Christine Chang Photography

For those of you reading from the North Texas area, hello!  C Weddings is expanding to the Lone Star State.  To celebrate this venture, book now for a travel fee of $100! (Cherry Blossom Package or higher)  

It’s for a limited time, so if you’re getting married in Texas send me an email soon!

Why you ask?  Because I love Texas.  The people are friendly.  This doesn’t mean that there aren’t friendly people in LA, but in Texas people, for the most part, are in less of a rush to get to places.  I don’t hear the honk of a horn as much, and the roads are so much wider.  The Barbeque is excellent.  Yes, that’s a capitalization on the Barbeque because I’ve tried barbeque elsewhere (like Georgia) and I’ve yet to taste anything like Texas barbeque.  I head over there multiple times a year and my goal is to try a new barbeque place every time.  This past month I tried Baker’s Ribs and I loved it.  I love the generosity of that place.  You ask for more bread and their attitude is, sure!  There’s unlimited soft serve afterwards that’s complimentary and I had two cones.  

I grew up in Texas.  I went to Holub Middle School in Houston and there was football and cheerleading, debate team and regional championship spelling bees.  I lost in the regional spelling bee because I spelled fettucini wrong.  Dictionary.com is telling me that I’m still spelling it wrong.  Guess some things never change.

What else?  I thought it was cool in junior high to carry a purse.  So I started carrying one to school, even though I had a backpack already and I didn’t really know what to put in it.  Due to the non-practicality aspect of the purse (I didn’t even have money in there, I just wanted to be cool!) I kept on forgetting my purse after every class, so almost every day for a week or two my after-school activity was backtracking and looking for my purse.  I ditched the purse in the end, it was too much work.

When I went to junior high America was in the middle of the Iraq war.  There were yellow ribbons everywhere.  Everyone knew someone in the military or had family in the military, and we talked about Saddam and spelled it backwards.  We thought we were hot stuff when we got a TI-82 calculator.  We thought we were even hotter stuff when they upgraded it to a TI-83.  

I have some great memories of when I used to live in Texas.  And if you’ve read this to the end, be the first person to book me for Texas and your travel fee will be $0.  No travel fee for you!

Though I am not a native Texan, if you think about it Hank Hill (from my favorite show, King of the Hill) wasn’t either.  He was born in New York but I consider him to be every bit of a Texan because it’s all about the love.  Besides, I have a brother who’s a Texan.  Does that count?