Wedding celebration
I just attended a wedding celebration over the weekend at a church.
It was a simple function, a simple church wedding.
I knew both the bride and groom from my management trainee days at Maersk.
The groom is a fellow Singaporean MISE, the bride is a MISE from China.
They met in the program as well, but admittedly in the groom's speech that day, sparks did not fly then. It was only after the pogramme and traineeship has ended, and when the bride moved to Singapore to take up a job position, before the two finally did see sparks fly.
Oh, did i mention the groom was Indian, and the bride is Chinese?
So, the unique thing is this was a inter-race, inter-country, and inter-cultural marriage. This again proves that love knows no boundaries. In the eyes of love, there is no distinction, no difference in race, country or culture. All it matters is love.
True testament to that!
When we arrived, we proceeded to the usual hong bao collection kiosk, and to ceremoniously drop our hong bao ("red packet") into the corresponding box, either for the groom side, or the bride side.
This begets the question, what if this tradition of hong bao giving is not in place. What if we have to buy them wedding gifts instead. Now, what would we have bought and gifted them?
A TV? A microwave? A photo frame? A hamper? Some fruits? Some wine? A fan? Flight tickets to a honeymoon destination?
The more I thought of the endless possibilities, the greater headache I had.
Thankfully, this was a hong bao tradition ceremony.
So, all we had to do is to put in some money into the hong bao, and gifted the blissful couple. Done deal!
After the wedding celebrations, we proceeded to a luncheon service. Where food galore piled on. We also collected wedding door gifts before we left. It consisted of a purple box, with two ferrero rocher chocolate balls inside.
Weddings are such a romantic experience, don't you agree?
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