40 days after Punjabi wedding

Today is 40th days of my Punjabi friend's wedding. Today is the day where she can take out her wedding bangles, 15 red and ivory bangles on each hand, she can wait to take them off, haha.

Her husband's sister, ie her sis-in law should take out the bangles for her, however, all of them are in Ipoh and hence my friend asked me to be her husband's acting sister.

Reached her place around 5.45pm. They had just finished cooking dinner for us. Her parents reached her place around 6.15pm and we started the ceremony.

First, my friend's father do a prayer, use joss stick to go round the bangles on her hand, then I started taking out the bangles from both her hands. After taking out her wedding bangles, I put on a new set of bangles for her. The Wedding bangles are to be kept, it cannot use again or give to others. Her father and husband then gave me ang pow as blessing.

Then we decided to have our dinner, my friend took out the plate then suddenly she realise she has not cook rice, haha, we all laugh our head off, we are her first dine-in guests and she forgotten to cook rice. Hence we have fruits and chocolate while waiting for the rice to cook.

Once the rice is cook, dinner is serve, Dalh, sambal ikan bilis, fried brocoli. We talk and joke about "yes ah?"..... its a common term used by her husband and his family.... instead of "is that so?" they will use "yes ah?" hahaha....

After all the joke and dinner, we made a move around 9pm as the couples refuse to eat till we left. We bid goodbye and depart.