Martin + Pauline Wedding III

Okay I lied. My "tomorrow" turns out to be 1 week.

Weekend was great. Went to the Singapore flyer and Resorts World Sentosa Casino. Will blog about that later!

For now, YES continuing with the very last post of the wedding. The wedding dinner!

Wedding dinner is held at the same hotel we stayed in which is Royale Bintang Damansara Hotel. It wasn't in the ballroom though because the plan was to invite close friends and family members to attend and ballroom would be a little too formal. And if the space is too big then the connection between guests and atmosphere wouldn't be as good, which is true, in a way. Big ballrooms are just to show that the couple is rich and able to invite 2 million guests wtf but then all the guests would not be as tight and the feeling would be really different.

The afternoon church session ended around 3+ pm and with all the jam, we reached back hotel around 4+pm and were rushing to check out of the hotel and get changed and then make sure the dinner settings are okay and buy some mcDonald's for the bride hehe.


#1 The dinner tables are placed at the TERRACE. It has 2 sections, one inside the hotel and is air-conditioned while the other section is outdoor and has a cascading waterfall with lush greenery spread along the walls. Both sections are connected with a sliding glass door.


#2 Candy & I are there to make sure they sign the guestbook. We didn't know where to put the book and simply grab a table from the side and put it there. Haha forgot to prepare for this.


#3 Bride & Groom all ready to greet the guests.


#4 Aiya I always unknowingly hunch a bit because she's shorter and I have to match her a bit LOL.


#5 The wedding cake (Cakes by Jo). The bottom is poppy seed and the top is red velvet. LET ME TELL YOU WHAT HAPPEN TO THE CAKE. The woman is supposed to send the wedding cake over around 7pm when the dinner is about to start. When she reached, she told us that the cake is destroyed because they're caught in the jam and her husband SUDDEN BREAK the car and the cake dropped to the front and kind of "cracked". And she's CRYING there saying how sorry she is. Candy said that it's useless to be saying sorry and crying over spilled milk wtf. Most importantly she has to get us a cake because WHAT KIND OF WEDDING DINNER HAS NO WEDDING CAKE!!! She suggested (after 15 mins or so crying) that the hotel offered to use their artificial cake during the cake cutting ceremony and after that, she will serve the guests with the real cake (albeit spoilt but still can be eaten) and well, better than nothing. In the end, she sort of fix the cake and used some flowers to hide the cracks on the cake.


#6 My parents at the host table.


#7 The dinner settings at the TERRACE is actually quite nice.


#8 Dinner was served buffet style. Nothing spectacular but pretty filling. It's a mixture of western and local like satay and stuff.


#9 Guests in KL reception are mostly Martin's friends and families who flew in from US and Nigeria.


#10 He's one of the guest who were really sporting and went out to dance then followed by all of the guests.


#11 The adorable flower girls thinking what to write on the guestbook.


#12 The hotel only took out this sign halfway through the dinner. Must have forgotten.


#13 Ethan found his friends lol and peeping on what they wrote. Ethan wrote the funniest thing on the guestbook..he has a whole page to himself with "Blue Green Red". Yah that's what he wrote because he just learnt 3 words in school.


#14 Oh Hai Love! ♥


#15 Some wedding photographer artistic shot which turned out to be really nice.


#16 Empat beradik ♥. Aih we seldom get to take photos. This is one of the really rare ones.


#17 Speeches & toasts.


#18 Guests listening to the wedding speeches.


#19 Cake cutting ceremony. (is it called cake cutting? I don't even know if there's a proper term for it)


#20 First wedding dance as a married couple. And you wouldn't be able to guess it.


#21 They did the robot dance! -_-" and it's hilarious and entertaining.


#22 Thanking the crowd for the great robot dance cheer lol.


#23 Then came the usual slow dance. Even Ethan participates =D


#24 The other couple was the 1st to join in.


#25 Then everyone else joined in. The hotel actually didn't prepare the space for everyone to join in the dancing..because just how many chinese wedding dinners that can get all the guests to dance?


#26 Ethan enjoyed himself so much! He did the breakdancing and wasn't even shy at all!


#27 Me and Pat kept forcing my dad to dance because we had never seen him dance! But we failed anyway lol. No matter how we pulled and begged, he didn't even budge hehe. My mum's very sporting though, she went out and danced with my sister. Me and Pat...dare not also haha. The last time I did was back in Melbourne during Step's sister's wedding. We really did go out to dance but maybe 10 mins only lah haha better than nothing.


#28 Also one of the rare chances to take proper photos with mum. Seriously my family need to take more photos together.



#30 We invited the boy's parents over too since the dinner is in KL and the boy's house is just nearby at Damansara Utama. But kinda weird to be taking photos together like that lol.


#31 Tiga generation bersama-sama.


#32 Dua generation saja..haha. Do we look alike? When we were younger (when I'm not as tall and about the same height with Candy), people used to say we're twins. But now I think both my elder sisters look more alike than me..They are the "younger" looking face and me...a bit wrinkly liao wtf.


#33 Joe grabbed the couple to take a few shots outside the TERRACE.


#34 And also in the hotel main lobby's staircase.


#35 Me and the boy also have one..tumpang glamor wtf. Nola Joe asked us to stand there to test the lighting before he ask the bride & groom to come. Aih pity us..supporting actors only wtf.

Dinner ended around midnight and we rushed to clean up stuff and take our luggage then drove back to Segamat ON THE SAME NIGHT. Fuh...so tiring okay. Imagine we started around 10 in the morning, then church session in the afternoon, then dinner back at hotel, then drove back Sgt, then tea ceremony with relatives in Sgt the next morning at 10am then wedding lunch in Sgt at 1pm then drove straight to Singapore and flew back to US on the SAME DAY.

Terrible right!

What to do. My family members are scattered around. Some in Penang (actually only me), some in Singapore and some in US and some in Johor. Plus they couldn't take off too long from work so everything has to be done in 1 weekend.

Martin's friend, almost 20 of them, drove with us back to Segamat after dinner because they'll be joining the tea ceremony and lunch the next day too. We booked a whole house for them to overnight in. It's already almost 2-3am when we reach Segamat and I'm so dead tired. I couldn't even drive for an hour and had to ask Candy to drive. I don't know how she could stand not falling asleep though.

But even with all the hectic schedule, I enjoyed it. I enjoyed every single moment with the whole family together. When will the next time be? 2011 Chinese New Year maybe?