Fabian's Wedding

First of all, well wishes to Mr and Mrs Fabian Tan. May their entrance into matrimonial covenant be a blessed and fruitful one. =)

met up with nigel and ms to to go to the church together. actually, they din't know that i am meetin them until i call them up in the morning. well, shows how insignificant am i? sigh.. who ask me to be the only nsf in blk 8 going. feel quite out of place also. thank God that logpa, edmund, eddie was there. well the whole qm pl is there too..

reach the place quite early. anyway, it's a catholic church. nice scantuary, with the nice scupltures around(as usual for them) and the erm.. the deco.

it's also a military wedding. the sword bearers (e.g. hann lin, mto aaron , ivan du, richard, etc..) it's really quite shuai and impressive to be in no.1 with their swords. guess that's why there's this certain element attractive for officers. well, the selection process and the criteria by human beings is very erm.. apparent. (okay.. stop my blabbering)

then, comes the little girls dancing ballet, path-ing the way for the ring bearer (which is this cute little boy, hahaa.) he accompanied by the ban niang. a few times he stopped and was somehow overwhelmed by the attention given to him. then the ban niang had to nudge him a little to get him con't walking.

and after that, the bride walked down the isle, slowly, with her father. it's really a very touching moment. =)

finally, she reached fabian and they hold hands and sat in the 2 seats in front. the service then began, with hymns, scripture readings etc.. then come the exchange of vows.

" Yes, I will. "

Then, it's the exchange of the rings,.. " .. this ring signifies my love and fidelity, by the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.."

then the priest pronounced them husband and wife. "can i kiss her now?" ask fabian to his father-in-law. =)

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after that was the signing of the marriage cert etc.. and is the eucharist. it's quite an eye opener to see how is it being carried out. beside me was WO Mabel explaining to ms to the difference between catholic and chirstian. and she said something very similar to francis.

Chirstians/Protestants are basically people who dun like the teachings of the Church and break off. For example the ANGLICAN Church is initiated by the King of England because he wished to remarry and this is not allowed by the catholic faith. well, i know of such thing. but how come they dun talk bout the beliefs and practices which are not and no longer according to the Word of God. the many traditions and rituals are what the protestants are protesting about. wat the protestants are doing is to purify the church, to stand up for the correct doctrines as indicated in the Bible, where indicates no purgatory, no penence etc.. . well.. shant go into this...

anyway, the church wedding ends Mr and Mrs Fabian Tan walking down the isle together. halfway, the sword bearers refuse to let them pass until Fabian carried Angeline in his arms. =) and well, he did and .... =)

after that is the lunch at somewhere at habourfront..
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actually, it's really sweet.. . .