WEDDINGS - your thoughts, your dreams, your wish and your views!

Weddings, I have attended too many wedding to remember.But there are a few that that I can vaguely remembered as these happened long ago. There was one wedding my better half and I attended which we have to wait for close to 2 hours for some important guests of the groom, dinner cannot begin without them. Everyone were very very hungry.The minute the late-comers arrived everyone heaved a big relieve as if strike the jackpot. There was another occasion which my colleague and I attended. Guess what? We missed the king of all dishes- Shark Fins. We started our journey from Singapore at 4:00 pm and drove up north to Segamat, Johore in Malaysia. In those days there was no highways, we used the torturous narrow trunk road and over-taking trucks was an ordeal. We lost the way and asked for directions and ended up missed 4 dishes. Bad experience!!

My husband and I just got married in June!! I've also been to several weddings in my day. Our wedding consisted of a ceremony first at the church. Our ceremony was in a Lutheran Church and it lasted for about a 1/2 an hour. After the church ceremony our marriage license was signed by the pastor and we were officially married! After the ceremony we had a reception , which was basically like a big, formal party to celebrate our marriage. It was the best day of my life, marrying my best friend.

Hi Iriene88, lol... it was indeed a very memorable wedding for you, taking a cab to the club! Since I was 4, I've always dreamt of having a fairytale wedding. With a flowing nice gown, a prince charming, nice banquet, diamond ring and lots more. I am lucky that I did find my prince charming and he did give me a fairytale wedding and now we are blessed with our own little prince. We went to China for our honeymoon as we had burst our budget for the wedding. The following year, for our 1st Anniversary, we went to Europe.. the following year, we celebrated our anniversary with our little prince and had been grounded in our country since then.. no more travelling until the little one is older!

Iriene.. how come nobody want to give you a lift? I thought the 'main cast' should be given priority ma.. :p BTW, since I know what a wedding dinner during my 'young' age, I have been telling myself, I don't want any of it on my wedding day.. I don't think a dinner is the must, since everyone is tired out for the ceremony.. I would love to have a dinner celebration on my 10th wedding anniversary and then I shall be able to announce to everyone, I did have a good 10 years of marriage...at least those give ang pow also 'kam yun' that those give then you hear them getting divorce the next year.. I have a friend always complain that we should make those couple who get married without thinking in proper and not even taking the responsibilities to maintain it, should return all the ang pow to the guest.. and one more thing, I find it weird when people keep asking if one gain or loss in having the wedding dinner.. is that what the wedding dinner suppose to be?

My husband and I have been married for five years now. We were married in the same church where I grew up and our reception was in the gymnasium of the church. It was such a perfect event for me. We didn't dump our entire savings into our wedding, but rather we spent on the things that were important to us. My favorite memory of our wedding day was the release of memorial balloons. We'd filled balloons with helium and placed a memorial tag inside of each one for people that should have been at our wedding but had passed away before our wedding. This was the best way that I could think of to remember those people on my special day, and it was such an emotion part of our day. The balloons were white and silver and each was released individually. It was just absolutely beautiful.

Hello Iriene, No, i didn't attend any wedding before. But now i am going to attend the wedding. Tomorrow is my friend's wedding and i'm planned to go to it. His marriage is going to held at a marriage hall. In our locality there are seperate halls for the marriage, because our population is very high and marriages are happening very frequently. Also, during no marriage, they will rent the hall for the other functions like parties,etc., Have a nice day..

Hi there! You had such a funny and unusual experience that I could not stop laughing. Hope you will never forget it through out your entire life or whenever you remember about any wedding. I am nor sure if you know about Indian weddings and what are the rituals followed to complete an Indian marriage. I'll quickly share two incidents relating to my marriage. One of my cousins was entrusted with the responsibility of getting the car decorated for wedding and send off ceremony. When he was to get it decorated for send off ceremony, he got so tired and exhausted that he himself slept in the car and it came at the venue well after 2 hours of scheduled time. Band party comes to play some songs, at the time of wedding and finally when the girl is finally given send off by her family members, at the conclusion of the wedding ceremony. Band party also slept somewhere hoping that the ceremony will end by 4.00 a.m. in the morning. However, to their misfortune, the ceremony ended at 2.30 a.m. and my wife's family performed the send off ceremony after that and we people left with the bride by 3.00 a.m. for our home. When the band party came at 4.30 a.m. in the morning, they were informed that the marriage party i.e. bride grooms' family had already left and they were deprived of their fees/money.

