Kenneth Yan

I haven't had a chance to formally thank our good friend Kenneth Yan, who just had a beautiful wedding in summer last year in Portland. After their big wedding, Kenneth and his lovely wife, Kitty spent a good 4 hours taking pictures of us in Portland for us to put on our website. So yea, the picture at landing page of the wedding website is from Kenneth and I should've put a credit there long time ago (I did it if you haven't noticed!!). We acted really awekward in the first place, with people walking by around us. Definitely took awhile for both of us to warm up. This happened before the Taiwan glamour shot, so I guess we had a little bit of warm up run here already and it helped a lot. Portland is a lovely small city. We simply just cruise around from Pearl district to the union station and then a steal bridge that I really don't remember the name now. I was wearing the dress that I promised Quam that I would wear more than once since the engagement party. Well, who doesn't love Missoni? Here is to Kenneth: Thank you and Kitty again! Let me know if you already have a studio for us to promote!

Back on track

Having a long engagement does give us some room to scatter all those ToDo's apart but not quite that easy since we're still remotely planning.  As if we're having a "destination wedding".

We went back to Taiwan to have our wedding glamour photo taken from Julia Wedding News(茱莉亞新婚情報).  We had a blast dressing up all fancy and had a 15 hour shooting day.  Surprisingly the groom had a lot of fun too! I think he enjoyed it more than I do.   Basically we changed five different outfits, went to Beito Park(北投公園) and Dan Shuay(淡水) and the old building next to the studio. The rest of the shooting scenes are inside the studio with different color background.  I wanted to haver some "classic" photos where bride and groom are holding hands looking directly at camera. That's something timeless and will never go out of the style. Well, when we said something classic or timeless, it usually means old fashion and yet it's so very true.

I also picked out my wedding gown for the day of and the evening gown for the reception.  The wedding glamour photo and look change during recption are only "Asian theme" that I couldn't resist even though the rest of the wedding stuff are in full western style.  Something fun to do.

After we're back from Taiwan, the first task is to look for my new makeup artist and I really hope that I have some luck this time despite the unpleasant setback previously.  Thanks to my dear bridesmaids especially to Chichi.  She helped me ranked all makeup artist candidates and eased my mind on some concerns that I have.  Ladies! There are just something that only your girlfriends understand!!

We're going to Southern California once again in January to nail down most of our vendors including DJ, lightings, wedding coordinator, florists, wedding invitation and makeup artist.  We have to thank our good friends Candace/Vinnie. They just had a lovely wedding in San Diego in summer 2010 and they also live in Portland.  We're facing a lot of similar situations and I like everything in their wedding.  Therefore, lots of referal from them and we're very grateful.

Meanwhile, Quam and I will have a little date night at Walt Disney Concert Hall during our January visit to enjoy a concert.

Everything is slowly shaping up together.  And what's our color theme????
Well, I still don't know yet.. :)

Here's the sneak peak of the day of glamour shot. :)