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When I started planning for the wedding, I knew instantly that I wanted a theme. At first I thought I wanted to go the route of a black & white affair, so it would be checker boxes (given that I love the color black). But having the whole party in black for a summer (outdoor) wedding didn’t seem too appealing, trust me I thought long and hard about it (here).

Then I started thinking about things that we both loved, aside from each other (I know that was cheesy but I had to add :-). So we narrowed down the topics and focused on travel.
  • We both love to travel.
  • I like old (vintage/antique) suitcases, he likes old comics.
  • We both love watching Anime.
  • He loves Manga, I love Korean drama’s.
  • We both love Thai food.
  • He loves Kimchi, I love Korean drama’s (yes repeated it because I am not a fan of Kimchi).
  • I love the Asian culture, he loves anything “Bruce Lee” and martial arts.
Well, you get the point!
When we summed it up, we came up with:
  • Travels
  • Traveling far East
  • Traveling to Asia
Traditional Attire at Gyeongbok Palace
At a Korean Restaurant, Upper East New York
My fave Korean dish, Dolsot Bimbimbap
His fave Korean side dish, Kimchi (I never tried it and never will 🙂
Did I mention how much I like K-drama’s?!
Finally, we decided on adding a few touches of “Traveling and Traveling to Asia”. I say touches because we did not serve Asian food, as much as we loved it, we figured we would be considerate to our guests. 
Again, wait till you see how we incorporated the theme in the wedding!

Thank You for Dreaming…

& Living the Dream!


Thank you Dr. King for being a part of changing the views of others on justice, love, human purpose and for seeking equality amongst all.  You also demonstrated that change can be done in a non-violent manner. You are now dead longer than you lived but within that life you have created such a change which allowed others to dream even bigger, including myself. For this I want to THANK YOU!
“I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
“When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, “Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!” (“I have a dream” speech)
                          

Name in Lights (part 2)

Okay, I won’t do anything just to get my name in lights but I certainly worked on getting my name in lights.
Several months ago I wrote a post about drafting the logo for our wedding (here). Soon after I chose a theme for the wedding (which I will discuss further in another post); from that point I knew I wanted to input characters/signs in the logo.

First I thought about a lantern
Then I decided upon the Korean characters “I love you”
I put those same characters in a scroll to see what I can come up with, but it wasn’t working for me.
I basically played around with different designs but in the end I knew I wanted our initials to be part of the final look.  In the end I decided to go with no designs around the logo but simply our initials and Korean characters.  I tried completing the task myself in Publisher which turned out fine but if I needed to enlarge, the picture (pixels) was blurry so I sent each file (initials & characters) to Cynthia from Elizabeth Couture and she embedded the letters in the image. 
I used the monogram on the invitations, as a back drop for the reception, and other wedding items to add a personal touch.
image from guest

I used the “Edwardian Script” font for the initials.
Wait till you see how else I incorporated the monogram 🙂

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