When mom was preparing for my wedding day, she asked our opinion on whether to have bunga telur or just the fruit cake that everyone received during the night reception. She has always wanted to have bunga telur on our wedding (either me or my sis'). She said it's very sentimental; very traditional. But she never mentioned the significant of giving bunga telur to the guests. It's something that none of us were aware off.
We ended up having both the bunga telur and the fruit cake as the gift to the guests. Bunga telur is for the people who renjis-ed us and the fruit cake, well, the fruit cake is for the guests who came that night. Mom put all her affords and spent her time making the bunga telur herself. She spent roughly a solid one month in getting the bunga telur done. Credit to her, the bunga telur turned out to be very very pretty (though I never admitted it to her) but she knows that her creativity was credited by us. Even the aunties couldn't believe that the bunga telur was diy-ed by my mother till the night that they saw my mom had to re-do some of the bunga telur as it was broken after we put an egg to it. The egg was too big and heavy for the bunga telur. Little that I know that bunga telur can be very fragile to its' surrounding. Heh!
Ok, this is not the point.
When I was at Kedah for the reception, I was helping the family to get the bunga telur done. The MIL bought roughly about 700 bunga telur-s for us to prepare. They were serving the guests with bunga telur and bunga telur sahaja. One of the aunties asked did us know (there were 8 of us that night laboring to do the bunga telur) the significant of a bunga telur in a wedding? None of us answered mainly because we were tired or bored of doing the bunga telur.
She continued "it's the symbol of fertility" and when you present your guests with bunga telur, the least that you can get is their blessing and prayers for the bride and groom to "produce" good quality of children, Insyaallah. And it makes sense.
A woman produces egg, hence the telur dalam sarung in a bunga telur while a man produces thousands of sperms that run inside a woman's womb and when the lucky "one" successfully entered the egg, well you know the rest of the processes right? Dan akhirnya terlahirlah seorang bayi.
You don't get bunga telur in a wedding nowadays. It's either you receive a box of chocolate or an aromatic smells of potpourri. We missed the fact that bunga telur brings its' own meaning to a wedding and to the bride and groom.
Jadi, to all the future bride and groom, jangan lupa kasi bunga telur ye. It takes only 45 minutes of your time to get the eggs stimmed and roughly about 2 hours to put all the eggs in the bunga telur depending on your quantity.
Till then, happy holidays!
4 comments:
ajieee, my mum pun tgh berusaha gigih siapkan the bunga telur. well bunga pahar for the merenjis la! hahahaha.
the funny thing was, my bunga pahar merangkap bunga telur all in one altogether. bunga pahar pon ye, bunga telur pon ye sbb my mom buat lebih. gile gigih die!
how's ur prep? best x?!haha. i sungguh dah relieve gile lepas semua bebanan. happy noks!
owh! Finally ada orang setuju dengan bunga telur! tapi sayangnya mak aku tak faham & asyik cakap bunga telur dah outdated! aku pon tak faham aku ke mak aku yang lagi tua! Bermati matian aku nak bunga telur, akhirnya mak aku nak buat 150 ja. oklah dari tak ada langsung! aku nak bagi semua, tapi mak aku bagi lasan telur sekarang senang pecah, atuk aku cakap dekat kampung ramai yang nak rebus telur end up pecah almost 50 biji seperiuk, aku dalam hati ckp duh.. rebusla sikit2.. tapi nanti gaduh. hahah
kalau kukus telur chances of telur pecah 80% terjamin and telur bertahan lebih lama. maybe sebab buat bunga telur sgt renyah kot thats why org lebih suka kasi chocolate as gifts. org sekarang dah tak nampak fungsi bunga telur tapi sebenarnya, ada meaning bunga telur tuh. kita je yang buat tak kesah pasal bende2 macam nih.
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