The long-awaited BIG DAY

18 September 2010

Let the pictures do the talking ... ...

Day photos:

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150286318780247.559115.712470246&l=182752cd44

Night photos:
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150287591090247.559885.712470246&l=2c44199e8f

Guo Da Li

Bob and his entourage (consist of his 2 aunties and uncle) arrived at our place in the mid morning to deliver the betrothal gifts ... ...


What Bob prepared for the exchange

• Pair of dragon and phoenix candles
• 2 bottles of hard liquor
• 32 cans of pig trotters
• 32 boxes of cakes and cake vouchers
• 12 oranges
• Traditional sweets (peanut candies, laogong pia and laoma gor)
  
• Betrothal money
• 四点金

What we prepared for the exchange:

• 1 sewing kit
  
• Little auspicious trinkets for the Teochew dialect (such as cao tou, white cotton, red string, some paper origami flowers? and wax) and a packet of assorted beans and seeds
  
• 1 set of teapot and tea cups
• Pair of bedside lamps
• 1 new luggage filled with my belongings (new clothings, etc) to represent wardrobe
• 1 set of wedding bedsheet set for the matrimonial bed
  
• 5 pieces of towel (one for each elder, including my parents-in-law)
• 2 red packets (for the sisters-in-law)
• 2 bottles of orange juice (to exchange for the hard liquor)
• 12 oranges
  
• Red packets to represent the 痰桶 and other traditional betrothal gifts