Chinese people believe in sending our dead off in style and that was my grandma's wish as well. It symbolises prestige and wealth in the living and guarantees an even better afterlife. It was the passing of my grandma that brought my extended family closer together than we've ever been.
We took the opportunity to bond, to reminisce, to laugh, to cry, to mourn lost chances and to cheer over good fortunes.
4 years, some new births and several gatherings later, we are back together again, this time to celebrate the joyous occasion of my cousin's daughter's wedding. My cousin, Ah Ngoh single handedly brought up 4 kids on her own. She rose from a simple seamstress to a successful and capable woman and all of her children turn out just fine! Her daughter, Jaclyn, is the first graduate in her family, and the first to wed so really, we all saw this more as Ah Ngoh's moment more than anything.
The wedding was held over the F1 weekend on Sentosa Island, off Singapore, where a major casino and a Universal Studios theme park is currently being built. The resort that hosted the wedding was Rasa Sentosa by Shangri-la.
It was a pretty big wedding, with over 400 guests. Well, that's big to me, but according to Singapore standards, about right. There were other weddings at the resort so it was pretty crazy getting there and finding our way around. The resort was beautiful though but we didn't take any pictures of the resort coz we got there just in time.
We mingled with the rest of the guests and looked at some of the bridal pictures which the couple went to South Korea to take. Very enchanting idea, the thought of going away to another country to have your bridal pictures taken, with the whole entourage following them en route. In Asia, unlike North America, couple take bridal pictures and portraits before the actual wedding day. In North America, it's bad luck to see the bride in her wedding trousseau before the wedding day. In fact, most grooms usually have no idea what the gown looks like until the bride walks down the aisle.
The Chinese dinner was a long drawn out affair, like all Chinese dinners due to the abundant amount of courses. The best part of the night was when everyone left and Da Bi and I adjoined in my cousins' hotel rooms and drank and laughed and made merry.
My cousins and aunt.
Mother of the bride, the proudest day of her life!
My cousin, David and his wife.
My cousin's wife and son. Poor kid, had an eye infection.
Another cousin of mine, Ah Keng.
My cousins' daughters, my nieces. They were quite the drinkers that night! :)
Da Bi and Ah Ngoh, toasting each other. 
Jaclyn, in a splendid red dress, like a present waiting to be unwrapped! I love this dress, unfortunately, this pic does it no justice.
Big brother cousin with Da Bi. Speaks not a word of English but gets along with Da Bi just fine.
2nd favourite gown - her white chantilly lace gown was gorgoeus, very Vera Wang. Maybe it was, I never got to ask her.
Ah Keng and Joe, my cousin and her hubby.
My cousin's kid, he's like a little gangsta! ;)
My nieces and nephews, plus my aunt.
Rasa Sentosa Resort
101 Siloso Road
Sentosa 098970
T. (65) 6275 0100
Tis the season of weddings so I'm off to the next one!
Peace out,
Lady Partay.
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