A beautiful day for a wedding
Hi again!
So today (or yesterday as technically I am posting this after midnight) we were invited to attend a Malay wedding. For those of you who don't know, Malaysia is a Muslim country. Anyway, since I am not Muslim (and neither is Charmaine) and the ceremony was going to be an Islamic one, we both had to borrow silk blouses from Nuril's oldest sister and wear maxi dresses for the ceremony and reception so that we would be in suitable attire. When we arrived the ceremony had already begun, so we sat down outside of the room where the ceremony was taking place. Me and Charmaine did notice a few shifty looks from some of the other guests as we were "white people" (when were in a shopping centre the day before, a girl had asked Nuril in Malay why she was friends with "white people") but the groom was also white (an American) so we weren't the only foreign people at the wedding. The ceremony was a lot shorter than Christian ones in the UK, and the reception was a meal outside the home (in 40C heat!!!!) and as it was an Islamic wedding, no alcohol was served and there was not disco after the dinner. The wedding was an interesting experience because I have never been to an Islamic wedding and I am glad that I was given an opportunity to attend.