the reception.......

Was almoz late for the church… I made it in time…. I mean REALLY in time… I was short 2 minz to 4pm =p.. well.. bandung on weekends == jam jam jam n JAM…. O_O’ thx to our Jakarta buddies who loves bandung so much… *cynic smile* no offense guys :p

The couple was still downstairs… preparing themselves.. both were quite nervous.. I wasn’t THAT nervous due to my ‘fever’ hehe… met few of my cousins who came for the wedding ceremony… when the bell rang at 4, we were all ready to witness the ceremony.. ^_^ the feeling was quite erhm… tense? Solemn? Happy? A mixture of all that.. especially the bride n groom ofcoz.. ^_^ at 2nd line from in front, were C’ wawa looking gorgeous with her newly dressed hair and her red gown… Little Jordan saw his uncle walking down the isle and immediately shouted ‘engkuuuuuu!!!!’ everyone burst into laughter… that helps a lot man!! he did ease some nervousness… well me was quite nervous too.. duno wad to do with the tail.. duno where to look… duno when to re-do the tail…. *haizzz* eniweiz… here is the ceremony outline.. sermon, wedding vow, the exchanging of rings, opening of the veil, thanksgiving words to parents, wedding blessings…

The sermon part was not that touching the usual ‘wife, behold ur husband.. blabla husband love thy wife as u luv thyself blablabla…’ THE wedding vow was very touching…... after listening to the sermon, bride n groom supposed to face each other and said their wedding vow.. while helping the bride with her tail, I gave her a piece of tissue.. she told me last week that she’d dfinitely cry during the vow.. at that time, I tot it’d be like those in the moviz or novels where brides say vows to love and cherish their husband blablabla.. well…

My cousin said his vows… ‘I, Harman budijanto, take you blablablablablablablablabala’
quite smooth tho some pause here n there… then her turn came..
‘I, grace agatha wimarga.. take you.. Harman budijanto….’
Couldn’t finish her line…. She looked down and her voice shook…. After trying to get back her composure…
‘take you.. Harman budijanto as my beloved….’
There… her voice broke… couldn’t say any words for quite sometime… my cousin tried to console her by holding her hands and encouraging her to say the words…. But she cried even louder….

HERE.. my imagination has gone wild… =p I was already imagining those scenes where the bride would look up to the groom and whispered ‘im sorry.. Im not ready… I know u r good guy but im not ready…. Sorry….’ Then she fled….

Or…. Something like when she was sobbing someone from the back would shout ‘HOLD IT!!!!!!!’ and take the bride away… =D

Hey… didn’t I say itz only MY imagination? O_o’ but it was really that long that my mind could wonder here n there like that! >_<’ hehe… she did finish her lines in whisper… heheeee…. We all couldn’t hear that she finished.. only when our reverend said ‘both bride n groom hath said their vows..’ OOO so they had.. :p

Then the exchanging of rings….. wasn’t really scary :p then the opening of the veil.. too bad I was standing behind the bride tat I couldn’t see the wedding kiss O_o’!!!! *wad a wasteeeee*……… next was the scariest amongst all… the saying thank you to parents…

They began with the groom’s parents… he said in his own words and his own childhood name.. saying not in standard indo grammar… that made it more touching…. My aunt was teary.. my uncle, a man of little words and usually ‘expressionless’, looked down after hugging him… the bride’s side was even worse… She said the thank you words in sobs… hugging her mum n dad for quite a while… everyone cried… even my aunt, granma, my other aunt, everyone touched… well..

I guess how we’ll all feel when we all got married… even though u know that the man u married would be the one for you, would care for you… (wad more if u R NOT SURE if the man is THE man for u.… O_o’) even tho u know that nowadays marriage means that u are MARRIED.. doesn’t mean u r ‘married-out’ of the family… even though u know that ur family would still treat u as their daughter… even though (for us,) we are quite accustomed living away from family… even tho we could juz treat it like we’re living under the same roof with ur husband as how we are living now.. living with housemates… it’d juz be different wouldn’t it?? I duno… *sigh…* weddings are scary, eh? O_o’ especially when u r close with ur family O_o’

The bride was still sobbing even after they both kneeled down to sign the wedding cert.. we could hear her sobs thru the microphone which was somewhere out there… O_o’ then they were blessed and pronounced as men n wife…. Haiz… so beeeeyuuutiful….. *letz take a lonngggg sigh…* hehe.. after that point, C grace was smiling her usual radiant smile oredi :p hehehe then they walked back down the isles to shake hands with all the congregations and the end of the isle… at that time everyone who knows me would also ‘talk’ to me.. saying that I look different… even my baptism teacher oso looked at me quite differently and she finally said ‘u look VERY different…’ the word is ‘PANGLING..’ I know I know O_o’ but duneed to make me feel more ‘different’… the feeling is not quite right.. haha….

