2003.08.17

Here's some shots from Arlene & Ulysses' wedding in Sausalito, CA. Note that I only took two pictures the entire time I was there. Considering I have a five-year-old digital camera, I thought it best to just get images from other people's (spiffier) cameras afterward, as the quality would be far superior to anything mine could produce.

This is one of those times where you might want to have a screen resolution of 1280x1024. This is a panoramic view of the bay; the result of GIMPing my two scenery shots together. Notice the thick fog rolling in from the ocean, as it heads toward the east bay. Also imagine what fun it was for me to drive up a hill this high....

Here's a shot of Ulysses and Arlene cutting cake. I was actually a little surprised that the cake was just plain white, with no frills of frosting or anything decorative. But it was yummy, which I suppose is all that really matters in the end.

And here's a kiss for show that they did to get us to stop clanging our glasses.

So instead of throwing rice down the aisle after the ceremony, they passed out little things of bubble water and asked us to blow bubbles. Naturally, this act carried on throughout dinner and afterward too....(pictured in this shot, from left to right: Ana, Gail, Yolanda, Shirley)

and now for shots of people I actually knew

it's a bit strange being part of the "friends" crowd at a wedding (as opposed to the "family" one), since you know only a select number of people. Well in my case, it was just the people I went to Berkeley with....

Lijue, Shirley, Arlene, and Yolanda pose before Arlene got rushed off for massive wedding portraits with family members. Lucky for the rest of us, we were served wine and cheese (and other food items too) while this happened, so at least we were entertained. =P

Same people as before, but now there's Eiman crouching in front, and no Arlene. At first, I didn't recognise Eiman, since he had shaved his head only two weeks before the wedding; last I remembered, he had a full head of hair. His story: one day while walking through Seattle, he felt like getting his head shaved. So he did.