At a quarter past five o'clock in the afternoon, Mengdu and Liping took the wedding company's "Cadillac" stretch car and came to the "Xiaonanhai" hotel in the southern suburbs of the provincial capital in advance.

Before they arrived, Mengdu's mother and Liping's parents had already arrived at the hotel.

Hao Min's father, Hao Desheng, and the seven or eight "liver and gallbladder brothers" specially invited by Hao Min to be responsible for receiving guests, setting off firecrackers, distributing joy candy, and helping to take care of the wedding banquet-related affairs, also arrived at the hotel in advance.

Of course, before this, Hao Min also went to the city TV station and invited a professional camera friend to come and shoot TV for tonight's wedding banquet, so as to leave a permanent wedding anniversary for the newlyweds.

At this moment, the camera friend also came to the "Xiaonanhai" hotel in advance.

After Mengdu and Liping arrived at "Xiaonanhai", under the guidance of Hao Min, the newlyweds first went to inspect the scene of the wedding ceremony, so as to prepare psychologically and "walk" for the evening wedding.

Because it is the National Day, today, there are four couples who hold a wedding wine in the "Xiaonanhai" hotel.

Fortunately, Hao Desheng came forward, and he greeted him more than a month in advance, so Mengdu and Liping's newlywed banquet was arranged in the innermost, brightest and most spacious "Nanhai Hall" on the second floor of the hotel.

The "Nanhai Hall" is a rectangular multi-purpose hall with an area of about 600 square meters.

Normally, when there are guests who come to book a wedding day, there is usually a minimum of 40 tables or more.

Today, because it was Hao Desheng who came forward in person, in order to give face to the deputy mayor of Zuwang, the owner of the "Xiaonanhai" hotel made an exception! The hotel owner instructed the lobby manager to arrange only twenty tables of banquets in the "South China Sea Hall" tonight.

This makes the whole multi-purpose hall look very spacious and magnificent!

Now, in the multi-purpose hall, twenty huge round dining tables, from east to west, along the direction of the hall entrance to the rostrum, have long been neatly arranged into four rows.

The dining table is covered with a bright red tablecloth.

On each table, ten sets of cutlery are neatly placed; Next to each set of cutlery, there is a fan-shaped meal flower made of white napkins.

In the center of each table, a bottle of "Dream Blue" Yanghe liquor and two bottles of "Great Wall" red wine were placed; In addition, there are two large cans of Huiyuan juice;

At the same time, there are also two packs of "Zhonghua brand" soft-packaged cigarettes on the table, as well as five small plates of peanuts, dates, longan, melon seeds, gold coins and chocolate candies and other snacks.

The meaning of these five small plates of snacks is:

I wish the newlyweds "early birth of a precious son, good luck, a happy marriage, and a sweet life"!

At the westernmost end of the multipurpose hall is a semicircular podium.

The rostrum is about 20 meters long from south to north, and about 5 meters deep from east to west.

Above the wall in front of the rostrum, there is a big red "囍" character with a width of one meter and a half and a height of two meters;

In the corner to the left of the rostrum, there is a set of audio equipment.

In front of the sound equipment, there is a rectangular table.

There was a huge box of cakes on the table.

The diameter of the cake is more than 80 centimeters.

On the table next to the cake, there are "minta" glasses of champagne that are stacked from the bottom to the top, like arhats.

It is a must-have prop for the bride and groom to cut the cake and pour the champagne when the wedding is reached*.

On the four walls of the multi-purpose hall, ribbons of colored paper in red, orange, yellow, green, blue, blue, and purple are hung in proportion.

On the ribbon of colored paper flowers, every one meter, a colorful balloon is hung.

At this moment, the balloon is gently fluttering and shaking from side to side in the slightly flickering air current.

The most eye-catching arrangement in the hall is that about five meters after entering the gate, in the center of the aisle facing the rostrum, there is a colorful arch made of pink, light blue, light yellow, milky white, light orange, water green, blue and purple and other colorful silk flowers.

The colorful arch is about two meters wide and two meters five meters high.

Above the arch, strings of colorful balloons also hang from the arch.

Looking through the archway, in the center of the ceiling of the multipurpose hall, a huge peony flower with a diameter of two meters and tied in crimson flannel hangs high in the center.

After seeing the layout of the wedding hall, Hao Min instructed the sound and lighting engineer of the wedding company to deliberately turn on all the lights in the multi-function hall, so that Mengdu and Liping could review and feel the overall effect of the multi-function hall under the lighting in advance.

The sound and lighting engineer immediately pushed the gate knife for all the lights in the multi-purpose hall.

In an instant, I saw that in the center of the hall and on the ceiling around it, the headlights and small lamps radiated bright light at the same time!

The strong beam of light dazzled several people in the hall.

What is particularly exciting is that the red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue and purple rays shot out from the direction of the rostrum, rotating and sweeping alternately up and down left and right in the hall, reflecting the whole multi-functional hall colorful, gorgeous and dynamic!

"Ah, that's great, it's beautiful!"

After looking at the overall layout of the multi-functional hall, Mengdu patted Hao Min beside him hard, and couldn't help blurting out a praise.

Liping was also happy with the spring breeze and smiling!

