An American Wedding in Vietnam

Just "mock" Married!

We did it!  Okay, not really; don't worry Mr. & Mrs. Lopez or my parents, we didn't really get married, but we did have a successful wedding ceremony and reception to give the students and teachers in Hue a feel for what an American wedding is like.  Everyone I've talked to since the event said they really enjoyed coming and saw how different Americans do weddings than Vietnamese do.  I'm posting pictures from our photo shoot at Tu Duc's tomb that the owner of the Mandarin Cafe and a friend of his shot for us.  Thank you Mr.Cu!  I'm also posting some of the pictures the mother-of-the-bride and the students shot during the day of the wedding!  Enjoy.  Jon and I certainly had fun and surprises as well (like having to blow out the unity candle before we lit it because it accidentally got lit by a bride's maid... and having a banner at the reception that read, "Eternal Love").

You did a great job students!  I hope you had fun and learned a lot in the process as well.  That's how learning should be!  Thanks for putting so much time and effort into everything you did to make all the events so successful.  See you in class!

Click on the wedding photo album to the right to see our wedding pictures.

Which dress shall it be?

This morning the wedding attire group came on three motorbikes to pick up the bride and the mother of the groom to whisk them off to find a bridal dress.  The group had done good research and we only ended up visiting one shop- "Ni Ni" next to the one and only supermarket in town. 

There were plenty of dresses to choose from but all had the same problem-- they have been adjusted for the skinny ribcages of petite Vietnamese women.  My American ribcage left more than an inch of missing material in the back... in other words, they didn't zip up.  But thanks to the ingenuity of the Vietnamese, that was no problem, they said they could let out the dress enough to make it fit me.  We'll see!

Here are some of the dresses I tried on...

which do you think I'll end up with?   Wait until the wedding to find out!

     

We've chosen the most beautiful dress and are headed home...