The Banquet...
Our banquet in the evening was held at Kirin restaurant downtown. Originally, we had booked the Kirin in New Westminster because it was newer with fancier decor as well as more spacious. However, because of Chinese date superstitions triggered down from some elders in P's family, we've had to change our date and only their downtown location was able to accommodate to our change. Nonetheless, the food and location were still excellent albeit a lack of service and room for walking and playing games comfortably.
I had given myself the thrifty challenge of making all the tissue paper bouquets as centre pieces for the banquet. Thankfully, I received some help from my MOH and her boyfriend, so the process was much more pleasant. I'm sure it would've looked a lot better with real bouquets but for a mere fraction of the cost, I think my tissue paper bouquets were just fine.
We prepared some wedding favours for our guests. Each person either got a cute groom keychain or a bride keychain together with 2 of our engagement photo cards. They were very cute and the gold bags matched our overall colour scheme very well. Some guests even took our cards as if they were collectible items and tried to gather all of our 6 different poses from the reception table. If you were one of them and didn't manage to get all of them but still want to...just let me know...I have extras.=)
It took a bit longer than expected for me to redo makeup and hair from the nearby studio, drive back, get changed, and finish some more tea serving as well as photos with guests before the official start of the banquet. As a result, I felt a bit frantic and stressed initially...especially when we almost had a wardrobe issue! (Some of you will know...it has to do with my brown velvet bow for this ivory dress.) Consequently, we didn't have time to take much photos while I had this dress on with so much action needing to happen.A slideshow I put together started off our evening banquet followed by P and my speech. I would say they ran smoothly aside from the wedding march music coming in way too late and the microphones having a life (or lack of...) of their own.
Shortly after, I changed into the red dress. I personally like this dress the best although many of my friends and relatives voted for the blue one to come later. Plus, this was the only dress that matched with all the gold jewelery that many relatives gave me as part of the Chinese tradition for weddings...so I had to almost wear all of them as my respect for their gifts! I really missed eating all the great food because P and I were always busy socializing or taking pictures with guests. If not, we were then speaking, kissing, or playing games. Above is a picture of us playing the popular shoe game...we were very surprised by the level of difficulty of the questions by our young volunteers.
Towards the latter part of the night was the bouquet throwing highlight. Using my firm teacher voice, I was able to get a great turn out of single ladies for catching! However, many of my Asian friends and relatives were way too reserved and didn't even want to try catching! Initially, we had "fixed" the result and said that we would let my MOH A. catch it (the one in purple/maroon) but really...I couldn't even control where I threw with the bouquet being so heavy and there being so many of them. Nonetheless, it did end up in my MOH's hands but she pushed it away into P's cousin K! Hence, the both of them ended up taking the aftershot with me.
My MOH and P's best man also gave 2 wonderful speeches during the banquet and then we drew a close to our memorable day as we thanked everyone for coming with smiles and hugs.
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