Christopher Lee, Fann Wong Wedding Dinner at Shangri-La Hotel

A few months back, it was michelle and shaun chen wedding and now its fann turn. and again this is another celebrity wedding which is shown live on TV.

I believe this time, the sponsorship for fann heavily outweights michelle's

Just the jewelry, the sponsorship is 2.5m, which she designed some of them.

http://www.divaasia.com/article/4753

And that is just the accessories, not including the cars, gowns and maybe even the banquet!

Even mediacorp has dedicate a special website just for them.

http://thewedding.mediacorptv.sg

Somehow, the biggest wedding in singapore did not inspire me to watch them live on tv, even though i can hear my father watching it in the living room.

Maybe because it does not feel like a natural wedding, seems to be too commericalize for me!

some videos in youtube

Yet Another Wedding, Nope its a Special One

Tomorrow i am going another wedding. Again. And tentatively after this, the next wedding dinner is on 6th Dec 2009.

What makes the wedding dinner tomorrow special? Its my first peer-ed relative wedding dinner! To be held at River City Restaurant. AGAIN. The food is certainly marvellous, (refer to Singapore Tradition Chinese Wedding) and i will not mind eating there again.

The young chap (my cousin), is the youngest in his family, and he got married earlier than his 2 older brothers. And as well as me. Looks like marrying young is the way to go now.

Marrying earlier have its pro, shopping and playing with your kids when you are still physically active. And a higher chance to carrying your grand children when you are in your 40s or early 50s.

The cons? Getting tied down, but it does not matter if you love your SO.

A short sidetrack, marrying in Singapore is like emptying your bank account for the common folks. A single wedding dinner (juz the dinner alone) could set you back easily by 24k for a basic $600/table x 40table. However, the wedding guests will lessen the burden of the wedding by giving cash instead of wedding gifts for the wedding couple. The 24k is only for the wedding dinner, not including the wedding shoots, planning and other misc expenses.

Wonder if my younger brother will marry younger than me?!

A question only to be answered by the future!

My 1st Malaysian Wedding

i reused this image

Been going to weddings recently. Looking at my calender, i see weddings and more weddings down the road. Well, guess this is the age for marrying!

Singapore weddings, i been to a few, thus kinda get used to the wedding culture. Malaysian wedding? My 1st!

Journey to the wedding location in PT took around 40 mins, well Malaysia is big! and it seems that whether a wedding or an event is happening around the area, the locals around the state will know about it.

We kinda get lost at the PT and will need specific directions to the wedding location. We flag down a passer by and ask for directions. We just ask "where is the location to a school around PT" and she enquired "wedding?" as though she knew where we wanted to go and promptly gave us the directions.

Local events and news spread like fire in a small and close community in Malaysia. Unlike SG where doors are closed and shut. Probably due to culture difference. SG people tends to keep more towards themselves and do not really socialise much after work. Or maybe that just me and my other friends (=

The Malaysian dishes and wedding dinner course are similar to SG wedding dishes.

For the non-asian people reading this, basic asian chinese wedding dishes consist of the following

- cold dish, assortments of appetizers to boost appetite

- shark fin, a dish that can never be left out.

- duck/ Chicken meat

- Crispy pork skin, really crispy!

- noodles or something filling like buns with pork (3 layer pork consist of fats, lean meat and skin 三层肉). More info regarding this 3 layer pork, refer here (translate the page into English)

- vegetables with mushrooms

- fish

- desserts

A combination or more of the above if the wedding dinner has 9 or more courses.

For our malaysian wedding, we had double servings of dessert which consist of sweet (it is SWEET) yam paste and ice cream.

No noodles was served, but the 3 layer pork meat was served.

For beverages, 7up, coke, chivas, red wine, tea, plain water, orange juice and beer was available. Since red wine was offered to me, i just took it. And they are served in jugs, not bottles. Explaination from the waitress was that, their red wine was drafted, thus the red wine in a big jug

And being auspicious, the dinner end promptly at 9:45 in chinese means 9点9个字

And 9 for the chinese means 久 which means longevity.

End the day with LY's bf, CK and CY dropping her home, before sending me to the bus terminal to take bus back to SG。

Nice people, they even called me after i reach SG to check if i am in SG (=

I wish happiness to the wedding couple, XF and HB (= and for them to 早生贵子

Singapore Traditional Chinese Wedding

Love is in the air~

or the year of 2009, where

Especially in chinese, the digit 9 symbolises "longeivity, forever,久"

Marriage among the "coupled" celebrities, are pretty common.

On a week back, Michelle Chia and Shuan (singapore celebrity) were married and had their wedding shown live on TV. And on 16th Christopher lee and fann wong (another Singapore celebrity couple) were married.

And on the 16th May 2009, my friend held his singapore traditional chinese ceremony wedding. Woke up and reach his house at 715am in the morning. (I don't even wake up that early for work!)

Gathered at the void deck of his gf (or rather wife) and arrived with the rest of the gang of brothers (Singapore's way of saying close and good friends). We pronounce our arrival with the honking of car horns, giving the residents a morning wake up honk. (=

At the entrance of the bride's house, the gang was let in after giving an ang pow (red packet, which symbolises good luck) to the sisters (bride's gang of close friends).

i was pretty surprised being let in easily just by giving an ang pow as, at the entrance, the groom and gang will usually be asked to perform pranks and tricks before permission was granted to enter the house.

However, as expected, the pranks were to be held inside the house.

Inside, we were made to

- drink a concoction of greenish "healthy and organic" drink.

- Perform a total of 99 push up, which our muscle man, Loh, done 49 for us!!

and the 5 of us just did 10.

- Stick clothes plug to our noses and ears and with the groom, pulling them off at 1 shot! (Pain!)

- Eat raw veggie (forgot the name)

- pulling of 2 strands of hair from our LEG!

- And Finally, getting the groom to sing a love song, before the door to the room of the bride was opened.

After the couple met, they proceed to set off to the groom's parents' house where the chinese tradition of tea serving was served to the various ranks of the groom's family. And vice versa, the groom will visit the bride's family to serve tea. After which, the morning part of traditional chinese wedding and marriage ends.

For all traditional chinese wedding, especially Singapore traditional chinese wedding, a dinner is a must.

The rest of us gathered at night for the traditional chinese wedding dinner. At the dinner which is held at River City Restaurant, the morning pranks was shown to the diners at the wedding dinner, which brought laughter to the crowds.

Finished everything at estimated 1115, though tired, but its a fulfilling day~