KUALA LUMPUR: Popular celebrity chef Datuk Redzuawan Ismail a.k.a. Chef Wan is done footing the bill for his children's weddings when they decided to re-marry.
In an Instagram posting yesterday, the 63-year-old chef wrote how he felt when his daughter actress and TV host Serina Redzuawan asked him if she could have her wedding reception held at his home in Cyberjaya after Hari Raya Aidilfitri.
"Only last week Rina asked me if she could organise a simple do at my house. While I didn't answer her straightaway, I wondered why couldn't she just get married at a mosque and invite whoever she wanted?
"I don't think I can handle all these alone at the moment. What with my ailing mother needing her privacy, and with the pandemic and the SOPs and all, it'd be better if she has her solemnisation at the mosque.
Chef Wan reasoned that that was the new normal these days, where couples would tie the knot at mosques and throw a small reception later at restaurants, such as his opulent restaurant chains De.Wan 1958.
He also said: "Remember to ask your future bridegroom to pay for all the (wedding reception) bill as I'm not going to do so anymore just like how I paid for everything during your first marriage.
"To be honest I've had enough of paying everything for my children's weddings, including twice for Muhammad Zainudin Redzuawan (Chef Riz). In the end you can see what I had to suffer and endure," wrote Chef Wan who preferred to use the money to feed the orphans or for other charitable causes.
Serina, 37, a single mother of two, had informed her father earlier last month that she had a new man in her life.