It can be seen that all the preparations for the wedding scene have been carefully planned and arranged!

Moreover, the arrangement is so carefully arranged that it is impeccable!

According to the planning and arrangement of the wedding company, before six o'clock, Mengdu and Liping stood at the gate of the "Xiaonanhai" hotel in clothes for welcoming guests, and began to greet guests and friends with joy.

and Mengdu's mother and Liping's father are also wearing brand new clothes today, standing at the gate of the hotel happily, accompanying the groom and bride, and welcoming the upcoming guests.

Hao Min, Mengdu's closest friend, commanded several "liver and gallbladder brothers" at the gate of the hotel, and they helped guide the way and led groups of guests to the "Nanhai Hall" to take their seats; At the same time, they are also responsible for distributing cigarettes to the guests who come to congratulate them.

At this time, the dress of the bride and groom is not very conspicuous:

Mengdu was wearing a navy blue suit and shiny black leather shoes.

On the collar of Mengdu's white shirt, a red tie was tied;

Liping, wearing a peach-colored Tang costume on her upper body and a pale yellow dress on her lower body; Wear a pair of coffee-colored leather shoes on your feet.

At this time, the bride, according to the guidance and design of the makeup artist, pulled her black hair into a round bun;

There was a delicate hosta stuck in the bun, and only a thin layer of powder was lightly fluttered on the good-looking crescent-shaped face.

The makeup artist said that when greeting guests, the bride must appear in this simple makeup image; When the wedding ceremony is officially held in the evening, Liping's official bridal makeup can be grandly unveiled.

Soon, the time was already six o'clock.

Because it is the second son of Vice Mayor Wang, the guests invited are old colleagues, old neighbors, old friends, old classmates, old brothers, and the seven aunts and eight aunts who are very close. Therefore, the guests, relatives and friends who came to drink the wedding wine came one after another in advance.

As mentioned earlier, tonight's "Xiaonanhai" hotel, there are four couples holding a banquet at the same time.

Therefore, at the entrance of the hotel, there are four signboards with the word "Xi" at the same time.

It goes without saying that at the entrance of the hotel, there will be three other pairs of bride and groom who greet the guests at the same time.

"Congratulations! Lucky newlywed! ”

"Happy newlyweds, I wish you kindness, love, and old age!"

"Congratulations on the newlyweds, I wish you a good full moon and an early birth of a precious son!"

Guests from all over the world, after coming to the door of the hotel, first inspected the four signboards with the word "Xi" erected at the door, each looking for their own celebration object, and then walked to the groom and bride to express their best wishes to them, and sent them congratulatory red envelopes.

Of course, among those guests who came early, the vast majority were guests of Mengdu and Liping.

Although the Wang and Zhang families repeatedly explained the requirements of "no gift money" and "no gifts" in advance, there were still many guests who came to attend the wedding of Mengdu and Liping, or it can be said that basically every batch of guests brought a big red envelope. While wishing the bride and groom, the guests ceremoniously delivered red envelopes to Mengdu or Liping in accordance with local customs.

Mengdu and Liping really couldn't push it off, so they had to take it with a smile and then hand it over to Mengdu's mother who was standing behind them.

At this time, Mengdu's mother was also full of spring breeze, constantly expressing a sincere welcome to the guests who arrived one after another, and pretending to complain to the guests:

"Oh, I told you, don't give gifts, don't give gifts! Look at your ——, cough, you're so kind! Quick, inside please, inside please! ”

Mengdu's mother carried a waist-shaped bag specially used for red envelopes in her left hand, and the size of this waist-shaped bag was similar to the size of the waist drum that people in northern Shaanxi love to play.

Mengdu's mother stuffed the red envelopes handed over by her son and daughter-in-law into her waist-shaped bag, and at the same time instructed Hao Min next to her to quickly command the young men who came to help, and led the guests into the wedding hall in batches in a warm and orderly manner.

At this time, Hao Min can be regarded as a particularly busy person.

From half past five, Hao Min has always stood next to the groom, bride and Mengdu's mother, enthusiastically distributing cigarettes to the guests who came to congratulate him, while directing his brothers to lead the way and send the guests to the "Nanhai Hall" one by one.

Occasionally, Hao Min would use a digital camera hanging on her chest to run around the hotel door to take a few photos of the bride and groom greeting guests.

At the same time, the friend of the TV station invited by Hao Min, with a camera on his shoulder, also ran in and out of the hotel gate, shooting the groom and bride from different angles.

Occasionally, the camera friends would bump into the other three couples who had been invited by the new couple.

Fortunately, everyone is helping to organize the happy event, so even if there is such and such a collision, no one cares about the collision between the cameramen.

At around 6:50, Mengdu and Liping's guests basically arrived!

The makeup artist urgently notified Mengdu and Liping, telling them to hurry up to the dressing room on the second floor, and the makeup artist was going to do the formal wedding makeup for them.

At the entrance of the "Xiaonanhai" hotel, Mengdu's mother and Liping's father will continue to stay behind for a while, and they will replace the groom and bride to welcome individual guests who may be a little late due to special reasons.

At this time, Mengdu's mother quietly glanced at the waist-shaped bag in her hand, which had been filled with red envelopes from the guests who came to attend the wedding!