MC of the Night

It was 11th Dec 4pm 2006 in the afternoon at orchard hotel. Today is the wedding dinner for one of my NUS Computing friend, Thian. Today is also my first day of being a MC for a 45 tables wedding dinner. The MC is so called the spirit of the entire wedding dinner, everyone listens and does what the MC requested. Yeah, I was pretty nervous as this was the first time I will be speaking to some few hundred people and so more it is such a important day and some more it is chinese.

My partner for the MC night was Ruby. She is a malaysian all the way from Ipoh and she will be the english MC for the night. We were both outside the hotel preparing our script way before the actual dinner ceremony started. We have lotsa of rehearsal and coordinating of speech, and we even craft our some new ideas for the night :P We have few practice before we got comfortable with the speeches.

Standing on the stage and speaking to some few hundred guests can be a total different experience. Ruby was abit tense and this was also her first time doing MC for such a big event. Same for me :P After the final preparation, the ballroom stage was finally ready for our practice. We decided to rehearse one last time before the actually event starts.

The guests were early and we are still in the midst of the event. However, we decided to carry on with our practice as well as our final practice before the actual wedding dinner commences. Well, the actual ceremony went well except for some of our hip-cups during our delivery of speech. It was overall a great experience for being MC for the first time and i certainly look forward another chance of being a MC :P