Brian and Stephanie's Wedding in Portland, Oregon

We also had a "mini" tea ceremony the morning of our big day. This was to honor his grandparents and parents, as well as welcome my family to his family.

We had the BEST vendor team who pulled off, in my opinion, the BEST wedding ever! We had over 350 people in attendance and you always hear about wedding horror stories and expect the worse being a bride, but it was flawless!

My favorite moments looking back, was the surpise speech my dad gave. He had spent the entire day while we were all celebrating our lao ceremony, practicing his speech(i found out). I am an only child and a total daddy's girl so it was everything to me. You can see in the pictures what a truly special moment it was for me.

Another precious moment for Brian and I, was having our 13yo pug, O'ryan with us. He is our furbaby and was the cutest thing to see as I walked down the aisle. He also sponsored the open bar of henny vsop and don julio, I heard everyone was super happy about that!

We also got to bring both our cultures to the reception! We had Lion Dancers(Brian used to be one) to open up the reception and to honor my Lao culture, our first dance, was a tradtional Lao dance. It was honestly a dream. I have dreamt of this day for as long as I could remember and reality was a million times better. It was so beautiful to see my contemporary wedding with both our cultures tastefuly tied in.