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This is my friend Colin's wedding Day,
March 2, 2002. This was a fun and memorable day for all of
us.
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Here is Colin at the altar with his new bride, Carolina
Fatima Remedios.
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Here is the couple walking out of the church, down the
isle. In the right picture, you can see the best man, Dan
Pakatagan coming up second.
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It is the Men In Black. Well, some of us were.
1. Mikal is getting directions from Hieu, as Fonda,
Daisuke and Warren watch. Vicotr and Kevin are farther in
the back.
2. We are leaving our rows to follow the couple out. From
left to right, Fonda, Rob, Chad, James, Daisuke. Warren and
Mikal are entering the line, Kevin has his hands in his
pockets.
3. Outside in the reception area, Hein sitting down
talking to Victor as Jude listens.
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1. Here are pictures of the groomsmen, from left to
right, Sheldon Yip, Russel Remedios (older brother) , Dan
Paktagan (best man) and Colin (the groom),.
2. This one is taken at the dinner head table.
3. Here is a closer shot of Colin and Dan.
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1. James and Chad talking to the wedding party as Vic and
Hein queue in line.
2. Hieu, Rob and James outside the church.
3. Here we have Fonda looking up to make sure there
weren't any stray birds over head, as the casually dressed
Mike looks onwards. Chad and Hien are in the centre with
Kevin wandering off to the right.
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1. Warren talks with Colin about music and sound
selections over the dinner crowd. Daisuke helps serve water
to Dan. Sheldon is getting up because he realizes there is
no tofu on his plate. Unfortunately, the dinner selection is
a turkey dinner and lots of curry.
2. Happy Rob after eating the really sweet dessert sugar
ball. Wooooooo. What a sugar rush!!!
3. Here is Chad making off with the drinks. Ahh what a
lush. Unfortunately, to make things boring, the wedding
party decided not to stock alcohol and replaced them with
bottles of non-alcoholic sparkling juices. Aww. Too bad
there Chad, no happy hour for you.
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1. Mikal finishes greeting the wedding party. Notice
Sheldon on the right with his bride's maid followed by
Russel and his maid, then Dan with his maid, and of course
Colin and his wife.
2. We sat in the back row so we can be ignored. This
helped wth the horrible singing of the hymns. Vic, Daisuke,
Kevin and Hien.
3. Rob, Mike and Daisuke offering best wishes to the
wedding party.
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1. Mike, Chad and Fonda talking afterwards in the cold
outside. Kevin is shivering away on the right. Jude is
acting anti-social as he hides behind the brick pillar.
2. Vic, Fonda and Kevin going through the greeting line.
3. Mikal, Rob, and Mike hamming it up with the wedding
party.
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1. Heiu helps out with the dinner registration and table
seating arrangements. Chad is taking the big quill and
adding his name on the list.
2. The guys ragging on Mike for his casual look. Hey, we
should all dressed down. Homie look is in this year...
Not...
3. The table is seated. Rob signals, we are good to go!
Feed us meat!
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1. Mikal finding the bottle of bubble soap on the table.
I guess after all those wedding toasts with the
de-alcoholized juices, he was tarting to go crazy. Why
bubble fluid was there I am not sure but it might some weird
religious fetish thing to blow.
2. Hien and Heiu boozing it up. Oh yea, forgot, they
switched the alcohol. Oh well, no need to have that as a
crutch to have fun.
3. Oh, and will someone do something with that mysterious
bubble bottle that is on the table?! Those guys are having
too much fun.
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1. Fonda is always great to have at parties since he will
be the life of the party. This is other great one where he
realizes, we have helium balloons. Wait a minute... Did
someone say helium? As in lets inhale it and make our voices
sound weird helium? Oh yea!
2. Warren holding a camera trying to take a picture of
everyone as the wedding party was walking around table to
table. Of course, for some reason they stopped doing that
halfway so some unfortunate tables couldn't toast the bride
and groom. Possibly the fact, that everyone drank their
juice before they could anyway. Ooopps...
3. Ok, now that we finished taking Warren's picture, Jude
is anxious to sit down and to get back to reading his book.
Which is ironically named "Jude".
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1. Fonda stunned at just how slick Mike looks. I think...
Hein sits wondering where the food is? Oh, the caters were
delayed almost an hour. Argh!
2. Lucky for most of us, we snacked during the photo
shooting.
3. Chad breaking out the bottle. Rob and Hien are eager
taste testers.
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1. There are lots of times where we had to sit and wait
for things. Jude was lucky he bought his book. Come to think
of it, I should have brought my MP3 CD player. They forgot
to do music for dinner, I could have made a great MP3 of
Gundam background music. Hahahaha! Colin's parents might
have liked it even if they think Gundam is evil....
2. But of course, if you have your head in a book, you
stand a chance of missing some of the weird things that
happen. Here Jude is quickly rushing to get in on the group
picture. Oh well, I snapped this one just a bit too early
but that is ok. It is a digital camera, there is no such
thing as wasting film.
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1. Dan looking over to Russell as Colin is just to the
right in this picture as the couple are entering the dinner
room. The entrance music was "Eyes On Me" by Faye Wong, from
Final Fantasy 8. Ha! We pulled anime song passed the
parents.
2. A casual picture of Dan as he walks around the tables
with the wedding party. Well sort of... Dan's maid is to the
far left.
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1. Here is picture of Dan outside with his car. He
realizes he forgot to shave in the morning so he is doing it
now. Of course, why bother going inside and using the mirror
in the washroom. His car will do quite nicely. Good thing he
washed it earlier...
2. Here is a picture of driver Sheldon taking the bride
and groom and his maid to the wedding pictures.
Unfortunately, he had no Initial D, or Super Eurobeat or
dance Music, actually for that matter, I don't think he even
figured out how the radio worked.
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1. At the end of the wedding things started getting more
normal. We were able to start relaxing and stop being so
stuck up and so polite and etc... Ahh. the fun begins. Here,
Dan took the paper wedding bells from the head table display
and hung them on the two buttoms on the back of Colin's tux.
Ta-Da! Instant Bell bottoms.... har har...
2, The fun did not stop there. So Hieu grabbed one of the
helium balloons and tied it to Dan's button while he was
taking a group shot of the brides maids. What comes around
goes around.
3. Dan showing off the great picture of the maids he took
on his digital camera. Of course, in his mind he is thinking
what he might be able to with Photoshop....
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After the wedding we helped clean up the tables and the
chairs. A good group effort and we were done in no time at
all. This is the great thing about us, we can be efficent
when we want to be.
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While we were waiting for the wedding photographs, the
rest of our group went to a local White Rock mall. Man was
it like boring mall. However, here Fonda found a great
Hawaiian shirt to match his tie. Unfortunately, it matched
nothing else.
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And of course, this is the table of wedding gifts. I have
marked out the two gifts that came from our group. Notice
two things, a) ours is the biggest! Yea! We win! (The big
one is a Sony 150 Watt, Component Stereo system with a 60
disc changer, dual syncro dubbing cassettes and an AV input
panel for VCRs and Game consoles. The second box is a JVC
HiFi Stereo VCR.) Oh and the second thing b) Our gifts were
the most expensive. YEA! We win again!!!
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