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Ever since I knew HY, I've had the privilege of going to various wedding ceremonies of different cultures.
1) R + W (Cantonese wedding): After noticing HY was practically mute as I was during the wedding reception, I found out that their relatives were speaking another dialect, Hakka, and not Cantonese. Now I know not only do Hsin-chu, Miao-li Counties in Taiwan speak the dialect, other parts of China do, too.
2) R + J (Indian wedding): Me having the fun of spotting Bollywood superstars lookalike.
3) T + H (Swedish wedding): The couple really went to town on their wedding, even the guests young and old looked resplendent in their gowns and white tie suits. And yes, Swedish women are tall, blonde and very beautiful.
4) T + J (English wedding): A quintessential English postcard scenery, men playing cricket, as the background. The hosts also had this fun surfing toy machine which starts off slowly and fastens its pace till you fall off in a hideous manner, i.e.
I now order every wedding to have one of these so I can practice on it.
As for my single, fab friends back home, I've honestly only been to one ceremony, and a lonely number of two has tied the knot. Hence if you ask me what a traditional Taiwanese wedding is like, the answer is a straightforward, 'I don't know'. One of the reasons Friends has to be terminated, I believe, is because these once cool and free singletons have, like the animals on Noah's Ark, two by two stepped on board of the marriage boat. Who cares about Monica and Chandler pushing a pram down some suburban neighbourhood, Rachel taking Emma to preschool, or Phoebe's married life. Only the odd number Joey survives--not for long perhaps.