FaizalAzwin : BAJAU FAIRYTALE [301010]

Date : 30 OCTOBER 2010

Time : 8.00 AM - 3.00 PM (ketibaan pengantin, 11 AM)

Location : Kampung Dambai (Pengalat), Papar, Sabah

Theme : Bajau

kesinambungan entry terdahulu..on an early beautiful saturday morning after sleeping for (almost) 3 hours, we woke up to take our showers & solat subuh & to get ready for the reception. We changed into our bride & groom t-shirts (wajib!) and me & hubby took turns pakai inai (memang instant habis! hehe) helped by my bro & sis-in-laws, dila & fadhli :)

while we were waiting for our henna to dry off (hubby occasionally dozing off to sleep), my darling 'PuRe arrived :) yays! walaupun they were all dressed up and were actually supposed to be my wedding guests, tetap aku mintak dorg teman & help me out (i love u gals foreverrr)!

(macam askar2 to the rescue je ok)

outside the wedding was already going on, with the kulintangan (the alat music) playing beautifully in the background, us dengan kelam kabut angkut all our outfits and me non-stop on the phone with my videographer & make-up artist, we hurried off to hubby's uncle's house across the road. We were gonna get ready there.

Masa tu dah almost 8am, but org kampung ramai yang dah sampai and tngah makan-makan, so we tried to blend in with our t-shirt & jeans (kantoi a bit coz we were carrying our gold outfits!) and my syg kna tahan la 2-3 kali org ajak dia borak to wish congrats, hehe (ok another kantoi point was our screaming t-shirts kan? haha)

after safely arriving at uncle ghulam's house i went to put in my contact lens (oh for ALL my receptions i wore contacts, yg effect nmpk mata besar tu, 'FreshLook Illuminate' ~without any power), sangat best contacts nih, especially since im a first time user, ehehe (oppp selingan plak)..me jabbing my eyes & make up & syg gets down to bisnes, briefing his bro's on the tentative program (which he planned & i typed the day before)

and then it was make-up time!

sementara tu c-nah tolong make-up kan my pengapit. hee

lepas itu, sesi memakai baju bajau traditional,

memang perlukan bantuan dari yang pakar ;)

terasa macam princess zaman dulu (hahah)

after we were all ready & made up, we climbed into our cousins car for a ride to the 'usungan', with was about 600 meters away

sempat, mesti sempat

we had two cute-dressed up horses and a

kompang group to lead us to the reception

our 'usungan', kenderaan yang dihias seperti perahu

INFO: There are different customs for each suku kaum, my father-in-law is from the suku-kaum Bajau Samah (Bajau Darat), thus it is also different for the customs practiced for those berketurunan datu (nadhirah i pinjam ur link k, sgt informative). Maka, bagi kaum bajau yang bukan berketurunan "Datu" (seperti Faizal & Azwin), usungan yang mereka naiki berbentuk perahu.

lovely blue sky on our wedding reception day

 (despite it being rainy for the whole week, we were truly blessed)

heheh, the groom waving to his neighbours

we caused the small traffic jam :D

when we reached our house syg went off the usungan first

anddd...as the truck apperently did not have a small ladder, thus came the sweet gesture that all the wedding guests thought as our suprise gimmick. and i honestly tell u now. all of that was totally unplanned!

after getting off the usungan, we were lead to the pelamin

before we were to proceed to the dais,

 we had traditional dancers performing

(oh yeah, the male dancers lebih lentik dari pengantin perempuan u olls!)

then uncle nih bawak ktorg round depan pelamin,

x ingat brape kali, 3/4, ktorg tak tahu kenapa, follow saje

our traditional pelamin that i am so proud of my hubby of!

 (will story on details later)

us on the bajau wedding dais :)

our emcee (green shirt) & pembaca doa

then it was time for the merenjis ceremony

mama my beautiful

abah merenjis camera man skali :D

father-in-law salam semua including pengapit

getting blessings from nenek bongsu :)

we had fun on our wedding dais!

then we got off the pelamin to mingle around

and 'acting' to eat for the cameras.

meanwhile music & dancers entertained the guests

our Uncle Ghulam also sang, his voice is Amazing!!!

we joined in the 'Manuk-Manuk' dance

us running away from the dance, hehe

then it was picture time :)

us with the kulintangan music players.

 we look so costumed-up

my loves (hakim je xde, demam so dia tido somewhere)

my kekasihs (plus another 3 not in the pic)

with my in-laws

then we went to the nearby beach for a brief outdoor shoot,

but it was a drizzly afternoon (hujan rahmat) hee

p/s: this entry is named 'fairytale' as that is how our uncle & cousins called it..it did feel magical tho

p/p/s: next up -our official sabah reception vid