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31 August 08 - Serene's black wedding

2008-09-20T09:49:00.000-07:00

my best friend wedding!

Serene held her wedding lunch in Oriental, on 31 August 2008. No chance to snap the food as once the food was laid on the table, the waitress served immediately as if we were hungry ghosts!

Overall, food were nice, they even have chilli crab! yes, chilli crab but meat peeled and served with gravy and buns in a big big bowl . . .

enuff said, so photos for viewing pleasure. . .

4 December 2006 - my wedding big day!!

2008-08-11T21:13:00.000-07:00

4am - 三梳
auspicious time to "comb" my long long hair. The "package" include a small red pail, a red comb, a red ruler, a tube of color threads and needles, and a piece of red paper with the wordings to say for hair combing.
Lit the two red candles and started the 10 minutes hair combing, there were only 3 of us awake at that time which is me, ah-yi & yi-ma.

7.15am
It did not take long before my alarm went off at 7.15am.Woke up and had a nice warm bath and breakfast that consist of a hot cuppa of milo and a bun.

7.45am
Amy arrived 15 minutes earlier! I actually asked her to come at 8am, she is so professional! woke the sisters up for them to get ready and got the room to myself =>
First, Amy did my hairdo before applying make up on my sweet face =p changed into my wedding gown and touch up to look even better.
At the same time, the sisters are preparing. . . .

9am
I am alone in the room, felt bored and anxious at the same time, took my HP and called to Gin's DID, cos she is the only one who can talk to me. . . the rest are outside in the living room already! Chat halfway and heard car horns that horned continuously! Anxiety is here!!!

930am
Andy and his bros are all ready outside for the Tug-O-Keys war! hahaha. . .

(we have go plenty of time cos I can only leave house at 11am)
Firstly, they have a ang pow with rupiahs, OMG, think they are in Indonesia?

Then, they went to 1st floor and some of his brother went into the big rubbish chute, wanted to catch some cockroahes, haha, but the chute was too clean already, none found.

Then they went to the market wanted to buy some tadpoles, but sold out! hahahaha!!!

In the end, they came back with no choice to ask for some water, where they had 4 cups of each taste, Sour, sweet, bitter, spicy. Initally wanted to mix, but scare some of their stomach cannot tahan, so seperate loh, , , see we are so kind. . . =>

Next, they wore bras with my name on it (-.-"), my cousins said my sisters too hiong", haha, i agree too. Took photographs and mission complete.

竟然敢给印尼币?!

哈哈哈，给印尼币的后果

10aM - Begin of Tug-O-Keys war!

one of my sisters hand bleed, yeah bleed ok, see how they risked their beauty to protect the lock and keys, hahah, and the rest had their fingers/hands bruised. Guys - - > so violent!

1030am - After 30 minutes, guys won, snatched the keys successfully after a few attempts..

But. . . . . the lock is a special lock, u have the keys also cannot open. . . . hahahhahahahah!!!!!!

(still need help from ppl inside the house to open the lock!)

Last resort: Lock Smith

Finally in, and waiting by the door, Andy sang a song for me, and the door opened upen hearing magic words!

1045am - Lit 龙凤烛

拜天公

Daddy fed us 汤圆

11aM - walked towards the car with yi-ma throwing the rice and ah-yi holding on to the red laced umbrella
Set off to MIL house

1130am - reached MIL house

拜观音

1145am - Went to the small garden in the neighbourhood to take some photos while MIL return to my new house.

1215pm

Took some shots with bridal car, Bentley before going up to new house.
went straight to bedroom and lit the table lamps
Tea ceremony - collect ang pows and jewellery from MIL
give out ang pows to young children
took family photo
change into cheongsam
Ready and set to return to 娘家

115pM - Reached 娘家 in my beautiful blue cheongsam
Tea ceremony with ang pows and jewellerys (rich for a day!)
give out ang pows to young children
took famly photo

ate mini lunch

330pm
Reached home and get ready for wedding dinner
Amy reached at 4pm
Wendy reached at 430pm (my hairstylist off on Monday and I got her to set hair for sisters on my wedding day)
Hairdo and make-up ready at 515pM

615pM - Reached The Pines and the helpers set to do their tasks. . .

Camilla and Jae - emcee
Sufen and Jiamin assist in carrying my long train where ever I walked
Qian Hui and J at the reception
Yuan Hong and Wen Bin checked table settings and arrangments
Dexter checked on the IT equipments for the CDs of songs to play, the DVD montage he made for us,
Andrew
Michael, Wen Bin, Yuan Hong - drinking buddies
Andrew, Yong An, Michael, Wen Bin, Yuan Hong, Joseph yam seng buddies

Camilla and Jae - emcee

6.30pm - Dear and me even have time to take photos of the scenery and with my ex- colligs of SMRT.

7pm - Guests started to flock in by the reception signing the guest book and giving ang pows and gifts!

2nd round of tea ceremony for those who cant make it in the day time.

830pm - 1st march in, follow by cake cutting and 1st 2 course of dinner.

915pm - 2nd march in

(champage pouring, nuptial wine, speech, yam seng)

945pm- photo taking round the tables

1030pm - Changed to cheongsam and sent off guests

From Gin's Blog:

http://tirary.blogspot.com/search/label/wedding?updated-max=2007-10-20T23%3A22%3A00%2B08%3A00&max-results=20

3 December 08 - A busy day before my big wedding party!

2008-08-11T20:34:00.000-07:00

Met Serence at plaza to take service 960 to Bugis for our lunch and mani & pedi sessions.
Had a satisfying lunch at Ajisen with Ton Toro and mayo prawns! Yummy!!!!

