HOLY FOODNESS! Saturday was so amazing! Carlos and I felt so honored to be included in the morning, when the more traditional private wedding took place. There weren’t very many other people who were non-family members besides us. Very amazing!
I’ll start at the beginning and try to give as much detail as possible but just know it was an ENTIRE day of activities and the pictures are way more fun anyways! (Dori, I hope you can see them!)
Dress #1
Isn’t it beautiful! Sandy, the bride, had it sent all the
way from Vietnam just for me…I love it!
Saturday morning was the traditional Vietnamese wedding. Here are the bride & groom, so beautiful!
Traditionally, the groom & groom’s family bring gifts to the bride’s family. Here is one of the gifts (which smelled amazing although they didn’t serve it)
At about 11am, we headed to the church for mass & the 2nd wedding.
Bride & groom again, maid-of-honor and best man.
Mass & this wedding took 1.5 hours – long but amazingly beautiful! I don’t speak Vietnamese so I didn’t understand most of what was said at either ceremony but it still was absolutely beautiful!
The original plan was to go back to the brides house for lunch but the father of the groom has been very ill lately (cancer) and wasn’t able to make it to the wedding. Both families ended up going to the fathers house so Carlos and I had a couple hours break before the reception.
Where did we end up? Que Veit, a yummy yummy little Vietnamese restaurant where I managed to snag a picture of my honey bunney in his new glasses!
The man who continues to amaze me every day!
We split an order of egg rolls
Carlos got chicken wings
I got the chicken rice noodle soup. It was delish!
and…I might have been able to snag *some* fortune cookies
We went home, I took a quick 45min nap and changed into dress #2
In the car, on the way to reception
At the reception
(hhmm..not sure what’s up with the yellow tone in the picture)
AND HERE’S WHERE THE FOOD STARTS
Picture about 15 tables, each with 10 people sitting there. Dinner was served in large family style dishes at each table. I am not kidding, ridiculous amounts of food! They brought out everything about 15 minutes apart so we had time to eat one thing before the next dish was brought out. So let’s start:
Egg Drop Soup
Egg rolls, chicken wings, sweet & sour chicken, bbq chicken & duck
My plate!
Chicken & Broccoli
Fruit
The most amazing fried rice I’ve ever eaten!
Braised chicken
Scallops, noodles & veggie salad
Stuffed crab 
Now, here’s when I stopped eating.
Lobster(not on my plate)
Walleye(not on my plate) 
Shrimp
(not on my plate)
But I resumed eating when they pulled out the heavenly cake!
I was so stuffed by the end of the night but didn’t feel like I binged. I had tiny servings of almost everything.
Dress #3 – No show!
I did have it but didn’t end up wearing it. It was suppose to be for after the reception when we went downtown but we were all so tired & so full that we didn’t make it downtown. Carlos and I were home and I was sleeping by 11pm!
and, there ya have it. A day of serious serious serious eating and one of the most beautiful weddings I have ever been to!
AND THAT MY FRIENDS, IS WHY I WAS TOTALLY OKAY WITH MY WEIGH IN YESTERDAY!
See ya on Wednesday!
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Good job Jen! I'm SO impressed that you maintained your weight loss with all of that YUMMY food! I'm SO hungry for vietnamese food now! Thanks…
Cheryl
Wow….now that's a wedding. Very nice and you look great!
I thought Carlos looked different the last time I saw him but I didn't remember he got new glasses. I'm sorry Carlos, you look great also. Love the new you. Let's keep our eyes where they belong and now on the plates anymore.
Love Mom
Jen you look absolutely beautiful in both dresses but I especially love the pink traditional one. Is it yours to keep? I hope so because it looks stunning on you.
Dress #1 is stunning! And you look fabulous in it!
You two are a right pair of hotties!!!!!! Loved the account of the festivities, and well done Jen for reining it in and sampling stuff rather than scoffing – you're my hero!
xxx
What a cool wedding! The food looked great.
Wow, that is a lot of food! It all looks awesome! You looked great too.
What a fun wedding to be a part of.
OMG ALL of the food looks absolutely deeee-lish! Great job that you maintained this week!
That pink dress looks amazing on you, and you are absolutely beautiful!
Wow! I love love love your first dress, especially. How beautiful you were! (Carlos looked quite handsome too!) Looks like a really good time (wow – an entire day!). I bet you were ready for your day of rest on Sundy. You did really well on the food – there was alot of it. Congrats!
Looks like a great wedding
And both you and carlos look awesome!!
My daughters best friend is vietnamese and she's been to a couple of weddings and she says the food is to die for
Lovely pictures! You look great and I can see how hard it was to avoid all the delicious-looking food!
Holy cow, that is quite the feast! I think you did GREAT with your portions. And you also looked LOVELY in your dresses!
Looks like you had fun and the food looks AMAZING!!
Jen, pink is your color – that dress looks fantastic on you! Sounds like the wedding was an amazing experience – glad you had fun!
P.S. Carlos looks great in those glasses!
Jen you looked Stunning….tell Carlos that Syl says "what are you waiting for get a ring on that finger"……
Sounds like you had a blast, I love weddings!
Oh my!! That food looks amazing! I don't know how you stayed in control, but kudos to you!! You look amazing in that beautiful pink dress!!
You look so pretty in those dresses! All that food looks amazing!! Great job on just having small portions of each! That takes control!!
What a beautiful dress the bride picked out for you! It's figure flattering too!
You weren't kidding at the awesomeness of the food.
I can only imagine what it must have been like to experience all that first hand.
Thanks for sharing!
Jen – Amazing dress…was it a little see through or is that just me? That food looked amazing…I love Viet food…used to go to a Viet rest. as a kid…thanks for all your posts…love them all..cuz K
you are a knockout girlfriend! sounds like an amazing time — my best of wishes goes out to the happy couple
Certainly looks like a beautiful wedding and you tell a story so well with photos.
I once went to a Vietnamese wedding in the UK but it was not a patch on that one.
WOW looked spectacular.
Thanks for allowing us to view all the tasty food; a feast for the eyes. Thank God I am sitting by the gym cafe eating a delicious pasta salad, otherwise those shots would have made me very hungry
xxx
Carlos looks great with his new glasses! Your portion control is absolutely amazing and inspiring.
I would have sunk under the table in a food coma! That food looks absolutely fantastic! They can keep the cake… just gimme more food!
Pink is definitely your color! You looked stunning in both outfits, but the pink really complimented you. You and Carlos are such a cute couple!
Wow all that food looks quite interesting…not sure I would could have sat at that table the entire dinner!
You look gorgeous in both your outfits! And Carlos, lovin the new goggles, very sharp!! You two are the hotness!
Love ya,
Joy
Man that was quite a spread of food! I loved your dress #2! I think if you ever need another job you could get one as a food photographer. My pics of foods never do the food justice. Julie