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One of our PG, Dave, shared our AD photos on his blog..

Enjoy! :)

Flower Power!

I always have loved flowers.. loved receiving flowers during special occasions, be it birthday, valentines' day or anniversary..

I am very pleased with all the floral arrangements we had for our wedding.. from our PS in USA till our actual wedding day..

Pre-wedding (I)

Plum calla lillies, black magic roses and pink orchids

Blogged about our pre-wedding bridal bouquet before we set off to US.. AH is super in love with this bouquet of flowers and is one of the most expensive bunch of flowers he has ever bought in his life..We loved the unique plum calla lilies as those calla lilies that we've seen in Singapore are the boring white/yellow ones.. 

Pre-wedding (II)

Green Cymbidium orchids, baby breath and hypericum

When our florist sent us a photo of the bouquet he got the inspiration, we were not impressed by how the flowers look.  They kind of pale in comparison with our US PS bouquet, which is more vibrant in color.  But we were "wowed" by it when we saw in on the day of our PS.. Never feel greenish looking flowers are so pretty! AH always gives me pink or red flowers throughout our courtship, since pink is my all time fave color.. The red hypericum has a 画龙点睛effect..

AD car floral arrangement

Hot pink rose, pink tiger lilies and ivy leaves

AD hand bouquet

Hot pink roses, white roses, white freesia and ivy leaves

I LOVE MY AD FLOWERS!! Hot pink has been the color of my life.. Almost everything that I owned is hot pink in color.. Love the vibrancy of hot pink! My AD hand bouquet is a cascading bouquet & its the first time ever that I'm having such floral arrangement.. The bouquet is really huge compared to the standard hand bouquet.. And I have to be constantly reminded to hold it in the right orientation.. Oh ya, my nephew loves the ivy leaves coming out from the bouquet that he conveniently pulled one of leaves out during our family shoot.

Gel Nails

I love my bridal nails!!

Its a simple and not over bearing with lots of crystals.. a very me design.. with my favorite pink glitter pink + flowers + crystals.. To add on, I'm very proud to say..

THEY ARE MY REAL NAILS!! no extensions this time..

Nails Passion (Wendy)

Home-based manicurist  in Yishun

9003 7103 

Same Day Edit

I love my SDE!!!

I was so touched by AH when he started crying the moment my dad walked me down the aisle.. It has been really a long journey for both of us (11 years) & I thought that he would react as per normal since he is the most unromantic man I've ever known.. And he was so caught up preparing for our AD and also have not prepared his thank-you speech.. Melts my heart totally :)

Background music: 范玮琪 - 最重要的决定
I am so glad that I've overcome my psychological barrier and chosen this song for our SDE... Reason being I thought that using an English song would be more suitable since most of the friends we knew are English-speaking.. The first time when I heard this song over the radio, I was already captivated by and then when I watched the SDE of 范范 & 黑人.. I knew right away I'm gonna use this song!  The meaning of this song is so apt for weddings!!! 
Enjoy! :)

GRADUATED!!

Finally the wedding was over and it was AWESOME!

Received great comments on the food, ballroom, layout and decorations of the venue..

Some photos that my PG took with the whole bridal party

I super <3 the vibrant colors of the bridesmaid and groomsmen t-shirt!!

Now gotta wait some time for my PG to pass us back our photos.. so EGGCITED!

Food Tasting

I realised that I have yet to post a post on food tasting..

We had our food tasting on 30 June.. and was quite worried that AH could not arrived in time as he was on reservist that week..

Dinner was supposed to start at 7.30pm but food was only served about 8pm as we waited for my sis who worked late..and AH came late due to his reservist & jam on the road..

Five Happiness Combination 

五福临门大拼盘

(Fresh Prawn Salad, Marinated Spicy Jellyfish, Braised Duck, Pipa Bean Curd, Deep-fried Crispy Prawn)

The food portion was just enough for 10 people, even thou AH's dad complained that the portion was too little for 10.  Braised duck was surprisingly tender and 卤的够味.  The only complaint was the jelly fish was too spicy for our liking, given our feedback to ask the kitchen to make it less spicer on our AD.. 

