This is the whole roast pig from the bridegroom to be given to the bride's family.

Traditions (Still being practised in Singapore)

Pig [猪] in cantonese "ju" sounds the same as [宫纱珠] "kong sa ju", the chinese legendary sign of virginity. The [宫纱珠] "kong sa ju", a red dot placed on a girl's forearm as a virgin, was said to disappear when she lost her chastity.

If the groom was satisfied that his wife was married as a virgin, a gift of roast pig complete with tail would accompany the bride's home visit. If not, the roast pig's tail or ears were broke off.

For more information on the above, you can view the source from here.

Wedding

For privacy reasons, sorry you cant see the photos of the wedding couple.

Hand bouquet of bride, I love the strand of pearls with the beautiful flowers.

Five tiers wedding cake and yes it is a dummy cake.

Champagne glasses to toast to relatives and friends. I swear the champagne tasted extra good. :)

The "His" and "Her" gift boxes to contain gift of money from well wishes. Most people would give "Hong Bao" or red packets consisting of money as gifts to the wedding couples. Sometimes people are very generous with the gifts and there are some who are rather stingy. Sometimes the gifts can covered the cost of the wedding dinner but most of the time the gifts could not covered the cost of the wedding dinner as it becoming more expensive to hold wedding dinners in hotels. Each table could cost about $700+ to $1000+ or more in grand hotels.

End of the wedding dinner. Now wishing next year, I could be a grand aunt. :)

Pink Saturday - Wedding

My contribution for Pink Saturday are these pink flowers. Attended my husband's nephew wedding. Was a very beautiful wedding. This wedding couple in a heart shaped accessory is on top of a few tiers wedding cake.

Beautiful floral arrangement with candles on the VIP table (i.e. the wedding couple and their closed family members). My family and me had the priviledge of sitting with the wedding couple at this VIP table.

Pink roses flanking a lighted candle. It is so beautiful and romatic.

This is a pink rose too but I wondered why it appeared to be orange in colour, could be due to the lighting above it.

You can see some of the roses are pink and those roses facing me appeared orange.

This is the whole deco. piece.

Took this when most of the guests are leaving after the wedding dinner.

Will post more about the wedding in future posts.

For more pinky participants, please visit Beverly of How Sweet The Sound.

Wedding Rings

These bears are so cute. The wedding rings belong to my husband's nephew and his new wife. Photo was taken last year when they went through the registry of marriage. They would go through the chinese wedding custom end of this year. I am so excited and happy for them.

I hope to take more photos then. :)

Chinese Wedding Accessories

I am back to my normal posting but for my travel photos, do visit my travel blog.

These are so cute. I was helping my sister in law (hubby's side) to look for some wedding accessories for her son's coming wedding in December. The are so many shops in People's Park Complex selling all these chinese wedding accessories. The following photos were taken from two wedding shops facing each other.

I love the bed with all the cute accessories which featured the wedding bride and bridegroom in cartoon. Chinese love everything in red which symbolised good luck.

This shop is smart to bring in a bed as a promotion and they decorated just like a wedding bed.

Depending on what dialects you belong to, you need to buy different wedding accessories according to your dialects. Mostly cantonese have the most rules to follow...lol The mirror is for the wedding day where the mother would comb the son/daughter's hair while the father will recites the three or four chants/blessings.

The four blessings are:
一梳梳到尾，(First combing, together all your lives) 二梳百年好合，(Second combing, harmony in your marriage) 三梳子孙满堂，(Third combing, blessed with many children and grandchildren) 四梳白发齐眉。(Fourth combing, blessed with longevity.)
Sweet pink rice ball soup汤圆 will be served after the hair combing ceremony to wish the couple a complete and sweet marriage.

Some interesting gifts that need to company the bridegroom to the bride's house. They are usually very auspicious food/fruits. The wedding candles are a must for both parties.

Now they come with these commercialised self adhesive chinese wordings which symbolised double happiness. I remembered I used to cut the words on red paper by myself for my wedding...lol. The twin lamps are a must and must be switched on the whole day.

These tea sets are used for tea ceremony during the wedding. The bride and bridegrooms have to kneel before their parents and serve teas to them and relatives.

The rules and regulations are too long for me to type...lol. You can find out more from wikipedia and here too.

(Sorry for some blurred photos, I took them with my handphone.)