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Bride profiles: Chrissy Wai-Ching’s Puerto Rico wedding

December 31st, 2007 · Posted by Ariel

Wai-Ching’s wedding dresses are the stuff of legend here on offbeatbride.com — but what about Chrissy’s OWN wedding, exactly a year ago today?

The offbeat bride: Chrissy Wai-Ching Fashion Designer/Fiber Artist

Her offbeat groom: Vasili Zolotov, Software Engineer

Location & date of wedding: The Gallery Inn, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, 12/31/06.

What made our wedding offbeat: Our wedding was offbeat because I made and designed my own gown, the groom’s outfit, my mother’s dress, and my mother in law’s dress! We had the wedding in the courtyard of an art hotel.

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