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 Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 2:00 pm Post subject: Our wedding and honeymoon |
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On friday Sept 7th I made Luz Maria my wife. We had a private ceremony on the beach and the pastor from our church, Matt Brown of Sandals, married us. I had always wanted an outdoor wedding, kinda one of those things you envision. I always imagined myself getting married at the beach somewhere. And lucky for me, Luz liked the idea as well.
Since it had been kinda rainy, we were a little worried about the weather. I mean, an outdoor wedding is good and fine, unless of course it rains. But G-d provided a perfectly clear day for us. It was perfect, there wasn't a cloud in the sky and the water was crystal blue, like I've never seen it in CA.
Luz looked as beautiful as I've ever seen anyone. Like she could have walked off the pages of a bridal magazine.
Our ceremony was short, with a lot of prayer and just our immediate family present. Luz and I wrote our own vows, her's were especially sweet.
Then we took a bunch of pictures (done by Leah and Rob Vis, as well as by my brother Eric). And we went home to prepare for the reception later that night.
(During the interim, we edited together a video of our ceremony, to show the guests at the reception.)
The reception started off a little rocky...there was no sound equipment and because there was no ice, there were no drinks. So guests began arriving, and there was no music or drinks...uh...
But a couple people went to go get ice and Shaun finally brought the DJ equipment, which we set up in a hurry after repeated attempts, and we were set to go. Luz was at that point already super stressed by it all, and it was beginning to get to me as well, since when she's stressed that stresses me. But we prayed together, and just decided to enjoy everything.
After that initial rockiness, things were cool. My family and friends (and Luz's mom and friends) helped a TON. They helped set everything up, serve food (which was delicious! fajitas, beans, salsa, tortillas....mmmm...) and get the show on the road. We had a live performance by Luz Maria herself, where she sung me a sweet song with her American Idol voice. That blew people away. Then we danced our first dance to "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" (the hawaiian style version from 50 First Dates) and did the garter throw and bouquet toss.
Luz had also prepared a sweet photo collage video (set to the Cure's "Love Song") and we showed the video of our ceremony, with music from Pachelbel's Canon in D.
After all that was taken care of, and people ate their wedding cupcakes (we had a cake made of 100 little cupcakes, it actually looked pretty nice! Creative as well, Luz picked it out.) we then started the music, which was a dance mix prepared by me the day before. We ran it from a laptop with Winamp, which also provided a cool full screen visualization setting, so we had a projection light show to accompany the music. That last idea was spur of the moment, I just thought of it, and it worked so well...it looked like we had a light show.
(Thanks to the real life homies who helped a ton with everything. 2nd Sense, Giancarlo, Jovie, Dee (especially you!), Eric, Rachel, Mami, Keyannah, Mickey, Cindy, Rob, Leah, Mama Isabel, and everyone else for the gifts and the love.)
The following week we left for the Yucatan for our honeymoon. Luz had never really been traveling before, except for a few trips as a kid to Mexico. We landed in Cancun and enjoyed the beach for a couple of days. From there we went to Tulum (the most gorgeous stretch of beach I've personally been too, and the Maya ruins there are cool as well.) then to Valladolid (to see Chichen Itza). From Valladolid, we made our way to Campeche, which was a cute little colonial city that reminded me of Old San Juan. Very similar in the layout and feel. While at Campeche we also found a way to get to Edzna, the ancient Maya city. It was a difficult task! It literally took us two days of effort to finally make it there...and then we almost didn't make it back! lol. Man, close calls.
After Campeche, we went to Merida. Merida was too cool. I have been before, but this time the experience was so different. Everything seemed nicer somehow. We even found an Andean band playing outside a restaurant and they played Illapu's "El Cascabel" for me! They did it well, too! While in Merida, we took a quick trip to Uxmal, another Maya city, and Luz's favorite of the trip. Oh yeah, we almost got left in the jungle there as well.
After that, we took an 8 hour bus ride back to Tulum (which would have taken 3 hours, had the bus not taken the longest way on earth and stopped at every little pueblo in Yucatan and Quintana Roo.) It rained while we were in Tulum (so no beach), but the next day we went to Cancun again and to Isla Mujeres to snorkel. That was another good time, Isla Mujeres is beautiful. We got to go to the clear water beach there as well.
Then we bid Cancun good bye and made it back home safely, with all our luggage. It was a great trip.
Of course, the whole time we were on busses I kept thinking about and analyzing the economic situation of Mexico. I get a feeling of hope from the people there, however; I wouldn't be surprised if things continue to improve for them. They have a fire to fight for what they know is right and are some of the hardest working people you will ever see. Much harder working than the people here. It sucks to see the level of poverty there in some of the smaller towns, but even then, the feeling isn't one of desperation. (I've been plenty of impoverished places where the feeling is definitely one of hopelessness.) There, it is different. It is hard to put your finger on, but I know Mexico is beautiful, and the people know it as well.
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(Ruins at Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico)
(A view of the ocean at Tulum)
(Ruins at Tulum)
(My beauty on the Malecon of Campeche city, enjoying the summer night)
(Streets of Campeche)
(Edzna, in the jungle near Campeche.)
(carvings at Chichen Itza)
(Pyramid of the Magician, Uxmal, Yucatan, Mexico)
(My gorgeous wife, back at home, safe and sound.)
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