Wei and Lauren's Wedding

The Happy Couple. I took the picture too dark initially, so here's the altered version.

We attended W&L's wedding this Saturday in a Catholic Church in downtown Dallas. The ceremony was very Catholic and formal. Aside from the usual exchange of vows and rings, there were quintssential Catholic rites, such liturgy of the eucharist and Communion. The church was very beautiful, old Cathedral-style architechure with tall vaulted ceilings, marble statues and stained glass. No wonder the bride got away with having very little flowers at the wedding. When the sound of real organ music and a live cantor bellowed out from above, it was as though I was carried back in time to the beginnings of Christianity when early believers worshipped this way . Both architechure and ambience were full of tradition and history, worshipers signing the cross, some women donning the mantilla, kneelings during the ceremony, alter boys in white robes, etc. These traditions and rites were all so dramatic to me perhaps because of their obvious absence in the baptist churches I'm use to attending, where the architecture is modern and simplistic, the sound system is technologically advanced, and the pastors wear suits.

We met up with some old friends that we haven't seen in a while.

My wedding outfit.