Chapter 135 Big Red Packet
At 5:10 pm, Mengdu and Liping took the "Cadillac" extended sedan of the wedding company and arrived at the "Little Nanhai" hotel in the southern suburbs of the provincial capital in advance.
Before they arrived, Mengdu's mother and Liping's parents had already arrived at the hotel site.
Hao Min's father Hao Desheng and Hao Min specially invited seven or eight "heartbrothers" who were responsible for receiving guests, setting off firecrackers, dispersing wedding candies, and helping to take care of wedding banquets, all arrived at the hotel in advance.
Of course, before this, Hao Min also went to the city TV station and invited a professional camera friend to shoot TV for tonight's wedding banquet in order to leave a permanent wedding anniversary for the newlyweds.
At this moment, the camera friend also came to the "Little Nanhai" Hotel in advance.
After Mengdu and Liping arrived at the "Little South China Sea", under the guidance of Hao Min, the newlyweds first inspected the on-site arrangement of the wedding ceremony in order to prepare for the evening wedding psychologically and "table" aspects.
Because it is National Day, today, there are four newlyweds holding wedding banquets at the "Little Nanhai" Hotel.
Fortunately, Hao Desheng came forward and said hello more than a month in advance. Therefore, Mengdu and Liping's wedding banquet was arranged in the innermost part of the second floor of the hotel, and the brightest and most spacious "Nanhai Hall".
"Nanhai Hall" is a rectangular multi-functional hall with an area of about 600 square meters.
Usually, when guests come to order a wedding, at least 40 tables of banquets are arranged here.
Today, because Hao Desheng came forward in person, in order to give Deputy Mayor Wang enough face, the hotel owner of "Little Nanhai" made an exception! The hotel owner instructed the lobby manager to arrange only twenty banquets in the "Nanhai Hall" tonight.
This makes the entire multi-function hall look very spacious and extremely grand!
Now, in the multi-function hall, twenty huge circular dining tables, from east to west, leading to the rostrum along the entrance of the hall, have been neatly arranged into four rows.
The dining table was covered with big red tablecloths.
On each table, there are ten sets of tableware neatly placed; next to each set of tableware, there is a fan-shaped tableware flower made of white napkins.
In the center of each dining table, there are bottles of "Dream Blue" Yanghe liquor and two bottles of "Great Wall" red wine; there are also two large cans of Huiyuan juice;
At the same time, there are two packs of "Zhonghua Brand" soft-packaged cigarettes on the table, as well as five small plates of peanuts, dates, longans, melon seeds, gold coins, chocolate candies and other snacks.
The meaning of putting these five small plates of snacks is:
I wish the newlyweds "to have a noble son early, good luck, a perfect marriage, and a sweet life"!
At the westernmost end of the multi-function hall is a semicircular rostrum.
The rostrum is from south to north, about twenty meters long and about five meters deep from east to west.
Above the wall on the front of the rostrum, there is a big red "囍" character that is one meter wide and two meters high;
There is a set of audio equipment in the corner of the left wall on the rostrum.
In front of the audio equipment, there is a rectangular table.
On the table was a box of huge cakes.
The diameter of the cake is more than 80 cm.
On the table next to the cake, there are very skillful ways to stack the glasses of champagne, "Mingta" from bottom to top, stacking them in circles smaller than one circle and higher than one circle.
That is a must-have prop for preparing to cut cakes and pour champagne by the groom and bride when the wedding is at its peak.
On the four walls of the multi-function hall, colorful paper flower strips of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple are hung in proportion.
On the colorful flower belt, a colorful balloon is hung every meter.
At this moment, the balloon is gently fluttering and shaking in the slightly whirling airflow.
The most eye-catching layout in the hall is about five meters behind the gate, facing the middle of the aisle opposite the rostrum, a colorful arch made of pink, light blue, light yellow, milky white, slightly orange, water green, and purple.
The colorful arch is about two meters wide and about two meters five meters high.
Above the arch, there are also strings of colorful balloons hanging.
Looking inward along the arch, a huge peony flower made of crimson velvet cloth with a diameter of two meters hung high in the center of the ceiling of the multi-functional hall.
After watching the arrangement of the wedding hall, Hao Min ordered the sound and lighting engineer of the wedding company to turn on all the lights in the multi-function hall, so that Mengdu and Liping could review and feel the overall effect of the multi-function hall under the lights.
The audio and lighting illuminator immediately pushed the gate knife for all the lighting in the multi-function hall.
In an instant, I saw the small headlights emitting bright lights at the center of the hall and on the surrounding ceilings!
The strong beam of light made several people in the hall dazzled.
What is particularly exciting is that the red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple lights emitted from the rostrum rotate and strafically in the hall up and down, left and right, reflecting the entire multi-functional hall colorful, gorgeous and dynamic!
"Ah, it's so good, so beautiful!"
After seeing the overall layout of the multi-function hall, Meng Duo took pictures of Hao Min beside him and couldn't help but blurt out.
Liping was also happy and smiled!
It can be seen that all preparations for the wedding scene were carefully planned and arranged!
