You’re my precious

My parents, grandma and aunt brought me to this jewellery shop and bought me gold, diamond, and white gold accessories which I not normally wear (especially gold), but it’s a must to have some when you are going to be a bride.

“This is to tell that you are our family’s precious jewel.”

It is not cheap to get married! Is not like signing the papers, have a small dinner with family and relatives, and…Yeah! we are married. Why do we need all this extra stuff, which also cost a bomb, and most of it, is just for showing off and keep people’s mouth shut and for display only. I will be more than happy to wear just the wedding band and the all-important rock.

Chinese wedding…hmm…

Tooth Wise

Did you ever feel that you are too wise that you need to pull out your wisdom tooth? Well, I did! I told Doreen I need to extract 3 wisdoms to be the same level as everyone else when she ask me about my never ending wisdom tooth extraction.

Attention:
If you are reading this, do not do anything like this just to fit in with your peeps; the true peeps will always love you no matter what your level is.

Right my dears…although I am will not be as brilliant as before.

Inseparable…

Basically we are together most of the time; minus the time we spend sleeping, toilet-ing and bathroom-ing per day, we roughly see each other 14 to 15 hours each day. How do we manage? We work in the same company and stayed under the same roof.
When do we not see each other? When we are back to our hometowns and sometimes with our own friends, you know la ladies night and all. But we still go back to our hometowns together. He would normally drop me off in Muar and continue his journey back to Pontian, by car of course!

Today would be an exception, I be leaving him alone in KL for 4 days and 4 nights. I am back home for my dental surgery. I will miss the morning glimpse of him at least this few days.

Why I am marrying him

So folks, just for the record, Nope… no… I’m not pregnant. That’s definitely not the reason why we are tying the knot.

The Reason is something invisible, something magical, something special and something irreplaceable, and something only we both would know. And when The Reason starts to overflow and still growing more each day, we definitely need an upgrade!

Love should be the common word, or more than Love should roughly fit my descriptions of The Reason, and Legally in Love is to describe the papers we need to sign for the upgrade.

But no matter how many reasons I gave on 'why I m marrying him' they still can't beat the only reason 'why I m not marrying him' that is
"I just can't find no reason not to marry him."

A little luck with shopping please

I always had not much luck when it comes to shopping with a purpose - with a list of ‘must buy’ things. I will somehow see something else not in the list. Like most of my purpose shopping, I will allocate an amount of money, and wish that the money could be exchange with the things I need. That will seldom be the case. Do you know that feeling?

Like today, I went out shopping for my wedding needs with my sis, no luck with shoes and the dress for the marriage registration. Ended up buying fake eyelashes, a mini-skirt and a bag!

Now I have decided to give the new bag a purpose on my wedding day; used it to put my stuff, presents n red packets.

Hmmm… My shopping luck wasn’t that bad after all!

Are you pregnant?

It’s been a few days that I have spread the wedding news to my most of friends but only the closest knew bout the date we picked.

So, Doreen decided to call me “Eh, wanna ask you something.” Feels like a question she has kept inside when I told her the good news, and finally can’t stand it anymore.
“Hmm?” I said, knowing what she's going to ask.
“Are you pregnant?” saying in a very cheeky manner.

Hmm… Hope I wont have to explain myself too many times.

A good wedding checklist

Actually I had been googling on weddings earlier on; most of it doesn’t suite my needs. I almost gave up and try to write my own list of things to do. Boy, it was hard, I come out with some of the list, but it was messy and unorganized, bits and pieces everywhere. All this made my heart pound faster…
“How am I going to manage all this in just 12 weeks?”
Then I tried googling again today and it turned out to be a golden search and a big relieve. Finally found a checklist that suite.

Counting by months? Counting by weeks?

Sometimes, when a situation is viewed at a different angles, our brains will somehow interpret it differently, thus have a different outcome. Just few days back, I was counting down the days to our wedding, “Last week of June… July… August… 2 weeks into September”, that makes 2 months and 3 weeks that’s cool, good enough to prepare. But…just this morning, I was counting them by the weeks… Holy cow! 12 weeks! I have to seriously sort out the things I need to do for each and every week to come.

My Teddy bear come to the rescue!

My hubby-to-be just offered to help me set up my blog, but he will only be free after the 29th. He is into a competition to design an icon for a local radio station. Anyhow, I will still have my blog in July.

Yippee!

The delayed effect

Called mom to tell her in detail what we should do in the coming weeks. Hope I could settle the pre-wedding photo shoot quotation at with my uncle in the 1st weekend of July. He owns a bridal house at my hometown, Muar.

