Mind the Name Sir

I went to this wedding last weekend. All was the usual, as how an usual Malaysian Indian wedding reception will be. The decoration, the crowd, the delay etc.etc.etc.

But there was this one unusual thing that mad me gape wide open in the middle of the whole thing. They called upon this rather elderly uncle, very likely a family member or the family friend of the bride to give a toast or ‘bless’ the toast as they said it. All went well until he said the name of the bride…..THE WRONG NAME……….and 3 times at that!!! Hey, it is bad being called by the wrong name at your reception, while you are still standing up there. But to be repeatedly called wrongly??

The morale of the story is, don’t get memory challenged uncle or aunt to give a toast.

But I suppose most people who came forgot or didn’t realise it amongst the good food, the entertainment (they had a whole bunch of it) and the mingling around.

The bride and me won’t forget it though.