I was at a friend's wedding tonight....Colleen's..my coursemate in uni and clinical partner in 4th and final year...Colleen and David's wedding was a beach wedding at Avilion Port Dickson...my first time ever attending a beach wedding...so i was very excited with the prospect...
Since i had no car at my disposal in KL, i had to rely on Khai Meng, another ex-uni coursemate to drive me there (he was attending the wedding as well)...he came to pick me up about 4.30pm and it was already raining at that time....i thought oh dear, hopefully it's not raining in Port Dickson...so we drove about an hour in the rain, got lost a little, listened to and sang along to Khai Meng's pirated cds (Chinese songs)...and finally reached Avilion about 6pm...but it was raining too...
I quickly changed into my dress (i wasn't wearing the dress coz i didn't want to crease it during the drive) and went to look for Colleen...she looked so beautiful in her cream coloured strapless wedding dress...an at least 2 sizes smaller than the last time i saw her....eventually the rain stopped at about 7pm...and so the beach wedding was still on!! but we totally missed the sunset by the time they set up the whole venue again...
But it was still beautiful...and romantic...when Colleen walked down the aisle with David, me and a few others who were sitting at the aisle seats threw rose petals at the wedding couple...Colleen and David exchanged their personalized vows...and exchanged their wedding bands....then they poured coloured-sands into a heart-shaped bottle...apparently that signifies the merging of two lives as one...so sweet...then it was time for my favourite part of a wedding ceremony...the kissing part...:) needless to say, i cried...not all throughout the ceremony, but certain parts lah...and ruined quite a bit of my make-up...
Dinner was buffet style....and the spread was quite extravagant....fried rice, spagetthi marinara, steamed egg with eggplant, lamb chop, beef, chicken tandoori, lobster, crabs, sashimi and salad spread...fruits and dessert...and ice-cream...and cute little cupcakes topped with green icing....as usual, i ate plates after plates..hehe...i especially liked the pistachio creme brulee....
David made a special toast to Colleen...which involved a lot of magic tricks like making flowers appear from nowhere and levitating bottle of champagne and glass and making a white dove apparate from thin air....well, not somethin that will impress me...but Khai Meng was quite impressed that he said, no wonder Colleen married David, i would want to marry him too...hahahaha...
Colleen and David's honeymoon suite was at one of the chalets that were built on stilts on the water...and theirs was the one on the edge...we managed to catch the sunset there and it was soooo romantic...now i know why ppl love beach and sunset weddings....but i guess it would be a safer bet to have a beach wedding in February or March when the rain is not the evening's constant companion....
It was quite sad to leave...and i hardly get to talk to Colleen...but then that's expected...the bride's always too busy entertaining guests...but it was good to meet up with my other old uni mates...we left PD about close to 11pm...Khai Meng and i were listening to Wang LeeHom's cd...then we listened to Khalil Fong and Joanna Wang songs which was incorporated in a cd...the beauty of piracy...you can put all the songs you like in a disc...hehe...
So, that was Colleen's wedding...of the 4 of us who used to hang out together in uni, Chiew Ping got married first...now she has a daughter age 2...then Alisa got married...and just gave birth to a baby boy...and now Colleen's also married...hopefully she'll get a baby soon too...so that leaves me...and of course when i gave Colleen one last hug before i left, she asked me when's my turn? and she answered for me..next year...i was like yea right...sure...que sera sera...
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