Chinese Wedding Receptions 婚宴

We have been really busy with weddings recently. These photos are from a friend’s wedding last week. He married a woman who seems like she will be a great companion to him in ministry. He himself is a really nice person and a great brother in Christ 很好的兄弟. Next month we have another wedding in which our daughter will be a flower girl 在新娘前撒花的女孩.

Receptions are a lot of fun at any wedding, which is especially true of Chinese weddings. Usually, one of the emcee’s jobs is to torture the bride and the groom and this wedding was no exception. They had to answer tough questions about each other and the prize was to eat a cherry together on a string at the same time 新郎新娘同時一起吃一個櫻桃. At least he didn't make the groom kiss the hands of several women blindfolded to guess which one was the bride's. The dinner at this wedding was very good Shanghai food. Even the dessert, a weak point in most Chinese meals was a well-done and healthy dish. The key at such wedding banquets is to pace oneself. It is all too easy to fill up on the first few dishes and miss the real delicacies, usually seafood, at the end. We had some guys at our table from the groom’s work, for example, who made the mistake of shoveling down lots of chicken and just missed having enough stomach space for the ‘8 gem’ duck 八寶鴨.

I am learning more about taking photos at weddings. This high-speed lens helps to capture portraits of people in dark environments like this restaurant and give a blur to the background that is referred to as bokeh. I wouldn’t want to be an amateur wedding photographer for pay like my father because it is too much responsibility and takes the fun out of it. But I do like taking photos and printing enlargements of the best for the newlyweds 選最好的幾張給新郎和新娘.