As we journey through our new life together as husband and wife in Christ, I'll use this space to detail some of our happenings every now and again. It'll be so neat to look back on this to see how much we have grown together!

First post here since the wedding

Posted Wednesday, August 01, 2007 7:07 AM

It's amazing how time flies on by as we draw nearer to our 1-month anniversary!  Marriage has been a true blessing for us in so many different ways.

I have yet to gather myself enough to do a wedding recap post for either of our weddings (we got married in the US and then in Korea), but I'll get there someday.  I've just got a couple of things that have been on my mind that I just kind of want to let out, I suppose.

We got a call late last night from my husband's supervisor telling him that they want him to move to Chicago (we are in MN) by the end of August.  Relocation is tough enough of a topic on its own.  What makes it more complicated for us is that his company is his sponsor here for his work visa.  My husband's work permit and whatnot.are currently in process, but we do not yet have the actual work permit.  Thus, his company basically holds a monopoly over our lives.

However, we contacted our attorney today, and if his company keeps pushing him to move and threatens to fire him if he doesn't comply, he CAN work elsewhere perfrectly legally since the documents are in process.  We were not originally wanting to opt for this, but if push comes to shove, we at least have an alternate route that we can take without having to give up everything we have here.  Our attorney said that so long as someone is willing to take him in, go for it.  ^^;;  We'll see what his company's next moves are, though.

I could not sleep at all last night because of this, and I went to work with a terrible headache this morning.  All's well now, though. ^^;;  As long as we both hold on to God, we'll be able to get through it all.  아자아자 화이팅!!

Then, I am just worrying myself so much over our wedding photos.  Our photographers came in from Chicago, so we were sure to send them every single location detail well in advance so they could map it all out and jazz.  Well, they never bothered to print directions and just kept asking people how to get places (mostly).  After the ceremony, he asked out pastor (I would like to now say our former pastor, a story for another entry) how to get to the reception site. Well, the bridal party gets to the reception site along with a few others, and there's no sign of the photographers.  I finally call them and find that they've gone way past the exit they needed to take.  It took so long for them to finally arrive, and we already had such precious little time for photos.  The family shots were so rushed, and we weren't able to take even half as many photos of just the two of us as I would have liked.

[starting a new paragraph just to break it up]  Hence, I'm just so scared that the few photos they did take won't turn out how we hoped and that they may not have captured our ceremony how we asked and that we'll look through our pictures regretting not having this one or that one.  My grandparents are already a little upset they weren't able to get a posed shot with us, and my mother expressed concern that the only shot I got with my parents might be of them kissing me on the cheek.  Our wedding happens only once!  How do you let something like that happen!  They had plenty of time before the wedding to map everything out and do test drives and whatnot.  They should have also asked to be sure there weren't other photos I was hoping to have done.  GAHHH.

I meant to call them today since they didn't respond to my email in what I feel a suitable manner, but I'll have to call tomorrow now.  I just want a few photos to ease my mind instead of thinking, "Oh my goodness, our wedding photos are ruined."

On a lighter note, our wedding highlights video is incredible.  YellowTree did such an amazing job with it.  Even my mother, who couldn't understand why we would pay to have someone videotape our wedding, has sent it to everyone she knows, stating that she watches it about 10 times a day.  XD  They did such a beautiful job with it.  For those looking for song inspiration ideas for their videos, I highly recommend the one we did: "At the Beginning" by Richard Marx and Donna Lewis (sp?) from the Anastasia soundtrack. ♡

Anyway, that's enough for now.

Good night!

Comments

re: First post here since the wedding

Congrats on your marriage! I'm sorry about the photography dilemma. That is a major bummer! We had a similar--though on a much smaller scale--experience with our photographer. He showed up on time and we got a lot of pictures taken (probably more than we needed) but when we got the proofs back, a lot of our formals in the church have tons of shadows in them. In some, you can only see the person's face--everything else is a shadow. He said that he can lighten them so it should be better but still, you think that he would've caught that before taking the picture. Another bummer we had was that he didn't get a picture of our first kiss as husband and wife during the ceremony, nor did we get any pictures of our exit from the reception (which wasn't the photographer's fault because he had already left like we had planned).

I almost wish you could do a complete dress rehearsal before the actual wedding because I've learned some things that I would do differently (like take more pictures with our guests). But at the end of the day, we are married and that's what it was all about anyway.

Hope your pictures turn out well!

Posted by Happy2BeKathyKluthe    Wednesday, August 01, 2007 8:25 AM


re: First post here since the wedding

I already responded to your post but it didn't get processed I guess...bummer!!

Anyway, congrats on your marriage! DH and I also had a little bit of trouble with our wedding pictures--there were lots of shadows over people in our formals and the photographer didn't get a picture of our first kiss during the ceremony--but not to the degree that you did!! I hope that when you get the pictures back , they're good and what you hoped for.

Good luck with the job/moving situation--"trust in God and He will act."

Posted by Happy2BeKathyKluthe    Wednesday, August 01, 2007 9:09 AM


re: First post here since the wedding

We spent A LOT of money on our photographer because we had a destination wedding and didn't really have a choice in photographers like we would have liked.  I sent them a detailed list of photographs I wanted (because I am a wedding photographer and know what I really want), and guess what they forgot to take ... a photograph of my husband with his father!  I didn't notice because I wasn't around when they were taking those photos, and my husband was just going with the flow.  And my parents are divorced, but he just took one overall family photo (with both divorced parents in it) with my siblings.  I wasn't really paying attention because it was my wedding day and all, so I didn't know, but when I got them all back, my mom called me upset because she didn't have a picture of the family to hang up in her house without my dad in it.  And I realized I would have liked a separate family shot with my mom and then with my dad, so they could each have their own to hang up.  I hate missing photos since that day is only once!

Posted by edmo    Wednesday, August 01, 2007 1:15 PM


**Happy2BeKathyKluthe and edmo

Happy2BeKathyKluthe --Sorry about the confusion!  I have comments set to moderated since I've heard some kind of sad stories about some of the crazy comments people will post.  I'm surprised there's no message that tells you the comment is awaiting approval.  I'll try to mention something to the powers that be, lol.

I hope your photographer is able to dig himself out of his hole!

edmo--We were able to find a great deal with our photographer, but we actually wound up firing our first one when we found out that what he advertises is very far from what he actually delivers.  We're still trying to get some of our money back from him, but even if we can't, it's worth losing that money in order to find someone else you know will deliver what you want.  I'm an amateur photographer, so I was extremely picky as well.  I just keep running through the day thinking that there is no way they got everything that they should have, but hopefully they'll be able to prove me wrong for the most part.

Posted by Choensa    Wednesday, August 01, 2007 5:28 PM


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We are married as of July 7th! I strive to be a Proverbs 31 wife and am thankful for each day I have the opportunity to grow by my husband's side. ^^;; We are trying to get a few things sorted for now so that we can head down the path God has paved for us full force!


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