We didn't hire a professional photographer for the Ottawa banquet, and it shows! Come check out a bunch of pictures of people you don't know hamming it up with us at the Yangtze restaurant in beautiful Ottawa Chinatown. The whole gallery can be viewed here.

On the way to our wedding reception/banquet/excuse to show off in Ottawa, we stopped by the "Experimental Farm" for some pictures with flowers. The Half-cow/human hybrid had gone home for the day, so we couldn't get any pictures with it/him.

Here's gardening done right - in Canada. Ottawa's received a record amount of rain this summer and the lush vegetation is the happy side-effect. No brown plants here!

Public Service Announcement: For all of you who didn't have the courtesy to respond to our RSVP by the due date, which is today: we didn't like you anyway, and have a nice life.

And here are the replacement flowers! How long will they look like that? How many times can we come back with unhappy faces?

Instead of planning our wedding this long July 4th Weekend, we had a thai-food cook-off at our house. Above is a papaya salad, which is really tasty, much tastier than say, figuring out how to get a wedding license in San Francisco. Who needs that?

As we get closer and closer to W-Day I wanted to remind everyone that we still have plenty of time to eat. Steamed fish seems to be a common trend in our household.

Now that the invitations have gone out, by far the most common question we are getting is:

I can't believe it myself, but we have already received two responses (one was an enthusiastic yes) to our invitations. Remember, I dumped these in the mailbox on Geary street at about noon on Saturday, May 30th. Today is Wednesday, June 3. Incredible service. Anyway, the prizes for first responders have been awarded to two lucky anonymous winners!