Braised Shark’s Fin with Crabmeat

蟹 肉 烩 生 翅

The soup was really salty!! We were quite disappointed with this dish as AH has been craving for shark's fin soup for the longest time.. Spoke to the chef after the dinner and he explained to us that the stock base used for the soup was boiled for a very long time and all the essence of the ingredients used are in the stock.. He was really proud of this dish I can say.. 

Poached Live Prawns

白 灼 游 水 生 虾

The prawns were really fresh and sweet!! Love this dish man! The only hassle was peeling the shell off the prawn.. I think this is the most worth it dish among the prawn choice.. The brides of OH thread was commenting that the other prawn dishes used frozen prawns to cook, so not that fresh.. The soy sauce dip was very yummy too, can say 锦上添花！

Steamed Garoupa in Hong Kong Style

香 港 式 蒸 石 斑

The garoupa was kind of tough, but still edible.. The sauce was just nice, not too sweet or too oily.. Think the older folks like it.

Stewed Pork Ribs in Homemade Sauce

京 烤 骨

The portion for this was huge!! I couldn't finish my portion of this dish.. The sauce is nice, but it would be even better if there's a bowl of white rice to go along with it.. This dish was not very well received because it's too "gelar" for our liking.. But unique dish I would say, haven't ate this at weddings..

Braised Sliced Abalone with Whole Conpoy and Spinach

鲍 片 扣 柱 甫 菠 菜

The conpoys were too salty but I guess that's the nature of that ingredient... Usually conpoy are used in Cantonese dishes for soup.. The abalone compliment well with the salty nature of the conpoy.. 

Stewed Double Happiness E-fu Noodles

双 喜 焖 伊 面

No comments cause as I only took a bite, was too full from the rest of the dishes to eat that.. But from the feedback from the rest, it was not bad.. :)

Chilled Mango Puree with Pomelo and Sago

杨 枝 甘 露

My all-time favorite dessert!! Just that it wasn't chilled enough.. 

Can't wait for AD!!!

Groomsmen Attire

AH has FINALLY confirmed who are his band of brothers for our AD... He likes my idea of wearing casual for gate crashing and then formal for our banquet.. Seeing that the girls have nice bling bling pink tank tops, AH also wants some unique t-shirt for his boys..

AH has this Superman t-shirt given to him by one of his colleagues..and he was inspired by the church youth camp t-shirt (which is a J superman logo - J for Jesus).. so he asked me if I have any way to change the letter "S" to "G" (groomsmen) and print them on this blue t-shirt.

Thank GOD for wonderful colleagues! I asked my IT executive in my workplace to modify the logo..and she gave me a very nice design!! Ok, now will need to source for nice and fitting t-shirts for the guys.. not too loose kind else they look like construction workers.. can't be too tight fitting as not or most do not have nice bodies.. LOL

We are currently contemplating the evening wear for the guys.. Some options as below..

1. Purple shirt with black skinny tie

2. Black shirt with purple tie

What do you think?

counting down

Looking at my countdown counter now.. its about 1.5 months to our AD...

whats left to be done:
- printing our inserts (designed done, just need to get the amount to print)
- finalizing guest list (80% done)
- food tasting (end June)
- accessories for WG and EG
- PS with Ave 8
- love story video with Winson
- BM dress collection & tank top (need to iron the transfer I've ordered from Etsy)
- Holy Matrimony program sheets, unity candles
- florist
- mothers' dresses
- instant photo print template
- XD t-shirts
- page boy and flower girl attire
- dessert bar candies & decorations

will update the list as and when I remember more stuff or done them...

Collagen power!

Started drinking Fancl's Tensed-up EX since beginning of May.. and it's coming to a month to complete my first batch of drink... Besides the collagen drink, I bought some whitening pills as well.. Beauty really comes with a price.. the bill came up to a whooping $200+ for 1 month supply of drinks and pills..

Surprisingly, my mom got hooked with this collagen drink fad as well.. she is now a live testimony of the drinks & pills since the pigmentation on her face disappeared.. and the best thing is, she gave me a bottle of her whitening pills! She bought her supplies from Watsons and they have this promotion (free 1 bottle of 100 whitening pills with 1 pack,10 bottles, of collagen drink)..

