Wedding Program Insert

The Paschal Wedding Program

The wedding program includes a reprint of the Wedding at Cana icon, Acknowledgments, the Paschal Troparion and Greeting in English and Chinese. The Chinese wedding program also includes Chinese calligraphy by the father of the groom of the Paschal Troparion on the cover, and the acknowledgment section translated into Chinese by Samuel Wong.

The Chinese Orthodox Wedding Service: An Explanation

The English text to this explanation was compiled together by Mitrophan Chin drawing from various online sources with reference to the red service book of the Holy Eastern Orthodox Catholic and Apostolic Church as used by the Antiochian Archdiocese of North America, and translated into Chinese by Ioannes Chen.

Word 2000: English | Traditional Chinese (w/vertical punctuations)

Acknowledgments (Unabridged and ongoing)

We like to take this opportunity to give thanks to the Most Holy Trinity and to you, our guests, relatives and family, for your presence in making this beautiful occasion possible. The patience, flexibility and gift of love of all has been key to riding through the many unexpected twists and turns as the day unfolded. We have been joyfully crowned by our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ with you standing by us (we know how tiring it must have been standing ;) In particular, we are grateful for the following groups for your blessings and support in many critical moments in both of our lives:

All the helpers of the wedding: Victoria and Jasper Wong for coordinating wedding planning and tea ceremony.; Virginia and Rockey Chan for coordinating bridal pickup and reception food.; Jack and Joan Tsao for helping with welcome table and gifts, and banquet m.c. and family introductions in English esp. without providing advance notice of list of names of relatives to read off of.; Godfather of Groom Fr Dn GregoryLazarus Murphy and family for coordinating parish related wedding logistics, maintaining the charity donation box, helping with assembling banquet party favors, and participating in the wedding ceremony.; Melissa and Peter Nassiff, Lily Yu, Karman, Crystal, Olga Shimelis,, Crystal's friend Hannah, Carmen Ho, Connie Lee, Bobo Tang, Renée DiFiore, Cousins of Bride, the Murphy's, groomsmen, bridesmaids, spiritual sponsors, and family of bride and groom for food preparation.; Tammy Louie and Melissa Nassiff for decorating the reception hall.; Vinnie Lee, Dan Gioffe, Dan McCabe, Kern Ormond, and Cousins of the Bride for ushering and serving food.
Our parish of the Dormition of the Theotokos (St. Mary's): Fr. Antony Hughes for his premarital counseling and being the priest for the wedding, and allowing the veneration of the relic (a lock of hair) of St John of Shanghai and San Francisco (1966+); Fr. Dn. GregoryLazarus Murphy, Fr. Dn. Jeffrey Smith, SubDn. Luke, SubDn. Steve, and the acolytes David and Aaron Murphy for assisting in the wedding service.; Charles Marge, for directing the Boston Byzantine Choir (Soprano: Sophia Stratakis Huling, Stephanie Nonas; Alto: Andrea Gabriel Jabbour, Trish Orlovsky, Suzanne Murphy; Tenor: Charlie Marge, Tom Philippakis; Bass: Aaron Friar, Peter DeFonce) for making the chanting of the Paschal Troparion in Mandarin a living reality.; Suzanne Murphy, godmother of Groom, for hairbraiding the Bride.; Natasha Smith for floral consultation and Royal Door floral treatment, with flowers from G.T. Florist, 125 S Charles St., Boston, 617-338-6888.
Friends from the Boston Chinese Evangelical Church (BCEC): BCEC for allowing the Mother of Groom to borrow kitchenware to be used in food preparation for the reception.; Michael Ho for taking up the overwhelming task of doing the Chinese introductions of family and relatives at the evening banquet and Chinese interpretation without advanced notice nor a completed list of names of relatives in Chinese.; Mr. & Mrs. Ng for providing accomodation for our spiritual sponsors.; Lucy Soohoo for tailoring the attires of the wedding party.; Reanna Wu and Victoria Wong for picking up the flowers from G.T. FLorist and assembling the corsages for the many helpers and relatives.; Samuel Wong for translating part of the wedding program into Chinese.; Jasper Wong for videography coordination, assisted by Adam Murphy, Steven Chiu and Jason Cheung.; John Lok for wedding photography.; Bing Yee for banquet photography when the need arised.
Friends and coworkers of the Bride: Hee Jung Son for the Korean attire for the Bride
Friends and coworkers of the Groom: Ioannes Chen for translating various texts into Chinese.
Relatives of the Bride: Cousins of the Bride David and Jeffrey Wong, Tommy Wong for helping with reception preparation, ushering and food serving.
Relatives of the Groom: 4^th Maternal Aunt Winnie for getting the attires from Shenzhen for the Bride and Groom, and doing the makeup and facial.; Paternal 1^sup Cousin of Groom Vivian Chin for wedding and banquet photography.; Shirley Chan, Benny Chan and Paternal 1^st Cousin of Groom Tina Chin for helping at banquet welcome table.; Vivian Chan for providing transportation for Father of Groom.
Family of the Bride: For Mother of Bride Sharon for preparing tongyuan during hair combing ceremony; For Father of Bride Jacky for attending to the relatives of Bride; For Sister of Bride Elaine for being Bridesmaid and assisting Bride with each change of bridal attire throughout the day.
Family of the Groom: For Mother of Groom Tammy for providing much direction in the reception food selection, and attending to relatives and much behind the scenes tasks including going back to Hong Kong and Shenzhen to select the wedding invitation scrolls and Chinese attires for the groomsmen and bridesmaids and a host of other accessories.; For Father of Groom Danny for providing his calligraphy for the invitations, scripture scrolls and the paschal troparion on the Chinese wedding program cover.; For Sister of Bride Catherine for being a bridesmaid, borrowing a BMW from her friend Nai Wong to be used as our bridal car and for selecting the wonderful 4-tier wedding cake from KonditorMeister, underwrittened along with Brandon Gu and Maternal 1^st cousin Carol Karman Lee.
Wedding Party: David and Margaret Patton, editors of Dynamis, a daily Bible meditation ministry, for leading the prenuptial hair ceremony, providing spiritual advice as the wedding sponsors and for holding the holy icons of our patron saints Mitrophan, hiermartyr of Beijing (1900+) and Michael the Archangel.; Rockey Chan for being Groomsman and assisting with transportation.; Norman Chin for being Groomsman and videotaping the haircombing ceremony and bridal pickup and holding the scripture scroll; Sunny Chin for being Groomsman and helping with banquet wine delivery; Adam Yen for being Groomsman and for holding the scripture scroll; Tina Punsnit for being Bridesmaid and helping with assembling banquet party favors.; Jamie Luong for being Bridesmaid and helping with assembling banquet party favors.; Moriah Murphy for being flower girl

We also would like to thank everyone else yet still to be mentioned here, for helping us to prepare for this day and the days ahead, behind the scenes. Please email us names of those who you know was a great help to making this wedding day possible so we can give proper acknowledgment. We're slowly going through the video and by word of mouth of all we missed. Please forgive us of our oversight of delay of mentioning anyone by name. Also let us know if you didn't pick up a boxed wedding mug as a party favor as you were leaving the wedding reception.