Showing posts with label Wedding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wedding. Show all posts

Saturday, November 20, 2010

Wedding Banquet @The Gardens Hotel 13 November 2010

The romantic wedding, touching love story and meaningful love songs reminded me of my marriage vows in Singapore.
 'Will you, (name), take this man, (name), to be your wedded husband, to live together in the legal estate of matrimony? Will you love him, comfort him, honour and keep him in sickness and in health, forsaking all others, to be faithful to him, so as long as you both shall leave?
"Yes, I will "

Well, well, I am as guilty as charged. Life after babies has changed drastically. Children has taken the top priority in almost everything I do. Is it time to re read the vows?    

At the reception area,  guests were served with free flow of juices and wines before you adjourned to the dining ballroom. The area was decorated with the couple's photos, flower petals, confetti and candles that made you feel so at home.

Left- a wedding guest sign-in book and two sweet pink feathery quill were provided. Simply thoughtful. 
Right- the carpeted floor was furnised with white balloons and not forgetting loving heart-shaped helium filled balloons in white and red for kids to grab.

Fairy-tale wedding banquet in white! Red carpet lined with flowers and candles gave a lovey-dovey feeling.

Table setting with a lit-up candle on the lazy susan.

a heart-shaped chocolate gift box.

8 tier wedding cake and champagne glasses.  A simple and yet elegant menu.

bride and groom(main) table setting.

brige and groom table's guests were being served individually. I gave it a thumb up!

Friday, November 19, 2010

Chinese Wedding 13 November 2010

Many chinese young couples have done away with old customs on their wedding day and we are lucky to be able to witness some at this wedding.


Left- the nuptial chamber was opened to visitor but no one including the groom could touch the bed until the couple enter the bridal chamber! Children will then be invited onto the bed to bless the couple with fertility. Red dates, lotus seed, peanuts and other fruits as an omen of fertility and good luck.
Right- baby bath tub, pail, washbasin, mug and spittoons in red known as 'buckets of off-spring' to bless the couple with many children!

A male child was was asked to tear the red paper to retrieve an 'angpow'.

Left- a sweet dessert (lotus seed, dried longan, red dates and rice balls) was served to wish the couple a sweet harmonious marriage.  Right- the worship of deities and heaven and earth..

A  pair of bedside lamps. Lamp(deng) has similar sound as son(ding). Hence lighting the lamp, symbolic of adding sons to the family. Right- chinese teacup set for tea ceremony.

Red is regarded as auspicious colour.

Left- the worship of ancestor and tea ceremony. Right- fetching the bride. Enhui were geared up when the cars' horn were pressed upon arrival at the bride's home.

Left- we were greeted with this chinese wedding door games to prove the groom's love for the bride. En has been waiting for this part of the wedding.
Right- Poor men have to hold the banner up that read "Beautiful ladies, please be nice to us" and hollored  out loud.  

Bee's diaper costume with a sting to burst balloons at the gate.

Left- Enhui watching the negotiation between the 'brothers' and the 'sisters'.
Right- poor but still happy groom has to pen down a marriage contract which promises the bride 's good marriage life, like 'He has to do all house chores, bring the bride for a holiday at least once a year, etc '.  WOW!


Left- flower girls (enhui were two of them) and page boy following the couple to the bridal chamber.
Right- Enhui marched in, on the red carpet and scattered rose petals in front of the gathering adults, at the wedding dinner @The Gardens Hotel.

Lovely flower basket with rose petal. Right- Hui rehearsed the march-in on her own. :)

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Flower Girls 25 April 2010

Sunday pm.
Both girls were beaming with joy and excited being flower girls for the first time! There was no rehearsal and I briefed them once at the restaurant. A day before the 'big' day, I showed them flower girls wedding march on youtube. They both looked stunning and did a great job marching in.

Left- Dressing up flower girls. Right- Me telling Hui how to march in.
Left- Flower girls waiting behind close door with bride/groom.
Right- Hui marched in, follow by En.

Rose petal trail created by flower girls. :)