"Open up and say AAaaaAhhHhh!!!~!~"

How much do you need to get married? Engagement ring, wedding dinner, photos, angpow blah blah blah etc. You cant miss out the damn ring. Engagement rings have become such a love status symbol. After all who wants to be the girl who is only loved by 0.25 of a carat? The ring status fever has now spread to weddings. Dude, you have any idea how much a diamond ring cost?

The problem is that weddings in Malaysia are becoming increasingly commercial and homogenized. Each couple and their family trying to keep up or out do everyone else. What? your wedding spent only 30k? Ok lim peh gonna spend 60k. You really can put a price on love in modern Malaysia especially the chinese community. The biggest shock for me was the number of couples and parents who went into debt for the wedding.

I am not married, so I don't know how much it cost. But based on my judgment and a little survey, the cost of an average wedding is around 25k ( Ringgit Malaysia ). Most couples would have to work a year to pay for that one day. Why not just take a year off work and spend it together? Am sure you would manage to create a few good memories. What would you rather remember? The week you went camping and shagged on the beach or getting Aunty Mary to put in her false teeth for the church family picture.

The best weddings, I think, have very little to do with abalone or shark fin soup. For me it is all about a relaxed, happy and palpably in love couple sharing their day with close family and friends. Forget about large crowd, make it average but make sure everyone knows each other and let the bar free and flowing. You don't need a Porsche, a champagne reception and all the other things that now seem to be so important. The most important is the quality time spent with your love one and family.