Hot & Spicy Chiang Mai /Chiang Rai ..Part 2 (the wedding day)

Later in d evening,the wedding organiser came the decorate the house for the big day and was rather reasonable fees that they charge. Came with lot's of fresh flowers,backdrop,props,roman pillar, wedding ceremony stuff and they even decorate the bed with rose petals

Backdrop


Event organiser for the wedding who is a he/she

Oct 31,2009 - The wedding day. Woke up at 8am and really dunno what to wear. I guess i don't need to dress to kill in a vilage.After having b'fast at the hotel,we depart from d hotel to bride's house which took us 45min.

And WOW the house had some transformation for the wedding.Just loved the flower decor.
The wedding ceremony started abt after 1 hr we arrived. Before that I was snapping pictures all the way before the ceremony start. And so many relatives came also wanna take pictures. I heard that villagers came as early as 4am to the house to start cooking for the day.

Then the bride appeared before my eyes....so beautiful so THAI...LOL!what m I taking about. Couldn't recognise her. With her body hugging wedding dress, she look like hour glass...Actually the wedding dress material don't feel like the western wedding gown which is normally...feel like satin. This is thick, sort of non breathable material...very hot. Same goes for the man...very hot material. But it looks smart & neat like the navy man.And the bridegroom actually had some lite makeup on the face...KEKEKE

And finally all are called to the front of the house and all parents are seated beside the couple. Invited guests seated right infront of them. First, parents put on jewelleries for the bride.Then a man came to bless the couple ....was rather a long chanting, then they have this long white thread going round the couple's hand with cash or "ang pow" to bless the couple. And it could go up to 100packets on their hands...very loaded....LOL!

After the ceremony,the bride got to wash the husband's hand before entering the house and then to the room...and here's come the funniest part, relatives & friends would join the couple in the room as well. And what they do is to put the couple on bed and ask the couple hug each other, kiss & also lie down on the bed with body hugging each other....isn't it interesting. Well for our chinese custom, when the couple enter the bedroom, all of us must get out (it is the "tong fong), we must leave them alone. So different for Thai. And I noticed that Thai had very little pantang larang...and I don't notice any! Or may be I don't understand any..LOL!

At noon we were served lunch...the bride's mom came to me and said "khao"..I obviously have no idea. They only speak Thai and we speak "head" , hands & shoulder language back to them....whatever sign we could produce in order to communicate...LOL! Then later she showed her hands to the mouth then only I understand she asked whether we wanna eat. And I just shook my head....And voila...we got our delicious food.. It was very local home cook food unlike 5 star course by course. It tasted very very good and you don't need shark's fin or prawn or suckling pig...their food were simple and simply delicious. Northern Thai ppl ususally eat steam glutinuous rice however being Malaysian, they cooked for us steam rice. And the rice itself tasted so good. It is actually homegrown rice. The surroundings of the village are paddy fields.The dishes consist of laap (pork salad-similar to Laotion salad), kerabu tang hoon with black fungus, vege,etc.

And the wedding reception actually started in the morning and till late eveving and the ladies in the kitchen will continue to cook and bring out the food as long as you sit there whole day and alcoholic drinks all time. The ladies be it old or you and the man as well will drink non stop together.They have Karaoke till 5pm and the old ladies were drunk & dancing...just funny to see them drunk and dancing the whole day. Very entertaining indeed.







Well at 3pm, we left the place together with the bride's relative's who drop us at Chang Mai city and the party continue till late evening.

To be continued...