A couple of weekends ago,we got to attend the wedding of a dear friend from college and our time here before. She got married in our city to a guy that she met over here.
It was my first Chinese wedding and it was SO much fun!
This is Becca and Justin. As you can see she wore a traditional American dress, but the rest of the wedding was pretty traditional Chinese. The whole ceremony was in Chinese (Justin doesn't speak English), and I could actually understand more than I thought I would.
They did a sweet serving of the tea, where the bride served tea to the grooms parents and the groom served tea to the brides parents.
During the ceremony we all sat at tables in a ballroom and then when it was over, we stayed at the table for the reception.
And then came the food......
I was pretty excited about the dish on the left above--pesto pasta maybe? one of my favorites!
oh no. chicken feet in some sort of not pesto green sauce.
And the soup--meatball minestrone maybe? nikki--you know what I'm talking about!
oh no. that's a turtle. a whole turtle.
And because the chinese aren't big sweets eaters, they brought one piece of cake for the whole table to share. What? We asked for another one. Several times.
Here is a pic of us after the wedding. We had such a wonderful time celebrating Becca and Justin. And it was so great to be out with some other couples without kids!
Thanks for letting us be a part of your special day Becca!
2 comments:
YUM! Maybe I'll try turtle soup the next time I take a baby meal to someone! Turtle must be better than meatball minestrone anyway!! Miss you guys! Can't believe the one piece of cake thing... haha!!
one piece of cake? how do they survive over there?
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