Cuvae Events: Kok Ping and Ai Dee's Wedding =)

It all started with 11 of the 'brothers' gathering at at 7.30am at Kok Ping's house. We didn't take a moment of break but instead we started decorating the 6 cars which is heading to Ai Dee's house. Before it was 8.30am, the 6 cars which are completely decorated started to go to her house.

Bridegroom's decorated car

The journey only took us around 10 minutes since it is only from Tasek to Chemor which is fairly near. Upon reaching Ai Dee's house. A cute young boy opened the door of the bride's car. This is part of the tradition as for the newly weds to have a newborn soon. At the same time, the 'brothers' of the bridegroom also got down of the vehicle and accompanied the bridegroom to go through obstacles to reach the bride. They are then brought upon 'challenges' brought upon by the 'sisters' of the bridegroom.

The first 'challenge' would be push-ups. 2 of the 'brothers' is called to face this challenge. Wai Sing and Eugene bravely volunteered since to them it is not a hard task. But i think they are afraid to face harder challenges which would be brought to them later on. They are only needed to push-up for 20 times. Which of course, they finished the task easily without breaking a sweat.

Coming right next is the balloon blowing obstacle. This time they requested 5 of us to blow the balloons. This is also quite an easy task as they are only needed to blow the balloon till it pops. Not so much for a 'challenge' eh? Haha. Guess the 'sisters' are not really good in planning 'challenges' for the 'brothers'. Since the 'brothers' do not feel that it is much of a challenge. 5 of the 'brothers' just blew and let this challenge end in a short while. But they don't know that the 'sisters' did 'something' to the balloons! It actually contains flour. The flour actually spreaded to their faces when it poped. Hahaha. You would hope to be there to just have a peek of their face that time. After the balloon blowing, they are presented with 3 milk bottles on the table where the contents of the first one is somewhat muddy, also looks like a bottle of Milo though. It tastes so weird, it's like a sour Milo. You can imagine the rest yourself. The second one is kinda clear but with a colour of Ribena's colour. The Ribena is another weird combination which ingredients are unknown to us since it tastes sour. Eww. The last bottle is of a blackcurrant colour. When you drink it, you will be able to taste a very strong ginger taste. It seems that the 'sisters' blended the ginger and poured it into this. That's the end of the 'challenges' proposed to the 'brothers'.

Sucking up the sour milo from the milk bottle~

With the 'challenges' cleared. The bridegroom's side have to give an angpao to the 'sisters' in order to gain entrance to the house. With all those done, at last the bridegroom will be meeting the bride. Aww. How sweet of them. They hugged for a while and kissed. Then they are then required to 'pour tea' (better known as 'jum cha' in cantonese) to the elders of the bride's family. The elders are so happy to receive the cup of tea from them. They bless the new couple and also offer a present as good fortune for the new couple. As for the younger ones in the family, they are only required to greet the new bridegrooms. In exchange, they receive an angpao as a sign of good fortune. It is now time to prepare to head back to the bridegroom's house. =) Just before reaching his house, all 6 of the cars spams their car honks. It is to replace those music which is played back then as a sign that they're back home. In according to the tradition, the new couples's car went around the his house for another round before stopping. This time, another kiddo from the bride's family opens the door and also the same he receive an angpao as a sign of good fortune. They then proceed to burn incense for the ancestors to gain their blessing. As the same in the bride's house, They too will pour tea to the elders of the family and also was greeted by the younger ones as well. Then they went up to the new couple's room, a male youngster will then roll on the bed as a sign to have a newborn soon and hit the 'tam tung' which is also known as 'zi shun tong‘. As the name suggests, it is so also as a sign to have a newborn soon.The youngster will then again receive angpaos and chinese mandarin for his effort. Then they will change and go have lunch. And that ends their activity for the morning part.

Then comes the wedding dinner. =D

The guests waits impatiently for the arrival of the newly wed couples. With their entrance, everybody stands up and claps for them as to congratulate them. When all is in place, the food is then served. But in the middle of the dinner, the newly weds is then invited to get on the stage to open and pour the champagne and also to cut their wedding cake.

Kok Ping and Ai Dee's family on stage

Right after that, their family is then invited to the stage to drink 3 glasses with the guests. This is to give thanks to the guests which is present on that day. After that, the dinner is then continued. the couple and their parents from both of their respective family will then go from table to table and to drink with the guests.