Officially Married At 10.00 o'clock in the morning of 29th September 2006, I married Yap Siew Toh. We are now officially recognised by the government of Malaysia as husband and wife.

It was a hectic morning. I was supposed to meet ST at the Thean Hou Temple at around 9.30am but my family and I ended up arriving at 9.50am due to an accident along Old Klang Road! Luckily we arrived just on time... literally on the dot.

We spent a few minutes at the commisioner of oath's office and then immediately headed of to the Registrar of Marriage office. Our queue number that morning was 2505. By the time we were there 2504 were already performing their rites. Very soon our number appeared on the LED board.



We went in, the lady at the counter checked our original documents and then a few minutes later it was our turn to go into the room to take our oaths. We sat down and we were presented with our marriage certificates. There were four copies for us to sign. Two kept by us and two kept by the Registrar. After myself, ST and our witnesses completed signing the documents we proceeded to "angkat sumpah".



You have a choice of having the ceremony being performed in either Mandarin or English. We chose English because my Mandarin is no good but either way the officer in charge will rush though reading the verses... not that I mind because the only important thing was for us both to say....



And that's it basically. We went back the the Commisioner of Oath's office to settle a few things and then we spent a few minutes taking a few pictures around the temple grounds but it wasn't a terribly interesting place IMHO.





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