Guo Da Li (过大礼)

Today's our Guo Da Li, also known as Chinese betrothal ceremony, and this is the first formal meeting between my family and the wifey's family. We engaged Master David Tong's help on our wedding dates and it includes the date and time for our Guo Da Li, and he's really kind enough to even provide us with the list of items to buy and things to take note of. 

We have been so busy over the past few weeks where we had to travel to Batu Pahat and also to source for the items in Singapore as there are really a lot of items that we have to prepare beforehand. Below are some of the items that we have gotten:

• A betrothal basket
• Two pairs of dragon and phoenix candles
• A red packet bearing the bride price, or Ping Jin
• 8 cans of pig trotters
• Hard liquor and wine
• 26 boxes of Traditional wedding cakes (喜饼) for distribution to family and friends
  
• 8 Oranges
• Jewellery for the bride (四点金)
• Double happiness stickers
• A red banner to hang over the door
• Dried Longan
• Red Dates

Thanks to my future parents in law because they helped me to get some of the items here so that I do not need to bring everything over from Singapore. I really like the fact that we are following alot of the traditional customs so that we have something to remember when it comes to our wedding :)

Our hotel stay at The Katerina Hotel 

Collected the Traditional wedding cakes (喜饼) from the shop before heading over to the wife's home

 Cousin and my wifey

 

Cartier Wedding Bands

We have been looking at the wedding bands offered by different companies recently and we eventually narrow down to either Bvlgari or Cartier. After much consideration, we decided to go for Cartier instead because we really love the sleek design of Cartier's wedding bands as compared to the ones from Bvlgari since our fingers are rather skinny. 

I still remember putting on the wedding band from Bvlgari and it felt really uncomfortable as the ring seem to too thick on the sides but we did not have that issue with Cartier's wedding bands. Really like the service rendered by the staff from Cartier as they sat us down and serve us with their in house campagne before showing us the wedding bands.