June Weddings

So while most holidays I would have been overseas and missing weddings, I couldn't miss Tini's wedding today. She'd have killed me.

So there I was up early on a bright sunny Saturday morning missing Kidscentral's Prince of Tennis to attend the solemnization. It was interesting because it was the first one I actually attended. The rest of the times I either made some excuse to slip out or I was busy occupying some relative's baby.

No such luck this time.



It was exceedingly longer than normal. Poor Colin probably couldn't understand most of it.



Tini was involved for a short while.



After that it was all Colin's show. And the Tok Kadi. And friends.



It took a while for me to stop calling the upacara akad nikah as an engagement. I learnt a lot of things about Malay weddings which I previously subconciously blocked out.

This time I paid attention because it felt like the Tok Kadi was singling me out sometimes....



...but then again, he pointed to a lot of people.



There was of course the customary handshakes. Colin always had a good grip so no problems there.







He did ok when it came time to read the contract. I would have been nervous.



Finally he's signing off as a married Mikhail Lai.



There'll be more pictures I'm sure. I will update them when I receive any new ones. Once I reached the buffet downstairs with the eclairs, my camera pretty much stayed in my pocket.

All I got was this unflattering picture of the bride, but it was the only one I had of the cute kids. The small boy was actually my ex-tuition kid's little brother. His mum freaked me out earlier when she recognized me and called me by name and I had no idea who she was and I couldn't for the life of me remember why she seemed so familiar.



Ah glorious desserts. And satay. Lovely wedding spread there. I'll try get pictures of the couple and gang to put up here.