Making full use of a sepia-tinged filter! Image: Studio Wongkyu via The Straits Times
When it rains, it pours? Hot on the heels of Mandopop prince Jay Chou’s hugely hyped January 2015 wedding comes another January jaunt, this time courtesy of singer Tay Kewei and her suave sweetheart Alfred Sim.
Pop culture pundits, mark your Gmail calendars: A date – January 4 – has been set, and if Alfred’s passionate proposal is anything to go by, we can look forward to the full fairytale works, and then some.
Here’s what we know. The Singapore pop (S-Pop?) singers have apparently been dating on the down low for close to a decade now, with full and frank disclosure coming only upon Alfred’s Project Superstar win this October. (Interestingly enough, their nuptial news was released by Kewei’s record label S2S. Marriage as publicity fodder? Discuss.)
The celeb couple in their "civilian" garb. Adorable! Image: @Keweitay
As Kewei tells it, Alfred’s “spoil market” five-figure proposal back in May this year is one for the books. In the bride-to-be’s recounting to The Straits Times, phase one of the plan involved Alfred convincing her to take up a faux wedding gig (The pair are part-time wedding singers.)
When Kewei turned up at the allocated venue, she was gobsmacked by a gang of about 40 of her friends and family, complete with a live band and photog on standby. Music started playing, and the 33-year-old hunk of the hour sauntered in strumming the guitar to So In Love, an aptly titled tune from Kewei’s oeuvre. Some crying ensued, cheers from the assembled crowd, score!
But the shenanigans didn’t end that night. The very next morning, Kewei says she was swept off to Tokyo for a week-long wedding shoot: “We took the 5am flight to Japan. I've always dreamt of being surprised like that. I was so happy. He thought that it would be very anti-climactic if we went back to our normal lives after the proposal.”
Here’s when merchandise and marriage intersect: The musical matrimony will also be marked by a self-penned duet from the duo.
It won’t take a giant leap of imagination to envision the accompanying promo video to include #BTS footage of the proposal, plus mood shots of the pair canoodling against the colourful Tokyo cityscape.
Quite the wedding for our ages, no. Congrats, Kewei and Alfred; over to you, Jay Chou and Hannah Quinlivan!
You can follow Tay Kewei and Alfred Sim on Instagram.