Simone McFarlane performs a dance to 'Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy', by the Andrews Sisters, at the Chinese Benevolent Association's garden party. - Colin Hamilton/Freelance Photographer

Saturday's showers may have rained on some parades but they did not stop the wedding in the central parish or thecelebrations for the Beijing athletes in the eastern part of the island.

Olympian Melaine Walker (centre) rocks her posh, punk hairstyle as she hangs out with friends Coleen McLaren (left) and Georgiana Bennett at 'Dining with the Stars', a dinner sponsored by Scotiabank in honour of the Jamaica Olympic team at Strawberry Hill Hotel, Irish Town, last Friday. - Winston Sill/Freelance Photographer

Canute Simpson gives the beautiful woman in red, Karen Marsh, something to laugh about at the Jamaica National group staff awards. - Nathaniel Stewart/Freelance Photographer

Tourism consultant Godfrey Dyer (left) is all smiles as he reunites with close family friends Elaine Maragh and her brother, Lambert Sandford, at the wedding reception for the latter's niece, Kari-Ann Lawrence, who wed Carlous Williamson, at the Golf View Hotel in Mandeville, Manchester, last Saturday. - Barbara Ellington/Lifestyle Editor

Nicole Smith (left) and Fay Hardoar are definitely dedicated to looking fabulous. Both were awarded for over 10 years of service to the Jamaica National group at the company's staff awards at the Mona Visitors' Lodge at the University of the West Indies last Saturday. - Nathaniel Stewart/Freelance Photographer

Peta-Gaye Sandford strikes her model pose as she is all dolled up for the wedding of her cousin at the Golf View Hotel in Mandeville last Saturday. - Barbara Ellington/Lifestyle Editor