The Day of Guo Da Li

After months of preparation, the day of guo da li (GDL) has finally arrived.

 

The preparation process was pretty stressful for both of us as our families weren't very familiar with the traditions. We had to read up and ask around for help. But settling on the date was thankfully quick. 

 

We made some amendments to the gifts according to our preferences and conveniences.

• My family do not take pork thus for the cans of pigs' trotters, J replaced it with $$$
• Since my family aren't much of a drinker, instead of the usual hard liquor such as whiskey, martell, my mum requested for DOM so that she can use it to cook my confinement food in the future haha talking about practicality...
• For items such as auspicious seeds, charcoal, unity coins, prosperity lamps, the 5 baby items (tub, basin, etc), we replaced them with $$$ too. The reason being that we do not have a place of our own thus no bed setting was done and for the baby items, we thought we will just get a nicer one when we have one.

After the exchange, we went to my relatives' house to distribute the cakes/candies and came back home to start pasting all the Xi cut-outs and hang the banner! Super CNY feel :p The feeling of going to get married finally start to settle haha.

 

Some photos of our GDL day! 

 

PetiteFreckles ♥