Ceremony Day: Getting Ready

The day of the wedding itself, and in the early hours of it the ladies get ready. Lupita and her dress...

The flowers were orchids and the bouquets, seen here, were heavy with orchids:

Here's the set up for the ceremony:

And this ends the preliminary pictures taken by Corrie. My preliminary pictures are from something else, as on the day itself my brother and his groomsmen (our dad, me and Norm) went on a limousine adventure.

The plan was to get picked up at noon, ride up to Auburn, have lunch at a fancy Italian restaurant, and meander back to the hotel to get ready for the ceremony. The limo was spacious, as evidenced by Dan and Norm, and later by Dan and dad, but these pictures don't really show an accurate feel for the size.

One bizarre thing was the shading filter on the window. Impenetrable from the outside, it rendered all green plants red. Look at these pictures...

Can you believe it? Green street signs were left unaffected, while everything with chlorophyll was left red. I'm still working on the how...

So, after we learned that the restaurant didn't open on Sunday until later, we had lunch at a restaurant close by the venue, and then went and changed.

Dan, keeping it old-school, made sure he wouldn't see 'Pita beforehand, and here he is chilling out:

Since Corrie's picture files are so large, I'll hold off on posting so many at one time. So, in the next few posts, we'll get just some of the greatest hits.