Weddingbee

Previously in the Toucan Recap Series…
Oh Happy Day: Getting Ready
Oh Happy Day: Getting in the Door

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After Mr. Toucan passed his series of tests, he got to come in the house and find me—and he did!

Originally, I had wanted our first look to be outside in my parents’ yard so that our photographer could easily get pictures of this little event. Unfortunately, it had rained the night before, and the ground was still wet. I didn’t want to risk soiling my dress, so inside my parents’ room it was (my room at my parents’ house was a disaster area!).

After a few almost-tears and a kiss, Mr. Toucan and I checked each other out!
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Hello, Bostonians! We know you’ve been itching for your own meet up, so we’re answering the call! Mrs. Gingerbread is in Beantown this coming weekend, and Mrs. Bubblegum and I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to meet her! We’re inviting you to meet her (and us), too!

Here are the deets:

Who:

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Previously in the Toucan Re-cap Series…
Oh Happy Day: Getting Ready

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When I last left you, I was patiently waiting for my groom to arrive. In Chinese culture, it is customary for the groom to pick up his bride from her parents’ house. Unfortunately for the groom, before he can get to the bride, he must make it past the bridesmaids!

Looks like the groom, and his band of merry men have just arrived!

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I am.

I haven’t had hair this short since I was 10 years old. It could take some getting used to… :)Anyone else planning on doing the post-wedding chop?

With all the stuff we were trying to pack in on one day, it meant that the Toucan Wedding Day had to start REALLY EARLY… like hair-and-makeup-was-there-at-7:30am kind of early.

Lypor is putting my face on…

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Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Yesterday, I received a package in the mail. Its contents? 2 photo boxes containing our wedding proofs and 2 CDs of high-res files!
Do you know that means?! This Toucan is going into FULL RECAP MODE!
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After almost 2 months of married bliss, Mr. Toucan is still not used to wearing his wedding ring! I pretend to get mad, and jokingly say he’s “trying to look like a single guy” again! His reaction is so cute, though. He gets pretty upset with himself for forgetting! So, the past week, after he forgot to wear his ring 3 of the 4 days, I made him a sign and hung it up at the door.So far, he hasn’t forgotten to wear it since!

How good is your spouse (or you!) at remembering to wear the wedding ring?

I’ve had a few inquiries about where we ate in Italy, so I decided to write a post ALL about FOOD. Yum! Unfortunately, the number of pictures representing each restaurant here is not an indicator of how good the food is - most likely, it’s only an indicator of how much wine we drank before our food came or how hungry we were when it came.

Let’s start with the restaurants from Venice:

On our very first night in Italy, our hotel recommended us to eat at La Feluca, a restaurant close by our hotel (in the San Marco area). Since it was our very first night of our honeymoon, we remembered to take pictures! While the whole meal was delicious, the highlight of our meal was probably this deluxe appetizer that our waiter convinced us to order:

I don’t actually remember what I ate here…
but it was all seafood, and YUMMALICIOUS.

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Previously…
Part 1: The New Mrs. Toucan Gets In Trouble with THE MAN
Part 2: The Toucans Go to Venice
Part 3: The Toucans Go to Florence
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Remember that cute little Anthropologie dress I wore to the airport when I got into my pre-honeymoon scuffle with the law? Well, after wearing it on the long plane ride over to Italy, I discovered that it was quite comfortable for traveling. It was empire-waisted (and had an elastic back to boot!), and nothing was restricted. I determined that it was an excellent dress to wear on the way to Rome. However, I’ve discovered that said cute Anthropologie dress equaled bad luck for travel. No, I didn’t break any Italian laws (luckily), but the day we left for Rome, the rail workers decided to go on strike. Every now and then, they would cancel a train. And guess what? They canceled our train- 5 minutes before we were supposed to be boarding it!

So what now? We asked the guy at the information desk, who tells us we can use our tickets on the next train to Rome. We then were informed by one of the ticket checkers on said next train that there was no way we could get on the train because it was full.
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Knowing that we were planning on having kids at our wedding, I decided to make little activity kits to keep them out of trouble. I bought these colorful lunch box looking plastic cases for $2 each at Michaels:
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