The occasion of Ashley and Dylan’s wedding required the arrival of a significant percentage of the Chinese population. Since this coincided with Yuki coming to the US to start school at the U of Colorado she arrived a week before everyone else. A few days before the wedding, Ashley’s parents and Yuki’s mom arrived in Ohio and Mary arrived in Tennessee. Mary, Yuki and I drove to Ohio and met up with everyone in Columbus to drive on to Dylan’s home town for the wedding on Saturday. Ashley’s mom and her two aunts posed for a picture at the wedding beforehand.
While we were still waiting for festivities to begin we got rid of Ashley’s mom and added Yuki (AKA Fanny May pronounced with a deep stereotypical southern accent).
Finally the bride and groom showed up for some pre-wedding photo things.
The preacher guy issued the orders to get the show on the road.
Father and daughter made the walk up the aisle.
Dr. Huo did the translating of Ashley’s dads speech from Chinese to English.
Meanwhile Yuki was live streaming the event back to China for those few people there that could not make the trip.
The ceremony proceeded through the necessary steps such as the ring thing.
And in no time it was over.
There was post ceremony picture posing.
With all the Chinese women
And then it was done and time to head up the hill for the reception and all the great food.
The next morning plans changed from what had been originally planned because Dylan had been fighting a bout of poison ivy through all this and instead of going to NYC with Ashley and Dylan, Yuki and her mom returned to Nashville with us and Dylan and Ashley followed the next day with Ashley’s parents. We all spent the next three days at our house and on Thursday Ashley, Dylan, and her parents headed for the Smoky Mountains for some camping while Mary and I headed to Boulder Co. with Yuki and her mom to get her installed into that cities contribution to higher education, The University of Colorado. But before we left that morning we did take an all in one shot picture (well more than one).
First were the newlyweds and parents.
And then the future student and empty nest mom.
Then all the women.
Finally the entire group posed.
And just slightly less posed.
Everyone survived their various trips and everyone safely returned to China, Ohio, and Colorado and what was 3 weeks of higher than normal activity came to and end.