Attended my neighbor's eldest daughter's pick-up-the-bride ceremony. It was a simple pick up and go. Why i say so? This is cause the groom is a Christian, therefore, the Chinese wedding customs were not fully proceeded. As descended by our early Chinese ancestors, the groom and groomsmen will decorate the cars and drive them over to the bride's house in the crack of dawn. Nowadays, bridesmaids will have most of the fun as they would lock up the gates and set out few task for the groom. The groom must execute certain acts and answer the questions asked to show that he is strong enough to take care of the bride. Red packets(ang pao) must be proffer to the bridesmaid(as gift) and only then they could enter the house.
The groom and his groomsmen were forced to swallow slices of bitter gourd. They were also insists by the bridesmaids to sing a song for the bride. It was fun!
The bride and groom will then have to serve tea to their parents/grandparents followed by other older relatives. In return, they will give the newly weds red packets and jewelry for the bride.
Father of the bride is putting on the jewelry he prepared for his daughter.
Bride's sisters and brothers are then to serve tea and wish the newly weds a piece of good fortune. In return they will receive red packets from the newly weds.
Red umbrella is used to shield the bride as this symbolize her bringing many decedents to the groom's family.
As a tradition, the bride must return home after 3days of the wedding. In contemporary society, couples usually fly off for their honeymoon after their wedding. So they would have to carry out a substitute performance. Some choose to ride in the vehicle and go around the town 3times. This newly wed choose to walk around their wedding car 3times.
After that the whole family leave for the church and the wedding dinner in KL.I dint attend their wedding dinner but i was told that it was executed fantastically. On that same night, I was having dinner with my sisters, a time for us to gossip and keep up in each others life.
The Three-Musketeers of gossips!
Had pizza and fettuccine filled with lots of lots of bacon! Yummy!
Recommended by my cousin. Dave's restaurant at 1Utama KL. It was superb! The food was great, the service was excellent. Two thumbs up! You can check it out. Its at the old wing in 1U.
Bridge connecting the old wing and new wing of 1Utama.
OMG! I was flabbergasted by this huge flower as part of the exquisite Chinese New Year deco in Mid Valley Mega mall.
Red is the colour. As everywhere i go..i see red. Red lanterns, red cloth hanging by the door, red deco in the mall, red deco during the wedding and the 1 red thingy that would light up my day,that would not blur my eyes which sees full of red is the redness of ANG PAOssss! muaha! Not only CNY year redness, valentines day falls on CNY's eve. Red hearts and rosses to come. Red is the color this month! Red ROCKs! Till next time. Cheerio~
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