Little Tiny Details @ Wedding

There are less than 4 months to our wedding. It's exactly the right time to start looking intodetails of the wedding - invitation cards, programme cards, candles and maybe favors for the guest.
My mum warned me that we should start buying my 'jia juang' already hehe... although been a christian herself, she still stick to the tradition when comes to wedding, thread, needles, slippers, jewelery etc is still a must. Shall do some shopping with her within these few weeks, then she will go back to kch to buy things which she think kch is the only place she could find the best offers. I plan to buy her a nice dress for the reception too hehe....

Secondly, decorating the house, we have the rough idea on how to place the furnitures already. Furnitures only scheduled to be delivered end of August. And kitchen cabinet is not ready yet, should be in latest by August too. Dad had also chosen a good date and time to 'assemble' our bed.

Upon vetting through the checklist, there are a lot more things!!!!! meet up with the hotel coordinator to discuss about the reception, food tasting, meet up with Shanti to discuss about the flow of programmes, vendor for invitation cards,programme cards, flowers and car decoration, gifts for parents, and the list goes on......

Choosing our Pre-wedding photos

Vans got a call from Covershots barely a week after we snap our shots to collect the contact prints for us to choose which 20 photos we want to include in our album. So I went to collect it last friday and met up with Vans for dinner in KLCC, happily gazing at our photos.

I have to admit I am not someone that enjoyed being photographed, and I always feel I look bad in photos, but Vans reassured me that it was great, although I still felt that it was no where near OK. We showed our family members and got mixed responses. Some said it was nice and simple, some said it was too simple, with too little makeup and change of clothes. But I've learned to live with different expectations from different people, let's just call this "PERSPECTIVE".
As with all previous post, I have to observe the non-disclosure policy set by Vans, and there was only 1 photo I can show now. For the rest of it, will show you guys if you come for the wedding :p (yes, those are our actual wedding rings, and us in the blurred background)

First Anniversary

Today is the 1st Anniversary of our wedding blog.....

Other weddings

Although we were busy preparing for our own wedding, we took time off the last 2 weekends to attend our friend's wedding. It has been a long since Vans & I attended a Malay wedding so we were quite lost at times. But nonetheless we drove all the way to Section 17 in Shah Alam to attend my ex-colleague Shary & Rose's wedding.
It was a hot sunday afternoon with its normal dreaded weather, so the least we could do is to turn up. We thought the "bersanding" would take place at 1pm, as stated on the invite but they only arrive around 2:30pm. So we waited patiently and sweatingly. The "ordeal" was over at about 3pm. We quickly took photos with the bride and groom, both good friends while they were still sharing the same office, bade our farewell and rushed home.
Hui Sing's wedding on the other hand, was the total extreme compared the ceremonious and hot (typical) malay wedding. Her's was in informal pool-side wedding party on a saturday nite. On a saturday nite that England was playing their opening group match against Paraguay. Well, it wasn't too hard to make the decision to skip it as friend's wedding is always more important. You never know they give the same excuse, or reason to skip yours when it comes round. The pool-side setting in a condo block located in Damansara Perdana was perfect. The cool breeze from the hill, the serenade sound of the occasional splashing emanating from the swimmers makes the whole environment so inviting and informal. Vans meet some primary school-mates that she hasn't seen for ages.
Attending people's wedding makes you think and wonder if yours is going to be as smooth and trouble-free as theirs, and we are working our very best to ensure our family and friends brings home great memories from our wedding :)

Pre-wedding Photography

Its been a while since we updated the blog. We had to make sure everything in the new house was in-order before we handed off the final payment, then had to repaint some parts of the house ourselves. I haven't painted anything since I last helped Raymond Boo paint his house about 10 years ago so we were messing around most of the time :) But its almost done. The only part left is the plaster ceiling, which still looks patchy. It is the most difficult place to paint... well, we're targeting to finish it within the month, if possible.

We had our pre-wedding photography booked since November last year, and I could see that Vans was very excited coming into the week and she took 2 days off to prepare herself, going for facials, manicure and pedicure, etc, etc...
When the day finally came, we didn't know what to expect, except that it will take quite a while to complete those 90 shots we were promised. Boy, it was difficult to look natural and smile all day. All we kept hearing was "don't look so fake, be natural", and when we tried to be natural, they'd say "Smile, don't be so tense!" Man, I was like, what am I suppose to do? Be natural, or smile?

By the end of the day, both of us have experienced countless cramps on our cheeks due to constant retraction of the cheek muscles trying to muster enough "smile" to look "natural". I, for one am not a person that like to have my photo taken, so I was a big struggle. Nevertheless I am sure Vans photo will turn out great, she's quite a natural.
Well, we don't have any photos from the shoot to show, but we do have these 2 crazy photos to share =)