3 weddings in 2 days

Over a Sunday and Monday, I attended 3 weddings - 2 sikh and 1 indian. I did not attend the wedding ceremony (which would have been an eye opener and which I heard from friends who have is very time consuming and full of tradition) but I attended the lunch and dinner.

The first was in a small village in Tronoh Mines about 45 mins drive from Ipoh. The ceremony was held in a Sikh Temple, after which the bride and groom had a photo session before the bride returned to her home alone for the lunch. (To find out more about sikh weddings and why the bride returned to her home alone; please go here.)

Lunch was buffet style with 3 types of vegetables, briyani rice and a dry curry chicken. Here is a clip of the people queuing up for lunch with loud bhangra music in the backgroud:

I saw something very interesting which I hadn't seen in many years a bed of the type in picture above. It is very cooling and nice to sleep on; probably an antique now!

The next wedding I attended was a Sikh wedding dinner on the same day. This was held in a club hall which can hold about 100 tables of 10 people each. Unfortunately, even that hall was not able to hold all the people who came. Those who came late had to stand and wait. The bridal couple came in very fasionably late; and dinner started 1.5 hours after the time shown on the invitation card.

It was a rather modern Sikh wedding dinner with a powerpoint presentation of the events of the day and a bollywood dance troop from Kuala Lumpur. Dinner was served that the table; there was curry mutton, chicken and different types of vegetables served with rice.

The day after was an Indian wedding dinner held at a community hall and orchestrated to the minute. In contrast to the sikh wedding dinner, the bridal couple arrived on time and everything went smoothly according to the agenda that was placed on each table.

Dinner was buffet style with a rather long queue as there were many gate crashers (2 wedding invitations were issued - one for the wedding ceremony; the other for the dinner. Unfortunately those invited for the ceremony only tagged along for the dinner... lol rather comical for me but not for the host!)

There was plain rice, briyani rice, chapati, tosei, fried chicken, curry mutton, all sorts of vegetables and a stall dishing out ice kacang.

The couple sat in a separate area from the guests with an ornamental tent over them. During the dinner, guests walked up to greet the couple and were given a sweet in return.

All in all the weddings were rather interesting.