Moving from the subject of same-sex marriage to the subject of different-sex ones, Saturday we went to the wedding of Tawn’s school friend Bua and her fiancee Pom. Their engagement party was thirteen months ago and it is hard to believe a year has passed so quickly.
Bua is a Qantas flight attendant and Pom is a first officer with Orient Thai Airlines (a mostly domestic Thai carrier) and so their engagement party and subsequent wedding was airline themed. Here’s the wedding invitation:
We arrived at the Hyatt Grand Erawan with Pim and her husband Arm to find the area just outside the ballroom converted into a check-in lobby, completed with two “Love Airways” podia, below.
We sat at a table of Tawn’s school friends, all of whom have had babies recently. Unfortunately, with 600 guests the bride and groom were never together long enough for me to get a picture of them! We had plenty of time to visit with our friends, though, and to play with the babies. Actually, there were a lot of guests with young children. Bua had arranged for a play area outside the ballroom complete with small jungle gyms, toys, and a clown armed with incredible balloon animal making skills. He made a good Mickey Mouse, a passable Ultraman, and an amazing Little Mermaid.
Below left, Tawn and a shocked Nam-ing, Jaa and Teuk’s 6-month old. Below right, me with Jae Jae, Saa and Job’s 3-month old, in his cute little jeans. Unfortunately, Pim and Arm’s nearly 3-year old daughter, Tara, decided she would rather go visit her grandparents this evening. Tawn even tried to convince her by telling her that her Uncle Chris would be there, but that didn’t seem to be much of a selling point.
The food was a Chinese banquet with an especially tasty Peking duck. The skin was super-crispy and the plum sauce was unusually not sickeningly sweet.
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Well, don’t you and Tawn look handsome! And, what’s with all the babies?? I’m loving these pictures!
You both look so good in these pictures. What a great idea with the invitation cards and the podium to resemble check in counters. Very neat.
it’s so creative 🙂 so are you gonna have your kid soon?
lol… I love the idea! The invite is so creative… lol
@YNOTswim – Ha ha… as much as we’d like to have children there are several hurdles to overcome, hurdles that may be more than we want to deal with. Perhaps being supportive uncles to all of our “nieces” and “nephews” (as well as the real nieces) will be a good second choice.
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I think I reply to your comment on my blog…. but guess you had not checked it. I said that I would like to see you when I went back to BKK the last time cuz I am big member for airliners.net as well… like know every detail about planes/airport/airlines… crazy about plane since 5 and now a PhD student in Aerospace Engineering in Seattle…. anyway.. hope to talk ab out planes soon
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you two always look like you have such a good time when you’re around children. are you guys planning on adopting?
Cute wedding.
@prachya – Khun Turn, khrap. Didn’t realize you had replied. Sometimes I forget to go back and check sites to see if there is a response. That’s why I like Xanga’s new “reply” feature as that way I find out there was a reply.
I’ve been very bad about writing trip reports; there are three or four I haven’t yet written. As for you, a PhD in AE sounds like fun and Seattle is a great place to do it. Please let me know next time you are in town; Tawn and I would love to meet you.
@PetiteMandoo – Thank you. Tawn and I both really enjoy children and seem to get along well with them. We would love to have our own children but the complicated nature of our relationship, in terms of residency and parental rights (US and Thailand don’t recognize same-sex couples and Thailand doesn’t represent same-sex couples being adoptive parents) makes it unlikely that we’d be able to adopt in the next ten years. It reaches a point, age-wise, where I feel like once I’m in my 40s I might not have the energy to be a full-time parent of an infant. Instead, we’ll just try to be great uncles for our nieces and our friends’ children.
well now, isn’t that like the cutest idea every! Corny, granted, but damn cute.
What a neat theme. Were there metal detectors too? 600 people – I don’t think my budget will ever handle a wedding that size. Heck, I don’t even know 600 people.
@ElusiveWords – There were metal detectors – hand wands at least – but that’s standard for nice hotels around here. They don’t want a Jakarta to happen. As for your guests, you’re only responsible for about 300 people; your boyfriend can come up with the other half!