congrats to the yangs!

another couple married... God bless the newly married couple! it was a fun weekend - good times with canaan people.

got a chance to fly down (thankful that i did, since i got to skip over the horrible traffic i heard other people got stuck in trying to get to rehearsal) to visit reni & beth!

as a side note, i bought my airplane ticket to time around chris' flight so i could hitch a ride off him from LAX to her place. but since we landed in different terminals, i had to meet him at the rental car place. on the enterprise shuttle, i ended up chatting with this african-american woman (about my age) who spoke fluent japanese. it turns out her parents are missionaries (still there) in japan, so she grew up in japan, and came to the US for undergrad & now law school. pretty cool. she was also here for a wedding, and when i told her i was reception coordinator at the wedding i was going to, she freaked out a little and told me she'd pray for me. haha. she just got married last year and said she never wanted to plan another wedding in her life.

anyway, beth was shy at first, but warmed up quickly. we actually tried to get her to take a nap, but she was so excited she wouldn't sleep. she kept jumping up and down and trying to do somersaults on our head. we pretended to sleep to try to get her to sleep... and we ended up falling asleep instead! haha... such old ladies, we are.





our visit with reni was too short... hopefully i can make a longer visit next time after derek is born!

so... apparently, the lock/door to our hotel room was broken, and they had no other non-smoking rooms available. so ghetto of all ghettos, the only way into our room was through our window. besides the fact that we looked really suspicious climbing through a hotel window (a guy a couple doors down from us gave us a really weird look when he walked by), it was kind of inconvenient to have to lock all our stuff in our cars everytime we left the room.

shally climbing through the window


andrea set up a so-called booby trap to deter people from coming into our room and stealing our stuff. when i get a chance i'll upload the video showing how she easily avoided her booby trap. yeah, it obviously worked well. haha.


before the ceremony, we had a chance to stop by crystal cathedral, which was right next to our hotel.

moses & burning bush:




er... baby Jesus looks a little funny:


esther & andy pre-ceremony


me & janet, who was one of the bridesmaids (and is having a boy! congrats!)


this was their cake... pre mishap:


so... a chunk of the top layer of the cake fell off even before the doors were opened to the banquet because the florist had put in some heavy orchid branches that fell out. alex was the one who discovered it, and shally and i went into panic mode because the hole was HUGE. we ended up lifting the top layer of the cake and rotating the hole to the back. but the hole was still huge, so we had to pick up chunks of the cake off the table, shove it back in the hole, and use the icing all around to try to cover it up (err... andy & esther... don't eat that portion of your cake!). it looked pretty awful, but we managed to make it look decent by then plucking the flowers off the branch and sticking flowers directly over the hole. in the end, you probably couldn't even really tell the hole was originally there. alex has pics of the whole process. good job team!

cake post mishap (you probably can't even tell... pretty good job, i do say so myself.)


some of the guys sang a song for andy... here's the end of the song. nice job, i even heard one of the photographers say that it was the best song they've ever seen at a wedding. loved byron's part. hehe.


with some of the gals


after the banquet, they invited all their friends up to their presidential suite (which was huge!) to hang out and play some games. that is where andy & esther had their first fight as a married couple... boxing fight, that is. and esther won :)



-there was a LAN party/convention going on at the same hotel as the reception. our company was actually a major sponsor... but anyway, andy, of course, being the big gamer and all (and apparently owning about 120 video games!) went in and asked if his photographer could take pics of him & his groomsmen inside. they did even better and invited him on stage, interviewed him, let him play some games, and got some free stuff. sweet.

on sunday, bob, shally & i got to service an hour early, so we decided to try to drop by huntington library since it was supposedly somewhat close by. except it took us half an hour to get there, and for some reason there was a huge line in front of it. so we ended up driving by the library instead. yeah, that wasn't too eventful. after service, we headed to westwood to eat lunch, get ourselves some diddy riese, and found pinkberry! we ended up dilly-dallying so much we didn't leave until after 4pm. oops. but we got home safely, and happy to have a chance to see great friends get married.

congrats to andy & esther!


i have a lot more pics from the weekend, all here

p.s.
sunday was my five year anniversary at nvidia. easy to remember... april fools day and all. but anyway, the important part is that i now get to pick out a $2500 one of these:


anyone want to join me in picking it out?

p.p.s.
my wii is finally getting good use. check my videos to see an entertaining boxing match. the guy in the front was using the Jesus mii we created a while ago.