Well, I'm married now, what a week! Here's some pics!

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So, we had the legal ceremony in Henan Province. We signed the papers at the local government building and were given little red books with a picture of both of us in them....



We then had a quick reception....



Then headed to my Wife's village about an hour and a half outside of Zhengzhou (Zhengzhou is a nice city BTW). We had a lunch the next day where I met a bunch of her relatives. I had no REAL idea of how humble she'd grown up until then. Her village was very poor. She showed me the house she grew up in and her bedroom as a child had a dirt floor. I always knew she grew up poor, but I had no idea. Her family was so nice to us, very warm smiles and all of them wanted to talk to us.

After the lunch my family and two friends were loaded into a van and driven around the village to EVERY relative's house for a quick ten minute visit. It was exhausting.




That's her one grandma, I don't have a shot of the other one, but when I met her she had an instant quality that makes her special, a luminecsant face that just told her life story. She spent most of her time busting my best man's balls, so it was a lot of fun.

Kids in the village were REALLY curious about what was going on





The cops showed up wondering why so many white folks were around.



Then we had the Beijing wedding....





After the western ceremony She changed into a Chinese dress and we did a quick Chinese one.... then got pissed!



Fuckin' rights I went double breasted!



Cake was damned good.



She smeared cake on my face



So, I had to teach her a lesson....



All in all a great time was had by all. Most amazing thing is the tradition of Hong bao (red envelopes with money) as opposed to gifts... I'm all for it now, we almost paid off the entire wedding!

Hell of a week, oye!