nurul's wedding 
spent the entire weekend this week attending kamaliah's wedding. was actually invited to the dinner on the 1st day when normally friends and colleagues are invited but kamaliah said we could go both days so went on sunday as well to kaypo coz nvr attended a malay wedding (waited for 10yrs for my malay sec sch classmates to get married ;p) n wanted to see the wedding procession on sunday :P
unlike chinese weddings, the dinner itself didnt take as long. it starts ard 7plus n ends ard 9plus. we got there abit late due to poor time estimation (haven been so far up north for years, had to travel all the way from pasir ris to woodlands!!). onli 3 of us were able to make it on sat so the rest were mostly kamaliah's colleagues from the sch which she n her hubby r teaching at. dinner was buffet style n it was pretty crowded when we reached there so onli managed to find seats right at the back so couldnt really see wat was happening in front. the 3 of entertained ourselves with food n spent time catching up coz we havent met up in awhile. they had an emcee to host the dinner n not those pple who hire bands to play live. halfway thru dinner, the emcee tried to liven things up by walking round "disturbing" guest n got on with the cake cutting ceremony all that. but b4 dat, the groom sang a song for the bride using the karaoke system they set up for all including guests (none actually sang on the 1st day though). 
after the performance etc, the guests queued up for photo taking with the couple n at the same time, pple started forming a queue and starting leaving for the nite so it took awhile b4 we had the chance to take pics with them. hung round for awhile aft dat to take some more pics b4 calling it a nite ard 10. me, hazimah n hani in the back row :)
day 2 had to wake up earlier coz had to meet the others at woodlands at 11.30. turned out sun wasnt as crowded when we arrived coz the whole duration of the reception was fr 11am-5pm, in btw of which the groom came ard 1plus with his wedding procession to fetch the bride to his hse n later they will come back to the wedding recept at the bride's hse again. pretty hot weather today so me n hani were melting but later it became cloudier n we managed to get a good seat where there was actually some breeze. went up to pop by the bride's hse the moment we reached but realised she had juz started preparing only ard 11plus n so wondered round the hse by ourselves to see the bridal room n gifts n dowry spread out in the room. resorted to camwhoring using the camera timer to take pics by ourselves coz there werent anyone else ard ;pme n the gang (so stupid, nvr put cammy properly so can see cupboard ;P)
the gifts n dowry in the elaborately decorated bridal room
oohh~~ cakes went down for food (nasi bryani today! yeah~~) n waited till nearly 1pm b4 the bride finally got ready n made her way down to the recept. b4 dat, was "disturbed" by the emcee who unfortunately recognised me n my fren fr the day b4 n since there werent much pple ard to disturb, came to our table to disturb us n trying to get us to sing karaoke which we didnt of coz ;p... there were actually pple who sang today, 2 uncles of which 1 seemed to be a pretty gd singer whom we concluded hv been practising at hm n "performing" at all the weddings he was invited to :P
our group was planning to leave aft taking photos with the bride but me n yong2 stayed awhile more coz me wanted to take pics of the groom's arrival n wedding procession etc. was quite surprised they also hv those "block the door n ask for ang bao" part except theirs was block the passage way of the groom n gang n anyone could do it so they blocked by at least 3-4 groups of pple b4 they finally made their way to the wedding recept where they stopped halfway for a ceremony which involves a few pple making some dance/martial arts move but since there werent anyone to explain to us, we didnt quite understand wat was going on. finally b4 the groom got to see the bride, there was this lady, sorta like a chinese matchmaker who holds this fan to cover the bride's face and asks for an ang bao b4 she uncovers the bride n the groom finally got to seat down.
us n the bride (was forced to sit in front coz no one else wanted to :P)
the "fierce" looking group guarding the passage way with wat look like oars but were actually used for cooking rice ;p
groom n procession bargaining in process
the procession
pple crowding round to catch a view of ceremony
eager bride being covered by a fan 
asking for ang bao
assume to be father in law saying prayers for the couple overall it was worth me going all the way far north, being able to experience a wedding ceremony diff to all the chinese ones which i hv been to and most imptly, getting to meet up with pple whom i hv not met in yrs, frenz fr 10-11yrs back fr sec sch days (so old liao! arh~~~)... now left only indian wedding which i nvr attended but dun hv any really close indian frenz leh... must go "find" one :P
