Chinese wedding
I just attended my first chinese wedding dinner. A really eye opener I must say. The whole dinner lasted for about 3 hours. Supposed to start at 7.30 but they had to delay a bit to wait for guests coming from out of town.
I think as part of tradition, guest are required to give angpow instead of presets. The amount varies, but the whole idea is to ease the newlyweds’s wedding cost. So, if you are invited to a chinese wedding dinner that you know will cost at least RM750 per table of 10 person, a RM10 angpow just wouldn’t cut it. Don’t worry about the envelope though, you can reuse the red envelop they put your invitation card in.
The dinner itself comes in 10 sequential courses. Try not to eat too much in one course or you’ll get full too early.
There’s little ethics of pouring the drinks. The idea is not to let any of the cups in the table empty. So, if you decided to pour yourself one, make sure everyone else’s glass doesn’t need a refill. Don’t overdo it though, this applies to glasses on your table that’s reachable by arm’s length.
There’s a lot of liquor involves and it’s freeflow. So, to muslim’s out there, don’t be tempted. Stick to your chinese tea and soft drinks, ok?
At the end of the ceremony, we’ll get to line up like schoolkids to shake hands with the newly weds and their families. All and all, another scratch for the 1000 things i’d like to do before i die
Congratulations to Kok Meng and Jialing.