I'm just gonna try this beauty regime till AD is over.. the process of swallowing 6 pills a day is quite tormenting.. given the fact that I HATE to swallow pills.. The drink is quite tasty, apple yoghurt flavour.

Countdown 2 more months!

stickers!

AH was in HK last month..and bought a few wedding stuff back..

here is one that he auto bought without me asking me too..

My fave Precious Moments stickers!!!

The reason why he bought it because:

1. He knows how much I LOVED Precious Moements

2. nice decor on our invitation envelopes

Can't wait to send out our invitations!!

Wedding album

YAY!

our wedding album is finally done! one thing ticked off the checklist..

very satisfied with the end-product.. and I highly recommend Just1book.. one downside is that there's a lot of part-timers working there.. and instructions may not be that clear.. so make sure you do the design well and send it for printing..

some sneaks of the album..

love the cover!

my fave page!

Etsy

Officially addicted to Etsy.com!

They sell so many handmade customised wedding items!!

I'm going ga-ga over all the items that they are making and selling.. although their prices are kinda expensive plus the super expensive shipping to SG, I guess its all worth while to have a special wedding!

Gonna order my unity candles set, hanger and chair signs from them.. and more items to come as I think of them along the way!

Sexy Red Thing

AH went to Hong Kong for a business trip last week.. and since there's 2 or 3 shopping malls in Hong Kong that sells lotsa of wedding stuff.. I've given a list of stuff for him to buy there..

and take a look at this sexy red thing he bought.. far above my expectation!

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A red lacey umbrella!! I saw one of the forum girls had a red umbrella (translucent material) with gold trimmings and I juz forward AH tt photo to look for me in HK.. never expected him to find this, which in our opinion is much much prettier!

AH bought some more stuff from HK, which I will slowly upload later.. pardon the low resolution photo since its taken by his iPhone.. will take a better photo of this sexy red thing when I have the time!

can't wait for August to come! :)

welcome back!

BACK!

took a super long break from blogging.. here are some updates:

1. Pre-wedding photo album
We have more or less decided to get our album printed at Just1Book.. Been down to the shop about 2-3 times to view at the sample albums.. Saw some of the albums printed by big-names wedding photographers.. Sales reps are friendly and instructions to design album layout are relatively straight forward.. So now we are just awaiting the final album layout from our PG before we head down to print the album!

2. Wedding in KL
visited my grandparents who are in KL few days ago.. my grandma had a fall few months back, which left her with difficulties in walking.. plus age is catching up for the 2 of them.. my grandpa decided that we have another wedding banquet in KL.. and I think he wants to invite ALL of Malaysia relatives.. for my sister's wedding 2 years back, only my grandparents, 2nd uncle and 4th auntie came down.. so this time round, they felt that every relative should be invited to celebrate our wedding..

Left the decision to where the banquet is gonna be held to my grandpa since I'm not familiar with the restaurants in KL.. Now I need to confirm with my parents and AH's parents on the date of our 2nd wedding banquet.. and back to searching for PG/VG/MUA in KL..

Just1Book
Dhoby Ghaut MRT Station
11 Orchard Road,
B1-48, DhobyX
Singapore 238826
Tel: 6746 8765

Holy Matrimony Briefing

The church arranged a briefing on the preparations and process of Holy Matrimony yesterday afternoon.. The 45 mins briefing was really an eye-opener for us.. Didn't realise that there's so much to prepare for the Holy Matrimony!

The church will be providing the basics consisting the worship team (singer & keyboardist), table & elements for Holy Communion, matrimony candles stand..

On our end the things that we need to prepare/do are:
- Print Holy Matrimony program sheet (including song lyrics inside)
- Memorise our wedding vows..
- Get the matrimony candles
- Rehearsal with all our helpers 1-2 weeks prior to AD
- Prepare prelude, procession & recession musics (I'm just gonna pick the songs from OH's song lists.. avoid all the copyright issue stuff)
- All other legal issues regarding to ROM.. (details can be found on the ROM website)

Since AH is in the music ministry, I've entrusted him with the task to ask one of his fella choir mates to be our worship singers.. Recently the worship singers are relatively new & I don't really like their style of singing.. I, on the other hand, will begin to source for some nice & meaningful worship songs..

Time to gear up for wedding preparations! been not doing anything since we came back from our PS..