Perkahwinan Yang Gemilang, Cemerlang & Terbilang

Last week, my little sister Adiknor got married. All three of us went back early to attend the Majlis Khatam Quran, a ceremony to mark the finishing of reading the whole Quran. There were quite a lot of things to do. The women prepared the decorations and the men did the arranging of tables, carpets and lifting stuff. The last wedding done at the house was two years ago, which was yours truly's.

The main event, which is the akad nikah was on Saturday which was basically when the groom comes over to the house to get an official permission from the bride's father. The father or wali said the akad followed by the groom's ijab and then once all the witnesses agreed what the groom said was correct, then the marriage is official. My sister is now officially married to my new brother-in-law, Razi. After that, there was the usual ceremonies like membatalkan air sembahyang, putting on wedding rings on each other's fingers and eating a feast. The whole kenduri lasted till about 4 pm and that was that. Quite a simple process but the preparations put into it was massive. That night there was a power breakdown along the whole street due to one house further down being struck by lightning. I'm just relieved that it didn't happen during the day like during Kak Nik's wedding. The only disasters which occurred were a light bulb exploding and a leaking aircond.

The next day was the really major event for Malay weddings nowadays, which is the feast at a large hall. Everyone was so excited and nerves were kind of short. You see, usually people in KL do these kind of feasts at night but my father wants it done during the day due to some reasons, which I sort of agree with. Anyway, for the past few weeks, myself and Awi have been racking our brains to prepare a montage to be shown during the lunch at the hall, right before food was taken out. I think we did quite a good job, largely thanks to Awi, because she got really good ideas on the wordings and flow of the presentation. If left to me, I think it won't be that interesting, funny and memorable.

As usual, I had to give a thank you speech to all that contributed to the wedding. I was so nervous about it despite it being my 3rd time now. Nevertheless, once on stage, it wasn't too bad. I guess I could speak in front of an audience and if more practice is done and the speech is better prepared, I would've rocked. :) All in all, the event ended well, Mak and Abah were happy, the bride and groom were happy and I was happy. One funny thing was that during my speech I said something to the effect, of praying that my sister's wedding will be "perkahwinan yang gemilang, cemerlang & terbilang." It was a joke and people laughed but there was this one guy in the audience who was so pissed off because he thought I wanted to campaign for UMNO or BN. Haiya, joke sikit2 pun tak boleh ke? Some people are so narrow minded.

There's still more events this weekend. Now on the groom's side. We will be travelling down again tomorrow. It's tiring but as part of a family, it is something that we need to do as we are staying far away from everyone else. Tak nak lah jadi kera sumbang pulak. :)