10th Wedding Anniversary

Pictures are typically done a few months prior to the actually wedding day.  They can take a half day, especially if you also go "off site" for a shoot.  Hair stylists and make-up artists create a new and better you!!!!  Bangkok is awash with wedding studios, offering a variety of packages from a traditional Thai wedding experience to a more contemporary one, which is what we chose.  However, we did have photos of us taken in traditional Thai clothing.  I may post one later!!!  Although we had fun, I personally was way more exhausted from picture taking day than wedding day.

 

Check out Kade's long fingers!

some candles we gave as gifts

An American colleague of mine (from Maryland) officiated our wedding ceremony.  He recited a love poem that he had written and recited at his own wedding.  It was very moving, and a surprise.  

After the ceremony, we had dinner with our guests.

Allen and Kade’s Chinese Style Wedding Dinner Party:

First Course: Hors d’oeuvres of fruits and salads

Second Course: Baked Chicken with Honey

Third Course: Steamed Shrimp with Garlic

Fourth Course: Barbecued Suckling Pig

Fifth Course: Double Boiled Duck with Black Mushrooms and Chinese Herbs

Sixth Course: Sauteed Crystal Prawns in Salad Sauce

Seventh Course: Steamed Sea Bass with Plum Sauce

Eighth Course: Baked Noodles with Pork in Soy Sauce

Ninth Course: Ginkgo Nuts with Masked Taro in Syrup

Grape juice and wine straight from a family friend’s vineyard will also be served.

Songs sung at our wedding reception

Always on my Mind

Because I Love You

Because You Love Me

Can't Take My Eyes off You

Colors of the Wind

Endless Love

Eternal Flame

Everything I do (I do it for you)

Greatest Love of All

Have I told you lately that I love you

Hero

How Deep is your Love

I knew I loved you

I love the Way You Love Me

I love you just the way you are

I Will always Love You

I Swear

If

If We hold on Together

It Must Have Been Love

Lover's Concerto

More Than Words

My Heart Will Go On

Nothing's Gonna Change My Love for You

Now and Forever

Only You

Power of Love

Right Here Waiting For You

Saving All My Love For You

Save the Best for Last

Sometimes When We touch

She

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

Somewhere Out There

Still

Take my Breath Away

The Wedding Song

Tonight I Celebrate My Love For You

Unchained Melody

Valentine

What A Wonderful World

When You Say Nothing At All

Wind Beneath my Wings

Without You

Wonderful Tonight

You are so Beautiful

You Light Up My Life

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วิมานดิน

Kade and I got married in the Chang Building (Elephant Building) in Bangkok on February 23, 2003.  Perhaps soon I will create a YouTube video of the highlights (photos and video) of our wedding.

 

Above images of the Chang Building were taken from this site.

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A video panorama of the area where the Chang Building is.  See if you can spot it. 

A video I made of the condo where Kade and I lived right after we married.

And on my YouTube channel, Major Allen Espy, there's a video of our wedding.  Hope you can find it!