Early this year, I had the privilege of being a bridesmaid to one of my best friends, Chen Chin. There is a saying that an acquaintance would ask you about your love life, but a  true friend can blackmail you with it. The latter is probably how I would describe our friendship as we’ve known each other for more than 20 years since the age of 7. We’ve had our fair share of embarrassment over unrequited crushes, consoling each other over broken hearts and sharing all the joyful tears together. It took her one big circle to realize that her soul mate and lifelong partner is someone close to home, her high school archenemy.

It becomes really fun when both the bridesmaids and groomsmen know each other really well, so much so that we could ‘go all out’  when it came to the extreme bridal door games on the morning of the wedding ceremony. We were however, very guarded under the watchful eyes of some elder folks who weren’t too pleased with our games. I thought we were already pretty decent compared to so many other weddings.

Dinner was held at Oriental Pearl Restaurant at Bukit Jalil Golf & Country Resort which serves a tasty array of Cantonese dishes. I like Chen Chin’s selection of wedding gowns from Casamia Bridal Studio. Don’t you just love the long white train and the shocking pink dress which matched suitably well with her skin colour?

Calvin and I were given the honourable task of giving a toast and as the (self-appointed) Maid of Honour and Best Man, we ahem… let loose some skeletons in the closet. I guess we weren’t that honourable after all. hahaha…

Check out how stressed up the groom was.

Gan and Calvin also played some on-stage games, namely Kiss & Profess and the Shoe Game. I was happily munching away. It’s not often that I get to eat at weddings since I’m always on-the-clock at weddings. Thanks to Liew and Chen Chin for being such a great sport! After all, what are friends for right?

Photography by Chantique Studio.