Wedding in San Jose

On Saturday, October 22nd, Mike (Ingrid's co-worker) married Kim in San Jose. Ingrid had the bright idea of driving up there, leaving Saturday afternoon and returning Sunday night. Needless to say, in between the drive up and the return drive home, we partied like rockstars.



As you know, an appointment just wouldn't be an appointment for Ingrid if she didn't risk being late... So that's exactly what we did. We left LA in the early afternoon hoping to arrive in San Jose for a 5:00 wedding ceremony. Luckily for us on the way up, there was very little traffic.



Having each spent three years at law school up in the Bay Area, we're both very familiar with the rigors of the commute and planned like experts. Ingrid gathered the essentials... water, sandwiches and good spirits, to name a few, which pushed our time of departure into the realm of "Nearly Impossible To Make It To The Wedding On Time."



But if there's one thing I've learned over the years with Ingrid it's that you can never count her out. So I sat back and enjoyed the scenery.



In the last leg of the trip, which is supposed to be the most scenic, I fell asleep. It felt like a dream when I opened my eyes and we had already arrived in San Jose. The time?... 4:30.



We quickly parked, unloaded our bags, rushed to check in and headed straight to the room where Ingrid took a shower and changed into this beautiful dress. Not a moment to spare. It honestly never ceases to amaze me how close Ingrid can cut it, but somehow consistently make it to events in the nick of time.



We hurried out of the room so quickly that I forgot my camera, so I have no pictures of the ceremony. But here's the bride and groom at the reception. Kim had just changed from her wedding gown into this traditional Vietnamese dress. I also have to apologize for the quality of these pictures. My camera was broken at the time, so we used Ingrid's crappy camera instead.



Ingrid's and Mike's two other co-workers, Nat and Wendy, made it out with their siginificant others as well. Here's Nat with his girlfriend, Julie. She's a rocket scientist. Literally.



With the exception of one rocket scientist, our table was full of attorneys. How fun. Yes, that was me being sarcastic. Just so you get a feel for what this means, when Ingrid and I first arrived at the table, one first-year attorney was talking to us about how many huge cases he was managing, then, after realizing that we were both attorneys too (with more experience than him), quickly scaled back. I guess to some attorneys, "management" is a synonym for "doc review." Whatever you want to call it, it ain't rocket science...



Eventually, it came time to toss the bouquet, at which point I became paralyzed with flashbacks of the last wedding Ingrid and I attended. Seeing only Ingrid and Julie out there made me a bit weak in the knees.



More people eventually showed up (thankfully?) and Kim didn't toss the bouquet very far, so the person who caught the bouquet (i.e. snatched the bouquet just before it hit the ground) had to dash forward to get it. I guess Ingrid didn't want it bad enough... ?



Then finally, it came time for my favorite part of any wedding... Dancing! And nothing can keep Ingrid and me off the dance floor. We're dancing machines!



Mike joined us on the dance floor with his miniature dancing partner. There's Wendy and her date there in the background.



By the end of the night, this is how I felt. Excellent!



The next morning Ingird and I joined the newly married couple and some others for a short breakfast, then packed up our things and headed out. Before leaving the hotel, I took a quick bike ride in the hotel's Starbucks while Ingrid went to retrieved something she forgot in the room.



On the drive back, I stayed awake and got to enjoy the scenery that I missed on the ride up. It was a beautiful day.

Congratulations Mike and Kim!