The Lioness.: cousin's wedding

today is my cousin maria's wedding. i dunno how old is she. but then her wedding is soooooooo good lo! i will also want my wedding to be in that manner, those photos and planning etc. and i think her husband is good, she's fortunate!

woke up at 5 plus to bedok where the tea ceremony etc is held. spent most of my time watching tv la, i dont really talk to my cousins much. they also dont talk to me. whaha. oh what i wanna say is the part where the groom has to go through tasks to get to the bride. haha. the sisters really wanna torment the groom. he had to eat things that are sour, sweet, bitter and spicy (酸甜苦辣), also had to peel bananas hanging on a bamboo pole, blah blah blah. he finally got into the house, but before he could enter the room, he and his brothers had to sing a song, cant take my eyes off you. the newly weds took a nice photo that is made into a poster with the caption 'too good to be true' and the lyrics of the song beside the standing couple. and its really those poster material ya. so they sang. the whole thing was really lively and enjoyable la, like the rest of us just see see also can laugh. haha. i didnt get the chance to sabo my brother-in-law because of time was tight.

blah blah blah, time to go home and rest first before proceeding to grand copthorne hotel for the wedding banquet at the grand copthorne waterfront hotel.

my parents and brother took the mrt there. i was very reluctant to do it, cos you make up blah blah and then take train like what only lo...so my sis and i took a cab there. shhhh.

in the cab along the way to the hotel

these are the ice carved swans outside the ballroom. so nice right!

this is the table and the candle plus the menu

the menu is not those typical printed on good quality paper type. its a very good quality folder with clips top and bottom of the spine and they printed a piece of paper and ta daa! the menu.

this is the stage with curtains as background. a bit different from the typical ballrooms, but still nothing much to me

before i stepped into the ballroom i scrutinised through the wedding photo albums. they were good! like the whole thing, how they took, very professional. there were some single shots of my cousin, and there's this very nice photo of the silhouette of my cousin and cousin-in-law against the sunset and they were holding hands. very nice! like you're flipping through some magazines and see the pictures and think that they're some stars in those magazines. really, those photos make you look very...very professional too. like those high society people (by the way my cousin-in-law is rich i heard. but he's a friendly guy).

the whole wedding was really impressive! the music chosen was good. when the couple first stepped in, they had their solemnisation on the stage in front of everyone! like so nice lo. moreover they also had to pay more to invite the solemniser over.

the curtains behind the stage were like usual decorations to me. in the end they opened to reveal a garden inside!!! they even put fake wind like so the plants were like swaying and it looked quite real la. except that you werent eating the delicacies on grass.

they employed this good photography firm to help them settle photos and videos for the whole day. during the dinner, there was something like this mini episode of the morning's activities. a very interesting video. the part i mentioned about the groom and the brothers singing cant take my eyes off you; the producer of the video added an actual song as background music and like the brothers singing along to it one...timing very good also! this is the best wedding banquet i've been to so far, i have to admit.