Janine & Desmond's Wedding Part II

Jan and Des got hitched legally last year, but the ceremonies were held this year. More occasions to celebrate! :)

It was a crazy day for Jon, Asher and I! We had an early start, dragging our little boy out of bed ard 5.45/6am in the morning to make it to Jan's place for the jie niang fun :) Technically Jon could have slept in, but cos I needed to feed Asher, and I couldn't watch Asher while we were tortur...er...letting the groom and his grooms-men in, Daddy Jon had to play babysitter :)

The usual suan, tian, ku, la (sour, sweet, bitter, and spicy) stuff were all there. Looks 'yummy' doesn't it? I was in charge of making the bitter stuff, and had to inaugurate my thus-far-unused blender with bittergourd! From the last wedding I was involved in, we discovered that blended bittergourd is so much worse than just eating cut up slices of bittergourd. The smell of the pureed bittergourd wafts throughout the kitchen, and is really nauseating. I bet if I gave that to Asher he'd not wanna eat for months and months and months.




Playing with Nessie before the guys arrived











Hee hee :) Ok, Asher might kill me one day. Those bunny ears were from Janine's hen night, and we were gonna make Desmond wear them. But being cranky as we all were from waking up at ungodly hours, poor Asher suffered from our humour, yet still obligingly let us put the ears on him. He looked absolutely adorable though! :O) Sorry sweetie :)




The beautiful bride with her parents :)












The men showing some spirit in the face of a bitter opponent








Desmond just before walking in to see his bride























Anyway, after the jie niang ceremonies in Balestier, we went to Bukit Batok for part one of the tea ceremony, then back to Balestier for part two of the tea ceremony, then to Mount Alvernia to visit Joanne and Joe cos their baby just arrived, then to Seletar Hills to visit another friend cos he was back from China for the week, then home, then Orchard for the wedding dinner. Poor Asher missed a few naps, but thank goodness we had a restful stop at Mount Alvernia where he slept for 1.5 hours straight - a rarity.

Despite all the activity, it was a really fun day cos we got to catch up with so many people!

Anyway, something funny from the wedding dinner. Asher had fallen asleep before the dinner began, and stayed asleep even though there were kids running, playing and screaming just behind him, even though we were facing a speaker, even through the yum seng! But guess when he woke up? When the emcees said, "Thank you, and good night". His eyes popped open, and he was wide awake! Funny boy. Anyway, maybe he just wanted his picture taken, cos just after he woke up it was time for the table shot :) It was his first wedding, and I guess he wanted to make sure we remember he was there!

Fun day, tiring day....home to SLEEP!!!!