Our Hong Kong Wedding Banquet

My hubby & I went to Hong Kong to have mini reception for his family there. My hubby's aunt found us a place called Wedding Banquet Specialist. As you can tell from the name they specialist in wedding banquet so not a lot of people come here to eat for regular meals.

We booked 2 tables in front of their main stage, it looked like we booked the whole restaurant since only 2 other tables were occupied in the back for regular diners. For this reception we went with traditional Chinese reception...a lot of red. I wore my kwa. Two of my friends, one from Hong Kong and another from Singapore were able to attend our reception (ღ˘◡˘ღ)

The food was different from the dishes we had at our reception in Canada and this time I was able to try all the food. The food was only ok nothing special. But my hubby & I both had a great time. Thanks you to our family and friends who came to celebrate with us.

Thailand

So after our wedding we went to Hong Kong to meet the rest of my Hubby's family and had a mini reception there for them. During our 3 week stay there we took a little trip to Thailand as a sort of honeymoon. We stayed 2 nights.

 We were already wowed on the plane ride over. So beautiful from above.

We stayed at the beautiful Renaissance Resort & Spa in Phuket, Thailand. This was my first time staying at a resort & spa. It was so beautiful.

 Our room was really nice. It was big, bright, clean and comfortable.

We spend most of our time at the beautiful Mai Khao beach located behind the resort.

The water was so blue and clean. It was really relaxing sitting by the beach and playing in the water. We watched the sunset (ღ˘◡˘ღ)

Our stay included buffet breakfast, which we treated as our lunch. The food was good...we ate A LOT. Our first night (the day we arrived) we ate instant noodle for dinner since the food at the resort was expensive.

The second night we had food delivery from Kin Dee Restaurant. They have someone who understands English who took our order.
• Chicken Green Cury (◔_◔) ok
• Chicken Pad Thai (◕︵◕) had a wired taste to it...I think it had stinky tofu in it...yucky...so I didn't like it at all...so disappointed because I really like Pad Thai and couldn't wait to try real Pad Thai in Thailand
• Pineapple Fried Rice (◔_◔) ok  
• Kin Dee Crab Cake (◕ ◡ ◕) yummy
• Mango Sticky Rice (◕ ◡ ◕) I was expecting it to taste wired because it was mango and rice but it was really good
Over all the food was ok, it was a good amount of food for the price we paid..which was around $27 CAD (included tip & delivery).

So sad to leave...was too short of a trip but it was fun. My hubby & I would love to see more of Thailand next time, venture outside.

My Wedding

My Wedding was a Happy Day (ღ˘◡˘ღ) I am so happy to have meet and married such a wonderful man...LOVE my Hubby. A few pictures from my wedding. All pictures taken by Lyndsay

My wonderful friend Mama Gen did my hair & makeup. She also made the hair piece that I wore with my wedding dress. LOVE it

My beautiful sort of custom made dress...we had some changes done to it, made it into a sweet heart neckline and custom belt. I decided to make my own bouquet out of fabric instead of getting real flowers and also added the flowers on the flats I bought from the kids section at the Gap

Our ceremony was held at Cecil Green Park House at UBC. I made the reserved signs. And we had beautiful harp music playing. It was so scary walking down the aisle but everything went well.

The tea ceremony was also held at Cecil Green Park House. We did outfit change right after pictures with family & friends. Me in my Kua & my hubby in his suit which he just changed the handmade tie I made him from a blue one to a red one. I also made the matching pocket square and fabric boutonniere.

We took wedding pictures at the house but also went to Spanish Bank beach (which was close by). We were bless with pretty good weather for a good period of time until it started to rain but got some good shoots

We had our reception at Empire Seafood Restaurant. Our wedding colors were pink, blue and white. We had tables set up with either pink or blue. Mama Gen got us a beautiful wedding cake (excluding the custom wedding topper which we ordered online) It was yummy too

Yoyo & Cici monkey (chinese characters) were our mascots at our wedding
(●⌒∇⌒●) All the decorations made by me

There was a lot of food (typically Chinese wedding) the food was good but didn't get to eat much. Thanks to my cousin for taking the food pics

I made a short slideshow to play at the wedding. We played some games. Thanks to our future brother-in-law for MCing, he did a GREAT job keeping everyone entertained. It was fun and time went by so quickly. Thanks to our family for helping us with setting up, driving us around...making sure that everything ran smoothly. Thanks to our guest for making this day a special one and for the well wishes from those who couldn't make it. We Love you all (ღ˘◡˘ღ)