Wedding:
The wedding was huge. Lots and lots of people. It was also insanely well organized and coordinated. There were tons of people in the background making sure everything is going as planned, and if something went wrong it got corrected rather quickly. Take my word for it when I say everything was insanely well coordinated--we had a 9 page schedule and a 4 page wedding staff helper contact list that got revised several times that we were all following that detailed every small event at the wedding and which team should be doing what at what time. There were also tons of people running around in the background doing things while the main crowd is elsewhere doing stuff. The even crazier part is that everything was coordinated by friends of the bride, the only time family had to do anything was a few of us guys transporting the gifts.
I got up at 9:30-ish... I was supposed to be ready by 9:30. Then I spent an hour trying to make my hair look half decent and iron my clothes. My sister was a bridesmaid, so she had to get up at 6 to get ready. Other than that, the rest of the day was pretty much standing around and looking pretty for photos, lots and lots of photos, as to be expected from 5 professional photographers constantly being around and everyone else having their point-and-clicks. When I looked at the pictures my parents took (one camera per parent), we had some pretty funny facial expressions inbetween pictures. There was also a lot of pretty random bad pictures too, and we wern't even the center of attention.
On the side note, we always got reseved parking wherever we went cause we were bridal party/family. :P
The banquet had good food (and also lots and lots of people). We had peking duck, shark fin soup, lobster, chicken, and more stuff I can't really remember at the moment, but no wine/champaine (sadly). I think we ended up having 9 courses. The people were seated from the most important to least inportant, next to people they might know. So the bridal party was table 1, family and close family friends took up tables 2-4, and people that didn't look terribly interested or in place was table 47 (last table). Bride, groom, maid of honor, best man, and heads of immediate family were on stage. Guess where I was placed? Table 45. Apparently there wasnt enough space up at the bridal party table for my sister, so she ended up being back there with me. My other cousin (who was a groomsman) was also back there with me cause he didn't want to sit up there with the bridal party. The people sitting at our table honestly thought we were not very important people (like themselves) to be sitting at one of the end tables. Then when the maid of honor acknowledged all the family members and had them stand, then they all realized we were kinda pretty important people. Then after that, we were always the first people to get food served to us, because the back of the room was closer to the kitchen, and we had important people sitting at the table. So they served us first, then they served from front to back. So the tables next to us were not very happy.
I ended getting back home at a little past midnight. Long long day.
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BoA:
Ok, so, I pretty much slept through several snoozes on my alarm. Had to do a few things to all the wedding pictures we took for parents (which was when I realized how funny our pictures turned out cause most of them were candid). Then Eric texted and I had to take a quick shower and eat and dress. Yeah, 10 minutes behind schedule. Oh well not that it would've mattered because...
When we arrived (3 hours early) there was already a decent size line formed. We were on the 3 side of the store. She ended up comming 1.5 hours late. She only managed to get through 1.5 sides of the store before she just left. So I had to fight for a few posters cause I was not leaving empty handed. Yeah, I didn't even get to see her.
At least it was only BoA...
