Remember, Remember, A Wedding In November...

Now, if anything, a wedding ought to be a memorable event for all involved. The effort, the ideas, the small things and the big things, the people involved - it all comes together to make the event special.

Even if during the actual event itself things may seem hectic at times, or every minute so full and busy, there's always time to just take a step back for a moment and just appreciate what's going on. We were thinking of using the line, "Things always look better in retrospect," but then again we find that that line probably isn't well-suited for weddings. Here things look just as great as it was while we were going through it.

Having gone through as a zhimui before, we now got to be a hengdai. And the bunch of us took a bit more effort - which paid off when you look at the photos that were taken. But more on that later.

So, how does one go about making a wedding memorable? Probably the best way is to let the wife handle it really - we're sure that many girls still fantasize of their dream wedding without reality getting in the way. Or maybe the groom may have some unique ideas himself too (as we'd seen recently).

Well, for Ethancya and Renzze, being part of their wedding as a hengdai was definitely quite memorable. :)

From arriving the day before so that all of us could participate in the video interview, where bit's from everyone's answers were put together in an excellent montage. Bernard from Reddot Studios certainly did a great job putting the video of the interview and the hengdai vs zhimui session.

Then there was the day itself. From getting up before the break of dawn, to performing hengdai duties and negotiating with the zhimuis when it came to giving angpows, to the church service (certainly saw how handy it is to have one of them printers specially made just to print 4R pictures!) - everything was on schedule (to our shame we were expecting some delay of sorts). For this half of the day the hengdais were also having quite a time, as we were all dressed up rather spiffily in matching shirts and in coats.

Some pictures courtesy of otousan.

As you can see once the events for the first half of the day was done, the camwhoring took on another turn with calls of "Il Divo! Il Divo!" and the Gaya, Mutu, Keunggulan poses.

Some pictures courtesy of otousan and Puddy.

Of course the girls were wondering what got into the guys to camwhore to such an extent (admittedly a hefty amount of photos taken were of the guys in suits), to which 'Vin replied, "Because this time the guys dress better than the girls mah!"

True.

Not that the girls didn't get their Spice Girls moment. Or was it Il Diva?

Some pictures courtesy of otousan and Puddy.

Coats continued all the way during dinner, but with different shirts at least. A good dinner, everyone got to see the video interview montage finally, the subtitled hengdai vs zhimui scenes which included Etahncya's pole dancing bit and the confession outside her door, a live band (also memorable but maybe not in a good way was when our table joined in together to sing 'You're Just To Good To Be True'), the speeches, and the yamsengs.

Some pictures courtesy of otousan and Puddy.

Did the night end there? Not for us all. But unfortunately that's where it got all unmemorable. Erm. Lemon, lad, please tell us what happen? Over a couple of snow beers maybe.

Picture courtesy of otousan.

But still, here's to Ethancya and Renzze. May your journey together be full of memories.