Our First Wedding

Just booked the venue and officiant (sort of) for our first wedding, which I'm proud to say will be taking place at the elegantly beautiful and historic San Francisco City Hall. The pic above I snatched off some web site (it didn't look copyrighted, okay?). We probably won't be lucky enough to have our ceremony under the rotunda, which is where the photo above is taken, but that's fine with me. The Hall has been made famous in recent years because of the big gay marriage legalization drama, which makes me even more proud to be having our first wedding here. Here's another, public photo of the front of the building:





H. and I decided to have two wedding ceremonies because:

1) we wanted to cover our Chinese pseudo-astrological 'good luck' base with a wedding in August, which is supposed to be an auspicious month for weddings because the number '8' sounds like the word for prosperity (I think). So a lot of people are getting married on August 8, 2008 (8/8/08) to take advantage of this. We waited too long and had to settle for a slightly different date, but it's all good. August is what matters!

2) We wanted to get married in San Francisco, at least this way, because it would've been super-expensive and logistically challenging to have our 'real' (aka big) wedding in the City. Most of our family and friends live in the East Bay or even further away from Frisco, but since H. is a proud Frisco native we wanted to at least have one wedding in his hometown.

And I've been home sick for the better part of this past week, today with a raging phlegm-producing cough that makes me sound like a 60-year-old chainsmoking lounge lizard. But being forced to stay indoors is helping me get a lot of wedding stuff done. Invitations are going out this week (finally! And thanks to our fabulous wedding crew for helping us assemble the suckers) and I am going to be booking our event waitstaff for the reception as well. Only three more months to go!