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I arrived Taichung the day before Lillian's wedding and found all my cousins were busy going through  every detail and running errands as well, so I walked to Evergreen Laural Hotel by myself and found my aunt was left there alone. 

After some small chats, I started to shoot everything I could see.(bad habit but sorta a record of my cousin's wedding day) When I was done, we sat on the sofa and chatted till they came back. At first I thought they got everything ready, but NO! 

Lilly told us to put everything into place, but it was so complicated that I was mostly counfounded. It's not like that you could shovel everything into bags at will, but had to follow rules like which was placed above which, or which and which should be packed into which bundles. Take red envelopes as example, we had to put different sum of money into each one of them and then had to bear in mind when to which envelope to whom.

That night, we barely slept for two hours, then we were waken up to do the makeup. I took photos from time to time. When time was up, I got changed and expected for bridegroom's arrival. FINALLY, HE CAME! 

All the people rushed out to greet him, but in Chinese traditions we couldn't let the bridegroom get in the room too early, so we gotta pose questions to him. After that, he and Lillian had to knee down and kowtow to thank them for raising Lillian so long and also bid farewell to them.

Then, we got in the cars and headed to the bridegroom's house. Before entering the house,the matchmaker had arranged some traditional Chinese rituals like bride had to walked over a stove and stamped on a piece of tile to break it. ( I don't know what these acts mean.)