The Day Part VII: The Dinner Part III

This is the seventh and final installment of the tremendously eventful night. After the champagne pouring, it was time for the speeches! The photographers got such a beautiful family portrait of my sister, bro-in-law and niece. My nephew was fast asleep by then. :)

The speech from the father of the groom translated by my mother-in-law. Very touching and inspiring. They recollected Ying's childhood and how it was not easy to see the results of educating your children. They also spoke about how Ying's persistence and focus in his endeavours inspires us. Lastly, they quoted from the song 'Welcome to the Family' which happened coincidentally to be our concluding lines as well.

The speech from the father of the bride. My dad spoke about marriage being like two ropes- stronger than one but three ropes is the strongest with God binding us together. He also thanked our relatives who travelled from far and near to grace us with their presence. Both our parents quoted from the Scripture and their speeches really blessed our hearts.

Handsome Baby Christian- such a good sport all night long. 

After the very inspiring and touching speeches, we went round table by table for photos. This is my babysitter. :) We sat her together with my husband's babysitter as well. It was a wonderful reunion.

We didn't manage to make it to every table unfortunately before we had to be at the door. However, I must say we achieved quite a feat, there being 40 tables, we made it to about 35!

My stunning parents.

After sending our guests off, we celebrated my husband's fourth grandaunt's birthday which fell on the same day (Chinese leap month)! It was such a rare occasion as all the relatives were present in the same place at the same time. Interspersed all around the world in Japan, India, Singapore and UK... everyone was gathered for the grand occasion which was why it was so meaningful to celebrate her birthday then.

 We had some lovely family portraits taken... too many to share here and after the event, we stayed back on stage to hang out with our closer friends. We goofed about and took many silly pictures together.

The photographer caught a shot of my pedicure. :) Yeay!

After all the festivities were over, we went up to the room and spent some time with our family before retiring   for the night. The thunderstorm came at 1.30am- well after the time it was supposed to. :) We slept so soundly that night. I couldn't have wished for a better wedding! Many thanks to our family, friends and photographers for making this entire experience such a memorable and amazing one.