Wed Help

A wedding is a special ceremony where a man is united with his wife to take the journey through their life together with love and affection, and make a vow and promise that they would not kill the relatives, food caterers and church decorators who nag them non-stop.

I was reminded about all of those when I helped my friends prepare her wedding last weekend. I woke up early to help on some logistics in the church. I prepare myself to have a very tiring day then. But fortunately, the couple decided to have a simple wedding, much simpler than our wedding three months ago. They decided on this because of one simple reason, they are not the idiots that we were.
With simpler wedding, the hassle that they needed to go through was not as torturing as ours and therefore, they still had the strength to smile during the whole program. Of course we also smiled during our wedding, but it was the kind of smile that Frankenstein put on after Igor zapped electricity into its brain: lifeless, tired and not knowing how to move the lips muscle back to its normal position.
So their wedding was simple, but was still nice and not dull. The food was great and there were plenty of it. The program, though simple, still able to deliver the true meaning of the holy matrimony, which is to open the new page of life together, started by opening the gift and angbao after the celebration, which nobody ever asked me to help.