Weddingbee Blog

I’ve read a lot about Post Wedding Depression, but since I usually came across PWD when I happened to be stressed about my own wedding, I thought, ‘pffft, this will not happen to me.’

We’ve been back from our honeymoon for about three weeks now, and I think it is beginning to hit me.

(All pictures courtesy of moi)

Not that I didn’t LOVE all three of our weddings (Justice of the Peace, France, and Houston), but I’ve been making a mental list of things I wish would have happened differently, and now I’m writing it down to share with you all:
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Since I don’t have our professional pictures yet from the France wedding, I thought I’d regale you guys with some pictures I took from the ol’ point and shoot.

The day of the wedding, our chateau hostess Brigitte had kindly made a hair appointment for me in a local salon. By local salon, I mean the only hair salon in the town. I was prepared for some old-school hair appliances, and was actually a bit excited about it! I was picturing Chocolat… which it turned out to be a bit like it when two sweet old French ladies walked in and started gossiping… but then they saw me so the gossip turned to gawking. Before I went, I thought they would probably use the curling iron I had when I was in seventh grade. When I sat down, the nice hairdresser lady started wetting my hair and putting it in velcro curlers. I thought hmm, this will be interesting.

After she tightly curled all of my hair into multicolor curlers, she put a hair net over my head and sat me down under this Paramount hair dryer vent thingamajig. I thought, well, there’s no AC, and they’re having a heat wave, but surely this can’t take long. She looked at me and said, “One hour.”
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Ohmigod.

How long has it been? I don’t even want to think about it. But here I am, back in Houston and ready to tell you guys all about our wedding, from the very beginning! I’m so excited to be back and to be blogging again!

Where to start…I had been prepping for the France trip for a couple of weeks, just trying to remember to bring everything… from scissors to my iPod speaker. It was a bit stressful because I was also trying to finish all the odds and ends of the Houston wedding because I knew when we came back, we would be very tired and only have about three days before the rehearsal.

As we drove to the airport, I was already very tired and anxious from the weeks of prepping. I had bought so many wedding/honeymoon outfits, and I had even bought a brand new carry on bag for the occasion. At the last moment, I decided to wear my short white banana republic trench but ditched my jeans because I thought they might get uncomfortable as the trip went on. Instead I changed into my work out capri pants… which made for an interesting outfit… which Mr. Chick made a remark on as we waited in line to check our luggage. Being the over-anxious bride, I said:

“What do you mean?!”
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As Mr. Chick and I pack to leave for France tomorrow, I am thinking of all you bees and hive members out there. I am remembering how much support you all gave me throughout our journey together. Not to be sappy, and I know I have been bad about posting regularly, but I really wanted to thank everyone for all the suggestions, well wishes, for making me laugh, and your company in general!

Let me give you some updates on what has been going on:

I got my first ever gel manicure yesterday. It took about an hour and a half and I totally fell asleep while they were doing my nails. I’m sure it was very interesting for my manicurist to hold a completely limp hand and sticking it into the UV light box for me while my eyes were closed. Man, I was tired!

Since it was a gel manicure, there aren’t many colors to choose from. I did manage to find a very cute light pink to match my toes, which is “Got a Date To-Knight!” from OPI:

(Image courtesy of OPI)

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Guess what? I’m in jury duty today! Yay! And this is my 100th post!

OK, not yay on the jury duty part (heh heh, doody). But yay for having spare time to blog!

This past Sunday, our friend Bex threw a shower for us. I must admit, when I got engaged, I dissed the idea of showers… the one I went to was nice but very adult (not in the sexy way!) and a little boring. I love the bride dearly, but to be fair, it was an office shower so it was full of coworkers, and there’s just no way logistically for an event full of coworkers to be actually fun… at least not where I work, anyway. I specifically told Mr. Chick that I was very glad we are not having any showers because I thought they were awkward.

As months passed, some of my friends got engaged and they had wedding showers. I began to think, why has no one threw a shower for me? Do my friends not love me? POUT. (Of course now that I think about it, it may or may not be because I kept telling everyone how showers are boring. Hmmph.)
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On the 3rd day of my bachelorette weekend we visited one of my favorite wineries in the country.

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My amazing, amazing MOH sister Eugenia, along with BM Joey, planned an awesome bachelorette party weekend extravaganza in San Francisco for me!

All photos courtesy of BMs Lulu and Julia. I am so lucky to have friends who are such great photographers! It’s great to have life documented so beautifully.

It started off with BM Lulu and I flying from Houston to SFO:

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Thank God! At last I feel like our wedding is actually going to happen!

Check them out:

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When I was little, I didn’t dream much about getting married. The two wedding dreams I had as a little girl were:

1. The food, especially the traditional Taiwanese dessert of pink and white glutinous rice balls that are fried then sprinkled with peanut powder and sugar.

2. Being able to wear a really cute chipao!

These are some chipaos that I am in love with. They are all worn by Maggie Cheung in the movie In the Mood for Love:

(images courtesy of The Fashion Spot.)

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A friend of a friend of mine is designing our invitations. She is an awesome artist, directs her own gallery, and is pretty much cuteness personified!

Here is a sneak peek at the invitations:

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We have a wedding website! YAY!

I made a banner:

Since Mr. Chick and I both have names starting with the letter “A”, we have always called ourselves the A-Team. Not to mention that I totally learned how to speak English from watching every episode of the show when we moved to the States.
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Well, sort of.

Technically, yes, we did get married. Hooray!

But no, the wedding has not happened yet. Hooray for anticipation!

In order to be actually married on our honeymoon, we have to get married in Houston first in order to avoid French red tape. We went to the justice of the peace last week along with our witness/Houston officiant/bestie, Javier!

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This Sunday, some of my closest friends in town came over and very kindly helped me form a sweatshop for our wedding decorations in exchange for cheesesteak sandwiches, queso, and chips.

Here are the projects we completed (can I just say how proud I am of us completing all of the projects?!)

Project #1, a beautiful garter by Jing! HOORAY!!

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Recently, I have gotten very into shopping websites in the like of Gilt and Rue La La. In Rue La La’s last Final Sale: Act II, I bought some delicious, delicious brown knee high boots by Pour La Victoire. Mmmm yes. I am drooling just thinking about them. They are made in Brazil and are as soft as butter. So, when I found these babies also by Pour La Victoire, I was ecstatic and ordered four pairs!

(All images courtesy of Zappos.com)

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Now that I have the dress (Mr. Chick, DO NOT CLICK on that link!), it’s time to buy shoes!

My requirements for shoes are:

• Must be around 3 inches.
• Must be special
• Must not slip of feet while dancing (maybe straps required)

That is all! I am open colors of white, off white, nude, gray, blues, and pinks.

In my last shoe post, I liked these by Hey Lady):

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