A Vietnamese bride, a Filipino groom and a 10-course Chinese wedding banquet; Mary Phan and Chris Junsay’s nuptials were pure Asian fusion.

The two were married July 12 in the Bay Area. The festivities started early on with a traditional Vietnamese tea ceremony at Phan’s mother’s home.

A Catholic wedding Mass followed that afternoon, capped off by the evening reception at the Silver Dragon restaurant in Oakland where guests dined, then danced to the Filipino-American reggae band, the Mango Kingz.

It was an auspicious beginning for the couple. Phan, the youngest of 10, was the first in her family to marry a non-Vietnamese. The two worried about introducing Junsay to Phan’s widowed mother in the first place. They needn’t have.

Junsay’s mother-in-law speaks no English, but quickly gave him chores to do. “He loves to work, and she loves to cook,” recalls Phan, who is launching her own wedding planning business, Very Merry Weddings & Events. “Every time I turned around, he had food and drink in his hand.”

Family is important to both of them. Junsay, a middle school science teacher, invited his relatives to the wedding-day tea ceremony. Some two dozen aunts and uncles flew in from all over the country and made it to the event despite the early hour.

“I had tears before I was even at the house. It was so overwhelming to have that support,” Junsay says. “It set the tone for the whole day.”