In the Chinese wedding, usually we have round table which can seat 10 people. This is the host seat, it usually seat the wedding couple, their parents and the most respectful relatives (grandparents, uncles...)
The menu for the night
The wedding cake: there was a big of accident, usually the first layer is the real cake and the rest is fake. But the hotel provided us all the fake one, so we had hardtime cutting it...
The guests started to arrive at 6.50pm eventhough in the invitation card it stated 7pm, but the first course was served at 8.30pm, a typical time wasting for Chinese wedding.
My respectful DJs covering Mandarin, English and French
The presentation for the first course signifying the beginning of the dinner
After several courses, we were on the stage for the cake cutting ceremony, the fake cake was hard
Champagne pouring
Everyone up on stage for the yamsheng
Yamsheng from table to table, total 33 tables, and I didn't tell Fabien that he didn't have to bottom up each time, actually the Malaysian drink cognac with ice and water...but he was too honest, luckily he has his "heng tai" (brothers/friends) to help him...
The dinner ended around 10.30pm, and Fabien thought that it was too short, so they extended the party in front of the house, and managed to visit a neighbore's bonsai garden, plus got invited to bah kut teh breakfast the second morning, plus an invitation to visit the neighbore's master's bonsai... if you know what drinking that brings you...
Overall the dinner finished well. However, some of the guests were disappointed about the fact that there was no karaoke (very popular in my hometown), and that it was too quiet (Chinese need a lot of sound for conviviality). I was upset that the hotel couldn't played my powerpoint presentations about our childhood, couple photos and introduction to France.
