6:30pm
Saturday, December 6th, 2008
La Casita, Taipei, Taiwan
When we arrived, the beautiful lineup of Margarita was already on the bar.
Amy and Roland, the owners of La Casita, surprised us with the beautiful bouquet of flowers.
Elisabeth, the owners' daughter, took a picture with me and the best man Ben.
Here are the US representatives of happily married couples.
Mr. and Mrs. Kyle Craig (L) also got married in Taiwan.
Mr. and Mrs. Shannon McClendon (R) had two weddings: one in Taiwan and one in the States.
Followed by happily-married couples from Canada.
Suzanne and Hugo (L) also had two weddings: one in Taipei and one in Vancouver.
Darrell and Judy (R) got married right before they came to Taiwan 5 or 6 years ago.
Next to Darrell is a good friend, Mr. Ryan O'Malley. I thought about photoshopping him out of the picture, but it just wouldn't be the same without him.
Of course, weddings are mostly for the singles.
(L to R) My cousin Karen, Will, Brook, and Ben.
(L) Here's Suzanne with Jacky, Katie, Maddy, and Alice.
(R) Harry, Jacky, and I are "the Chang"s (we share the same last name).
After a few rounds of margarita, the food finally arrived.
When everyone was almost done eating, Bill spoke a few words:
"Myself and my beautiful wife can not be happier..."
He was interrupted because the crowd went nuts as soon as they heard Bill referred to me as "wife".
Then Bill asked if he should say "Me and my beautiful wife" or "My beautiful wife and I". In a room full of English teachers, you can imagine the discussion that went on.
So he continued: "Okay. So... you all know how difficult and how wonderful it can be to live in a place where your family may not be here and your friends may not be here, but how important it is to have a fantastic group of friends that you make into your family. And I can not ask for a better group of people to celebrate my wedding with."
The crowd wept... or they pretended to, and we kissed.
After Bill's great speech, I felt it'd be too much if I said anymore. So when he asked me to say something, I simply replied, "Nothing more needs to be said here. I just wanna drink."
Trust me. I want to dig a hole and climb in every time I think of this moment. It could be added to the list of "Kate's most embarrassing lines". Luckily, however, so far nothing beats what I said at the Canadian citizenship ceremony.
Back to the wedding.
In this picture, the finger that was pointing at me belongs to Mr. Simon Pereira.
Simon says, "Look! Your wife is an alcoholic."
Bill says, "Hey, I'm proud that my wife can hold her own liquor."
Simon says, "Cheers to that."
... and we drank more.
We finished all 7 pitchers of margarita and were working on the 5 pitchers of sangria.
People started talking louder and cameras... okay, Ben's hands, started shaking a bit more.
I love these pictures because they really captured how much fun we were having... or how drunk we were getting.
Then it was 10, and it was time to move on to the club. Before we left, the girls asked to take a picture with the groom. Bill looked a bit uneasy here....
We were very happy.
love the pics, kate. & the embarrassing moment. every wedding must have one. great to finally talk to you last night. i'll try to catch you again soon during your holidays!
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