Weddingbee Blog

Reader LPC asked today if I had ever posted pictures of our Chinese banquet, held one month after our wedding in the summer of 2007, and, well, I didn’t! Sorry everyone! Since it was a party thrown FOR us, not BY us, Mr. Bluebell and I didn’t have any say in the details of the banquet, or vendors/decor, etc., so we basically just showed up. It was awesome! But for some reason, I just never got around to posting any pictures. So here they are, over a year and a half later!

The banquet was held at Gala Manor, in Flushing (part of Queens, NYC). Everything went quite smoothly, the food was tasty, and we had a lot of fun! I’ll let the pictures speak for themselves.

A pretty traditional dragon & phoenix and double happiness set-up:

A cake just a wee bit different from what we would have chosen for ourselves…

With Mr. Bluebell’s great aunt who sang during our ceremony

I started off the night in my wedding dress that I wore for our actual wedding

We go back to Gala Manor for dim sum or dinner every so often, and it’s so fun when we see some of the same servers who were there for our banquet!

As dinner was being served, I slipped away to change into my cheongsam.

Then we went around and toasted every single table.

Mr. Bluebell’s parents were nice to us and surreptitiously filled our glasses with iced tea instead of cognac, so we didn’t, um, die.

My parents came too!

Then I changed into my third dress.

Mr. Bluebell’s parents gave me some gold jewelry from Hong Kong that his mom is showing off to another relative here.

It is in the traditional wedding design of a dragon and a phoenix.

Thanks LPC for inspiring me to actually post these!!