Marriage ceremony in own house
Normally it’s a tradition for a Malay family to hold a marriage ceremony of a family member in own’s house. This way all friends and close associates feel much at home. That is how I feel when I am in the house of a friend attending the marriage ceremony of his daughter, Wan Nadirah Mansor who is marrying Jorge Haikal Carrera from Texas.
Popular among later generation of Malays is to hold the ceremony in a hall of a five star hotel in Kuala Lumpur. It’s very convenient to hold such an event in a famous hotel. It’d be the glamorous day shared between the groom and his bride in starting a new life as husband and wife.
However I’m keen on attending a ceremony the traditional way. I mean, as a friend, his house is the usual place where I go for a cup of tea in one afternoon after golf, and enjoying the evening with him by his rare breed fish pond.
That’s also the place the bride was born and been raised to be the finest lady of the day. How does she feels when everyone who know her coming to her home and celebrate her weeding? I am sure she is very pleased and happy, and also all of us know very well that she has grown up.
Waiting for cars from valet parking attendants.
.A long eating area surrounds the house of the pengantin (MC).
The gifts or hantaran (some of them) in the center of the house.
The palace for groom and bride, both went for diner unfortunately.
The groom and bride’s mothers in close chat while saying goodbye to guests & friends.
Some guests attending the diner.
For the rich and the famous that a home is the place for everything.
For a lot of people a ceremony held in own house would expose own backyard to guests that might give some impression about their living style.
However I still vote for the traditional way, ‘exposing whatever you have or may not have’ will actually mean nothing to a friend, if he is your true friend.
Congratulations friend, and to your daughter and her husband. Appreciate that you have continue our tradition to the end.
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