Surge forward.
These past two days have been really hectic.
My plans of sleeping early were completely ruined.
But it was worth it.
A Chinese traditional wedding really is filled with traditions, procedures and what-nots.
It's really complicated and there's so much to do. I literally mean a whole lot.
Chipping in my help for the past two days, I can testify to that.
Even then, my contributions were really small.
The best part was being one of the 'ji mui' for my cousin.
Chipping in my help for the past two days, I can testify to that.
Even then, my contributions were really small.
The best part was being one of the 'ji mui' for my cousin.
The things we came up with for the groom, unbelievable.
If you didn't already know, the Chinese have a tradition where the groom has to pass through a few stages or so called barriers set up by the bride's 'ji mui's' (consisting of her girl cousin and close friends) before he can meet his bride.
The groom and his 'heng dai's' (consisting of his guy cousins and close friends) has to do whatever we want them to do.
If they fail to do so, they'll get punished.
Usually by eating something nasty such as crackers filled with wasabi or a jelly filled with a bee (we did this before!) or anything else you can come up with.
This time round, it was nothing much really crazy, just entertaining for us, girls.
We enjoyed ourselves a bit tad too much when the guys had to kiss each other with a card wedged between two lips in futile attempt to pass a card by its flat surface from one guy to another.
If the card dropped, they get punished.
By eating bread filled with chilli tunas and an extra ingredient , cili padi placed lovingly by us inside.
You just have to love us.
The cheesiest part was where we made the groom serenade the bride outside the door.
On my guitar.
That was really sweet and touching.
There were even background vocals by his 'heng dai's'.
Next, we had a tea ceremony.
Which took really long since we have a huge family and by huge, I do mean ginormous.
There were family members, extended families, and extended extended families.
Fast-forward, it's nighttime now.
Time to hit the sacks soon.
If you read it from top to bottom, give yourself a pat on the back.
I'm sort of distracted while typing this and not really in the blogging mood so the writing may be crappy.
Excuse me for that, yea.
Till more weddings in the future.
Till then.
P.S. I didn't get to take any photos since I was involved. Wished I could do both. Oh well.
If you didn't already know, the Chinese have a tradition where the groom has to pass through a few stages or so called barriers set up by the bride's 'ji mui's' (consisting of her girl cousin and close friends) before he can meet his bride.
The groom and his 'heng dai's' (consisting of his guy cousins and close friends) has to do whatever we want them to do.
If they fail to do so, they'll get punished.
Usually by eating something nasty such as crackers filled with wasabi or a jelly filled with a bee (we did this before!) or anything else you can come up with.
This time round, it was nothing much really crazy, just entertaining for us, girls.
We enjoyed ourselves a bit tad too much when the guys had to kiss each other with a card wedged between two lips in futile attempt to pass a card by its flat surface from one guy to another.
If the card dropped, they get punished.
By eating bread filled with chilli tunas and an extra ingredient , cili padi placed lovingly by us inside.
You just have to love us.
The cheesiest part was where we made the groom serenade the bride outside the door.
On my guitar.
That was really sweet and touching.
There were even background vocals by his 'heng dai's'.
Next, we had a tea ceremony.
Which took really long since we have a huge family and by huge, I do mean ginormous.
There were family members, extended families, and extended extended families.
Fast-forward, it's nighttime now.
Time to hit the sacks soon.
If you read it from top to bottom, give yourself a pat on the back.
I'm sort of distracted while typing this and not really in the blogging mood so the writing may be crappy.
Excuse me for that, yea.
Till more weddings in the future.
Till then.
P.S. I didn't get to take any photos since I was involved. Wished I could do both. Oh well.
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