Winners have simply formed a habit of doing things losers don't like to do - Albert Gray
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I believe every married person have something to talk about their wedding .. So do I .... Here are the 10 items I will talk about when asked about my wedding preparations !!
(1) Getting the sisters and getting together
Getting the great sisters isn’t an easy feat, especially when you need sisters who are
- Active and fun
- Knows each other and have almost the same frequency
- Able to auto-pilot as many things as possible
- Have a tint of “evil” in them.. haha ..
Half of my sisters team were changed due to unforeseen circumstances. I managed to find my last sister less than 10 days before my wedding. I ended up with 4 sisters who actually didn’t know each other or not as close. But thanks to their active participation and support every one of them gave, every thing went in much better than I expected.
In fact , the participation and help from the brothers surprises me as well, and I am really grateful for their help.
(2) Game Time !
(A) Preparation for the modified jigsaw puzzle game ….
Plan plan plan … Design design design
Took many evenings plus one whole Saturday, with my colleague and friend, who went with me to look for ideas and materials.
Almost done … except for the touch ups ….
Next, I need a decent looking BOX frame with dimension 12” x 36” x 1” !!
Was quoted $116 to $200 at Bras Basah & Tradehub for a custom made one. In the end , I decided to buy materials (and get my dad ) to make my own frame!! Materials Costs me about $100 but I can make 2 out of those materials !
Size of the materials ….. Super bulky … I must be crazy to actually buy that and bring home..
My best craftsman ever , my daddy who made this frame for me to display my perfumes. I decided to ask him to help me again with this frame !!
Work in Progress
Done in a single day !!
The final product !
Question
Answer
We are more than READY !!
(3) Guest Lists
For one whole week , straight after work I will go home to my messy workstation, either I was on photoshop or looking at the guest list …. There are so many people who are not able to attend , people who do not want to sit with who and who and people who die die want to sit with who and who.
Trying very hard to fill up all Kalongs …. Down with 6 more!!!
3 person tops my list as the weirdest people, can’t help bitching about them – So sorry, if you so happen to read it.
(1) The peddler – She is the ex colleague of my and my hubby and she readily agreed to come when I invited whom I invited her. Then she started asking if I am interested to buy her handmade flower bouquets. After discussion with my hub, we decided not to take from her as we think the flowers that are already provided by the bridal studio & florist is enough. So I informed her of our decision. Thereafter I didn’t hear from her. Neither she nor her angbao was seen till the date I posted this…. By the way, she is a manager of a MNC…
(2) The over-enthu friend– This is an ex-colleague of mine again, She was very happy for me when she heard that was getting married and told me again and again that she wanted to attend my wedding. I promised to invite her but told her that she might be sitting with some people whom she may not know cos I am only inviting the few of our common colleagues. So …….2 months before my actual day , she went around the department inviting guest ( and arse-hole whom I totally detest ) on my behalf and 3 weeks before my wedding she listed down the names of those guest invited (by her) and told me she had done all the confirmation for me, all nicely can be seated in one table…. OMG …
(3) The worse case scenario - Another ex-colleague yet again.. Honestly I didn’t really wan to invite her but because she was part of one group of people in my invitation list, and I do not want people to start asking why I invited everyone except her. There is 3 main reasons why I do not really want to invite her.
Firstly, I was quite pissed off working with this immature person, imagine someone coming to work at noon time when she is suppose to start work at 8am, and went further to ask her other colleague to meet her for lunch outside before coming into the office. Reason provided is simply “She cannot wake up every morning and stays VERY FAR (Tiong bahru) from the office in which is in Jurong”. The actual fact is the she actually holds another part time job outside and she rejected all offers to give her a morning call. I was wondering if she would come to my wedding at 10pm. Or maybe she decides to march in with me at the second march in.
Secondly , she always claims that she is only a university student, should not be paying so much for this and that and whine that paying $80 bucks for a wedding dinner is too too too much for a “poor” student like her..
Thirdly, you can call it jealousy, or what ever you wan , Is her in-born capability is to act pitiful and our male boss pities her like hell… (*yucks*)
Back to the main story. Firstly she did not confirm her attendance till quite late. Then she started asking if she can bring her BF along whom I only seen once or twice. I declined nicely explaining to her that her that particular table is already full hence only got place for her. But if she insists , I can arrange for her BF to be at another table. And guess what… She say they dun mind sitting separate!!!!
Anyway , as expected. I couldn’t locate any angbao with her name. But I still give the benefit of doubt that maybe those $60 , $80 un-named angbao belongs to her till today. Oh… did I forget to mention that her BF family runs a food business??
(4) Photoshop
This is one thing I spent loads of time on, because I am damn particular on my photos on the montage and on the jigsaw puzzle game. Given my limited knowledge on photoshop , I spent a lot of time on youtube & exploring how to get what I want from photoshop.
