We are married!   ~mike and joy. San Francisco City Hall, 23 July 2010
We met in August, 2005; for three years we traveled by air between San Francisco and Los Angeles to see each other; Mike moved to San Mateo in 2008, we got engaged in November 2009 and now we are married! The wedding was a small gathering with immediate family on a Friday afternoon in San Francisco. Next, we are planning a big party for friends and family! Photography by Adrian.
Joy and Mike
Mike met Joy at her sister's house.	We hired a towncar.	Joy and Mike outside City Hall.
Joy and her parents, Yola and Ming.	Outside City Hall.	with Mike's parents, Jim and Susan.
Ming, Yola, Joy, and Mike.	Joy and Mike with the parents.	At the entrance.
Joy and Mike.	Joy's flowers came from our yard.	Joy and Mike walking in.
Joy at the grand staircase.	The ceremony was up there.	Joy is wearing her mom's wedding dress.
City Hall is beautiful.	The ceremony takes just a couple minutes.	Our ceremony.
Exchanging rings.	We are married!	Joy and Mike walking.
with parents.	with Lisa and Joe.	with Adrian and Jomay.
The family, less photographer Adrian.	The whole family.	On the trolley.
We chartered a vintage trolley.	Boarding the trolley.	City Hall beyond.
On the trolley.	Parked across from City Hall.	The trolley took us to our restaurant.
Joy and Mike drink to a toast.	We like the food at Chaya Brasserie.	Our table looked out on the bay and the bridge.
Lunch at Chaya.	We walked on the pier across from Chaya.	Joy and Mike.
Afterward, Joy and I walked across the street to our top-floor room at Vitale, a boutique hotel across from the Ferry Building. Cozy, sleek, and bright, the room had a big soaking tub with a view of the city with a glimpse of the bridge and the bay. After an afternoon game of scrabble, supplemented by dark chocolate and red wine, we ventured out to a nearby favorite source of Peruvian ceviche and ate far too much delicious fish. Saturday morning we went across the street to the Ferry Building farmers' market, where tasty hot breakfasts are prepared and sold. Then it was time to collect my truck from the valet and return home.
Our rings are palladium and gold alloys interlocked together with Mike's favorite woodwork joints.
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