Can be a breeze or a pain... u figure it out

It's always great to have people around you helping you with wedding preps.

Thank you to all those friends who have helped or offered to help in one way or another.
All help & offers are deeply appreciated.

Unfortunately, some people/family do not fulfill their tasks & others who offer to help are not able to help with our current outstanding tasks. Such as friends who offer to help, are not able to help us with traditional stuff which only family members can carry out.

If you have supportive family members who step up during such times to fulfill what is needed of them, then your wedding is going to be a breeze.

RSVP can also be a pain.... the headache arises when relatives do not RSVP & either over-attend or under-attend.

There are also overtly helpful relatives who start asking you about the most minute things that "are supposed to be done" as part of "tradition". Where to draw the line?

So if I were to tell you, my stress is just overflowing from the top of my head, you know what position I am in right now...

Guo Da Li *DONE*

Guo Da Li took place yesterday.

In the morning, the groom's side (along with family members & even grandma) came over to my house bearing gifts. Both families simplified the process, minimal items were required from each side. So it is not an elaborate affair.

N & Family brought:-
- Dowry
- 2 bottles of liquor
- "Si Dian Jing" (4 pieces of jewellery)
- 2 pairs of "Long Feng" (Dragon/Phoenix) candles
- 2 boxes of Bird's Nest
- 12 Oranges
- 12 cans of pig trotters

My Family returned:-
- Half the dowry
- 2 bottles of orange juice
- My own diamond jewellery set from my mum & dad
- A pair of Phoenix candles
- 12 Oranges
- 6 cans of pig trotters
- New Pink Bedsheets
- A pair of bedside lamps
- Sewing basket
- A baby's potty, packed with sweets & wrapped with red paper
- Tea Set (for tea ceremony at N's place)

What was left at my parents' place

What was brought back by N

N's family sat down chitchat a bit, then we went for lunch with grandma & family.
We headed to our bridal studio to do last fitting, have N's family see our pictures from photoshoot & fitted N's dad with a jacket to loan on our big day.

Last but not least, we had to go back to N's grandparents' place to pray to the gods & ancestors to tell them of the impending wedding.

Woopie~ Christmas Bells Ringing

Christmas is coming and this is the time where your various groups of friends will call you up for a date! They seem to like the pick the same days!!!!

Hee... i'm having a dinner get-togethers with 3 groups of gal friends, read 12 ladies... read present shopping *wallet bleed* and some trickling of guy friends

Don't get me wrong, I am looking forward to all these get-togethers, it seems to give reasons to pple (who are usually hard to book a date with) to make themselves available. Great opportunity to catch up, with everyone at one go~

But it's just a crazily packed 2 weeks... I have my sofa in my house, dining table is coming in tomorrow *excited* This saturday, i'll be hosting the first dinner party at my place (another friend is having our annual x'mas gathering at HIS place on the same evening, sorry I can't make it).

Charlie, Charlie's fiancee & Angels, don't you feel lucky! to be my first guests to be in my guest-ready home?

Next tuesday, dinner party #2 at my place, another group of friends also wanted next tuesday but sorry it's booked before this week. So that group is rescheduled to Monday, after my japanese supp paper.

Friends who have been to my place recently, like last 2 weeks, will know I have A LOT of cleaning & packing up to do... *headache* Lotsa lotsa work to do... i'm gona have to go grocery shopping for potluck this saturday & swing my kitchen into full gear: oven, stove, pots & all!

On top of all this, N & I have to settle details for our big day with our various partners: bridal studio, hotel & relative-attendance-taking.

Having multiple groups of friends asking me out, thinking about it, is afterall a good thing. This means I have cherished groups of friends who love me as much as I love them. :)

This is the kind of crazy schedule where I am busy, probably will be very tired but I am happy.
I'm a lucky girl!

Furniture Hunting

Did I mention that after soo many months of furniture hunting, N & I finally ordered our sofa 3 weeks ago & now it is sitting in our living room!

Also, our dining table, after soo many trips to sungei kadut, ubi tech park, and all the furniture shops big & little, near & far, I have finally placed an order for our dining table, due to be delivered tomorrow!

*Excited & looking forward to setting up my living area

Pictures are out!

N & I went to pick out photos from our photoshoot... the downside of having 2 days of photoshoot is that we have 500 over pictures to choose from. Making it harder to filter.

And having over 8 outfits to change in & out from, for the 2 days, then it makes choosing which pictures to keep and which to eliminate a tougher decision.

We are given 40 pictures in our package. We took like 3-4 trips to eliminate pictures & capture the essence of the 2 full days of photoshoot. This is done with the help of numerous friends, thank you very much, you know who you are.

To save cost, we managed to narrow our choices down to 40 pictures.

I will publish on my private page once I have the soft copies of the photos.

Love you all who have offered to help in my wedding preps in one way or another! Thank you very much!