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Now before the wedding starts, we first need to get our hands on a set of pavilions. No need to cancel the wedding because of rain now! I didn’t remember the full number of pavilions we ordered but I’m positive that it was more than five but less than ten. The parts arrived during the evening and we spent the entire night up to midnight placing the tables and lining the pavilions with cloth.

These were the small ‘gates’ that guests would use to enter both the pavilions and the house. The red-white one was where the groom and his family procession would enter into the festivities and the one wreathed in ivy leaves and with the hanging birdcage would be used to enter the house accordingly. Just one of the perks of having a relative who’s a wedding planner!

This is the raised dais that the bride and groom would sit during the ‘Bersanding’ ceremony. We worked for over two days to get this right and had to move most of the furniture in our living room to create enough space to construct it. Usually after the wedding is over, we would have group family photographs on the whole platform with the bride and groom, just as a momento.

These are the tools needed for the floral-and-rosewater-sprinkling ceremony used by the adults. Those metal cups you see there, those are used to store flower petals, pandan leves, and sometimes a mix of the two. The long lamp-looking thing is actually a container to store the rosewater. Family members would just hold the bottom bulb and slowly sprinkle the bride and grooms’s hands with it. After that they would sprinkle a pinch of the floral mix from the cups on the bride and groom’s hands.

Ahh, the eponymous ‘flower eggs’ or bunga telur as we Malays call them. Eggs are a symbol of fertility in Malay culture and thus, every adult -usually the women- would get one ‘flower egg’ as a present for attending the wedding. Before the ceremony is over though, we would arrange them in bouquet shapes and display them alongside the bride and groom. Yes, those are real eggs. Yes, they are wrapped in satin and paper flowers and white bamboo stalks. Yes, we gave them away to guests. Hope you all aren’t afraid of cholesterol!

Preparing a floral mix of rose petals and pandan leaves. The leaves are usually sliced into thin minute pieces and then either be prepared as it is or mixed with different flower petal combinations. Sometimes my mother makes this mix just because it freshens up the air in the bedrooms, and I must say, it really does smell nice whenever I came back from school or college after a long day.

This was actually not in the original plan! We discovered that there were a few extra wedding decorations and converted a ‘wakaf’ (gazebo) in the garden into some sort of mini dais where we could just frolic and make stupid crazy pictures of ourselves! I had a lot of fun photographing my sister in there. XD

And of course, don’t forget the goodybags! Hint: It’s just a cup in there. NO, seriously. There is literally nothing in those bags. Except a cup. And some chocolates. That’s it. Oh, and before you all think it was our idea, it was the bride’s idea.
…wha….

And that’s it! I hope you are all entertained with what you have seen, and I’m sorry that I didn’t get to capture the first part of the whole wedding ceremony. Hope you all have a nice day!

SURPRISE WEDDING PICTURES

There was a GIANT glass tub full of marshmallows in the Chocolate Fountain section. I just looked for a container and…slipped a few for myself. Hee hee.

Edited 2013-02-09 23:44 (UTC)

This is so lovely.

I am in awe of those eggs in the shape of flowers.

Thanks for posting this. Fascinating and beautiful.

I think the eggs themselves are hanging off the flowers and the buds are made of paper?

Re: Of flower eggs and rosewater: Pictures of the settings of a Malay wedding

othellia - 2013-02-10 00:06 (UTC) - Expand

Re: Of flower eggs and rosewater: Pictures of the settings of a Malay wedding

lunabee34 - 2013-02-10 00:35 (UTC) - Expand

You're welcome. It's kinda nice making photo-sets like these, showing the world just how weird and diverse it is. :)

Edited 2013-02-09 23:54 (UTC)

Oh, this is absolutely beautiful! Thank you for sharing this with us and for taking the time to explain everything!

You're welcome!

Wow, how cool! Thanks for posting these.

You're welcome!

These photos are absolutely gorgeous, and it's always a treat to learn about the traditions of another culture.

Thank you so much for sharing!

You're welcome! And I definitely agree on the 'learning of other cultures' part. There's just so much you can see and learn from, minus the kinds of food that you can taste. :)

These are beautiful pictures and thanks for explaining all the culture significance of everything. I love learning about weddings in different cultures.

You're welcome!

Thank you for sharing these pictures, so much. I love reading up on other cultures, because my own heritage is pretty much, well, boring. I love how pretty the wedding design is!

You're welcome! And come on, how boring would your heritage be? I'm sure there's something about your own culture that we don't or can't do here.

Edited (bad grammar and english. whoops.) 2013-02-10 02:54 (UTC)

So much pretty. So much very pretty. Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty.

I'm sorry, that's the most coherent response you're going to get out of me.

Nothing else, really? ;)

This all looks amazing and like a lot of effort!

I love learning about different cultures and traditions, so thanks for sharing!

You're welcome. :)

Edited 2013-02-10 00:55 (UTC)

Oh thank you for sharing! This is just beautiful and interesting.

Re: Of flower eggs and rosewater: Pictures of the settings of a Malay wedding

al28894 - 2013-02-10 14:27 (UTC) - Expand

Oh wow, these are absolutely gorgeous! I can't get over how lovely and shiny everything is. (DAT COUCH SETTING.)

Also, the ceremonies sound much more interesting than the weddings I've been too. Thanks for explaining everything and sharing your pictures!

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al28894 - 2013-02-10 14:39 (UTC) - Expand

Beautiful! Thank you so much for sharing the photos and explanations here. The stuff you can pick up from lurking in F!S GC haha. Very different from any wedding I've been to.

Also, gamelan! I remember being mesmerized when we listened to/watched some in my Music Around the World class. My teacher said she actually played some when she was at school in New York City, which was cool.

Re: Of flower eggs and rosewater: Pictures of the settings of a Malay wedding

al28894 - 2013-02-10 14:48 (UTC) - Expand

This is so cool!! Wow, thank you. I remember seeing posts from you sometimes and I always think wow, this person is all the way in Malaysia. I love the internet. :)

^ me

inkdust - 2013-02-10 04:49 (UTC) - Expand

Re: ^ me

al28894 - 2013-02-10 14:51 (UTC) - Expand

Re: Of flower eggs and rosewater: Pictures of the settings of a Malay wedding

(Anonymous) - 2013-02-10 04:53 (UTC) - Expand

So cool! It's so exciting to see this stuff--I'm currently in living in Thailand for a couple of months, and every time you post about Malaysia I get super excited because I'm suddenly so close to it! (AKA, not a 27 hour flight away :P)

The decorations are great by the way! And the food looks delicious...*drool*