Anh and Hao’s wedding was a very
interesting and enjoyable experience that I wanted to share with you all.
Ms Hao catches the bus to RMIT with Phil and one when he was sitting beside her on the seat he noticed she had a shiny new ring on her wedding finger. He asked her if she just got married and surprising him she said “Yes, last week!”. This started a friendship with not only Ms Hoa but all of the library girls and others who catch the bus.
The story was that Ms Hao had her traditional wedding the week before back in her hometown but would in the future have another wedding reception with her friends here in HCMC and Mr Phil and his wife would have to come. We didn’t think that she would remember to officially invite us but she did and last Saturday night we got to be part of the evening.
The evening started with being welcomed at
an amazing wedding venue that had around 5 weddings going on at the same time, you can have a look at the website, it was amazing! http://www.youandyourwedding.co.uk/forum/the-you-and-your-wedding-website/wedding-and-convention-the-adora-at-vietnam/378297.html
We were ushered to the room that our
wedding was being held and met at the door by Anh and Hao, in the picture above, plus some of their
friends who were helping.
A couple of the boys decorated a table for them with
some photos and some candles and flowers, see above.
There was also a large photograph of them
which is usually done 6 months before the wedding. This photo was also used on the invitation
and the power point that was showing on the wall inside the room.
Another couple manned the table with the
wedding gift receptacle which was in the shape of a house. We signed a card on the table and after
shaking hands, having a photograph and wishing the bride and groom well, we
were shown to our table.
There were 4
tables for RMIT staff and we were soon joined by a number of others.
All of other ‘bus girls’that were coming arrived
eventually and I got to meet almost all of the crew. Picture above. Phil, as usual jokes with all of them and
they all had cheeky things to say throughout the evening. Phil and Ms Hao below...
Then the show started.....
We had a female dancer joined by a male
dancer who also proceeded to sign a song to the happy couple.
Then a young ballet group in tutu’s joined
the lead couple and danced as well.
The couple were welcomed into the room and congratulated on their wedding.
There was a pouring of ‘wine’ into a champagne fountain which had dry ice in it so we also had smoke for effect. Looked very pretty.
The couple did not have a top table as their job was to walk around and talk to all of us and ensure we had a nice evening. This is a shot of them in their seats resting at the back of the venue between rounds of table chatting.
The food started to arrive, the waiters walked from the back room, over the rostrum past the bride and groom to use, as a sign that the bride and groom were offering the food it us I would think. We had a number of courses…refer menu.
During the meal time Ms Huynh went up to
sing a song on the stage for the happy couple, very nice.
I was also asked to do a song but didn’t know when this would
occur. Ms Huynh was up on stage and when
she finished she announced that it was my turn…ok up I get! I took my guitar with me and luckily could
use the plug from the keyboard that was for the band later on. I sang and even got accompanied with a violin
by one of the guys in the band. We were almost in tune. Anyway Phil said it went very well, the best
he’s heard me he said....my most hard to please critic. It was also the
first time he’d heard my guitar played through a sound system and he was
pretty impressed with his purchase.
It seemed that it was usual to get a flower when you played for the couple, Phil gave me mine, came up on stage at the end and everything :)
We continued to eat and chat and drink and a number of others decided at different points to go up to the stage and sing including the bride and groom.
The drunk
group of engineers from the airport gave possibly the least impressive performance but they
thought they were great! And of course they had fun...name of the game.
One of the last songs of the night....almost everyone has gone home. Ms Huynh was still at it....
We also got a thankyou gift of a heart shaped chocolate in a little box, a nice finish to the night.
Of course everyone left on their motorbikes, not many cars here in HCMC.
we had an excellent night and now can add
a Vietnamese wedding, albeit not the traditional part, into our list of
experiences in Vietnam. Thanks Anh and Hao!
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