The Wedding Gifts

We received some very nice gifts for our wedding.
Here are some of the more special ones.

Embroidered Picture from Agnes' Mum

Agnes' mum worked on this hand embroidered picture a month before the wedding and had it framed. We hung it up near the front door of the house to show off her work.

Hand embroidered Cartoon Couple in Chinese Traditional Wedding Clothes

Japanese Wine with our names on the label by Hiroi San

Hiroi San, a close acquaintance of Agnes' dad brought us two bottles of customised wine from Japan. The wine contains gold leaves in them and the label reads:

Happy Wedding

David & Agnes

From Hiroi Satoro

Polem Family 

He brought two bottles so that we can try drinking one bottle and the other bottle can be used for savekeeping. I imagined the trouble he had to go through hand carrying both bottles on to the plane, not to mention getting through the local customs here.
We decided not to open both bottles, they're to precious a gift to drink. Anyway, I don't think Gold can be digested by the human body, so they'll be passed out together with all the other crap, it will be such a waste of the gold. The two bottles will be put on display once we have a display rack ready.

Japanese Wine with our names on the label

Hiroi San also gave us another gift, a Japanese Doll of a female dancer, I'm guessing a Geisha. Agnes' brother received a Samurai Doll for his wedding gift, she received a Geisha because she's a girl, or maybe he thinks I would prefer Geisha more than Samurai.

The Plaque reads:

David & Agnes

Congratulations on your wedding

29 Jan 2011

Kimura Knife

Geisha doll enclosed in glass display

Thank You, Hiroi San for the marvelous gifts.

The Man of the Romene of the Three Kingdoms

When we got home after the wedding we found a few more gifts from Agnes side of the family. This one is my favourite, I still don't know from whom its from.
Taking a look at the box, the title wrote 'The Man of the Romene of the Three Kingdoms'. I was like heh, what talking you lah? what man? what romene?

An ordinary looking box with a weird title

Upon opening the box, I was like woaahh cool when I saw what it contains. There are 65 figures of all the major characters from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

At the top two rows are Cao Cao, his advisors, generals and even his sons.
The third row are figures of Sun Quan and all his men.
The last three rows contains all the figures of Liu Bei's men, all the heroes, the good guys.

This would be framed up and put on display.

Figures of 65 Characters from Romance of the Three Kingdoms

We received many more gifts from our guests and even from people who could not come to the wedding. They're all of equal importance to us and we appreciate everyone's gifts to us, Thanks Everyone!