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Wedding SOP - The Biggest Wayang of Any Married Couple's Life

Everything in Singapore is organized and routined. The standard education, standard growing up process, standard working lifestyle. Even your "biggest event in your life" also must have a standard SOP.



Well, since it is supposed to be the most special day of your life, why is everyone having the standard SOP for weddings? I don't think I attended many weddings in my life, but I can already memorised wat is to come for a simple wedding banquet.

First the reception, everyone sign the guest book and give the ang pao.

Then we get seated, watch some collages of wedding photos being played on powerpoint while waiting for the rest of the guests.

After everyone has seated, we get to watch a "from young to now" video on how the bride and groom looks like as kid and their growing up process to them meeting and them going on holidays ETC ETC.

Thereafter, the emcee will ask the guest to stand for the couple. Machiam like president come like that. Then they gets to march in while everyone is just clapping their hands to "eng xiu" them, while getting impatient for the food.

Then, the lights will dim and some super drama music will go off while the waiters bring the starters out like it's some kinda special weapon that can save the world from aliens.

After eating, we will have to stand once again for the president couple to march in and prepare for the toasting ceremony. All brothers and sisters and relatives and ah kow ah meow all go up to yam seng. usually the yam will be very long and the seng is almost non existent cos everyone wrong timing to seng.

Then the couples make their way to take pix with guests at every table, some of the guests the bride and groom doesnt even know. :/

Someone cheesy will then be asked on stage to force the bride and groom to come on stage to do silly things. Like the bride have to eat a banana from the groom's crotch or something. Biggest day of your life, humiliated in front of 500 people. Some whom you don't even know and have no idea why they are even there at your wedding.

After all those wayang, the couple have to rush to the door to shake hands with everyone like some minister on country visit.

Why people???
Why must ALL weddings be like that? Why can't we just have a beach party wedding, where everyone just wear shorts and bikini top and dance to the music. The food will be buffet style and there will be free flow of booze. Erdinger or hoegarden, nothing less. Then only CLOSE relatives, friends and colleagues are invited, not some random ah kow ah meow that are your parent's friends. It is YOUR wedding, not your parents'. They had have their fair share of wayang, let you have a say in what kinda wayang you want, can't they?

Gosh. Weddings are such wayangs. I wonder do these people ever get embarassed going through such SOPs...

posted by Fay @ 9:16 AM