My Wedding - Part V (The Surprises + Party)

After the main course, the friends of Alex, Jessica, Maik, Jens, Tim , Ben and Laura have organized a surprise for us which we LOVE that great idea! They have prepared a lot of balloons and postcards, which each of the guest had to write down what they would want to do for us, eg. clean our house, baby sitting, grill party...etc. The cards are then attached to the balloons and are let loosen in the sky. Depending where the balloons and cards landed, whoever(probably somebody that we haven't met before) picks them up on the street, will send this card back to us. We never though of getting any one of them back but can't you believe that after the wedding we received 4 cards back!! One from the brother of Opa and the other one from Alex's friends (the ones who organized this game), the one from Alex's uncle and aunt and the last one from Arne, the video man. I have to say that was a really great idea cos all our guests got involved in the game so it was a special memory for us and the guests.

After we are done with the balloons, we started the "Wedding Cake cutting". The wedding cake that we had is not the conventional cakes that we usually see. There are in total 4 cakes and the each of them are home-made by a friend of Alex's mom. Beside the wedding cakes, Alex's mom and relatives have baked a lot of cookies and cakes for us. Unfortunately, didn't have a chance to eat much that evening because my wedding dress was so tight that i hardly could let any food in the stomach!! =-T

Our next surprise was organized by the cousins of Alex. They gave us a big yellow plastic boxes and asked us to open it, hinting that there would be surprises for us inside the boxes, of course, without telling us in advance what was in the box. They were hinting snakes and spider....etc. to scare us off! Anyway, we slowly opened the box and thanks god, they were just sand but inside the sand hides the treasure (a lot of 1 Euros!). So our task was to dig up all those 1 euros from the sand with the tools they provided us. The idea was that we have to "work hard" for our "money".

Well, then came the "first dance" of the bride and groom. Before the dance, Alex and I took the chance to thank our guests and some more special thanks to our parents and friends. Anyway, It has been the German tradition that the bride will wear "her dress" to do the first dance and that each of the guest has to dance with the bride and the groom. So Alex and I started the first dance and then people slowly came to the dance floor to grab us and danced with us. After changing, I don't know 20-30 dance partners, the dance floor is now opened to all the guests!!!

Before leaving the dance floor, it's time for the tossing of bridal bouquet. All single women were asked to get to the dance floor and they were supposed to catch the bouquet. Of course, whoever caught it, was supposed to be the next one to get married. Well, as expected, everybody was running away from the bouquet, instead of catching it. HEE HEE. And who was the lucky girl who caught it? Julia, the girlfriend of Alex's cousin, Christian!

The guests then slowly got back to the dance floor and the real fest started. Men took off their ties and loosen up their buttons of their shirts and some of our female guests also took the opportunity to change to something more causal for the dance floor. I, of course, also took the chance to get changed to my silver evening dress, which is much lighter than my heavy wedding dress. I really like the design of the silver dress cos it integrates traditional Chinese design with a western style. It has the traditional V-neck collar and Cheongsam-style and the tail of the dress gave a bit more western style.

The rest of the evening, we were just sitting from table to table to chat with our guests and of course dancing the whole night! At around 12:00 at midnight, our guests are severed with sausages and cheese with bread and coffee. At around 2:00 1/2 of our guests have already gone to bed, but of course, the bridal couple have to say until the last guest leaves the party. I think we chat and drink until 4:30 and finally got back to our nice and lovely suite!

The next morning at 10:00, all of the guests who stayed overnight at the hotel had breakfast together. Everybody looked extremely tired. Not to mention that the breakfast buffet was great in the hotel.

After our wedding party, we didn't have a chance to have a good rest cos we would like to spend time with all our friends that came all the way from Canada, England and Hong Kong to the wedding. So the day right after the wedding, we went to do some sight-seeing in Stuttgart. The following days sending friends and family off to airports and finally we also joined Victoria and Elliot for 2 days in Paris. Some pictures of our trip can be found here.

So that's pretty all about my wedding. This is one of the happiest moment in my life and Alex and I had a great and nice memory of our wedding in Germany. All of my Chinese friends agreed that our wedding was really quite different from the Chinese ones, which usually is more like a show. And our wedding was just exactly how I wanted to be, everybody party, have fun and enjoy themselves!! It was really my dream wedding!

Special Thanks to my friends:

Maggie, my Bridesmaid

Maik, Best man + driver

Melissa, for everything

Chris, camera man

Arne, video man

Why are they holding a wooden frame? Well, our friends want to make us a "guest book" with pictures so every guest have to take a picture with the frame!

Oops, Almost forgotten one thing, there was one more surprise from the lovely girls, Viktoria and Antonia. They have prepared a nice and speech for us, just before the dinner. Plus lots of drawings.... hee hee


Note: My good friend Kai has also written a post about my wedding!