My micky mouse hair style was done with 2 hair curlers. Irene was drafting her speech while the make up artist fixing her hair. We were in the bathroom in the hotel, ha!
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I was the bride’s maid in Irene’s wedding. Well, Emily was also brides maid but Irene said I was the “accompanied to marriage”. It is the direct translation of a Chinese phrase. This is used to describe all items that are following the bride to the groom’s family, including furniture, cooking wares in the ancient time. Irene made me go to the hair saloon with her and Emily. She doesn’t trust my choice of hair dresser. She then made me go to the beauty parlor, the masseuer spent 30 minutes sanded through my body to remove the dead skin and spend another 2 and half hours massaged my body. This is not the type of relaxing oil massage. She was pushing, squeezing, kneading on my pressure points and lymphatic system. It was so painful that I had to bite into the towel to stop myself from screaming. However, my joins and limbs became amazingly light after the pain subsided.
I then went to meet with Irene in the wedding photo shop. The wedding photo shop in Taiwan extends their business by providing the beautiful bridal gowns for rent (they are used in banquet). My fitting was done in 5 minutes, then Irene’s turn. Irene was losing a lot of weight, she needed to alter her wedding dress again since her waist is smaller. I think she hasn’t been eating or sleeping for a least a week (she is not yet the skeleton like those anorexia). To pursuit perfection, we spent almost 2 hours in the shop waiting for the tailor to finish up and another fitting. We then moved the 3 suit cases with the bridal gowns and bride’s maid’s dresses.
We went back to the hotel Aoki and his family are staying, moving the stacks of Chinese cakes from the car. Those cakes needed to be handed over to Irene’s family tomorrow, we are using the hotel as Aoki’s symbolic home. We again borrowed Grace’s black Mecedeze, with which Aoki will drive to Irene’s house tomorrow. After moving the huge box of Chinese cakes from Irene’s car, painting and sweating in the confided space filled with fume, we realized we only need to transfer the cakes from Irene’s car to Grace’s car, instead of moving them to the hotel room. However, Grace’s car key was left in the hotel room. So I suggested leave the cakes in the parking lot, and asking the valet parking guy to watch it for us. We moved the 2 suit cases (with bridal dresses) and other stuff to the hotel room, which includes a huge wooden box covered with red paper, definitely too many shopping bags that both of us can handle, and the flower buaquet. In the hotel room, we need to arrange the newly purchase items into the red box. The items include shoes, one-piece dress, belt, handbag, stockings and scarf. This is called as 6-item present from groom to bride. Irene also prepared her 6-item present for Aoki. They are going to exchange this during the engagement ceremony tomorrow.
I don’t really remember what was taking us so long, by the time we went to the parking lot, the cardboard box of cakes was gone!! We were running around in the parking lot like mad women, finally some one told us our cakes was moved to upstairs since the valet parking guy was off at 10pm. We called the front desk, they had no idea where the cakes were moved to but they promised to look for it. We waited for about 45 minutes but no answer (I utilized the time by decorating Grace’s car with the ribbons). Out of desperation, we saw a manager-like man coming down the stair well with a notepad on hand, he must be on his checking route for the night. I pointed him to Irene, who immediately ran over, hurriedly explained our situation “Without the cakes, the engagement is off!!” The manager calmed her down by asking what her name is, he then promised us again he is going to look for it personally. We waited for another 30 minutes, thinking about all the possible solutions if the cakes were not found. There is no viable solution, Taiwanese bride’s family weights the cakes more than anything! It resembles the groom’s family’s determination to get a girl into their family. The quantity and quality of cakes are both valued (although Irene ordered the cakes herself). The cakes will then be distributed to relatives and friends at the wedding.
The manager finally came. He’s been running obviously, sweat coming down from his forehead like small streams. The cakes were found, the valet parking guy thinks he is really smart, he moved the cakes to the banquet hall that was reserved for tomorrow night. The manager then transported the huge box of cakes to the parking lot.
