Erwin's Wedding

Erwin is a friend of Melch's from college that I met when I would visit her.  He also lived near our parents' houses after he graduated so we saw him from time to time before we moved on to Santa Barbara and he moved on to Seattle.  You might remember him from this earlier post.

Even though we now live quite a ways apart, we still manage to hang out pretty often.  We've been up to Seattle, we've met up at the weddings of friends (and our own of course), we've gone to Blizzcon together, we've played games online and so on.

Erwin's friends are in many cases our friends too - folks that we've known since college or even earlier and the sort of friends where you meet up after a week or a month or three years and it's all the same - you just pick up where you left off.

As you can imagine, we were excited to attend his wedding to Janne Hyunh, a person we'd heard of but not yet met.  He's Chinese, she's Vietnamese.  That meant two sets of cool and new (to us) wedding traditions.  The location was Portland.

Enough talking though, here are some pictures:

Supplies for one of the tea ceremonies.  Yes, that's plural.

Jon and Jordan escorting each other stage left during the rehearsal

The bride-and-groom-to-be

Nice location

Getting ready for the tea ceremony

The actual thing happening. =)

Post-ceremony hangin' out

Totoro!

Sunset on the river

They had coloring books for kids of "all ages"

Erwin is not a dancer, but some occasions call for exceptional behavior

Sparkler send-off!

Wedding favors!

More photos can be found here.