I actually wanted to upload some of the photos I have done with my lousy skills .. BUT SERIOUSLY, I don’t seems to be able to find it… For some strange reasons, after my BIG day , there are many things I simply cannot locate where they are .. my files , folders , memory card , thumb-drive, etc etc…
(5) Manicure and Pedicure
These are things that cannot be missed, 3 weeks before the AD ( actual day ) , Grace planja me to a full set mani and Pedi @ BELLA NAILS in Jurong East central.
Tried out their Nail Art and it look fabulous!! Its $2 for the nail art done on each nails!! The nails with 2 silver lines are thrown in free
The day before my actual day, Grace went with me again the same shop and got my gel manicure with matching pedicures! Chio bo ?
One thing about this nail is that I have hell lot of problems getting my contacts lens out every single night ! But it is still worth it~~
Some portion of the nails chipped off after one week when I was in Hong Kong and I had to go back to the shop to get it fixed as the lady has guranteed for the blings to stay…
This is the first time I am having gel nails done and I can say that I am really really impressed it.
Still can tahan after one month... Blings Still shiny, but it gets harder and harder to use my iphone… almost impossible to touch the screen with the long nails
I would say that I will do it another time if I have the chance.
(6) Julie Hen’s night
In the midst of all the busy preparation , fun must always be injected. We went to giorgio’s club @ lavender st. Where there is plenty of male entertainers who will perform walks, singing , pole dancing , etc ...
I am not good at writing so I decided to steal other pp description of the place .. Quite close to what we see
" The exterior of this place appears very unassuming indeed. With the simple unpretentious logo on the outside, you will never imagine what goes on behind the doors.
With a pensive step through the heavy doors, you encounter greyish sofas and dark velvet.The feel is very deep, dark and exclusive. The stage is in the middle of the room, it is bright white with led lights. .... There is no band... only a singer belting out songs from the karaoke system. The bar is made of marble... lending a exclusive feel. The toilets are sparse with wood finishings. ........
The male PRs appears to be mostly from China and some locals. The singers are generally tall and appear to have a stylist dressing them as they appear very similar in vein. Golden sneakers, white belt, black shirt, black PVc jacket... styled Taiwanese hair... ........ They parade on stage and the flower call begins! "
Photography is not allowed. But we secretly took one photos of the guys on stage ..
Unbelievably we could spent $400 - $600 on the flower garlands.. It was just plainly for fun ...
(7) Getting enough sleep
I believe in getting a lot of sleep. But it is just so hard to go to bed early especially when I am so used to staying-up-late-and-doing-nothing. Even if I go to bed early , I will have problem falling asleep. So I decided to use a very fail safe method – Sleeping pills !!!!
It works like magic and I don’t feel tired at all the next day !!
(8) Tidying up my room
It was not an easy feat as I only started 2 days before the AD and I got shitloads of non sense…
Packing and throwing in progress…
After
As I was tidying up my full height cupboard, I thought that I could leave anything below the waist level in the cupboard, it will be blocked anyway I thought …. But I was totally wrong!!!!! Both photographer and videographer do take their angles from the lower angles and even from the floor …
See the mess ? Not obvious la though
(9) Deco around the house
I wanted to decorate my house with flower petals and did not really start looking for it till a day before the AD because I thought flower petals will wither if I bought it too early…. In the end , I realize I got no time to go buy flowers petals and I have no choice I asked my dad for help… So he took his bicycle , cycle around and found some flowers selling in Indian shop… It’s looks like a smaller type of rose, and sells at $5 for one whole big packet and translate into 2 big plastic bags of petals !!!!!!!
Woo hoo !!!! After you pluck off the petals and put into a bowl , it looks no different from normal flowers petals and the effect is the same on screen … You see ??
There is just too much petals for just $5 !!!!!!!!!!!
The ballon deco was done by my dad as well...
(10) The Wine thing
One thing I will remember really hard … I have heard this advice several times about giving specific instructions to the hotel about how to serve the wine but I did not really care because I thought that the hotel people should be professional enough to know what to do. But I am totally wrong again !
On our Actual Day dinner , we were being informed that we are left with only 4 bottles ( out of the 30 bottles we brought) and it was only the 4th dish! Hubby was furious when he notices that many glasses were filled to the almost the brim and no one was drinking them.
Back to office , my colleagues also feed backed that the wine were auto served and auto refilled even when no one orders it!! This confirms hubby suspicion that the hotel was actually wasting our wines!!!! Luckily the hotel waived the wine corkage’s last minute else we sure will be sitting down with the banquet manager… So so …… BIG FAT LESSON LEARNT !!
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