My sister's getting married this Saturday. Wedding ceremony will be at Manila Cathedral, followed by the reception at EDSA Shangri-la.
On another note, today will be the "moving in" day. There's a Chinese tradition wherein the girl buys and prepares all these stuff that she will be bring to their new home. My parents and grandparents have been busy the past weeks buying these lanterns, tubs, tea set, etc etc. I don't know how these Chinese people came up with these traditions, for it sure is expensive! In addition, my sister also has to have new shoes and bags to match it. Surprisingly, she somehow managed to prepare 6 sets. That's 6 new shoes and 6 new bags altogether!!! Since today is when these items will be brought to their new home, only guys are allowed to bring it in. This is another one of those traditions in Chinese that we all have to follow. My brother will be leading the pack (He took the day off just for this occasion, of course, and it won't hurt that the "kargadors" will get their share of ampaos!).
If I'm not mistaken, the groom to be will have to sleep in their new house tonight, with a relative who's supposed to be born in some year. What the heck! Who cares?
Chinese traditions are surely mind boggling.
After this, we all get to dress up for the big day this saturday!!
My sister's the first grandchild to be married in a Chinese tradition way which is probably why my grandparents are all so involved in this whole process (they even went all the way from Canada just to attend!).
Need to take care of what I eat this week... need to fit into the dress.
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