) and I were married on
December 31st of the lucky year 2000.

Here we are together in Beijing in May 2000, where I proposed to her.

We were married at my mom's church,
the Unitarian Universalist Church of
Augusta, Georgia.

My closest relatives live there, and were all able to attend.

Lily's closest relatives are in China,
but her cousin Xiaoling and family came down from Minnesota for the
celebration.