Sending of gifts ceremony 过大礼

Porsche drove Pat and I back on Monday evening after work, we reached home pretty early that evening so we had dinner with Mom. Went home and did some final preparation for tomorrow's sending of gift ceremony.

It's 10am in the morning, Ben, Aunty Mok and Joe together with Teck Weng and Dennis came in 2 cars delivering the gifts. We welcomed them at the gate while they slowly unload all the beautifully wrapped and decorated gifts.

It includes things like wedding biscuits, wedding joystick, gold ink coated coconut, fruits, wines, not forgetting the whole roast piggie! All wrapped in red paper and then decorated with double happiness ribbon around.

It's now time for Ben to pass my parents the 'Dowry'. hehe look at my Mom....

Then it's prayers time! I had to carry basket after basket of gifts to pray, half way through it, my hand was literally shaking as the basket of fruits are so so extremely heavy. After prayers at my house, we headed to grandpa's old house for the anchestor prayers. This is part of the ceremony as the roast pig was meant for the anchestors.

It finishes past lunch hour and all of us, exhausted and starved had the famous Hakka noodle and all of them packed 30 packets of noodles! wow! hahaha....then we headed back home and a. mok was helping my mom to sort out things that needs to be returned to Ben's mom.

It's the moment everyone have been waiting for....the roast pig cutting time! haha! We have Teck weng to help us with it. Everyone enjoyed it!

Mom then placed the Angpow and a pants she bought for Ben, it's called the Son-in-laws pants 女婿裤 in between the pig's head and tail to be returned to Ben's parents.

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