The night before having had a hell lot of fun with my sistas' I went home to a sulky mum who complains that I'm not helping with 过大礼 stuff. So the night before, I sat down at 11pm tying red ribbons and sticking 囍 stickers onto whatever things that I see.
8am, woke up to wait for my Groom to come with his 媒人 to 提亲。They came with 22 boxes of cakes, many many oranges, 2 Martells, munchy goodies, etc. All these are called 聘礼, together with 聘金。
Mum & 媒人
They are suppose to give a lot to symbolize their generosity in this marriage. My mum & dad are suppose to keep some and return some to symbolize that the Groom's family is overly generous and that the Bride's family is humble and not greedy.
Ang Pows given back to the Groom's family members and the Groom himself (aka 女婿买田地礼金)。 So that he can buy land to plough with $28 lah... LOL...
In return, my mum also prepared many dowry for me to bring over to his house to symbolize the new Bride is ready to move every important possession over to her husband's place to start their new life together as a Couple. (those things that my mum spend $100 over to buy, which I clumsily tie red ribbons and stick 囍 stickers on.)
The things include sewing kit, splitoon, face basin, baby bath basin, towels (to represent cloths in the olden days), face towels, toothbrushes, toothpaste, mugs, 大圆小圆，bowls & chopsticks (for eating auspicious food stuff like rice dumplings on AD at Groom's house) and teapot set (for tea ceremony on AD at Groom's house).
Part of the 聘礼 are offered to Gods and ancestors to "tell" them that the daughter of the 甯 family is about to be married off and pray for their blessings to the new couple.
Did I mentioned that all the above happen at 8 in the morning??? Went back to sleep till 12 and get up to deliver the wedding cakes to relatives.
Mum, dad & I made rounds to 9 different places from Jurong to Toa Payoh. Finally end the day in my sister's place for dinner. My Bro-in-law cooks well.
Iris put on her new dress for us. She's gonna wear this new dress to our wedding banquet.
Did I mention that ErBao went on to participate in the Apply Discovery Race Finals and he won the 3rd place with his partner Cheng Wen. They each got a 16Gb Black iPhone complete with a 2-yr contract from Singtel. What's the catch here? They already have iPhones before the race. Humph!
Well the iPhone eventually fetched ErBao $1000 cash by selling to his colleague.
