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Mrs. Sushi was married at the Byodo-In Japanese temple in Oahu, Hawaii. This post was originally published on October 27th, 2009.

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Our guests then went off to tour the temple while Frank went all paparazzi on our arses. We had about a lil’ over an hour to do photos before we had to load into the shuttle to make our way to the “reception”. Not having a wedding par-tay meant that whole hour was dedicated to us. That’s a whole lot of photos, yo.

For being a “small” temple, there was lots of scenery for photos.

We had our green mossy, woodsy area:

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So, in my last post I told you about my guestbook postcard fail and how I filled the rest of our album with purty postcards. Welp, I did find something else to fill our album with…

Our postcard RSVP cards! We had left a space on our RSVP cards for our guests to write something back to us. Not every guest did this or got the concept, but the ones who did had written some sweet things to us.

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Guestbook-wise, I originally wanted to do a Quaker style wedding certificate. But in the end, I didn’t have time to design one and didn’t have the $$ to have someone design one for me. So, instead I went the route of vintage style postcards. I stuck 2 stamped postcards in glassine envelopes for each guest/family, one for them to mail to whomever, and one addressed to us.

More on these here.

Well, with only 19 wedding guests in tow, that narrowed down to only about 7 couples/families. That means, essentially I should have received about 7 postcards in the mail. Nope. It was a postcard guestbook FAIL.
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I can’t speak for everyone and I’m definitely not some organization queen. In fact, if you were to see my work office, it’s what I like to call an “organized mess,” but I do know where everything is located. Okay, I know where things should be located. BUT I did manage to stay pretty organized during my wedding planning. I kept everything in one binder. Everything.

I know some gals buy those nice, fancy, overpriced wedding planners, but with planning a destination wedding, a lot of what they had in those thorough binders didn’t pertain to me and my minimalist destination wedding. And I’m cheap; I used a plain, 1 inch, white binder. Now don’t get me wrong, I did spruce it up in my own way.

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A lil’ over a year ago, I surprised the hive (and my ’rents) with my… um… massive (?) piece of art. I’ve had quite a few of bees ask me how it’s been going, if it’s done yet, etc., so here’s an update. My tattoo is definitely not done yet, but I have had much done since last time you saw it.

Just a quick recap…

My first session: Say goodbye to the ol’ tramp stamp.

Last time you saw my tattoo, it looked like this:
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Today, good ol’ Saint Patrick’s Day, is my parents’ 31st wedding anniversary. I don’t know the whole story, but the gist of it is that they paid minimal bucks and eloped in California. Remember, I said eloping ran in my family.

My parents have been a very good influence on me and my views of marriage. I definitely look up to them and hope to base my own marriage off of their own. The secret to their marriage…

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Woot, woot! Today is our 2 year anniversary.

“But wait, Mrs. Sushi… wasn’t your wedding just last year?!”

Umm… yeah… let me explain about that.

We got engaged in December of 2007. Ironically, Mr. Sushi was ready to get married and I was… hesitant. Not that I didn’t want to marry him, I just wasn’t sure I wanted to do it RIGHT THEN. He was hinting for a Summer 2008 wedding, while I was pushing for a Summer 2009 wedding. I just wanted more time. We compromised and agreed to a March 2009 wedding. After deciding to get married in Hawaii, there were a few other factors that led us to our date in March; my brother and cousin both would be on spring break from college was the main reason, along with not wanting to get married in Hawaii in the middle of summer. Either way, we chose March 2009 as our projected wedding date.

In January and February of 2008, Mr. Sushi and I had some turbulence happen in our life.
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Being Filipino AND Pennsylvania Dutch, I come from a very financially conservative family. -aka- Frugal… cheap… ehh, whatever you want to call it. I am known as the coupon queen at work. Seriously, I have coupons for EVERYTHING. Our wedding really wasn’t any different.

The breakdown:

Date: March 05, 2009
City, State: Kaneohe, Hawaii
Budget: $10,000
# of Guests: 21

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Our wedding was my third trip to Hawaii in 4 years (Mr. Sushi’s 2nd trip). Between that and having lived on Oahu in my younger years, I have already done almost everything there is to do on Oahu… three times over. This time I wanted to do something a lil’ different, so Mr. Sushi and I decided to fly to the Big Island for a few days.

We stayed at the Kilauea Military Camp (KMC), which is a cottage and resort based at for active and retired military. Not only was is super affordable, but it is located right in the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. We had a cute 1 bedroom cabin with a jacuzzi tub and fireplace, ALL to ourselves.

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Just like on Oahu, the weather was less than desirable. Initially, we had planned to hike the volcano ourselves, but since it was cold, windy and very wet, we ended up taking a van tour instead. We were the only ones on the tour though; it was like we had our own personal tour guide that day.
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While this ornament is the inspiration for the color palette for this inspiration board, it is actually one of my good friends who inspired me to use this ornament. She absolutely LOVES anything and everything celestial that has moon and stars, so why not have a moon and stars-themed wedding?

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The colors are mainly navy blue, with an accent color of yellow. I totally picture this wedding happening in the early evening, before the sun sets, with the reception party under the moonlight (maybe under a clear tent).
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The weather was unusual for Hawaii. While the winter months are usually cooler and rainy, it was extremely windy while we were there. And while the weather was still 20 times better than March in Central PA, it was still not swimsuit-wearing, beach-swimming weather. We were in Hawaii for a total of 11 days. It was our wedding and minimoon rolled all into one. Here’s a quick rundown of some of the things we did:

You already saw us hike Diamond Head; we also did a small hike on Maunawilli Falls Trail. There was lots of mud, (man made) stairs, and a cool refreshing waterfall.

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Our wedding must have been exhausting; once our guests loaded up onto the shuttle… about half of them passed out…

except my handsome Mr. Sushi, who was just glowing. And why wouldn’t he be glowing?! He just got married to me!

Sooo… you might have noticed that every time I referred to our “reception”, it was in quotation marks.

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We’ve all heard about “trash the dress” or “rock the dress”, if you prefer. But what about the groom?
“Rock the suit”?!

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Our guests then went off to tour the temple while Frank went all paparazzi on our arses. We had about a lil’ over an hour to do photos before we had to load into the shuttle to make our way to the “reception”. Not having a wedding par-tay meant that whole hour was dedicated to us. That’s a whole lot of photos, yo.

For being a “small” temple, there was lots of scenery for photos.

We had our green mossy, woodsy area:

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Immediately after the ceremony and congrats, we did the usual (usually boring), but necessary group portraits. Let me formally introduce you to my family.

My mommers, dadders, moi, Mr. Sushi, and my lil’ brother (who really isn’t all that little anymore).

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