This is e 1st wedding that I'm much involved in. Maybe it all started when my cousin was searching for a photographer and I recommended my colleague to them. Then it was when my cousin voiced out that they needed a bridesmaid and thinks that I'm perfect for this task (felt so honoured!), things starts to get exciting!
The day when we met up with my colleague for discussion on the Actual Day (AD), my Biao Sao received a call from bridal shop to say that the wedding pics were collected for collection. I was so lucky to view it with them. Then, we went to buy the red wine together as well. Even for the wedding dinner's seating plan, I was doing part of the planning. My cousin was sourcing for male emcee to help out and I've managed to find my sec sch classmate to help out, which also created a chance for us to catch up too. Cos of my bridesmaid role, I have the chance to plan the door clashing games with the "sisters", my biao sao's cousins who happens to be around my age, plus and minus 1 yr. Of which, I love the "love contract" that we did! The masterpiece is like a gift for the newly wed. I'm so proud of it and suggested displaying it at the reception during the wedding dinner and they agreed.
During the AD, I woke up super early like 5.15am and just washed up and got to my Biao Sao's hse upstairs. 1st time going to her hse after being neighbours for so long. Reached her place at 5.45am and her makeup artiste (MUA) already started the makeup for her. Nelson, the official photographer for e day, came shortly followed by the videographer at 6am+. Then it was 6.30am when the sisters came too. I was halfway thru my makeup done by the MUA.
The Sisters were preparing the ingredients for the wasabi + seaweed bread and setting up the "Nobody" - Wonder Girls video (too bad! we didn't have enough time to make the groom & Brothers to dance!) Soon, it was 7.20am and my cousin and Brothers arrive! Wanna highlight that it was kinda touching to hear my cousin shouting 3 times loudly as per our instructions - "Baby! I'm so crazy over u!". He printed SGD10k notes and put inside the angbao to bluff us!! haahaa.. we were not fooled by him of cos. Then we made them eat the wasabi and seaweed bread saying that it's kaya bread and my cousin literally choked and teared on the wasabi. Some brothers enjoyed eating it but not my cousin. haha... gd way to sabo him huh... cos we knew he didn't like japanese food at all! =P It was super duper funny to hear him sing Xiao Wei (just that the words were replaced by Xiao Qing) so it was trailed off towards the end and I was practically laughing to tears when it was played during the video montage in e evening! Then when he wrote the 5th promise on the love contract and read it out, it turned out to be quite funny too! 尽在不言中 was his promise to his wife! Finally the groom got into the bride's room. hehe.. bcos of e videographer's instruction, we were counting down for 10s for them to kiss each other and it was the time, seeing a couple kissing right in front of us at such a close distance! hahaha!
Soon, it was followed by tea ceremony at groom's hse. e sisters nearly dashed 2 red lights cos e brothers were driving too fast and following so closely with our bridal car. luckily, e camera didn't capture anything or one of their probational license might be suspended. hmm.. everything else was quite smooth at his hse. Had lunch buffet there as well. Bride got changed into the Kua and we went over to Hort Park for the outdoor photo taking!
Over at Hort Park, e newly wed took a couple of pics at the pond area b4 going in further for more pics. had agreed earlier on for the bride to throw e hand banquet to the sisters to catch. 1st try, everyone missed it cos my biao sao aimed too far and it landed on the ground with a thud and many petals fell off. photographer and videographer instructed her to throw again capturing the moment and i got it! if it's sooooo zhun, it means next yr im getting married, nah, it's just some superstitious saying I guess =P
After the outdoor shoot, we went back to my biao sao's place for tea ceremony. Had some sweet desserts b4 heading to River View hotel. Rested for a while in e "sisters" room while e couple went back to their bridal suite room. Nelson helped the couple to take some shots at the Robertson Quay which is right below the hotel.
The couple washed up and got ready for e march-in rehearsals and Jian Ting also came around the same time to join in for e emcees rehearsals. They amended some of e scripts at the last min to make everything flow more smoothly. We told my cousin that it's a must to say a Thank You speech, so he got no choice but to think of e script on the spot. LOL.
Gd thing that my makeup lasted me throughout the day. I didn't touch up anything for e evening except on my lipstick! I overheard that e cost of my makeup and hairdo for e morning is SGD70. omg... that's like super EXP! Even the bride's makeup and hairdo weren't included in the package and she gotta pay SGD100. Gd money for MUA!
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Times passed super quickly! I was already downstairs with the sisters at the reception, preparing myself cos the guest were arriving. Who knows while doing it halfway, my biao sao called and asked me why I wasn't helping her by holding onto her gown and her bag and accompany her downstairs instead. How could I put aside my main priority? my role as a bridesmaid that night was not over.. Was wondering how can I split myself into 2 parts when both sides need me. LOL. very soon, I rushed up to find my biao sao. Helped her down by holding on to her wedding gown to the reception area. Continued with my task at e reception. It's kinda complicated as the names are all in Mandarin and for those in English, they were not in alphabetical orders. I had a hard time finding the names. Luckily, my cousin's tang jie is a great help! =)
Hmm.. Soon, it was 8.30pm! 26 tables of guest were there. 2 tables not filled up.. as expected, there will sure be pple flying aeroplanes. i dun understand why pple can't take a wedding dinner seriously. if they have RSVP earlier on, they shd really make e effort to come. e couples were preparing themselves for e 1st march-in after everybody settled down.
Only managed to have e 1st dish b4 we rushed up for e bride to change into the 2nd gown! omg.. that's really fast.. cos we were told to do so only at the 3rd dish initially. but bcos of e delay for e 1st march-in and e video montage from childhood to wedding day will take quite long.. that's why we got no choice. For the 2nd march-in, the video of the morning's door-clashing games were played over e projector. I laughed until cry!! cos it's so funny to hear my cousin singing e Xiao Qing song and reading out the Love Promises!
Glad that my cousin and biao sao are satisfied with my role as a bridesmaid. Had a short chat with my other cousins. Was hoping to have more time to catch up with them. Nevertheless, I'm pretty satisfied with e photographer's and emcee's work. So thankful that I can find them for help.
Congratulations to my cousin & XQ biao sao! May u 2 have a blissful marriage! =)
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