Flora and Eric

Written: May 8, 2004
Last Updated: May 16, 2004

Eric and Flora get married in Napa, California.

The wedding train continues to pick up new passengers! Last week, Rae and I attended the wedding of Eric and Flora at the Chardonnay Golf Club in Napa, California. The Rotten Tomatoes and Cal Wushu crew were all there for the festivities, including Anne Hsu, a fellow Stanford alum whom I haven't seen in several years. The ceremony was held on a lawn overlooking the vineyards and golf course. The contrast was sharp -- old white guys playing golf and dressed-up Asian people for a wedding!

Wind sure is a pain during the wedding; Flora's veil kept whipping around Eric and her throughout the ceremony. The ring bearer did his job to straighten and smooth things out on her dress whenever he could.

I really enjoyed the movie presentations by Brandon and Spencer. Eric's brother sure has a way with words and photos, demonstrated by his hilarious comments on Eric's early interest in martial arts, robots, and space (that Chewbacca outfit was great!). Brandon's video interview was a great way to involve Eric and Flora's friends and to educate us on their shared history.

I shouldn't have been, but I was surprised by the number of digital cameras at the wedding. John Joh was sporting his new D100, Lyle had his 10D (his fiancee also had a D100, I think), and Wilson was using his D60. The official photogs were shooting with Nikon film cameras; I'm not sure if they were sporting digital rigs as well. The Mark II performed very well throughout the evening. The resolution increase over the 1D is noticeable in the ceremony shots of Flora's veil. The 1D's images would have exhibited moire artifacts that weren't present in the Mark II's photos. Flash performance was also quite good with the new camera.

There was an incredible amount of documentation created at the wedding. Here are my photos; everyone else, where's yours?


Weddings and Golf	For Bryan	Ceremonial Lawn
Susan and Rae	Stephen meet Stephen	John Joh with his 70-200
Everyone's got a camera!	Eric's parents	Eric and the groomsmen
Arriving in a limo golf cart	Awaiting Flora	Receiving the ring
Bridesmaids	Flora arrives	Eric, Raffi, and Patrick
Spencer	Flowers	Conjuring the gods
Smoothing out Flora's dress	Ceremonial drink	First kiss
First kiss		Congratulations, Eric and Flora!
Flying away	The lawn	The reception area
Oooh, food!	Guests	Adam and Rae (photo: Wilson)
Edgardo Yu clone		Reception
Rae	The leaning cake of Yeh	Brandon with Paul, Emilio, and Kai
Wushu table	Eric's dad gives his speech	Flora's dad gives his speech
Seared tuna!	Where's Rae's food?	Toasting Eric and Flora
Here's Rae's food!	Last second sound adjustment	Good job, ringbearer!
Flora's dad (and brother?)	Flora and Eric	Anne and Stephen
Toasting the couple	One down, many to go	Happy parents
Rae, Susan, Flora, Eric, and me (photo: John)	Flora, Eric, and Binh	Rae, Stephen, Percy, Tami, and George
John with a cute kid	Me and Percy (photo: Rae)	Rae and Li Jing
Brandon plays his video	The interviews aren't that embarassing!	Videos
Raffi's toast	All smiles	Spencer explains the photos
Cutting the cake	Bubblerose Rae	More dessert?
First dance	First dance	First dance
Dancing with parents	Happy times	Make it a Santori night
Being coy	Congratulating the bride	Kevin and Eric get down
I don't want to know what they're doing	Flora and her friend get down	Flora and guests
Kevin limbos	I limbo (photo: Rae)	Kai gets knocked down, but not the wine!
Susan, Paul and Rae dance	Brandon chugs	Flora, Eric, and Patrick
John, Susan, and Rae	Poodle dog accessory	Susan, Rae, and me (photo: John)
The bartenders	Brothers battle	Brandon and Eric
Eric	Flora	Light imitates hair
Rae	Bridesmaids get down	Susan
Go-Go Patrick!	Anne and Mae	Spencer gets the ladies
Eric and Flora dance	Eric and Flora	Rae and me (photo: John)
Rae and me (photo: John)

Enter The Photo Gallery

Reader Comments

good times, good times!
in case anyone wants to view the video, it\'s online here:
http://www.jiayo.com/downloads/wedding_small.mov

--posted by Brandon @ Monday, May 17 2004, 11:54 am PDT

sweet pictures!

--posted by Raffi @ Monday, May 17 2004, 12:23 pm PDT

Wow, thank you for taking the time to take and post up these photos! I think the phrase \"wow\" pretty much speaks for itself when talking about the quality of the pictures here :)

--posted by Eric Yeh @ Monday, May 17 2004, 12:47 pm PDT

These are beautiful pictures! Thanks so much for taking them and sharing them too!

--posted by Flora @ Monday, May 17 2004, 13:56 pm PDT

Great pictures. Many of them made me LOL. : ) Good to see you and thanks for posting these!

--posted by anne h @ Monday, May 17 2004, 17:14 pm PDT

fantastic!! i\'ve been checking the site nearly everyday since the wedding. :)

--posted by anne\'s sister mae @ Monday, May 17 2004, 17:48 pm PDT

Thank you for taking that photo for me :P

--posted by Bryan @ Monday, May 17 2004, 19:42 pm PDT