Sydney III

With only two hours to get ready after church, some of us were running helter skelter looking for last minute hair salons or shopping for heels to match our dresses for the night. I headed back to the hotel with my family for some lunch since we were starving, after which we had to take turns to shower and get ready. The adults all left at four pm for the tea ceremony, where the newlyweds pay their respect by greeting the adults and getting jewellery or red packets in return.

At the beginning, the bestmen and the bridesmaids made an entrance in pairs, all grooving according to the music that was being played for each of them. The first pair came walking in normally, the second pair as a guitarist and an dancer, and the last pair as models doing catwalks. They were really entertaining and every move they made were surprising and hilarious.

The speeches were made by both parents of the bride and the groom, with lotsa meet-the-fockers humour in their speeches. They also hired lion dancers to entertain the crowd, but we were all very happy and high due to the abundance of alcohol provided. There were white wine, red wine, champagne and many more served. For every bottle of red wine that was finished, in less than a minute, another one would appear again from no where. Talk about great service huh!

There were fireworks outside in the middle of the dinner since it was Australia Day. They had all these planned out already hence the choice of the wedding date, so yeah, free fireworks for them!

At the end of the wedding dinner, the groom and the bride had their cake cutting session, followed by the neverending flashes from everybodies camera. Everyone was having so much fun, so why not take more pictures for happy memories? Then came the groom and the bride's first dance as a newly wedded couple. Everyone was then invited to join them on the dancefloor, afterwhich the romantic music instantly converted to those that were easier to groove to. That was it, nobody stopped moving after that. Not just the youngsters, but even the old. Now I know where we got our genes from hahaha.

A post wedding party was organised after, where all the cousins left to a bar at Starcity Casino to continue drinking while the older relos retired to their rooms. Then came the huggings and kisses and bottomless alcohol supply. What a crazy night, everyone left only after 5am when the bar refused to serve most of us alcohol. Apparently most of us were too drunk to consume anymore alcohol hahaha. It was good anyway, I wouldn't wanna collapse anytime before I get back to my own hotel room! It was good catching up with everybody!

As always, here are pictures from the wedding night, mostly of my family and cousins. I've managed to downsize to just these, which are actually still quite alot! Happy viewing!