I havent still quite gotten used to it after a week into being Mrs DP.
I would sometimes look at my ring, and think Wow!
Its been a week after I felt myself being maneuvered around during the wedding by the wedding co-ordinators.
We almost do not need to think, and are like puppets we just basically do what we were told to do,
Like Walk, Stop, Kneel (for Dp) and Bow!
And almost like that, the wedding is over!
I am trying to recall, and piece together what EXACTLY happened that day from THESE PICTURES.
They are taken by Ashley and friends. Not the paid ones.
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These are what I remembered…
I had tall, strong ang-mohs as my jie-meis…and oohh…they are guys,
These ang-mohs are fast learners, they pickup negotiation skills from our friend’s wedding in May.
This also explain why Dp’s pals have a hard time trying to break-in, they are strong men.
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Many complimented my make up as natural, i.e., they could still recognise me!
They thought its difficult to find such natural technique in Yuncheng.
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I had a married mother of two as my bridesmaid, and her whole family were involved,
My bridesmaid’s twins (boy & girl) helped me with my gown’s train, and her hubby drove our wedding car, a spacious limousine.
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Most helper are having a field day, offering help (in almost anyway) in exchange of red packets whenever possible.
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We had many cameras that day, only few were paid to, while the rest were friends, capturing from different angles.
Dp and my eyes move from camera to camera, so that all could capture us, looking at them.
There was this particularly ‘fierce’ camera-woman, she would scream whenever ppl were in her way, very professional, i thought.
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There was this old man who is at almost every wedding of the company’s staff.
He knows the customs at the back of his hand.
Thanks to the old man, I think the camerawoman didn’t really capture me bowing to my parents on video.
She was rejected for a re-bow by the old man. He wanted us to be on time!!!
And because of this old man, the entire entourage of cars waited for more than 20 minutes by the road, so we don’t appear too early at the ceremony.
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We had our own marching band.
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Dp and I almost fell asleep while waiting by the road. We barely slept the night before.
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When we got to the hotel, we were shocked by the number of people waiting for us to arrive and for the ceremony to start.
And there were even more people trying to take our photos, mostly with their handphones.
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During the 20 minutes ceremony, our parents were on stage with us.
Both our Dads gave speech.
My Dad gave one too, I prepared his speech in Chinese.
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I hate the MCee, its like he has got no memories of our previous discussion.
I told him, I didnt want to speak on stage, he offered to give me “yes / no” questions, therefore I didn’t prepared.
But damn! He still went ahead firing questions that I couldnt answer.
Many tot he was overshadowing us, stealing our “thunder”, trying to impress the important people present.
And being very petty, I totally ignored him when toasting.
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My pretty golden, beautifully sequined gown is too long for my 7cm red heels. I kept stepping and breaking the sequins while moving from rooms to rooms, tables to tables. I could hear my heart break with every breaking sequins.
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Nobody pinned me to the floor for my red shoes.
But they did add some bits of red paint to our my face.
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I woke up the next day, feeling like I have walked for miles the day before.
The above pretty much summarises my process of becoming Mrs DP.
Click HERE for the entire Flickr set taken by Ashley and friends.
One Wedding ceremony Down, and another to go.
I am now also known as the LAZIEST BRIDE!
WELL at least, I finally come up with my June 1st Wedding Post.
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