It's a Done Deal - We're Married!

We're back in San Francisco and we're married! Thank you for all the well wishes from everyone.

We were lucky enough to have no rain the whole time we were at Haiku Gardens (wedding site, pix to the right). It had rained earlier and I was really concerned about everyone walking down to the chapel but the weather held up for us. The grass all around us was soaked and there were puddles everywhere so I just had to be careful with my white dress and 3 1/2-inch heals. Actually the heals probably helped with the puddles.

Being the tita that I am, I was walking around pidgin toed with my dress hiked up to my knees to save the dress from getting in the puddles.

Tita (tih tah) n. Definition: an attitude or way of life where a local woman acts very rough or masculine. Pidgin is her first language.

Used In A Sentence: She shtay full on tita yeah?

In English?: She sure isn't like us is she?

We had a nice simple ceremony that probably lasted all of 15 minutes. Quick and simple. Actually it could have been longer it could have been shorter I just kind of didn't notice anything but Tim and our wedding officiate Gay at the end of the aisle. I'm just glad Tim's sister, Chris, took pictures of the chapel and wedding ceremony because I don't remember a thing about what it looked like in there. I get so focused that everything else just fades away.

The wedding was small like we wanted. There were just twenty of us with four children. Tim's parents, sister and brother in-law, my mom and her husband, my dad and his wife, my two brothers and their family, my two grandmas, and three of my girlfriends.

Even with that small group my mom, who ended up doing most of the planning, was freaking out. It got to the point where she just wanted to bypass me and plan the wedding with my girlfriend Lara who is a true girl. If it were up to me there wouldn't have been any flowers and favors and if it were up to Tim our cake would have been from Costco. But my mom made sure we had a really beautiful wedding and so we had flowers, favors and a big old cake...not from Costco.

A lot of you have been asking about my name. After a lot of discussion, I'm taking Tim's name and also sort of keeping my last name by moving it to one of my middle names. I gotta somehow keep that Japanese identity.

Thanks again for all the well wishes and Happy New Year!