Wedding Blog

Season 1: Prologue
Season 2: Growth
Season 3: Inspiration
Season 4: Love 

Four Seasons: Epilogue

I love books. Non-fiction, chick-literature, short stories… I love them all. Mr. Eggplant doesn’t read as much as I do (I can consume books like water), but he LOVES movies. If it comes in a movie version, he can definitely appreciate it. Have you ever finished a really good book or movie and thought to yourself: That story was awesome! I wish it hadn’t ended. Well, that’s kind of what Friday night was like for me.

After dinner, Mr. Eggplant wanted to take me up on the elevators of the Westin. He told me that he had scoped out a romantic view at the top of the hotel. If you’ve never been in the Westin St Francis elevators before, it’s definitely something to see in SF. The elevators are located on the exterior of the hotel and have huge windows looking over Union Square. They shoot up to the top of the hotel at a stomach-lurching speed that’s so fast, you can experience a view of the city quickly shrinking beneath you.

Mr. Eggplant covered my eyes with his jacket as soon as we got off on the 30th floor. When we finally reached his secret destination, he opened a door. We were standing in a hotel room that was beautifully decorated with a trail of rose petals on the floor and candles everywhere. All around the room were easels supporting black and white photos of all the restaurants, landmarks, and sites where Mr. Eggplant and I shared our first months together. He had pictures of the Ferry Building, Boulevard, Yerba Buena Gardens, Dolores Park Church, the SFO airport, Bocca Cafe, among others. It was crazy! And to top it off, he had borrowed a projector from a friend and created a DVD slideshow (complete with music by John Legend) of our entire relationship. The slideshow was projecting on the white wall above the bed.

(A video clip of the hotel room that Mr. Eggplant set up!) 

Mr. Eggplant explained to me the significance of the hotel room: I had always told him that if he proposed to me, I really wanted to go somewhere outside of California. But Mr. Eggplant felt that San Francisco was “our” place– it was the city where we met, the place we got to know each other, and now it was the perfect proposal location. Since we didn’t “go” anywhere, he wanted to bring a vacation into one room for me. We sealed our engagement together by giving our thanks to God and committing our relationship to Him. It was a very special moment.

In his suitcase, Mr. Eggplant had also brought a bunch of romantic comedies on DVD that we had watched together during the beginning of our relationship. We were going to watch movies all night with the projector that he borrowed, but we were so exhausted that we fell asleep immediately (well, immediately after I was done admiring my new piece of jewelry).

Anyway, that’s my E-day story in a very large nutshell. And in a few months I’ll be committing my life to the man that God has set apart especially for me. I’m quite excited. I can’t wait to be married to him! Well, If you’ve made it this far without falling asleep, you deserve a prize! Too bad I don’t have one for you. Instead, you can scroll down to see a few pictures.

A glimpse of our room at the Westin St Francis with a few pictures of the places we’ve been together.

Disneyland! One of the first pictures that Mr. Eggplant and I ever took together.

I still need to upload the pics of both of us on E-Day…