wedding bells and silver bells

Regine was doing a cover of Southern Sun's Hold Me In Your Arms while I struggled to get my guitar's pick-up to work. After a couple of minutes I gave up and resorted to figuring out the chords of what Regine was singing. The chords were F-A/F-B flat 9 in the chorus.

Last night was my one and only brother’s wedding. It was beautiful, surreal even, as he and Ria danced to Regine’s masterful serenade. That part was unplanned, mind you. But the wedding was seven years in the making and it was worth the wait.

Waking up the morning after, I felt quite emotional. Firstly because Vit, my brother for 26 years now and my room mate for 13 years is moving out. And secondly because of a couple of other reasons I’d rather not mention here.

I was sleep-deprived for two days before the wedding. I can’t explain why. I guess I felt the tension of getting married vicariously. To add to that, I was worried that I’m going to use a new guitar that my fingers are not comfortable playing yet. Use the same guitar everyday for one and a half years and suddenly switch to a new one two days before the occasion eh.

So I guess it was a blessing in disguised that Justine and I did not get to do our set.

I’m happy that my parents were happy. And I am even happier that my brother and Ria were happy. It is such a rare happening in our family that each of us can sincerely claim that we felt deeply happy about one thing during the same night.

My only regret is that I did not get to say my piece, because Justine and I were awkwardly doing a Claire Marlo cover. I purposely did not prepare a speech, although I had an idea of what to say. The reason is that I wanted it to be natural and sincere.

This day has been subtly poignant. I guess the Holidays atmosphere adds to it.

But last night was one for the books. The idea was to make the wedding intimate. The last thing they wanted was for it to turn into a shindig. Well, last night was the quintessential intimate wedding.

I guess things will be different form here on.

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