After a while, my mom called again, this time…

“Do you think there is another date further down the road, how bout Nov or Dec?”
“Won’t you think it’s a bit too rush on things?”
“Would we end up with a ‘simply do it’ type of wedding?”
“Are u ok with it?”

... some sort of a delayed effect from my parents.

Oh yeah! We are tying the knot!

Oh dear, pinch my cheeks! Am I still dreaming?
That news can’t sink in yet! My heart racing just by the thought of it. But… *grin*… 'Yeah! We are getting married!'. And yes it’s time to let my parents know about the date picked. Mom thought it was next year’s moon cake festival, as I expected. When she knew it was this year, her response was ‘ok’ calmly.
Hmm… that’s not normal.
We told some close friends about it, but the response was
‘sure?’
‘so fast?’
‘Never heard you say about it before.’
‘A wedding in 2 months time?’
‘Well, Siew Kheng can do it, so can Cheshire.’


So, today should officially be the 1st day of THE PLANNING.
Cards
We sort of figure out what style and type of invitation cards and thank you cards we want. Basically the thank you card something like the photos for our guest but…just a little different from the traditions.
Keeping Fit
· Exercise in the morning
· Yoga session every evening
· Jogging every weekend
So far, I am the one who still couldn’t make it for the morning session. Way to go darling!

This is only the beginning of the list of things to do.

What a pleasant surprise

As we were happily taking our own sweet time planning for the wedding that has yet to have a date next year…while enjoying our buy 5 free 5 shushi, we heard from Moon, my future sister-in law that my future mother-in law said the best date will be on the 15th of the eight month of the lunar calendar, that’s on moon cake festival (14th September).
Wow… come to think of it… beautiful moonlight on our wedding dinner…how romantic. But at the time we heard about the date, our 1st reaction was not how romatic it is but… “So fast! This year's mooncake! Oh my goodness…do we have enough time to prepare the perfect wedding?”

Oh yes, this year it is, and it’s two months and 3 weeks from now!
“Isn’t there a better and later date like in November or December?”

What to do,we are Chinese. So, we had our lunar birth date and both our parents’ birth date to match… Pick, pick, pick… and Walla! The best date! Sunday, September 14th 2008 it is!

Whew…

The research

Since we are planning to tie the knot somewhere next year, we were thinking of doing some research before hand. The visit to the wedding expo in MV turned out great! Is not that we sign up on a package but at least we had an idea of what style and feel we wanted. We would like our casual spontaneous selves, and the little things we do in our everyday life be captured. Besides, we are planning to have a wedding cum family trip cum honeymoon cum photo shoot. Yes still planning and hopefully it works, the budget and that everyone can take sometime off from the things they are committed to.

Then after the expo, we begin our wedding band search. Most of looked nice, but most of them are a bit too thick for my finger. It’s kind of hard to find a ring that goes ‘that it, that’s the one!’ so we would have to continue our search next time.

The story…

We originally plan to have the wedding around the last quarter of year 2009, before I turn 30.

Then my parents came into the picture in mid May
Case 1: they hint that its better to get married before next year’s Chinese New Year that is before Jan 26th. That is more than half a year ahead of our plan. Since we have planned to get married no matter how, and it is just the matter of when, so we agreed to move our plan forward because we still would have around 8 months time to prepare.

And then his parents came into picture.
Case 2: A relative say we can’t interfere with another relative’s wedding, so you either put your wedding 4 months before or after theirs. His cousin brother’s wedding is in Oct this year that means our wedding should be either in July 08 or February 09.

Case 3: The Hokkiens don’t are not allowed to marry if their age ends with the numbers 3, 6 and 9, don’t ask me why, I still don’t know the reason. Anyways, he would be 29 (Chinese age) next year, so marrying next year is a no, no. So up till now our only option was, either in July 09 or in the year 2010! For us, 2010 is way too long, and this July is just way too short.

Case 4: That relative said, as long as they were not staying together there will be no interference in luck. So u can go ahead with the dates between that Oct wedding.

Hip-hip hooray! So, we can have our wedding Dec this year. Yeah!

But then,
Case 5: We would have to match our lunar birth dates, not just the bride-to-be and the groom-to-be, but also both our parent’s. Make sure they don’t coincide, interfere with lucks, and make sure it’s on a weekend so friends and relatives could attend.

If December it would be (keeping our fingers cross), then 6 months would be quite enough for preparation.