Saturday, November 10, 2012

Part 1- Wedding Preparation and Door Games

Sorry for the long hiatus~ Yes, I’m still here but been quite busy with my little newly wed life and new job >.< Thank God wedding preparation was all over now… It has been 1+ month in fact… In the beginning, we had some hiccups with people RSVP at the early stage, last minute cancellations, couple of rejections, unexpected declines, and etc. But, all in all, I was really glad and happy to see some of my close friends and cousin who came back from overseas just to attend our wedding dinner… I’m really grateful to have this bunch of wonderful people. Anyways, here are the recaps of what happened during our wedding day last month:


A couple of bear dolls sitting sweetly on our wedding car ^^


The wedding car.


The groom and his best-men a.k.a "heng dais".


Me and bridesmaid a.k.a "zi muis".


My make-up artist came to my house at 8.00am and started working on my face and hair for almost 3 hours.   TADA! Me with make- up :)


At about 11am, I waited for the groom and his entourage to pick me up from my house. Like the usual practice in Chinese wedding for picking up the bride, the groom and his ‘heng dais’ would have to go through some of the interesting and creative ‘door games’ planned by the ‘zi muis’ before they could enter the bride’s house. We had 6 official bridesmaids versus 8 best- men for the 'door games'.

The gals posing with their ''secret weapons" ;p








I started to feel nervous when the groom and his ‘heng dais’ approached the bride’s house, they were honking the cars upon arrival. My brother went down to open the groom’s car door and present two oranges to the groom. In return, he received a ‘special’ red angpow packed from the groom.




From my room inside, I could hear people’s loud laughter, cheering, screams and other noises during the ‘door games’. I was so eager to peek the games and so was my make- up artist; so we opened our bedroom door and take a glance but too bad we could not see anything from inside and since I could not my room as well, I just sat in chit- chatting with my make- up artist, for almost 45 minutes. Oh,here is a candid view with my make- up artist ^^ Isn't she pretty?


Here are the chronicles of the ‘door games’, the games summary are based on discussion with the ‘zi muis’ as per our plan earlier on since I didn’t get to witness the whole game myself...

First Challenge: The groom and his ‘heng dais’ were asked to do some push- ups while eating bananas to warm up first before anything. There were afew bananas prepared by the ‘zi muis’, and the ‘heng dais’ had to team up in a pair where one had to hold the banana in his mouth while the other had to bite the whole banana stuff in the partner’s mouth. Looking at the pictures, the whole scene was hilarious!



Second Challenge: The groom had to eat a ''special'' Konnyaku Jelly prepared by the ‘zi muis’.




Third challenge: Q&A sessions. The groom was later being tested with 10 questions prepared by the ‘zi muis’ and for each wrong answer, one of the ‘heng dais’ were asked to pick the exclusive envelopes with special penalty imposed to them. These include the cruel wax strip, brush teeth with wasabi toothpaste, kissed each other by applying red lipstick to each other and etc.









Fourth challenge: Now that the groom and his ‘heng dais’ could enter the bride's house, they all went straight in front of bride's room. However, for the groom to enter the room, the groom was asked to read the vows out loud in Hakka whereas the promises were printed in English. Everyone was laughing as the groom read the vows as some of the promises set by me were quite "strict" *devilish wife grin* Only when the bride said "Yes or OK", then the groom could enter the room.




Fifth challenge: When he was about to pick me up, the ‘zi muis’ blindfolded the groom with a yellow cloth and was asked to guess the bride’s hand. 




It was quite a tough challenge as the groom had to choose the ‘correct’ hand among all some of my ‘zi muis’, cousins, nieces, nephews and even my AUNTIES’ hands. It was quite amusing to watch the groom grabbed all the hands and initially, he shoved my hand but after afew tips, he successfully guessed the correct hand. Hmphh!! 



Last and finally, happily ever after ^^


XOXO
Newlywed cat

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