SINGAPORE: Singapore actor Tay Ping Hui bade goodbye to bachelorhood, marrying long-time girlfriend university lecturer Edna Lim last Friday, reported xinmsn.com.
The actor, who turns 40 this year, revealed that he had proposed to Lim, 39, last year and planned to marry her after the Singapore General Election, which he expected to be held in May this year.
But May came and went without any news on the election, so Tay decided to go ahead with the wedding.
“I couldn’t wait any longer for our country’s big event so I just tied the knot,” he said with a laugh.
“I got married on Friday and went through all the traditional marriage rites like fetching the bride, registering our marriage and the wedding banquet on the same day,” Tay told xinmsn.com, before adding that fetching his bride was the hardest part.
Tay and three of his buddies were made to do 168 push-ups within a minute, down punishing beverages such as drinks laced with chilli padi and even give out what he estimated to be a “four-figure sum” in red packets before he was allowed claim his bride.
“I am not even sure exactly how much it was. All I know is I kept giving out these stacks of S$50 bills!” he said.
Channel News Asia