Anyway, there was a big suckling pig in my house. So I couldn't resist taking a photo of it.
After the groom and his bros left my house at about 7am, it's time for me to bathe and get ready to receive the relatives at my house for the tea ceremony. I was really happy and excited.
My bro finally brought his wife back at 9.30am and we had tea ceremony after my uncle and cousin brought my grandma to my house. Here's my mum receiving the tea from my brother and da-sao.
After the tea ceremony, it was fellowship and buffet time. The caterer came late.. and I wasn't really happy about the food. I've never seen a chocolate eclaire that's longer than my hand. I also didn't see or taste any pineapple in my thai pineapple rice. And the xiao long bao wasn't the xiao long bao that we all know! It's a fried bao with peanuts inside. And the receipt put "xiao RONG bao". Gosh! It wasn't even "lian rong" inside lor. If not for the fact that many caterers only provide Christmas package on this day, I wouldn't have gotten this caterer. Pretty disappointed with Empire Food.
Anyway, there were many kids in my house and many of my mother's friends came too. Here's my nephews, Aloysius and Lionel from my father's side.
Here's my niece and nephew, Yun En and Matthew from my mother's side.
And this is Yun En and Matthew's brother, Luke(with my mum's friend).
We were so thankful to my mum's friends who helped us cleared all the food by packing them back for their family. After all of them left, I went to take a nap till 4pm and left for the hotel at 5plus.
Marina Mandarin's hotel suite is really big and nice. I didn't take the living room as there were too many unsightly glasses and food on the table. But I took the bedroom! The big and comfortable bed...
And the view from their room.
The toilet's really nice too! But I was paiseh to go in and take photos. Haha.
The relatives came rather early and I was kept busy from 6.30pm onwards at the reception. Didn't have much chance to take lots of pictures except this one.
This beary nice keychain was the door gift.
The food at Marina Mandarin is really good! Look at how beautifully curled up my shark's fin coin was on my spoon. And my whole bowl was filled with similar pieces.. not forgetting the big pieces of crab meat. Personally I felt that the food was better than those we had at food tasting. We really wondered if the other tables had similar good food.
Here's another cute and pretty niece, Cheryl, from my mother's side. She was stuck to me after I entertained her. So I didn't eat my food in peace. She was easily tickled and I loved her laughter.
After dinner, I decided that I should take a photo with my handsome, young cousin, Jianwei (Merf's neighbour). However, another older cousin came into our picture. Haha.
Then my other cousins suggested that we should take with their children as we are all YOUNG people. Haha. Those standing are my cousins and those sitting in front are my nieces and nephew from my father's side.
Why aren't there any pictures of the groom and bride? Well, their photos are all professionally taken. I only took videos of them (but most of the time, blocked by the professional photographers and videographers). Haha. I think my brother is a comedian. He gave a very short and simple thank you speech but it was quite comically brought forth because of the way he carried himself. And I almost cried when I saw the beginning montage. Our family photo was in and I was reminded of my father. He would be happy if he could be there with us. Most of his close friends attended my brother's wedding too. And it's been such a long time since I last saw many of them.
I would say that it was a very successful wedding. I was doing recept. So I knew that less than 15 people did not turn up for a 48 tables wedding especially on a public holiday, Christmas! I would say that both my bro and his wife have very good relationships with their friends and both their parents have very good relationships with their friends too. Thus, all of them gave face to attend the wedding. And for the 1st time, I saw majority of the people still sitting at the table after eating the last dish. Usually, the crowd will start walking off without eating dessert. Cool! I was happy.. especially for my bro and his wife. I hope that they are blessed greatly by all the ang baos and blessings from the relatives and friends. May God bless them with a good marriage and good relationships with both families!
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