After the trauma, we were ready to pick up Emily (who dozed off in front of TV) and drove back to Irene’s house. We arrived around midnight yet we had to wake up at 5:30 to prepare for the engagement ceremony. Without any food and alcohol (I secretly smuggled a bottle of Glenfindich in my bag, hopping to do a small hen’s night party). But I was too tired even to unpack, I fell asleep immediately. Irene, Emily, Irene’s mom and I shared a king size bed, I picked the middle position and it was said that I snored like a pig after 30 seconds.
(To be continued)
I then went to meet with Irene in the wedding photo shop. The wedding photo shop in Taiwan extends their business by providing the beautiful bridal gowns for rent (they are used in banquet). My fitting was done in 5 minutes, then Irene’s turn. Irene was losing a lot of weight, she needed to alter her wedding dress again since her waist is smaller. I think she hasn’t been eating or sleeping for a least a week (she is not yet the skeleton like those anorexia). To pursuit perfection, we spent almost 2 hours in the shop waiting for the tailor to finish up and another fitting. We then moved the 3 suit cases with the bridal gowns and bride’s maid’s dresses.
We went back to the hotel Aoki and his family are staying, moving the stacks of Chinese cakes from the car. Those cakes needed to be handed over to Irene’s family tomorrow, we are using the hotel as Aoki’s symbolic home. We again borrowed Grace’s black Mecedeze, with which Aoki will drive to Irene’s house tomorrow. After moving the huge box of Chinese cakes from Irene’s car, painting and sweating in the confided space filled with fume, we realized we only need to transfer the cakes from Irene’s car to Grace’s car, instead of moving them to the hotel room. However, Grace’s car key was left in the hotel room. So I suggested leave the cakes in the parking lot, and asking the valet parking guy to watch it for us. We moved the 2 suit cases (with bridal dresses) and other stuff to the hotel room, which includes a huge wooden box covered with red paper, definitely too many shopping bags that both of us can handle, and the flower buaquet. In the hotel room, we need to arrange the newly purchase items into the red box. The items include shoes, one-piece dress, belt, handbag, stockings and scarf. This is called as 6-item present from groom to bride. Irene also prepared her 6-item present for Aoki. They are going to exchange this during the engagement ceremony tomorrow.
I don’t really remember what was taking us so long, by the time we went to the parking lot, the cardboard box of cakes was gone!! We were running around in the parking lot like mad women, finally some one told us our cakes was moved to upstairs since the valet parking guy was off at 10pm. We called the front desk, they had no idea where the cakes were moved to but they promised to look for it. We waited for about 45 minutes but no answer (I utilized the time by decorating Grace’s car with the ribbons). Out of desperation, we saw a manager-like man coming down the stair well with a notepad on hand, he must be on his checking route for the night. I pointed him to Irene, who immediately ran over, hurriedly explained our situation “Without the cakes, the engagement is off!!” The manager calmed her down by asking what her name is, he then promised us again he is going to look for it personally. We waited for another 30 minutes, thinking about all the possible solutions if the cakes were not found. There is no viable solution, Taiwanese bride’s family weights the cakes more than anything! It resembles the groom’s family’s determination to get a girl into their family. The quantity and quality of cakes are both valued (although Irene ordered the cakes herself). The cakes will then be distributed to relatives and friends at the wedding.
The manager finally came. He’s been running obviously, sweat coming down from his forehead like small streams. The cakes were found, the valet parking guy thinks he is really smart, he moved the cakes to the banquet hall that was reserved for tomorrow night. The manager then transported the huge box of cakes to the parking lot.
After the trauma, we were ready to pick up Emily (who dozed off in front of TV) and drove back to Irene’s house. We arrived around midnight yet we had to wake up at 5:30 to prepare for the engagement ceremony. Without any food and alcohol (I secretly smuggled a bottle of Glenfindich in my bag, hopping to do a small hen’s night party). But I was too tired even to unpack, I fell asleep immediately. Irene, Emily, Irene’s mom and I shared a king size bed, I picked the middle position and it was said that I snored like a pig after 30 seconds.
(To be continued)
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