Then the bride n groom proceed to the reception hall (GRAND EASTERN) straight away.. thank God the chauffeur knows ‘jalan tikus’ that we arrived 30mins early.. :p in the car, c Grace scolded my cousin for looking so intensely with love to her at the church tat she couldn’t finish her line.. n tat her dad, said ‘tenang..2’ when she hugged him made her feel even worse heuairhworuh itz true u know.. the more comfort u get, the more u want to cry… hehe.. then they (we) were hid at one office… there, we had our discussion :p ehehehehehe… so fun… talked about how they fell in love for the first time with each other…. Blabla… it began with love at first sight… *ehermmmmmmmm* the girl was looking for animes… n someone told her to find the 'boy..’ when she found him, he fell in love at the first sight… (lets all say ‘OOOhhhh……..’) then they began with frenship… finally they were caught together somewhere but they weren’t together yet… she avoided him for a while but felt the ‘pang’ (letz say ‘ooooohhhh’ again…) then… he confessed.. she confessed (she didn’t realize her feelings at first.. juz tat her frenz told her she might be in luv with him)… n that is how it goes…. Cute eh? :p

so they were together for a year or so.. they became very ‘kompak’ n even not ashamed to do eniting ‘embarrassing’ in front of each other... No proposals like bent on one knee n asking ‘will u marry me..’ with a diamond ring on hand plus a flower... NO...!! they were only somewhere sitting around when the idea came to my cousin’s head… when he voiced it out.. she was coincidentally tinking of the same idea.. :p so there it was… they chose the wedding ring together.. n it was like the ‘ring’ calling them.. hahaa… v cute right? They both ARE real very cute couple…. Haha…

MAY GOD BLESS AND KEEP UR MARRIAGE!!!! ^_^ ^_^

At almost 6.30, we were called up to the reception area.. I had to take out my jacket.. *sigh* v cold legh… my fever getting quite to the worse O_o’ then it began with both parents walking down the isle to the podium… followed by 2 super mischievous flower boys… both stubborn and un-tamed… their mum was begging them saying ‘please please Jordan Please??? Walk Please???’ but he kept on didn’t want to walk O_o’ so bride n groom were kept from walking down the isle… (downstairs, C grace said that she’d rather everyone look at their mischief than to have all attention to the wedded couple..) :p finally they both ‘walked’ becoz they saw some of their cousins somewhere in the crowd, laughing at them.. they threw those pieces of bright paper to them.. O_o’ the kids went screaming.. both boys became so happy O_o’ hahaha…. But at least they DID walk n ‘tabur bunga’ then somewhere in the middle of the isle, my aunt and my granma, n some other cousins, calling Jordan n Mark with chocolates in their hands O_o’! haha… so I was giggling to myself O_o’ (I dun have best mannnnn) at least C grace could laugh n turned her face to my cousin.. ME??? I was the last one to walk the isle O_o’ (noticed a lot of my family n relatives besides the isles though.. but i cant juz laugh my usual crazy laugh wadd... must 'JAIM' a bit =p) finally at almost the end of the isle, Mark’s bucket was almost finished.. so he turned it upside down n everyone AGAIN turned into big laughter… (MARK!!!) I tink the MC had sweat-cold too ^_^… but eniwei.. it all went well… I didn’t trip on my own gown… :p

The ceremony at the reception was quite straight forward… cut the super tall wedding cake, gave mums n dads a piece of cake, wedding kiss, thatz alllll…. All those while, I was together with them at the podium *shudders* well.. the MC told me I could stick with him at the shadows.. :p hehehehe.. when both couples sat at the table to eat, my duty is done….. I went outside to find my sis to get my jacket back… unfortunately, she also had combination of both fever and exhaustion from the orientation.. she looked so pretty with her hair ‘waffled curls’ u’ll see the pic later when I upload it :p My dad lent me his coat :p hehe thx dad!!! So I was wearing his coat n ate at the table to receive hongbaos.. :p I didn’t actually EAT… didn’t have appetite to eat.. O_o’ eniweiz.. finally itz over… (after so longgg) finally taking pics time!!! Luv it luv it luv it! Hahaha…. Everytime we’re taking pic, either I got to give back the coat to my dad, or I myself had to take it out… hahaaaa

Oow.. C wawa wore different dress again O_o’ the last one is blue tube topaz gown… with a crossage (i mean flower... hehe) in the middle… she is gorgeous man!! everyone said she looked like dian nitami.. but I tot she looked better than Dian.. hehe… Last but not least was the ‘photo studio’ I mean itz only one ‘screen’ from the photographer where we all stood there n had our pics taken… so dun worie q-kho.. I got my family pic taken ^_^ n loadz more from Hp… hehehe…. That nite, my whole body felt v painful… didn’t wash my curly hair.. n juz slept O_o’ my fever went quite up high again… my mum said I talked in my sleep that made mum quite scared… well im better better better… dun woriez… im still weak today O_o’! wadeva.. I’ll be well by tomorrow! ^_^

Called eli last nite.. she’d be here this weekend which means my LAST weekend in Bandung.. *sigh*… so I could only accompany her on Friday.. :’(!! Stupid eli :’(!!!