Amazing New Orleans Wedding!

So I was down in New Orleans again this past weekend for Sam & Aliisa's wedding.

The event was awesome. It was Gatsby-themed, which at first I wasn't sure about...but once I saw all the details and work they had put into it...it was actually pretty awesome.

Their first look was THE CUTEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN.

I was pretty proud of the way I got them to pull it off. If you want to see a mini-GIF of it, it's on my instagram (@denniskwanphoto) and it was retweeted by The Knot (@theknot) and actually made it to the front page of Instagram.

The bridesmaids all looked gorgeous in Monique Lhullier bridesmaid dresses.

There were so many groomsmen!

Loved taking pictures right in the French Quarter!

The ceremony was beautiful.

At one point, after Sam read his vows, which were sooo sweet, Aliisa instinctively leaned in to kiss him but then stopped herself just in time, realizing she wasn't allowed to just yet, and jumped back in the cutest way ever and the room erupted in hysterical laughter...

After their first kiss...

We did a second-line down Bourbon St. which was EPIC. The entire wedding followed a marching band and people screamed and cheered and threw beads from the sidewalks and balconies. It was so cool.

Since Sam and Aliisa both went to Brown, lots of my friends were on hand.

Charlie and Caroline were there...

Oh, and Allan, my newest BFF, came down to shoot the wedding with me as well.

(We were all INCREDIBLY lucky Allan was available. He normally charges like 12K for a wedding, but I was having drinks with him last Monday and he had never been to New Orleans before, and thought it'd be fun to come along and take some pics, so I convinced Sam & Aliisa to fly him down.)

I also promised him that I would have lots of friends there to introduce him to and that it would be SUPER fun. Which it was!

I love when my job involves hanging with my favorite people from around the world. Even Teebags came over from Thailand for it!

Farshid and Semmesey had a little bromance brewing...

As these little ones were cute as always...

Such fun!

Morningfoods | Lunchfoods | Foods Foods Foods

Saturday | May 23 | 10am

Good morning sweet little softskin takubaby!



Best part of waking up with all your friends is re-capping the previous night's wastedface silliness.



Eugene: Want to get breakfeast?

As if one East Side Pocket last night wasn't enough...we went back for another.




Oh god I love you plate of schwarmy goodness.





AC also broke his iPhone.

Broke might be an understatement. It looks like he dropped it, ran over it with a car, and then tap-danced on it.



Amazingly it still works perfectly though!



DK: "I'm not sure what I love more...Brown or my iPho--"
Felix: (no hesitation) "I-PHONE!!!!!!!!!"

Following breakfast we headed to Brown Bookstore for some more requisite shopping and bumping into people.




DK: Where is Smersh
Katie: My man is showering and then EATS
Katie: Where are you?
DK: Brown bookstore being sirry
Katie: ok meet us across st at paragon




Oh god the calamari at Paragon is so good. I couldn't resist having another meal just minutes after my first.



Yummmmmo paragon burger.



DK: Where u? i'm at fauncr
Farshid: Roof of omac
DK: oh. f that

MAO: COLLEGE!!!!!!
DK: best night everrrrrr
MAO: want to meet me and chelsea and alistair for dinks?
DK: yes where
MAO: andreas



I love sidewalk dining at Brown because you just bump into everyone.




Alistair could not resist and ordered himself a "Razzle-Dazzle Mojito".



Mumi: Will all you fools be at field day?
DK: Where arey youuiuiu
DK: ANd where's fools day?
Mumi: Where are you where are you i want to find you
DK: andreas. not leaving. we have ordered squids





Coming up next:

Tara: Party at CIT@
DK: Who will be there?
Tara: CS People
DK: NERDS!!! Im there

Dom: whos gunna be at rattay?
DK: um....EVERYONE

New Years 2006 - WINTER WHITE PARTY

New Years ended up being the most amazing night ever. Both Farshid, Munish, and I had all been deathly ill the day before but managed to recover in time for the Winter White Party.

It was amazing. West Coast/East Coast/Boston/Providence/DC...everyone was there.

It was an absolute shitshow. Drinking, eating, singing, dancing, champagne beer pong, sex in stairwells, and vomit vomit everywhere.

God. Where do we even begin?

We all got ready at Felix's...



Hopped on the train to Chelsea...



And showed up at Mark and Todd's.

Shrimps were waiting courtesy of Chef Ray.




The party kicked off with some Beirut.




Smershy, Goon, and their girlfriends showed up.




Everyone was looking great and festive. All decked out in white.








Certain people, of course, went out of their way to NOT wear white when it was explicitly stated that that was the theme of the party...



But whatevs. It was rad.







Yeebee was rocking some sweet Asian glow.



All our beautiful little friend groups mixed together.






The apartment got packed. Seriously ridiculously packed. Over the course of the night there must have been like 600 people there. And many people CLEARLY did not get the White theme memo.










People were DRUUUNK...

At one point, before we even did the countdown, some douche just sat down on the couch, leaned over, and puked his guts out.




Heidi was awesome.

She was like, "are you ok?"
And the dude was like, "uh...yeah."
And we all screamed in unison, "THEN GET THE F*CK OUT!!!!!"



What's even MORE gross though is that it was SO crowded in there that most people couldn't even see their feet. So people didn't notice the giant vomit puddle and shuffled right through it. Within five minutes all the vomit was GONE - distributed evenly throughout the room by disgusting shuffling feet.





And then we did the countdown.

5!!!!!!!!!!



4!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!

(Kisses all around.)




Happiest new years ever.



And very very drunk.






God by the time people cleared out, it was such a mess.






The "party donation box" idea didn't go over so well...



And with that, we entered the Year 2006.



HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!!