outdated updates of our wedding day..

finally....i'm back..

not to bore you with old fotos but would like to share with you these old fotos of our wedding day..

1) Wedding Tasks for my hubby - He was such a sweet boy, performing all the tasks, handing out angbaos willingly and waxing his super hairy leg. And he managed to come out with a short and sweet poem that means everything. :)

2) Hi Tea (provided by Oriental) in our bridal suite before our wedding banquet - Delicious pastries, sandwiches and cakes, but champagne was not good. All the fresh fruits and choc coated strawberries, yummy!

3) In our bridal suite after the wedding banquet - Look at the beautiful rose petals in the bathtub and the spacious bridal suite. We were having our dinner, which Oriental "da bao" for us.

Guo Da Li

Date : 27th Oct 2007

Nong Li : 9 yue 17 ri

Time : 3pm

Today is Guo Da Li, meaning my hubby is coming over with stuffs that he wants to marry me with to give my parents. And my parents are going to give them my dowry. This time is a ji shi, hence, hubby and my parents-in-law step into our house right after 3 in the afternoon. Below you can see my dowry and the cakes that my hubby gave us. Did not take photos of the other stuffs that he brought to marry me.

Love and Marriage

A friend recently forwarded me this. I found it very meaningful as it illustrates love and marriage in a very simple way.

A student asks a teacher, "What is love?"

The teacher said, "in order to answer your question, go to the padi field and choose the biggest padi and come back. But the rule is: you can go through them only once and cannot turn back to pick."

The student went to the field, go through the first row, he saw one big padi, but he wonders....maybe there is a bigger one later. Then he saw another bigger one... but maybe there is an even bigger one waiting for him. Later, when he finished more than half of the padi field, he starts to realize that the padi is not as big as the previous one he saw, he knew he has missed the biggest one, and he regretted !!!! So, he went back to the teacher with empty hands.

The teacher told him, "...this is love... you keep looking for a better one, but when later you realize, you have already miss the person...."

"What is marriage then?" the student asked.

The teacher said, "in order to answer your question, go to the corn field and choose the biggest corn and come back. But the rule is: you can go through them only once and cannot turn back to pick."

The student went to the corn field, this time he is careful not to repeat the previous mistake, when he reached the middle of the field, he has picked one medium corn that he is satisfied with, and went back to the teacher.

The teacher told him, "this time you bring back a corn.... you look for one that is just nice, and you have faith and you believe that this is the best one you get.... this is marriage."

- Author Unkown

WEDDINGS

Came across a heritage exhibition in Parco Bugis yesterday. The topic is on weddings, I guess, as there were stalls which were set up by bridal boutiques and also jewelers. The highlight was this tallest wedding cake done by Intercontinental Hotel.

That's Ken and Barbie right at the top tier.

The deets are as follows:

I think the nicest part is this. There are write-ups and presentation with figurines on the actual scene of weddings of the 4 different races in Singapore.

Beautiful?

On Marriage

An excerpt from an article on TODAY.

Do you agree? I do.

last day of singlehood

Yes, tomorrow is THE day and today is my LAST day of single life. Went to pamper myself a bit, doing mani and pedi, then met qing for some window shopping. Still, I'm not feeling nervous. Had a great lunch at Bakerzin, and yummy dessert at Canele. Met future hubby at AMK for dinner. I know, i know, we are not suppose to meet on the day before, but to us, it just doesn't feel like the actual day, even though it is the official one. *laughs* Anyway, I went home and I had a BIG SURPRISE!! *wide grin* Got a basket of lilies together with some Crabtree & Evelyn lotion and bath foam from NOWELLI!! I'm so happy! She couldn't make it tomorrow so she said she made it up with the flowers. So sweet. Thanks girl! *smile*

is it real?

counting down to 2 more days...

juz received a call from my best fren, seems like she is more excited and nervous than me. i dunno y, but i do not feel nervous at all. i guess i'm still at the disbelief stage. she say she will call and check on my emotions the day before the BIG day. i guess its true to some extent that subconciously, i consider my BIG day to be the customary one in nov and not the one which is upcoming and thus, i'm not all flustered about it yet.

i wonder how he feels...

I don't believe it!

I swear the whole world is getting married! We went for our appointment at the ROM for verification of our documents. The timeslot given was 830am - 930am. We managed to reach around 845am. And guess what?! Our queue no. was 62! There were SO many couples there and apparently some of them have already left. GOSH! Are there really SO many people getting married? I wonder if there is only 1 day per week allocated for couples to go and do the verification or is it like that everyday? If it is like that everyday, the government should not be worried that Singaporeans are not getting married and having babies. But then again, having babies is another topic, which I shan't go into it here.

We didn't wait very long. When it was our turn, our documents were verified and on the spot, we get to see our Certificate of Marriage. It was all printed out nicely and all we have to do was to check. I thought that was all, but no, we need to sign another form stating that we are conscending adults, above 21 yrs of age, have not been married previously, blah blah..AND before signing the form, we have to take turns to raise our right hand and read out loud. It was funny in the sense that there were many, let's call them, adminstrators, and each couple was "assigned" to one. So everyone was standing at the counter, raising their right hand and reading out loud. *laughs* Luckily I managed to read through the whole "passage" without laughing. We left with our Certificate of Marriage which we are supposed to bring on our day of solemnisation.

4 more days.......

the truth...

..is, i'm an html idiot! Wanted to start my post since 10am this morning, but have been trying to edit my page till now. Qing was going crazy with me. *laughs*

Alrite, let me start what I wanted to share with you since 10am this morning NOW. Lookee here:









Yupz! Our wedding bands! Lovely? Hao and I went to collect them yesterday. Can't see the engraving here of coz, but it's nothing special, just the name and ROM date.




And it's such a coincidence that I read this from the zaobao today.

If you can't read that clearly, let me just share with you one that I find meaningful.

"Love doesn't just sit there like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new."

-- Ursula K.LeGuin

I'm such a romantic nowadays, I dunno why.