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
