Wedding Reception
I went to a wedding reception in Mulia Hotel the other nite. I wore a nude long beaded dress with a little train in the back (I know, who cares, but it serves a point later) with very high-heeled shoes, to lift me up a few inches so that my dress won’t pool around as much in the back.
T’was a huge over-crowded one (didn’t really expect it to be) and as I enter, Jade stepped on my train. It wasn’t really her fault, I stopped because there’s a swarm of people in the front door blocking my way in. The we inched our way towards the guestbook area. To make our way in the ballroom we had to "gently push" people around and finally we got to the "shaking hands with the happy bride-groom" line, which snakes all the ways around the ballroom walls. The line hardly moves at all because at times they stop and take some photos with friends and families. So after 10 minutes standing in the same spot, we gave up and went to eat instead (later, we asked the groom’s brother to let us cut the line, heh heh heh). When we got our food it was a tough battle to eat in peace, as waiters inched their way lifting their serving trays full of uneatean food and dirty dishes come and go, people moving all around trying to get to the food, more people standing around trying to eat their dinner … ALL of them stepping on my itty bitty train, jerking me back everytime I stepped forward. Geh …
I hate wearing a beautiful dress to overcrowded weddings. People step all over it and they can’t really see the dress design properly … HO HO HO.
Oh yeah, later as we left the reception (which is almost 2 hours later, around 9pm) the bride-groom and parents were all still in that big-ass podium shaking their hands away. And the line was still as long and as slow as before with no signs of dying down. At this rate I doubt if they can come off that stage and "mingle" with the guests (which I highly don’t recomend, because the bride wore a huge dress that I imagine is very hard to manage among that kind of crowd).
Oy vey … I just want to go home and soak my feet in warm soapy water …
-L
