An interesting Wedding

Tonight we attended a rather messy wedding which turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Weddings can be very draggy, with guests waiting endlessly for the banquet to finish (I'm talking about the Chinese weddings here). But tonight I attended my first buffet style wedding in Singapore held at Changi Golf Club. The wedding venue is quite small, but romantic as it was by the beach. The wedding solemnisation and the party supposed to have been held outdoors but unfortunately the weather turned for the worse with rain pouring down. So the outside area had to be diverted to indoors, tho there was space available, there didn't seem to be any staff from the club available to help move everything indoors. So everything was really really messy. The wedding party had to be split up into two separate rooms. I guess it was just a little poor planning and poor implementation of any back up plans they had. It's times like this that I think the experience and services of a wedding planner would have been helpful. I could tell how upset the bride was and I really felt for her, to watch her wedding day get all messed up by the weather. The poor lass.

Having the dinner in buffet style meant that the guests could eat and leave early rather than having to wait for all the guests to arrive and wait for each course to be served. We were out of there by 7.30/8pm rather than the usual 11pm! And the funny thing was they didn't have a tea ceremony (it was hubby's relative), I guess maybe things were too messy and they decided to skip it.

There's one thing that irks me about weddings here. Guests here don't seem to bother getting all dressed up. Jeans and t-shirts can be seen or worse, cargo shorts! Eventho today's venue was a little bit more casual I think that it's still important for the guests to make a little effort to dress up. I think it's just a sign of respect to the couple. In Australia you'll see the men wear suits and the gals in nice outfits. In Jakarta the girls really dress up for weddings (sometimes going overboard till your guests resemble a fashion parade), the men will usually wear batik shirts. And you should see the bride's and groom's mothers, they're usually in evening gowns. Maybe in Singapore people just can't be bothered to dress up becoz it's too hot or maybe because they have to take public transport sometime making it a little uncomfortable to be dressed up.