The Wedding Part II

Wow, 3 months since I've last updated my blog. Crazy!!! Time has flown by so fast. I remember last year, the summer kind of dragged on waiting for the all important fall TV season to start. Yet, this year, Tanya and I were just commenting on how quickly the fall TV season has approached us as we were watching the Season premiere of Gray's Anatomy and CSI.

Well, back to the stuff I have been meaning to finish writing on... our wedding and honeymoon!!

So I left off at us being just married and husband and wife. After our nuptials, we went off to take wedding photos with family, friends, and just us. All the while, our friends were conspiring to decorate my car with "Just Married" all over it as that was the car we took on our honeymoon. We were very honoured and overjoyed at seeing such an awesome decorating job, but then realized that two of our friends who were supposed to be preparing things for the wedding reception shirked their duties and decided to play artistes!!!! I blame Goma.

Our reception was amazing. Meeting so many people for the first time and seeing friends and that we don't often see because they abandoned us to places like Redmond, Boston, New York, London, or Toronto. I know in particular that my family was really happy to be there because it was a sort of impromptu family reunion as lately the only times we see everyone is at funerals. It was great to have everyone be together for such a happy and festive occasion. The food was amazing so we were told. Unfortunately with all the photos, dancing and greeting, we didn't get much of a chance to eat. Tanya herself wasn't hungry and I was starved but the food was nearly gone when we were just sitting down to eat and then it was speech time.

Both our fathers and my brother (best man) gave a speech followed by myself and then Tanya. Her speech was amazing and mine was pretty good so I've been told. Our friends then gave speeches and finally my 11 year old neice (who is almost taller than someone we all know) gave a short speech to the effect that she has a mom named Tanya and now an aunty named Tanya. =)

After speeches it was time for cake cutting and more dancing. Our friends all danced to Grease of which we have some awesome blackmailing photos!! It was an amazing time for Tanya and myself and we were quite disappointed to see it end so quickly in fact, but we were so happy to have spent our most special day with all those that we love and care about.

Our wedding night was spent at the Granville Island Hotel. My company gets a discount there so we decided to take them up on it and were treated quite well to the penthouse suite with mini-bar, living room, bedroom with hottub and a view of the east end of False Creek (Science World). We spent the night opening our gifts and then sleeping in and waking to a beautiful sunny day on Granville Island.

Our honeymoon started with a stop-over at Tanya's parents place to drop off our gifts and then our official trip started as we made our way down to Portland Oregon for the first night. We got in late in the evening thanks to traffic through Seattle/Tacoma and construction entering Vancouver Washington. We grabbed a couple slices of pizza at a New York style Pizzeria and then headed to our hotel for a night of relaxation, thinking of all the wine we would soon be drinking in Napa and Sonoma Valleys!!

Part III to come soon!!! I promise!!