After The Wedding

Okie, continuing the story on my wedding day...

Around 10.30pm, the guests have left the reception and only a handful of our families were there for the final photo session for the day. Just after the photo shoot, my dad fell off the stage (about 50cm in height). Fortunately my dad had soft plants just in front of the stage that softened his fall. However, It was still very obvious that my dad was beyond pain because he couldn't say anything much afterwards.

On the following day, my dad had an x-ray and it was revealed that he had broken his right ankle. Two days afterwards, my dad had an operation to speed his recovery and prevent further damage to his right leg. It's important to recover fast and well since he's already about 62 y.o.

He was hospitalised for 2 weeks and recovered very quickly until this day. He's still walking using 1 walking stick (I think that's how you call it) today, but it was a fast recovery when he had to use 2 sticks to walk during the first and second month. He's expected to recovery fully in about 3 months.

Well, certainly a scary experience, but thank God that everything is doing well.

Nothing Today

Still have things to do so can't stay too long. Will continue about my wedding story tomorrow; that's a promise...

Back From A Very Long Break + I'm Married Now!

Hi everyone! It's been a few months since my last entry due to my wedding preparations + the wedding day itself + a few things that happened after the wedding...

Oh yeah, I'm married now!

Me & Dona is now officially husband & wife since Sunday, 4th September 2005. The day was technically 98% perfect, but we enjoyed the whole day very much and considered it 100% perfect. We believe God blessed us and was involved in every part of the day. Wouldn't ask for anything more...

The ceremony was held in a church close to my home in Surabaya, Indonesia at 11am (GMT +7). It was a beautiful ceremony and took about an hour, continuing to family photo sessions 1pm, retouch the make-up 3pm, cin-ciu 5pm, and the reception 7pm.

By the way, cin-ciu (or pai-ciu, etc.) is a Chinese tradition where the bride & groom ask for blessing from older people in the family (ie. parents, aunties & uncles, brothers, sisters, etc.). In return, the newlyweds are given money, jewellery, etc. as a symbol of their blessing and supports.

The Reception was held in Shangri-La Hotel Grand Ballroom, Surabaya. The place was beautifully decorated with real grapes (total around 4kg) and real flowers. The setting was a garden, inspired by Araluen Park in WA. By the way, Araluen is where me & Dona first notice each other during our excursion in 1997.

More stories and photos on my next entry...