Monday, April 30, 2012

Wedding updates

1 month and 20 days into marriage life, I'm leading a blissful life with my husband. Now I have one more family who dotes on me. I've vowed to be a good wife, good daughter-in law and a good future mother. Well, I'm learning to bake, iron clothes, cut fruits, and maybe cook. All those mentioned, I've never done it in my singlehood life. I'm not spoilt, it's just that my parents used to do those for me. Now a married woman, I've to start learning daily chores. It's quite an enjoyable process if you look at it positively.

Looking back on our wedding day..

Everything went smoothly on our wedding day, there wasn't any major glitches or delays. This wouldn't be possible without the help of brothers and sisters who coordinated everything perfectly. Special mention goes to our chief coordinators - Ben and Joc. Everything was under their control and they made sure timings and schedule are strictly adhered to, that's why I see no delays or overrun on each event. Throughout the whole day, I wasn't bothered/stressed by any unwanted decision-making. I was a super happy bride that day, tiredness didn't overwhelm me, all because I have efficient people who helped me settle everything. I want to thank every single one of you who has contributed their time and effort to our wedding - families, sisters, brothers, and friends. Relatives and guests who turned up to give their blessings and share our joy, we really appreciate it.

Our photos from our photographer are not ready yet, so I'm really glad some of you helped to take photos with your cams.

Guo Da Li was on leap year 29.02.12. It was an auspicious date given by the temple.
Clement's sister was the Mei Por whose main duty is to deliver the items and give my parents the Pin Jin and Pin Li.

Guo Da Li items nicely placed in Mei Por's basket








Oranges, fa cai, red dates, rock sugar, oysters, are some of the many items

Everything comes in pairs


Guy's side would give liquor while gal's side would return concentrated orange juice.
Cakes from Pine Garden. Highly recommended for such occasions!
 After receiving the items and cakes, we need to go to relatives' places to distribute the cakes. It was a tiring day but it was a good catch-up session with the relatives.


Our customised M&Ms flown in from US finally reached us one week before our wedding day.

My bridal nails from Junying who's doing a home-based nail business. Her works are extremely professional and worth for money. I think no nail salon can match up to her designs for that price.
Even the Japanese praised my pretty nails when we went to Japan for our minimoon.

Pretty acrylic nails from Thistlebelle Nail.

I searched high and low for a suitable necklace for our wedding dinner. Finally found it the day before. Very pricy but its definitely worth its price. 

Elegant necklace from Swarovski

Collected our wedding portrait which is half as big as me

 Initially we placed deposit for a Porsche Cayman but we were given the pigeon. Luckily I was able to find a replacement. It was quite a reasonable deal for the new model of SLK. Larling finally drove a sports car! Haha.

New model of SLK rental from WeddingCars.sg

My Hen's night with my sisters.. It was a simple fanfare like having crab dinner and staycation at MBS playing Bananagrams the whole night :) The girls rented a car so that we can move around more conveniently. I love it simple and wouldn't like it to be wild partying. Thanks my girls for the wonderful day!

Pretty Limaran

The girls brought me to Melben for crab as I mentioned I haven't been there yet. The crabs are really yummy!
Crab claw as huge as my face
At the infinity pool

Skypark

Romantic night with the ladies :)

Here's snippets of the actual day..

Larling prepared six little piggies filled with coins for my sisters! How sweet!

Piggies for the sisters

Pressie from my bestie Cheryl

Very spontaneous and helpful brothers. I'm really glad larling have such nice brothers to help him throughout the wedding.

Thank you: Kaichou, Darius, Ernest, Zhemin, Ben and Wei Jie

Haha cute dance pose!





And of course my wonderful sisters who planned the fantastic gatecrashing and gave all their energy and time to me on that day, thank you so much.

Wei Ping, Jocelyn, Joan, Shi Wei, Cheryl, Limaran and Cynthia

The sweet love contract which my sisters asked Larling to promise..

Love contract done by Cheryl and Joan

We went to Punggol for some photo-taking as it was along the way to Larling's house.

It's bouquet-throwing time!

I love this pic with the sun streaks

Super heart this photo!

Tang Yuan

With Larling's cousins :)

My family-in-law

Sisters waiting patiently while we enjoy our Tang Yuan

My elder brother couldn't be out to see me marry off according to tradition.. :(

With Mummy and Daddy

Love daddy

Banquet at Shangri-La Hotel

Our solemnisation was held in the Hibiscus Room with close family and friends attending..

Mini march-in
JP Ho reading out the vows

Lawfully wedded

Sealed with a kiss

Nice edit by Kwang

We have to thank our emcees for the night, Stella and Samuel who gave the honour to be our emcees. They are the best presenters of our group during uni days. We have no qualms that they'll do a very good job and we were right. It was a nicely done job by both of them :)

Our Emcees - Samuel and Stella

Marching-in was fun! You do it only twice in a lifetime and I think I really enjoyed it.

First march-in

Hi!

We invited Yours Truly live band for entertainment for the night. We have Ein Ein on the piano, Kexin and Sugie on vocals. I think they've done a great job although I manage to hear only a couple of songs. Kexin was gorgeous and she sang really well! On the other hand I heard Sugie's standards have dropped by a fair bit, but still no regrets hiring the team!


I'm so touched that three-quarter of my JC classmates turned up for my wedding dinner. Kai Leong even rendered his help in gathering the addresses so that I can send them the invitation card. Very happy to have such nice classmates!

TJC classmates!

Hosting your own wedding dinner is so much fun and exciting! It's not as tiring and scary as what people always describe (maybe I have helpful brothers and sisters doing all the work, which is why I don't feel tired at all! haha). This could be the few moments of your life whereby the highlight is on you for the entire night. It was like a fairytale whereby when it strikes midnight, you'll be back to the normal usual self, but the happy ending still remains as it is.. :)