedding. So night and day I toiled, staying up until 7am the night before working on it… well, excluding the hours I played the XBox game Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory during this time. 😛 What can I say… I get more inspiration at night! Anyway, so by the end I was pretty proud of my achievement, showed up at the winery by 4:30pm to work out the technical details for the projector, laptop, sound, and everything was perfect. Just perfect. I was excited as I played the slideshow for everyone. Nice large picture, fabulous sound, excellent content, and wonderful entertainment. As the slideshow came to the end and I awaited for the response, the final subtitle came on and it showed…
Erick & Phoebe
May 28th, 2004
2004?!! Oh no!! Apparently I typed in the wrong year for their wedding date! How could I have been so silly to have missed that? Doh!!
As the crowed yelled “TYPO!”, the blemish has entered my masterpiece, tainted forever. Oh well. As they say in Good Will Hunting, in the end it’s not the things that are perfect that you remember, but the imperfect. Now it’s no longer just a slideshow. It’s a story.
Yes, there are more pictures, but I didn’t want to clog this blog. Maybe I’ll post it at some point in the future, in my convenience. 🙂