Moreover, this arrangement is arranged very carefully, so carefully that it makes people impeccably!
According to the planning and arrangement of the wedding company, before six o'clock, Mengdu and Liping were wearing clothes for welcoming guests, standing at the gate of the "Little Nanhai" hotel, and began to greet guests and friends happily.
There are also Mengdu’s mother and Liping’s father, who are also wearing brand new clothes today, standing happily at the hotel gate, accompanying the groom and bride to welcome the upcoming guests.
Mengdu’s closest friend Hao Min commanded several "liver brothers" at the entrance of the hotel, and they helped guide the way and led a batch of customers to the "Nanhai Hall" to take a seat; at the same time, he was also responsible for distributing cigarettes to the guests who came to congratulate him.
At this time, the bride and groom dress are not very conspicuous:
Mengdu was wearing a navy blue suit and shiny black leather shoes under his feet.
On the collar of Mengdu’s white shirt, there was a red tie;
Liping, wearing a pink Tang suit on the upper body, a light yellow open skirt on the lower body, and a pair of brown leather shoes on her feet.
At this time, the bride, following the guidance and design of the makeup artist, tied a black show into a round bun;
There was an exquisite jade hairpin on the bun, and there was only a faint layer of powder on the beautiful crescent-shaped face.
The makeup artist said that when welcoming guests, the bride must appear in this simple makeup image; when the wedding ceremony is officially held in the evening, Liping's formal bridal makeup can only appear grandly.
Soon, it was already six o'clock.
Because the second son of Deputy Mayor Wang got married, the guests invited were old colleagues, old neighbors, old friends, old classmates, old brothers, and the seven aunts and eight aunts who were very close to each other. Therefore, guests, relatives and friends who came to have a wedding banquet were all here in advance.
As mentioned earlier, four couples held a banquet at the "Little Nanhai" Hotel tonight.
Therefore, at the entrance of the hotel, there are four "囍" signs at the same time.
It goes without saying that at the entrance of the hotel, there will be three other pairs of grooms and brides who are welcoming guests.
"Congratulations! Good wedding!"
"I wish you love and live together until old age!"
"Congratulations on the wedding, I wish you a happy and full moon and a good son soon!"
After the guests from all directions arrived at the hotel gate, they first looked at the four "囍" signs erected at the door, and looked for their own congratulations. Then, they walked to the groom and bride who were celebrating, expressed their best wishes to them, and sent them red envelopes for congratulations.
Of course, among those guests who came in advance, most of them were Mengdu and Liping's guests.
Although the Wang and Zhang families repeatedly explained the request of "no gifts" and "no gifts allowed", there were still many guests who came to attend the wedding of Mengdu and Liping, or it can be said that basically each batch of guests brought a large red envelope. While congratulating the groom and bride, the guests sent the red envelopes to Mengdu or Liping in accordance with local customs.
Mengdu and Liping couldn't push it away, so they had to take it away with a funny look and hand it over to Mengdu's mother standing behind her.
At this time, Mengdu's mother was also full of spring breeze, constantly expressing her sincere welcome to the guests who arrived for 6 consecutive times, and complaining to the guests in anger:
"Oh, I told you not to give gifts, don't give gifts! Look at you--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mengdu's mother was carrying a waist-shaped bag specially designed for red envelopes in her left hand. The size of this waist-shaped bag is similar to the waist drum that people in northern Shaanxi love to play the most.
While Mengdu's mother stuffed the red envelopes handed over by her son and daughter-in-law into her waist bag, she ordered Hao Min next to her to quickly direct the young men coming to help, and enthusiastically and orderly led the guests into the wedding hall in batches.
At this time, Hao Min is considered a very busy person.
From 5:30, Hao Min always stood beside the groom, bride and Mengdu's mother, while enthusiastically dispersing cigarettes to the guests who came to congratulate him, while directing his brothers to lead the way and sending the guests to the "Nanhai Hall" one by one.
Occasionally, when he has time, Hao Min will use a digital camera hanging on his chest to surround the hotel door, taking a few photos of the scene where the groom and bride welcome the guests.
At the same time, the friend from the TV station invited by Hao Min carried a camera on his shoulder and ran in and out inside and outside the hotel gate, shooting the scene of the groom and the bride warmly welcoming the guests from different angles.
Occasionally, the camera friend will also bump into the cameramen invited by three other pairs of newcomers.
Fortunately, everyone is helping with wedding events, so even if there are collisions of one kind or another, no one will care about collisions between them.
At around 6:50, Mengdu and Liping's guests were basically here!
The makeup artist urgently notified Mengdu and Liping, asking them to go to the dressing room on the second floor, and the makeup artist wanted to give them formal wedding makeup.
At the entrance of the "Little Nanhai" hotel, Mengdu's mother and Liping's father continued to stay for a while, and they replaced the groom and bride to welcome some guests who might have been a little late due to special reasons.
At this time, Mengdu’s mother quietly looked at the waist-shaped bag on her hand. The bag was filled with red envelopes from the guests who came to attend the wedding!
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Chapter completed!