Scenes from a Wedding

June 15th, 2008 by lynnylchan under Humour and My Life

I went back to KL recently to attend my cousin’s wedding. It’s a big deal, because he’s the only male on that side of the family, and he’s the first to get married. Oh, and the actual event ran over 2 weekends: one for the tea ceremony and one for the wedding dinner itself.

Personally I think the “games” that the bridal party puts the groom’s party through are rather childish, but to each their own. I’ve seen enough of those in the course of my 4 years in hall, so I thought adults about to get married (or rather, their friends) would be more mature. On the other hand, don’t listen to me. Such “games” are a part of our overseas Chinese cultural experience, and I’m an iconoclast who would rather elope than give in to such conformist ideals.

So instead of doing the proper thing and being all polite while staffing the wedding reception desk, I decided to camwhore. Yeah, so I got to sit there and stuff fat red envelopes into a Louis Vuitton bag. But since neither the bag nor the money was mine, I only got a ‘free’ dinner out of the whole endeavour. Chinese people are the best people in the world to tell you that there’s no such thing as a free meal.

1 hour spent on applying makeup. End result: still looks like no makeup. To sigh for my wasted time, or to rejoice because I have such a deft hand at the “natural” look?