Prep - Guo Da Li 过大礼 Ceremony
1:57:00 PMIt has been 5 months since #MelBenGetsMarried and we have yet to completely upload all our entries about our Wedding Prep and our Wedding Day! As much as we want to get started blogging about Our New Home, we have promised to share with our readers any good deals we have gotten for our wedding, and also provide (the good and the bad) reviews on the wedding vendors whom we have engaged.
It is heartwarming to see how far our humble blog www.MelBenGets.com has reached many readers from all walks of life and we are spurred by your encouraging words and hope that our posts will continue to help individuals out there in some ways or another. Keep the comments and emails coming in! We will definitely get down to replying them no matter how busy we will be.
Mel was adamant about not having a gate-crash (lucky for Ben, haha!) and that there will be no need for him to pick her up from her home as we will meet in front of the altar at our church wedding. But there were a few other events which we felt were necessary and meaningful to include. For instance, the Guo Da Li Ceremony 过大礼 (which we knew little about and vaguely remember how the event is supposed to go from our parents' wedding day videos) is a Chinese tradition which tapped on our dialect groups and we felt that it was still necessary to hold it before our wedding, even if we may not use all of the traditional gifts given by the other party.
Initially, we had thought of visiting several shops in Chinatown to check up their Betrothal and Dowry packages. But because time was tight since we brought forward our wedding and only had about 6 weeks left to plan for it, we decided to head to the mall nearby where they had a Chinese Wedding Shop selling all packages needed for a Chinese Wedding like:
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Images from thechineseweddingshop.com.sg |
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Images from thechineseweddingshop.com.sg |
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Images from thechineseweddingshop.com.sg |
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Upgraded Tea set which was used for the Tea Ceremony. |
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The Tea Set is bought by the Bride's family & is used during the Tea Ceremony. |
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All smiles in this candid shot captured (must be one of Ben's jokes again!) |
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