IT WAS a grand wedding to be remembered - but for the wrong reasons - for one extended family.

A week after the festivities in Melbourne on June 5 and 6, six of 13 Singaporeans who flew to attend the party are now holed up at the Communicable Disease Centre 2 (CDC2) and KK Women's and Children's Hospital (KKH), known as case numbers 26 to 31 of the Influenza A (H1N1) virus.

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Four others tested negative. There are three more relatives - all in their 60s - who are returning tomorrow.

'I am worried for my 68-year-old father. He suffers from kidney failure and is on dialysis. I spoke to my mother, and she told me they are currently both fine,' said the 42-year-old woman who is known as case 29.

The extended family of 13 arrived in Melbourne on June 2 to help prepare for the wedding.

'My wife's niece was getting married and wanted to have authentic Malay food, so the women went there to cook up a storm,' said the husband of the 42-year-old woman.

The two-day wedding was attended by about 700 guests.

'We spent most of the time at my sister-in-law's home, so I don't really know where I got infected,' he said, adding that he developed a cough three hours before boarding the plane home.

'There was no fever, so I thought it was nothing. I took lozenges to suppress it. It worked, so I did not put on a mask on board the plane,' the 52-year-old told The Straits Times.

The couple returned from Melbourne on Singapore Airlines Flight SQ228 on June 9. Their 16-year-old daughter, a Secondary 4 student, came back on the same day, but on a different flight.

The man said he even managed to have a picture taken of himself with Arsenal Football Club's manager Arsene Wenger, who happened to be at the arrival hall at the same time.

Read the full story in Tuesday's edition of The Straits Times.