Divina’s Wedding
Posted on August 17, 2003 by Ching under Life.
Brian and I attended Divina and Mike’s wedding at Saint Francis yesterday. Brian was afraid it would be super long since it was a Catholic ceremony but it wasn’t longer than the norm. I’ve actually witnessed longer ceremonies. It also helped that all the kneeling was optional.
The reception following the ceremony was held at Airport Hilton. Brian and I drove all around West Wichita in search of a Commerce Bank ATM so I could withdraw cash for the cash bar and possibly the dollar dance. We came across a Boeing Wichita Credit Union, Legacy, a couple of Bank of America locations, Emprise, Sunflower, several Intrust Bank branches and a few others but could not find a Commerce Bank at all. Finally I talked Brian into going back to West 21st Street where I knew for sure there would be one. I didn’t insist at first because he was convinced that there we would find one on the way to Airport Hilton but there wasn’t so we had to back-track. Anyway, we finally got our cash and we made it to the reception with our gift in tow: a $50 gift certificate to one of Brian’s favorite stores, Williams Sonoma, and a Nine Months DVD, which I thought would be good for a few laughs since Divina happens to be pregnant.
The reception was fun. Divina had Airport Hilton provide everything, including the cake (which was pretty good, almost as good as one of Tita Rose’s wedding cakes, so I was mighty impressed). The staff did a wonderful job. They even swept the dance floor after some of the glass from their light fixture broke during the bouquet toss. It was funny because eveyrone had to clear the dance floor and everything stopped during the clean-up so in order to fill the time the DJ started playing the “Married With Children” theme song.
I’ve got a few pictures from the event below. The quality on some of them isn’t great because my camera ran out of battery after a few shots and we had to take pictures using Brian’s new 3650. Don’t get me wrong. It’s a great camera phone as camera phones go. The picture quality is way better than any of the other camera phones sold in the market that I have seen. It’s just, I would’ve preferred 4-megapixels rather than being limited to 640X480 res..
The next set were all taken with Brian’s camera phone. They were kind of blurry so I shrank them even more. Trust me, they look better as these little thumbnail images.
And, of course, Brian and I took pictures of ourselves before we even left the house.
This is the dress that I got stuck in while trying on back in April. It was pretty comical. Anyway, Brian hates the thing. I think the puffy skirt puts him out, aside from the fact that it is a challenge to put on and take off. He calls it my “June Cleaver” outfit. I thought it worked well for the ocassion because it had all of Divina’s colors: black, white and red.
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