Chinese Wedding Photographers
Posted on October 19, 2007 in the General Wedding Plans category
I just did an online search for “chinese wedding photographers” and I could not find a single one. Why don’t any of them advertise online?? That means I will have to arrange one through my parents and their friends unless I get an english photographer which will be more expensive. My sister who got married a few weeks ago had a chinese/vietnamese couple from London to do her photo’s and wedding video so I think I’m going to wait and see how that turns out before I go looking for Chinese Wedding Photographers.
Does anyone know of any Chinese Wedding Photographers that are good?? Its abit disconcerting not to have any online galleries of their work as we don’t know what the quality is like.
Auspicious date = Good Weather??
Posted on October 9, 2007 in the Chinese Wedding Traditions category
I always thought if you picked an auspicious date then the weather would always be on your side but today there are 2 weddings taking place and its raining. The 9th October is meant to be the last Auspicious date in the book, thats what a bride to be told me. So I guess nothing can affect the chance of rain. If its going to rain on your wedding day then it will rain. I suppose all I can do now is have a back up plan for wedding photos if it rains on our wedding day in March
Chinese Wedding Banquet at Chung Ying Garden
Posted on October 7, 2007 in the Real Weddings category
Long, Helen, me and Dave
Me and my sister
This picture is so good. It looks like the cover of some chinese drama
The Wedding Cake
3rd dress change for the bride and bridemaids - we all wore ao dai’s. This was for when the food was coming out.
4th dress change - another traditional vietnamese dress for going round the tables doing the cheers
5th dress change - back to the red ao dai - bride and Dave. Helen got told off by her mother in law for wearing this dress again. She says the bride isn’t meant to wear a dress twice on her wedding.
A dress change for the bridesmaids - Me and dave
Throwing the bouquet. Can you spot me at the front?
OMG look who caught it??
The next couple to get married
After party at Pad Thai - the bride singing
Another dress change for me. I think I had as many dress changes as the bride LOL. I’m sure Helen will do the same back to me at my wedding.
4am - 1am a 21 hour day. I was totally drained for the next couple of days. I think I have learnt things from my sisters wedding. Like having less dress changes for the bride and making sure everyone is fed at the start of the day because thats when people started moaning about being so hungry. Also make sure the best men do their jobs properly and not leave the groom drunk after going round all the tables. I have to say Long your best men were crap that day.
I think my sister chose a great color theme. I wonder what my theme will be like? At least the day went smoothly, no hiccups.
Congratulations Mr and Mrs Ha
The Wedding Ceremony at Birmingham Registry Office
Posted on October 7, 2007 in the Real Weddings category
Last minute adjustments to my sisters veil.
My dad leading my sister down the aisle followed by me and the other bridesmaids
Bride and groom saying the vows
Here they are signing their life away hehehe
The happy couple with all the best men and bridesmaids
Walking down the aisle together
Getting hit with confetti
Reena, Johnny, Dave and me
Bridesmaids flowers - 4 red and 3 white roses hand tied with satin. The Bride had the same colors but in a big teardrop bouquet
We had alot of fun after the ceremony, taking funny pics with all the bridesmaid and even the bride doing jumping photo’s too bad the best men all left because we could have taken alot of fun pictures with them. I have to admit the best men, apart from Bob or shall I call him by his proper name Stuart, were a waste of space the didn’t help with anything. What kind of friends are they??
The Tea Ceremony - Brides house & Grooms house
Posted on October 7, 2007 in the Real Weddings category
The bride and groom after the games. Helen is wearing a traditional vietnamese dress called an ao dai for both tea ceremonies.
It is tradition to have a tea ceremony at the brides house first. First the groom offers the elders tea using both hands and then the bride must follow. After they drink the tea a lai see (lucky packet) is given our jewellery
Bride and Groom in front of my parents
My whole family - The bridesmaids and a few other girls are also wearing ao dai’s
We then jumped into the limousine and went to Long’s parents house for the other tea ceremony. By then everyone was starving so a good tip would be to have food ready for everyone at the brides house and the groom’s house.
We then had to get changed for the Wedding Ceremony.
My big sister’s wedding - The Games
Posted on October 7, 2007 in the Real Weddings category
It was a 4am start for us girls, we had to get up extra early as the groom and his hing dai’s were coming to the house at 7am. See how dark it still is……
I made the groom - Long put on this banner that I made. It read ” I ::heart:: Helen” at the front and at the back “Helen owns this ass” before we opened the door. Apparantly tradition calls for the younger brother to open the door so my lil bro had the privilege of doing so.
