Ben's wedding

Last weekend, one of my good friends from Singapore got married and I had the honour of being his best man. I always thought that all the best man did was to stand next to the groom, pass him the rings and make an embarrassing speech about the groom. As it turns out, best man's have a lot more responsibility in Welsh weddings.

I only found out while looking through the itinery that Hannah had given me. I noticed that my name featured quite a few times throughout the wedding day: making announcements, organising photos, ushering people, keeping to the time. Junyi was surprised to find out that he was scheduled to dance during the ceilidh. During the day itself, I was quite stressed with having so many responsibilities. it wasn't exactly the things I was responsible for that made me nervous. It was probably more the fact that I was so unfamiliar with pretty much everything. I had never been Best man before, neither had I been so deeply involved in the running of a wedding, and finally, I had never been to a wedding in Wales. Lastly, I had the best Man speech to give later that night. While I had spent a lot of time thinking about it, I had never written it down word for word. By the afternoon, I had still yet to figure out the last parts of what I wanted to say.

Thankfully, everything went quite well. We managed to keep well to the time and get photos done alright. And my speech went quite well. I didn't think I would be that nervous. But I was incredibly calm while giving my speech. And after the speech was done, I was finally free to have fun. There was a Ceilidh band that started playing afterwards, and they got some sort of line dancing thing going. it was heaps fun for everyone. At the end of the day, I was glad to see that Ben and Hannah had had both an enjoyable and memorable day.

My time in Wales was really enjoyable. It was great to spend the week hanging out with Ben and to help out with the wedding preparation. It gave me a really nice break from having to plan what the heck I'm going to do for the immediate future and later future; something that I've started to get pretty tired off actually. Although in the very immediate future(tomorrow), I'll be watching Les Miserable at West End and this Friday I'll be helping out at the Soul Survivor Youth Conference for 4 days. I'm looking to both things quite a lot.