Showing posts with label wedding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wedding. Show all posts

Sunday, September 28, 2008

’Til da Break o’ Dawn!

Alexander unleashes his Arsenal of Awesomeness for Jasmine at Justine and Fernando’s wedding last August.

Alex breakdancing
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Sunday, September 21, 2008

Lynce and Jack Kihara's Wedding

Another one of Armilyn's cousins, Lynce, got married this past Saturday. The wedding was in Long Beach, but the reception was aboard a boat in Newport Harbor. Armilyn and I had never been on a boat in the harbor before and were impressed on how big the harbor was.



When you have a huge bridal party, a limo won't do


The wedding reception boat from Electra Cruises

The honeymoon suite docked next to the reception boat. Just kidding! This saucer looked like it could fit 4 people max!


Us on the top deck at sunset


The flower girls

The reception boat just sailed along the harbor towards the Corona del Mar jetty and we saw the beach where we went to with the Spences when Steve and Melissa were here in July. It was a 4 hour cruise, so the boat did a few laps. A very unique reception.

post by David

Sunday, August 24, 2008

Justine and Fernando’s Wedding

Some of the 400! photos I took at Justine & Fernando's wedding yesterday:






This one is a montage of some photos taken by the husband of one of the bridesmaids:


The rest of his photos can be found here

post by David

Friday, August 22, 2008

August wasn't that quiet

We have had a busy August, which hasn't left much time for blogging. The main thing going on is preparations for Armilyn's cousin, Justine and her wedding to Fernando on August 23. Here is a sneak peek from the engagement party


Earlier in the month, Armilyn took her niece, Leila, and Alex to the FV Library Park



Armilyn's other niece, Jasmine, celebrated her 2nd birthday


and we went to Tante Ellen's surprise birthday party at Waters Restaurant, where Alex caught up with his favorite Uncle Robert and favorite Aunt Denise or "Auntie Neece" as Alex says it.



Despite all the activities, we still took time to stop and smell the flowers



and there's more this weekend. Justine's wedding on Saturday and Walking With Dinosaurs on Sunday:


post by David

Sunday, July 13, 2008

Parties & More

Saturday was a busy day of parties.

Back in May, when we had Alex's birthday with kids from his class, we had no idea we were at the beginning of a wave of birthday parties from his class. Every 3 weeks since then has been another birthday for a classmate. Saturday's was Amanda and her older brother Joseph's pool party. It was held at their great-aunt's house, who happens to teach swimming to little kids--one of her students was a 9-10 month old girl who astounded us by how well she was swimming!



The birthday girl, Amanda


Lucas, one Alex's best buds at school


Amanda’s brother, Joseph, and mom, Elizabeth


Alex discovering the joy of lounging by the pool

We had to leave the party early, as Armilyn and I had to go to a wedding in downtown LA. We had an hour to get home, shower, get dressed, and drop off Alex at Oma and Opa's house. When we left, we saw Dad coming home on his motorcycle from the hardware store.


The wedding was for Armilyn's distant cousin, Carlito and his bride Mylah. We later found out it was the first anniversary of their civil marriage, so this was the church wedding. Well, the wedding was at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, the huge, new (a few years old) cathedral in downtown. We had never been there, just driven by a few times. This place was amazing. Very modern on the outside, but still beautiful and spiritual on the inside.


A panorama after the wedding, from the back of the cathedral



The beautiful cross above the altar, inside and outside


Detail of the lights in the cathedral


The happy couple posing for pics in the cathedral garden.


A panorama of the garden photo shoot. Click for a bigger picture


The Ancheta girls strike a pose

So as we were waiting for the photo shoot to end, we went downstairs to the masoleum as Justine's dad said Gregory Peck was laid to rest there. We found him.


Well, I immediately noticed that 2 spaces to the right and 1 space down from Mr. Peck is the future resting place of another (unrelated?) Ancheta girl. Cue the Twilight Zone music.


The reception was at Lumineria, a hill top restaurant in Monterey Park. Our cellphone battery was low, so no pics, but we had a great time and the food, once it arrived, was delicious.

All in all, a busy but fun day.

by David