Wedding Errands Week!

20 February 2012

It's running of wedding errands week!

Food tasting, 过大 礼 and choosing of Fathers' jackets all happening whole of last week.  I must say, it's an exhuasting but eventful week filled with happiness and joy!  At least for now, the only task left for our wedding preparation is only the table seating arrangements...  *PHEW*

Popa and Moma 报病而来 for the food tasting hence they didn't really get to try / enjoy the dishes much and it's such a pity that most of our dishes choosen for the wedding banquet are some of Summer Palace's signature dishes!  But Grandpa did enjoy his meals especially glasses of red wine after another served during the dinner.  :)  Overall it has been a good food tasting experience, hopefully our "approved" standards for this food tasting will stay consistent throughtout our wedding banquet.

Food tasting at Summer Palace / Fathers' studying the 4D results for the week / We tried Chef Liu's signature dish > some crocodile dish / Reviewing the banquet dishes with Chef Liu's assistant

We had our simple 过大 礼 (a Chinese wedding custom, a procedure whereby the groom to send the bride's gift as requested by Bride's family two-three weeks before the wedding day).  We actually traveled for about 235km to delivering 喜饼 to relatives!  That was like about 7 times around Singapore!!!

ah Thiang's Mom prepared the following:

> 2 bottles of Chivas

> 18 oranges

> 18 canned of pig trotters

> 2 pairs of dragon & phoenix candles

> 龍鳳鐲

> 聘金 and ang baos

> 10 boxes of cakes

Some of the items returned back to ah Thiang's family:
> 2 bottles of orange juice

> 2 oranges

> 2 canned of pig trotters

> 2 boxes of cake

> a pair of plain red candles

> Some 聘金 and ang baos

Some of my dowry brought back to ah Thiang's place:

> Towels

> PJs

> 2 battery operated lamps

> Tea set

> Pillows, bolster, bedsheets, pillow cases, bolster cases

> Baby bath pail, face basin, spitton, sewing box with rolls of threads+needles+scissors, tumbler, comb

> 2 luggages filled with my new clothes

**all items were decorated with 喜喜  stickers and tied with red ribbons...

I am enjoying every bit of the box of buttercream cakes!  This is super uber old-skool and yummmmmy!  +STILL drooling...+

We are now 20 days to our BIG day....  ++OHMYOHMY!+++  Counting down.... 20, 19, 18, 17, 16 more days.... whoot whoot whoot!