Easter, holidays and Marriage

First things first.
Happy Easter to everyone! hope everyone enjoyed the 4 day weekend. :)

I am on my mid-semester break at the moment. Although it’s a break from going to uni, it is not a break from studying and boy is the motivation hard to find at the moment! lol

I arrived back in Cairns on Friday and on Saturday, went to a ‘wedding’ It’s a wedding in inverted commas because the actual wedding with the dress and the ceremony and the rings etc is in Brisbane where the couple resides. The bride’s family lives here in cairns so her mum held a relaxed Chinese themed wedding reception at their house which included some traditional Chinese things such as the dowry, a wishing tree, a hair brushing ceremony, tea ceremony and the door games the groom must play to get a key to the house to get to his bride (who is locked in) and lion dancing (not sure if this is traditional or not but the bride’s family does lion dancing hence why it was there) Most of this I’ve already seen from my cousin’s wedding back in November and the only extra things were the lion dancing and the hair brushing ceremony.

The door games were very entertaining and included – a race around the pool, dress ups, push up competition, connect-4 and shooting baskets. the story behind the door games is that the bride’s sisters and bridesmaids aren’t going to ‘give her away’ so easily so they make the groom play games to prove his worthiness of her.

Our parents have been friends for many years and my dad and I were the only ones from our family who went with my sisters still in Sydney. It was a very relaxed night and lovely to see her after such a long time.