Wedding Ideas

Bill and I had planned to sit down and go over details for the wedding after he came back from Hong Kong. However, due to some visa mix-up, he had to stay there for two more days, so I started calling around yesterday to find a place for our dinner party.

There's no way we could do our wedding the Taiwanese style (check out Ang Lee's early movie "The Wedding Banquet" to see why). We really want the venue to be intimate and meaningful. The first place that came to mind was our favorite Mexican restaurant in Taipei. Though some may think it's a bit unconventional, we thought it'd be fun and relaxed. The restaurant is a mom-n-pop operation. While Amy cooks, her husband is in charge of the bar, and Elisabeth (their 12-year-old daughter) brings food and chitchats with hungry customers. The family has known us for a couple of years, and they absolutely adore Bill. Besides, if he had his way, Bill would have Mexican food almost every night of the week.... okay... maybe not EVERY night. Some nights he'd have a pizza.

Ben the Best Man is excited, and he thinks it's very fitting.

So I called Amy yesterday evening. When she heard that we're getting married, she jokingly said, "I thought this day would never come". She was thrilled that we wanted to do it at her place. She gave me some suggestions as for what kind of food we could have and told me that her restaurant can seat 26 people comfortably. However, I came up with close to 20 of my friends on the list, and I was being very selective. Bill has a longer list for sure... (this is when suspense music comes on, and the camera freezes on my "what do we do" look).

We could ask Amy to remove the tables in her restaurant and have it cocktail party style. Then I had a wonderful idea: Why not have Amy cater the food and have the party in our new apartment? I know... we'd have to come up with a way to keep the food warm, and our oven is not big enough for those stainless steel containers they use in school cafeterias. On the other hand, we do have an oven and a microwave oven. People could put food on their plate and heat it up in the microwave oven if necessary. We could put candles on the patio, so people can go in and out. Let's hope it doesn't rain, and we'll deal with it if it does.

I'm brilliant.