Margaret & Tom-Wedding

We went from the wedding service at St Mary's to Sweetwaters Restaurant where we had our wedding reception.  The place had been beautifully decorated with baskets of hanging flowers everywhere and the large picture windows overlooked the trees and shrubs outside.  We felt like we were having our reception outdoors except that we were enjoying air-conditioning !!!   Tom and I didn't eat much as we were too excited mingling with guests.  It was UNFORGETTABLE.

My parents had flown over from Singapore which is in the Far East especially for our wedding.  We had schooled Tom's parents and Uncle about the significance of the Tea Ceremony which is an integral  part of the traditional Chinese wedding.  We had the ceremony soon after we got home from the wedding reception.  We had to offer tiny cups of tea on our knees as a sign of respect first to Tom's parents and then to my parents and lastly to Tom's Uncle.  They  would drink the tea offered as a symbol of acceptance of us into the respective families and would place an angpow " red packet " gift onto the plate when they replaced the tea cups.