It's already been a month

We've already been married for over a month! When do you stop being a "newlywed"?

Time to post some of my favorite pictures from our big day. I'll split this up into three entries. Today will be ceremony pictures.

This is the front of our Church- the First Congregational Church of L.A. We had no special affiliation with this church and picked it because it was beautiful, in a great location near our reception venue, and it was available!

This is a great shot of the largest pipe organ inside a Church, in the world. We didn't hire any extra musicians and instead, had the Church organist play pieces that we loved- Ave Maria, Pachelbel's Canon, etc.

At first I didn't want to wear a veil, but my mom convinced me of it. She felt the Church was so large and grande that a long veil would work best. My grandmother's sister made this mantilla veil for me. I loved it!

All my bridesmaids. Three were my oldest friends from high school, and my sister was my maid of honor. My bouquet was all pink calla lillies, with some bling in the form of crystals. The girls had green orchids mixed with various other beautiful pink flowers.

My two grandmothers wore traditional Korean dresses. This is my maternal grandmother getting ready to walk down the aisle with my cousin. Her outfit was so cute! and the colors matched perfectly with our wedding colors: brown, pink, and green.

It was really important for me to walk down the aisle with both my parents. I'm not much of a traditionalist and think the whole idea of being "given away" by my father to be outdated and sexist (my personal opinion!!). The ceremony itself was really emotionally intense. We put together the entire ceremony from an outline provided to us by our minister Kyle Nash. We know Kyle Nash from medical school and she was an extremely pivotal person in making the medical school experience a positive one for us, so we felt really lucky that she flew out to CA for us! I cried and laughed almost the entire way through, while stressing out about black mascara dripping down my face. But our makeup artist was awesome and my makeup stayed perfect the entire night! Thank goodness our photographer was able to capture my non-crying face!Yay, we're married! This is us, feeling very relieved! Afterward, we went immediately into the bridal room with our wedding party for a few minutes together. We didn't want a long receiving line, so we waited until our guests started leaving for the cocktail hour, and then our photographer took just Armand and me to take some portraits. Those are up next...!
All these photographs are by Daniel Chin Photography.