It sounds like you had a lot of fun on your wedding day. Congratulations, i am very happy for you. Here is an morning sunrise for you to remember with your husband.

nice memorable event for you. thanks for sharing. sorry to say i am not married. i will marry with in 8 or 10 years. but i have participated for more marriage fuctions. my brothers wedding is due on this december. A fuction is actually headache for me. lots of problems, try to run for several arrangements. booking forchurch, hall, etc. now for three and a half month i am free from this burdens. For a marriage the most important factor is food. all are invited for eating food. so one must arrange food with great taste. one instance happened for my sisters marrage. in that fuction all said the food was only satisfactory. nice post keep posting more.

Hello Iriene. I love weddings and have been to many...each beautiful in its own way. They usually bring tears to my eyes! That is truly funny, though probably frustrating at the time, that you and your groom had to call a taxi!! If I ever marry again, I would wish for just a simple ceremony, but with flowers and candles and closest friends and relatives. Have a happy day! Karen

Really enjoyed going through your discussion on wedding ceremony. You can rewind those moments and use as stress buster. I generally never go for any weddings. My people are not happy with this nature of mine and so the common topic at every wedding is about my absence. But I did attend a few of them here and there. A couple of them turned out very funny. If I go to describe them here it will be very lengthy.

Hi Iriene, My husband and I met in the country's capital city, but both our parents lived in the province, mine were from down south, while his were from the north. We decided to have the wedding ceremony in his hometown, which was a lot nearer than my own province, where my parents were. It was big deal to my parents, they said it should be held in my hometown because I was the bride (didn't understand that belief). I explained to them that it will be more expensive to fly all his relatives to my province than flying them (my parents) to Manila because all my sisters and brother and other relatives lived in Manila anyway. After some sentimental arguments, they gave in. Back then there were no hotels in my husband's hometown, only motels. In my country a "motel" has a negative connotation, it's a place where people go for for a short "happy hour" or S&X, so nice, decent ladies are supposed to stay away from them. But I didn't have any choice but to check in there together with my brides maids, while my husband stayed in his house with his own set of relatives/visitors - again, to heed a belief that the bride shouldn't be in the groom's house until their married. I was like - this is the night before my wedding and I'm in a motel. To my relief, the wedding went well, which was good because the pre-wedding was so much trouble already, and I could have been out of my wits if the wedding day itself went bad too.

Hi ,my friend .I am glad to share your story.I attended some wedding ,but I don't remember the details.I want to have a unique wedding.Because chinese wedding in the country,I don't like.It is simple and boring .Of course ,it is meaningful.

Talking about punctuality, I only remember 'stress'. We had to go back to Malacca to 'chum char' to his parents and come back to KL on the same afternoon for the wedding dinner. We got married on first day of Raya and caught in the famous KL - Seremban jam, along with 10 'chee mui' cars behind us. I saw my BIL from China exit to PD and I screamed !!!!! Malacca is another few stops away. Luckily for hp, I managed to call him and he reversed his car back to the highway. Arriving at in laws was major stress, chum char, standing in line taking family photo, despite all that, gotta 'smile'.. then lunch and then another mad rush back to KL, and to the hotel. I quickly changed to shorts and t-shirts but still with my morning make up. When I arrived in the hotel at 6pm, I saw relatives from Malacca arriving ahead of me. They saw me, the hurried bride, quickly running past them with shorts and shirts n morning make up n hair do, running to my bridal suit to get changed.. Woah,,, major stress !!! BUT despite all that, we look back and have a good laugh !!!

Weddings are very nice and I have been to several of them. I am half Greek though and so I guess I have been to quite a few Greek weddings in the past. Everyone was so happy and the dancing and smashing of plates was very nice too! I doubt that I will ever get married though! I have been living alone for a long time now and I guess I have become comfortable and used to my own circumstances. They say you never know what is around the corner so maybe I will get married one day but I just cannot imagine it right now. I don't have any family to speak of! What would my wedding be like? Without any family to support me I don't suppose it would be much of a wedding really. I love watching other people's weddings though and how they enjoy themselves. Andrew

I had the most beautiful wedding, I was glad about that. My cousin's wedding was the weekend before mine and my sister and I hated her. Anyway her wedding was cold and wet and damp. Mine was sunny and warm and just the most enjoyable day ever. Anyway that's basically my story.

well, I did not attend any weddings before, yet, that excite moment would come soon, and I'm waiting for that happens. I would like to have a chinese traditional wedding and give my girl a big surprise, and I would take her to Huangshan to enjoy our honey moon, aslo to begin our life. I would take my wedding seriously and make it a perfect one.

I have attended 7 weddings so far and I have also been a flower girl as well as a bride's maid once before. I love weddings; from the couple's story, to the ceremony, the little details, just about everything! I am a nurse by profession but back when I was still 16 years old, I made a portfolio of inspiration pictures for my future wedding and I'm still updating it every now and then! When all else fail in nursing, I guess I'm going to have to be a wedding planner. Lol! To Iriene, that was quite an experience! Somehow these little things or glitches are always bound to happen but they also make your special day more memorable too!