"equal partners in a mystery"
Invitations went out at the beginning of the week. The website is done. Our flowers are growing (pics to come later). Honeymoon hotel resort is booked as well as the roundtrip plane tickets there. We’re currently looking for an apartment/house to rent. Things are moving along well. We love you all.
The blog you are now looking at is integrated into the just-finished Wedding Website for Tiana Lin Reinhardt and Eric Austin Lee!
Enjoy: check it out, and feel free to drop us a note on the guest book page!
We will be making regular updates to this blog as time approaches to the big day.
We love you all!
We could potentially have an inflatable church at Dos Picos! But… we’re not gonna 
In the meantime, check out these pictures!
 Peek-a-boo #3 Originally uploaded by ericisrad. |
Tiana and I made a third trip to our wedding site at Dos Picos park with Tiana’s Dad Laz and his wife Denise. We wanted to not only show them our wedding site, but also check out the progress of construction on it.
You see, our wedding site is not done being built yet. We are not worried though, because since the last time we were there, the construction crew has made enormous leaps and bounds in progress on the site.
Before leaving the site though, we decided to take some cheezy-yet-fun pictures of each other. The one featured in this post is my favourite not only for the lighting, but also the way the blue colour of Tiana’s eyes come out so well in the picture.
We’re very excited and are looking forward to seeing all of our families on May 20th!
Here is the Flickr gallery:
Apologies if anybody thought the last post was real concerning our “knitted wedding” — we’re not actually doing that.
However, what we’re really doing is going to plant all our own flowers. Back when I was in junior high in Merced, CA, I used to do this with great enthusiasm. I planted hundreds of bulbs around our house and just about all of them came up and it looked gorgeous! I planted crocus, hyacinths, blue grape hyacinths, tulips, daffodils, and gladiolus.
We figured that not only would it be a money saver, but it would also be a lot of fun to do. We’ve already bought most of the seeds and bulbs for the flowers we’re going to use.
This morning I called into 1360 AM in San Diego to talk to Bruce Asakawa on the “Garden Compass” morning show. Him and his co-hosts provided some helpful advice. We’re thinking of having those super blue, bearded irises as one of the main flowers as our colour theme is bright blue and brown. We’ll also be growing plenty of white flowers such as white alyssum and baby’s breath and a few other nice-looking flowers and bulbs.
I’ll be posting some pictures soon of what we bought, and I also hope to keep you all updated on the progress of the flowers, complete with pictures!
There are 125 days left till our wedding! Much joy!
Tiana and I have talked at length about our new idea for our wedding. We will be having all of you involved knit our entire wedding, kind of like these folks! Flowers, dresses, wedding hats, the cake, the wedding train, were all knitted, and we are going to do the same. Exciting, huh?!
We’ve thought long and hard about this, and we feel it’s something we really want to do. We know it will be a lot of work for us all, but it’s how we think it really should be.
WE’RE JUST KIDDING, BY THE WAY
p.s. no offense is intended toward any of you out there who really do enjoy knitting. I cannot knit myself, and am jealous of those with such practical skills as those required to make the clothing that keeps many of us warm in the colder parts of the year!
Here is a Flickr photo set of our engagement rings. Yes, we both have engagement rings, as I mentioned in our engagement announcement post.
Our rings have the same band design, yet contain a couple differences: Tiana’s ring contains three moonstones, while mine contains smaller blue sapphires; also, the inner vine design is yellow gold with white gold on the outside solid edge on Tiana’s ring while mine contains yellow gold on the outside and white gold on the inner vine design.
These are our engagement and wedding rings. We think they turned out rather nice.
Tiana will need to get hers resized a bit, but other than that, we’re very happy and thankful for these rings!
We are proud to pronounce that Tiana and Eric are engaged!
On Thursday, October 20th, 2005, Tiana Reinhardt agreed to marry Eric Lee as the sun set behind them on the cliffs in Ocean Beach, San Diego.
Eric devised a rather elaborate plan to surprise Tiana that night. The proposal included convincing her that he had locked his keys in his car on the way to a dinner reservation, convincing our friends to hide out on the beach until Tiana accepted Eric’s proposal, and asking our friends to bring flowers as well as well wishes to write on shells that were to be delivered to Tiana afterwards.
After Tiana arrived in Ocean Beach to give Eric a set of keys to get into his car, he lured her down some steps to a small, secluded beach, convincing her that there were some dolphins to be seen before the sun disappeared too far into the night sky. Turning around at the foot of the cliff, he had to tell her that there were no dolphins, but more importantly, he had to tell her of his love for her not only with words, but also with an engagement ring and a very important question.
During the three months prior to this night, we had our engagement rings fashioned by a jeweler who agreed to do custom work for us. After Tiana accepted Eric’s proposal and let Eric place her ring on her finger, Eric also allowed Tiana to place the ring that they had made for Eric upon his finger.
After a few short moments, a group of our friends started cheering from the sidelines of the beach, further surprising Tiana. They greeted us with hugs, and they placed their sea shells down at a pre-placed flower arrangement.
By sundown, everybody was gone, and we were allowed to share some time alone before going out to dinner to celebrate and read all of the well wishes from our friends.
Picture Gallery #1 taken by David Overholt
Picture Gallery #2 taken by Jennifer Tracy
(The extended entry below contains the full text of Eric’s write-up on his blog that originally appeared here.)
After much back-and-forth between Tiana & I and our jeweler, our rings are finally being made. And now, all communication with the jeweler is only to take place between me and the jeweler so that Tiana is not to know exactly when the rings will be done.
So, you know what’s next…
