Wedding Date on Jan 14, 2017

Love Story We met in LA through mutual friends 6 years ago. We had a lot of obstacles to go through in the first couple years of dating. We survived some challenges and we both knew we were meant for each other. Our first trip with his family was in Florida. We got engaged at my in laws' house in Cape Coral, FL. When we thought of places we wanted to get married, we knew it had to be Florida. My father in law officiated our small wedding of 40 people on the beach in Marco Island. It was a fairy tale! I planned the wedding with my mother in law and it turned out more beautiful than we could ever imagine! About the Mother of the Bride I wanted to write something on behalf of all the brides that have lost their mothers, and couldn’t have their mother at the their wedding or to celebrate Mother’s Day with anymore. My mother passed away on May 14, 2013 from Brain Cancer in 2013 after a two year battle. I just realized as I type this, this Mother’s Day on the day will be exactly 4 years. Luckily, my husband had the pleasure of meeting her a couple times during her illness when she was still vibrant and filled with personality. My mother also had the pleasure of meeting my then boyfriend, and I think she would be happy to see that we got married. It means so much to be married to someone my mother was able to know. In her honor, I have started this 501c3 non-profit organization, Lets Go Foundation (in honor of her last words, “Lets Go”). My mother was Korean, and our wedding video shows my father giving a speech throughout the video with a Korean cheers with soju shots to honor her. We also had a memory tree with her photo at our reception table. My aunt (my mother’s older sister) took the role of the mother and came from Korea to Marco Island to walk down in traditional Korean a Korean mother wears to their child’s wedding.