Traditional Chinese Wedding Dinner Horrors!!

last SG · 2005-09-23T23:23:54+00:00

ello folks, i've got an invite to wedding dinner @ Hilton Hotel next month! Bride's my best pal from Pri sch. But rarely keep in touch since then. She invit...

shinta SG

we're talkin about if WE are the ones holding the dinner aka the couple gettin married.

edLow SG

not every frds or ours are holding their dinner in some expensive hotel ballroom... where each table cost a min of 888.

majority are still holding their dinner at chinese resturant (within my circle of frds) which might cost ard 600 to 800 per table.

Rhonda SG

Yeah, shinta! Laughing

I give up! Surrender!!

shinta SG

i haben.. Embarassed

ask nellie.....

when are u gg to marry shinta?

Laughing

Nelstar SG

What is the point of having a wedding dinner at a 5-star hotel because you expected ang-paos that can defray the cost?

Laughing

What is the point of having guests when those who can pay turn up and half of those good friends didn't turn up because they can't finance it?

Why must the people who held the wedding dinner in Ritz Charlton EXPECT that they would not make a loss when the wedding dinner is about inviting friends and relatives to celebrate their big day?

Laughing

Why must we be forced to say that we can't attend the wedding because of some stupid reasons that weren't really the clause just because we can't afford the stupid red packet?

IF that is SO, THEN the TRADITIONAL WEDDING DINNER IS AN UGLY CUSTOM MADE TO FORCE POOR PEOPLE OUT.

Laughing

Rhonda SG

Yeah.

And I'm talking about this issue, because my bro's holding his Chinese wedding dinner next year. Look at the first post in this thread.

Single can still talk about this, mah! Laughing

Deportivo SG

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chocoB

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shinta

shinta SG

no. u can skip the whole stupid thing de.

helpin out via takin pix.. yes. that's considered helpin out.

if u're talkin about the "no u can't enter n get to the bride unless u do this and that or give us $X" den ut's not considered helpin out.

Rhonda SG

SL = Sydney Librarian

Oh, and neuros - single too! Wink

edLow SG

obviously one will hold their dinner within their status n budget wat...

u think any ah cat ah dog also can afford to hold his/her dinner at some high class hotel ballroom meh?

if the parents insist on doing it in some high class hotel ballroom, den it the parents whom kill the children.. and if the couple decided to hold at someplace out of their budget becos of face prob.. den it's themselves whom kill themselves.. as frds wat we can do.. is to give within our budget n market rate

Rhonda SG

Laughing

Actually, if you look into a lot of our wedding traditions, it's very steeped in money one!

Razz

shinta SG

he's talkin about.. him attendin dinners.

completely off. Laughing

tho we were talkin about some of the reasons to why ppl have or skip dinners

Twisted Evil

shinta SG

Precisely.

choco B SG

Why so scared of making yourself stand out? Confused

You give less because you simply - bo lui. And your host should understand your financial situation with the mentality of - nevermind, just very happy you can be here.

You give more because - hey I'm so glad my good friend's getting married! I'm feeling generous and I can afford more, OK lah give bigger ang pow.

shinta SG

oh dear... nellie = nelstar lar...

Laughing

we're gettin married soon... so it should be

enterin tomb of courtship
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Nelstar & shinta

Deportivo SG

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Sydney Librarian (bloody long nick!)
chocoB

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Rhonda
Bear
neuros

Entering tomb of courtship
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shinta
Nelstar

Nelstar SG

What the point?

Why don't you put on the wedding invitation card this message: "Expected red-packet to be at $80 or above pax, if you can't pay, give some lame excuse will you?"

Laughing

edLow SG

if tat the case... den do it within ur budget lor... den why u worry so much bout ur guest's ang pow...

if worry so much. den dont bother to have one lah. short n sweet.

the couple had this dinner becos of celebration. why u all must make it like it sound like a serious debts to them... and if u all dont make it sound like a debt. would i break down to the frd's persective.. if tat wat u ppls think. den forget wat i say and enjoy the chat u guys had among urself.

i here offering my personnel suggestion as a guest to u whom own suggestion as the one holding it.

shinta SG

the teochew 4 dian jing oso

Laughing

i told nellie my mom's a teochew... and chances are she'd want the 4 dian jing..

and he said sth like... den we dun get married lor ( Crying or Very sad )

not sure if i rmbered correctly..

edLow SG

if tat the case why do u wan to hold one either in a normal resturant all the way to the hotel ball room.

if tat the case......

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