I had 8 questions that Long had to answer to get past us girls and also 8 games to play if he got them wrong. He got all but 1 right. I also had a time penalty which meant that if any of his hing dai’s delayed things by more than 5 seconds they would have to eat a square of bitter dark chocolate (99& cocoa) with a blob of wasabi on the top. The first thing I made them do was put on pink thongs.
Then somebody had to eat a banana from Long’s crotch
They had to pop the balloons without using their hands only their body.
Then we asked for the money. Which Long gave up quite easily. I gave it to one of the girls to count and they said it was £99 in the envelope which I said wasn’t enough so we carried on playing games.
I printed out the lyrics to Bryan Adams - Everything I do because the bride, Helen wanted him to sing that song. I made sure they sang quite loudly so that Helen could hear it. By that time Long’s aunt hurried me up as time was running out so I decided that there was one more task for Long to do.
Long had to read a declaration of Love to Helen at the bottom of the stairs.
My only regret was not having enough time to do all the games plus not collecting the other 2 envelopes that Long had in his pocket. Everything was rushed and I give this one bit of advice to fellow gee mui’s NEVER ACCEPT THE FIRST ENVELOPE. Always ask for more.
Notice to all those who want 2008 Auspicious dates
Posted on October 7, 2007 in the Chinese Wedding Traditions category
Hi, I know there are quite a few of you ladies who have left comments about the Auspicious dates for 2008 but my fiancee has gone on holiday for 2 weeks to Hong Kong and Thailand. So we won’t be able to post the dates until he come back. Please check back in a few weeks
Wishing all you brides to be the best in your wedding planning.
Auspicious Chinese Wedding Dates for March 2008
Posted on September 24, 2007 in the Chinese Wedding Traditions category
Well Dave’s Dad Has had a look in the Tong Sing book for us and translated the good, bad and neutral dates for march 2008.
As you can see its all written in chinese, so you need someone who can read traditional chinese characters to translate the book.
So according to this 2008 Hong Kong edition of the Tong Sing these are the auspicious dates for march 2008:
Good Dates for Weddings
Saturday 1st
Tuesday 4th
Tuesday 11th
Wednesday 26th
Bad Dates for Weddings - Avoid!
Wednesday 12th
Monday 24th
Neutral - neither good nor bad
all other dates not listed above are neutral, which means they are not bad, but not brilliant either.
For his hard work we bought Dave’s dad a nice cold beer. He likes it when people buy him beer. From these selected auspicious dates we’re going to be either looking at getting married on March the 4th or 11th as those are the only 2 tuesdays available. Dave’s Dad will still have to finalise the date so Dave you better get on the case so we (when I say ‘we’ I actually mean I) can really start planning.
Selecting an Auspicious wedding date
Posted on September 21, 2007 in the Chinese Wedding Traditions category
When selecting your auspicious wedding it is said to be bad luck if you or your partner chooses your own auspicious date for your wedding as you are not meant to perform a self analysis using the almanac. That is why it is better to consult a chinese fortune teller or feng shui master but nowadays it is acceptable for the grooms Dad or any wise parent/uncle/aunt to perform that task.
We have decided to let Dave’s dad have the honor of choosing our wedding date as we are not that superstitious and we don’t have easy access to a chinese fortune teller or feng shui master. Whilst me and Dave have looked through the almanac, Dave’s dad will be selecting our dates and have the final say on which date we will be getting married on.
I have researched online that it is better to choose a date with as much even numbers as possible as its meant to be merrier. I don’t think having as many even numbers as possible will be that important to us, one of the main deciding factors is the weather and also we had originally wanted to get married in March so that we could still go to Dave’s cousins wedding in Hong Kong in April.
I think in some ways I’m quite lucky as my family and dave’s family aren’t that traditional about picking an auspicious date so it means less pressure on us. There are some couples out there who think choosing an auspicious date is a life and death issue but marriage is not based on just one day. Getting married on an auspicious date doesn’t determine the future of your marriage and it is the same as getting married on a neutral or inauspicious date. In my view getting married on an auspicious date means that nothing can go wrong on that date but I could be completely wrong.
Chinese Almanac 2008
Posted on September 16, 2007 in the Chinese Wedding Traditions category
Good news, my fiancee has finally gotten hold of the chinese almanac for 2008. That means we are one step closer to finding our auspicious wedding date. So far Dave has got his relatives to decipher it and apparently there are 2 auspiscious dates that land on a tuesday in March but we both agree that it would be too cold so we are now looking at April. The only problem I have with that is the saying “april showers” so maybe there will more chance of rain. Thing is I don’t really want to delay the wedding till May so April will have to do.
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