Wedding dinners should be wedding suppers

Recently, I attended a colleague’s wedding banquet in Cheras. On the invitation card, the time the dinner starts at 7pm SHARP. I offered to pick up babycarrot along the way and so buffered in 30 minutes in case I got lost. Well I did get lost and it turned out that I wasn’t THAT lost after all. That wrong turn actually got me to the restaurant. Surprise, surprise! Not that lost, not that lost.

It was 7pm when we got to the restaurant. Thankfully, the rest of the gang were already seated. Ek, Milk, SW, HE were all there so we chatted for a while to kill time. It was already 8pm when tables around us were still empty! There were already grumpy faces.

Finally, at the time of 8:30pm, the bride and groom walked ceremoniously into the dining area and the food followed by. 1 and 1/2 hours of waiting. Not fun at all. The course trickled in and I noticed that even when we were positioned in the middle of the service line, we still got our food last. Grumble.

The food was not too bad. When the dessert arrived, we quickly finished up and headed for home. Thank goodness for good company that night, otherwise it’d be quite slow.

Honestly, I think that if the card says the dinner is to be served at 7pm sharp, the latest would be 7:30pm. Just start the ceremony and dinner. Too bad for those that arrive late. After all, the time the dinner start is already printed on the card so there’s really no excuse for being late.

Rubber time is one bad habit that’s truly Malaysian.