More details: The wedding

For friends that missed my wedding, first off, don't worry! We'll be having a ceremony/ party in KL next year, hopefully around July.
In typical Sonia-fashion, things were a little topsy-turvy, and rather last minute. We had problems booking a venue - having tried various places that seemed incapable of returning phone calls/ sending menus/ keeping appointments, the whole schebang. We finally settled on Dante's, a restaurant on Gertrude Street. I'm afraid I can't tell you much about the food - what I had was good, but I just didn't seem to get anything!

We had about 50 people, so it was fairly small by Malaysian standards, but large by Aussie ones, and it included various people I hadn't met before. My mum, R (the best man), D and of course me all gave speeches. There was dancing until the end of the night (with friends, D and me making up the hard core!), and a small soiree of the hardcore dancers afterwards - minus sis, who had made a less than graceful exit!

The room was decorated in a theme inspired by 1920s Shanghai - a lovely tacky purple door curtain, fake cherry blossom on the walls and tables, a few posters of seductive Chinese girls touting products... (thanks Mum!) combined with more traditional red Chinese lanterns, 'double happiness' symbols and other wedding paraphernalia (thanks J!).

There was also, perhaps inevitably, some last minute panic - needing to make alterations to my dress, finding that the amazing wedding cake would only JUST fit into the car (!), and there being an event in the room at Dantes that afternoon (we had thought it would be empty from Friday afternoon).... but all was smoothed and sorted.

On Monday, we had the wedding itself. As a wedding present,some friends had given as a night at the Adelphi, a hotel in Melbourne. This was convenient, not least because D could go and change there, while I got ready at home. It also led to me being concerned about him making it to the Registry on time! My mum, sis and I arrived first, then the groom and others arrived together.

Again, there were a few things that didn't quite work out - I couldn't make an entrance to 'Here Comes The Sun', as we couldn't plug Sharon's iPod in to the sound system, so we had to make some last minute choices from the Registry's CD collection. NO, we did not choose any of the 569 Celine Dion songs that were on offer! Half of these, if not more, were versions of that Titanic song. Pah. Not sure what it was in the end we did have, but not quite at upbeat as what we'd wanted... then actually got married to some nice Chinese flute music.

Friends who are interested can get in touch with my mum for a copy of the order of service - we wrote our own vows, with D doing the design n layout of the souvenir leaflet thing. After the wedding, we went to a small bar for drinks, then we bid goodbye to the guests and went off to the hotel.

And after that, boys and girls, the shutters go down for the night :P