How considerate are Marcus & Michelle? Instead of taking the typical route ie. having a single wedding dinner to cater to the most common denominator, they hold three wedding dinners to each cater to a different crowd.
With the first wedding dinner---the traditional Chinese one to appease the bride's parents and for family friends---done & dusted a week ago, it was time for wedding dinner number two. This one was for the pleasure of Marcus' company, colleagues, and clients. This wedding dinner was a simple, straightforward affair---the type where the restaurant handles all the details; pick your 'package' and the venue handles everything from menu to drinks to decorations to music. All you have to do is show up, shove food in your mouth, drink Blue Label, and not pass out face down in your dessert. Easy!
7th November 2012, Petaling Jaya.
Photo credits; all pictures taken with a DSLR lovingly stolen from Chris's Facebook. The Instagram pictures are mine.
I treated myself to a blow-dry at Hair Quarters, Publika and road tested the Tiffany Blue nail polish I intended to wear for the #mlovem church ceremony and third wedding dinner.
I love how the Kiss Me 'Pure' bottom lashes do wonders for creating doe-eyes out of my tiny peepers.
Ever a huge fan of convertible dresses, I wore a two-toned (mint & peach) number from Lexi Lyla...
...CHANEL Jumbo 2.55, an assortment of friendship bracelets from Ashley's boutique On A Cloudy Day (Jalan Telawi 3, Bangsar) and House Of Eight (Publika). Necklace from ShoesShoesShoes.
Ashley if you are reading this please set up an Instagram for your boutique!
One more photo of me golek-ing on Michiekin's bed while waiting for her and Sheena-chan to get ready.
En route to the #mlovem stress-free, pre-planned wedding dinner. Really, it was like a party held for the benefit of the adoring court seeking an audience with Maharaja & Maharani Ng.
Michiekins & Sheena-chan, 2/3 of Golek-Unit.
With Jillykins and Sheena-chan.
The Ng family. How much do Marcus look like his siblings?! The resemblance is so uncanny it's actually scary.
M&M's grand entrance...
...the royal wave hahaha.
Ice cubes clink gently in glasses of Johnnie Walker, which we sip throughout the night instead of drinking water. Because sobriety is simply not an option at a Chinese wedding dinner.
Ng Yee Soon and Ooi Cheng Pin---hahahahha we all know your Chinese names. With this knowledge I can cast spells on you. Sumpah kalian beli saya Aston Martin Vanquish yang paling baru.
Dinner...!
Roka, the Malaysian Ferrero Rocher. Or as Jillykins says "The Malaysian Ferrero Rocher wannabe." Ha!
Towers of food are brought out to the tables...
Four Seasons Happiness Combinations. I love Chinese dishes and their elaborate, poetic, slightly kooky names!
Bird's nest & crab meat bisque. I'm glad that serving shark's fin soup at wedding dinners is now increasingly unfashionable. It's cruel and doesn't even taste of anything...! Dousing vinegar onto rubbery bits of fin ripped painfully from a live shark who's thrown back into the sea to drown, what for? Ugh. Bird's nest is just as good a status symbol and 'show off' piece at wedding dinners, no, it's better because bird's nest is actually good for your complexion AND doesn't involve cruelty. Angry rant over.
Baby duck with romaine green salad.
Poached tiger prawns with 'Shao Hsing' wine & wolf berry.
Pan-fried white tuna fish with pomelo sauce.
Braised stuffed whole Chinese cabbage with baby abalone & broccoli.
Braised ee-fu noodles with lobster meat.
Pudding...
...glutinous rice dumplings with black sesame and thousand layer cake...
...and double-boiled snow pear with sea coconut.
Sheena-chan & Po Hsu Yang are happy diners.
Nine courses and several bottles of whisky later we were fit to burst.
Oh wait, there's cake. *dies*
CHEERS!
Or as we say in Chinese...YAAAAAAAAM SENG!
The longer you hold the yam seng, the better the toast. Cue a roomful of hoarse larynxes, sore throats, and a lot of noise.
With one of my START Society students, Evon, and The One Academy alumni Pojoo and Haniz.
More cheering...!
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam SENG!
No wedding dinner is complete without Gangnam Style.
The night ended with the groom's clients, colleagues, & company shuffling out of the venue very full and all 'partied out'. What an excellent way to save having to call in sick at work the next day; get your entire company drunk with you! Noone's going in to the office tomorrow, just close the company for a day haha.
The rest of us typically spend the rest of the night drinking, cheering, singing, and carrying on for as long as we could until we were kicked out by the tired staff who wanted to actually go to bed before dawn.
This second wedding dinner was exactly what everyone needed.
A (relatively) quiet, stress-free, laid-back, conservative prelude to the 'real deal'. Call it practise for THE wedding---church ceremony, third wedding dinner, and after party!
Steady does it...!
Next...THE OFFICIAL WEDDING OF #MLOVEM.
xx
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