My Everything

We're married!!!

It all happened on Saturday June 21st, 2008. It was wonderful to have so many family and friends join us and help celebrate such an amazing day. Cam and I have so many incredible memories.

Rather than detail every part of the day, I just wanted to list a few of the highlights...

• After the Bridesmaids had completed their processional, I close my eyes and offered a quick prayer to God to thank Him. When I opened my eyes, there she was. She was so beautiful she brought me to tears in an instant...


• During the entire ceremony, I couldn't take my eyes off of her. I hardly noticed the audience at all, and she was definitely glowing.


• Cam and I served tea to our parents in a traditional Asian ceremony to thank them for raising us. Then we all poured four different colours of sand into one vase to symbolize the joining of our families and our lives.


• I wasn't actually able to get through saying all of the vows that we had written for each other. I was too emotional with the final two sentences and all I could do was mumble the final word. Cam and I were both standing these crying and completely in love.

The entire day took place on my parents' property in Dorchester. The ceremony took place along the Thames River and the reception was held inside a large tent that we had rented.

• My parents worked so hard to groom the landscape, my brother was our caterer, my sister handled desserts and Cam's mom cooked a lot as well. Add in all of the work that our friends did with the flowers and so many other arrangements and we couldn't be more grateful. There are too many people to thank here, actually, but we'll be sending our thanks to everyone individually within the next few months.


• It rained in the morning but fortunately that dissipated around noon and allowed us to set up. It was a bright day with a cool breeze but nicely overcast skies, which gave consistant lighting for the pictures. The best part was that the rain held on just long enough for us to make our official introduction at the beginning of the reception. And then once the rain came, it downright poured! A bunch of my guys immediately jumped up, suits and all, to grab the "walls" for the tent and hang them up. It was hilarious! Cam was so concerned about how wet my friends got but they were awesome (like Abe). As my dad said, that tent was certainly worth the money that day.

Finally, we had the best photographer ever. Joee Wong and his assistant were there for about ten hours, capturing the setting and the casual shots and the formal photos and the intimate ones. We saw a selection of his final work yesterday and the photos were stunning. As one friend commented, they attended the wedding and these photos look even better than real life!

In any case, I have included a selection of our photos here and you can see more on Joee's blog. And once again, our thanks to everyone. We couldn't be happier to be married, the day was fabulous and now we can look forward to spending the rest of our lives together!