Next, we proceeded to Bugis Village for our Nails session. I did a 3d Manicure and Pedicure which cost about $150. It took about a total of 5 hours to get the nails done.

3D Nails

After which I met up with Qian Hui & Ting at Suntec, and bought 2 shirts from G2000, 1 is for Andrew (he siad he cant find any brown shirt) and another 1 for dearie.

We waited for 45 minutes at the taxi stand for cab (called the taxi booking line but no cab at all) =< . . . .

When I reached ah yi house, it is already 11pm!!!! She said that ealier yi po was there, wanted to pass me the ang pow first and chat with me, and waited for quite long b4 she went home. . . Jiamin arrived at 1130pm. Luckily, yi geong got ta bao supper from his restuarant and we all shared the nice mee hoon, hor fan.

Me, Jia Min, Qian Hui and Ting hid in the room and started to go thru the programme for the big day tomorrow when Sufen called and said she cannot come and stay overnight, she will come in the early morning instead and we met her downstairs to pass her the dress.

Played majong card games for a few rounds before we all surrender to sleep . . . Zzzz. . .

Customary Wedding Part 1 (day) 04 December 2006

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Customary Wedding Part 2 (day) 04 December 2006

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Customary Wedding Part 1 (night) 04 December 2006

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Customary Wedding Part 2 (night) 04 December 2006

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Customary Wedding Part 3 (night) 04 December 2006

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our emcess - Jae & Camilla

Contest - who got more hugs? !

who is hiding at the back?!?!

Photos by Sam (Ritz) - Photoshoot 20July 2006

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Photos by Sam (Ritz) - ROM 23 March 2006

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manicure done at Bugis on 22 March 06

masterpiece

taken @ Ritz (1)

taken @ Ritz (2)

taken @ Ritz (3)

taken @ Ritz (4)

taken @ Ritz (5)

at Sh@Vill@

having fun! ! !

nervous came. . . .

our rings ---> Destinee (Lee Hwa)

Ring pillow - - > A gift from Gin, Cheryl & Shu Ling

I hand made the signage! ! !

Getting ROM ! ! !

Ritz Contour

2008-07-14T01:40:00.000-07:00

Ritz is different from other boutique as they serve 1-1. This is so that they can totally focus in your needs and made you feel important.

The boutique is located at Devonshire Road, it is a shophouse, 2 levels. So 1 couple in each room with a wedding co-ordinator.

My wedding package cost $4888 nett. It is a made to measure (MTM) package, but all my gowns were MTM by others and my cheongsam, I was the 2nd to wear after the bride who mtm. My evening was mtm too but I was the first to wear, cos after mtm, it does not suit the bride at all. Lucky me!

My wedding package consist of:

2 make up and hairdo - 1 trial but changed to ROM and 1 on actual day
2 bouquets - 1 on photoshoot and 1 on actual day
Jewellery accessories with veil
1 pc wedding gown
1 pc tea dress (I chose cheongsam)
1 pc evening gown
2 suits for groom (provide own shirt)
1 wedding album with 50pcs of photos
3-1 portrait

Table top, 2 small abums and bridal car, all exchange to photos
MTM wedding gown, evening dress exchange to photos too
*that explain my # of photos

**they charge $50 for per pc of additional photo.

It is very important, if you like taking photos, you must let the wedding co-ordinator know the numbers of photos you want at what kind of price you are willing to pay. This will in turn save you move money then choosing more photos after the photoshoot.

For Photographer and Videographer, it is not included in the package.

So actually my wedding package price is not quite a heavenly price compare to other boutiques of what they can provide.

Kelvin & Cheryl

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6 Jan 08 - Gin's wedding

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Gin held her yatch wedding at Raffles Marina, yes, near to 2nd link. It was suppose to be a outdoor wedding but as there was a rainpour, it was moved to indoors instead. But she still have her yatch march in and cake cutting by the sea.

Ang pow box hand made by Jerlene

2nd link

Signage

Me, Jo & Cheryl

Me & the blissful bride

Group photo with the ex-smrt gunghos

*some photos took from Cheryl*

Cheryl's wedding - June 2006

2006-06-10T02:42:00.000-07:00

Cheryl held her wedding in Marina Mandarin, I can only remember we (colligs) had great time drinking the red wine!!!!! hahahahha!!!!

23 Dec 2005 - Registry Of Marriage

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We have chose to the date 23 March 2006 to register for our marriage. At 11pm, we got the computer and documents ready at the R.O.M website, kiasu ma, cos the JP we wanted is very 抢手 one, cos must book exactly 3 months before.

And I got my date! Horray!!! Clicked "Sumbit" at 12.00MN. . . hahahah!!!

The documents needed for efiling:

Date(s) of solemnisation

location (for ROM outside)

Preferred of JP (for ROM outside, you may also browse through the namelist available in the ROM website )

I/C of both witnesses

Printer with plenty of ink (as u will have plenty to print)

Details of you and your -to-be

Credit Card/Debit card for payment

We were requested to make a trip to ROM one month before our solemnisation as we need to make oath and collect the Marriage Cert to bring along on the day.

8 Nov 05 - wedding roadshow at Taka Civic plaza

2005-11-08T01:25:00.000-08:00

There is a wedding roadshow today, saw the ad on TODAY a few days ago and decided to have a look.

Saw Ritz contour along with other boutiques and I was so excited. Often see their ad in wedding mags but on it states by appt only as walk in will not be entertained and also the photo of the boutique looked so high class we thought might be very expensive so we never add to our list.

Andy and I went to the booth of Ritz, hahah, since they entertain "walk-in" now... to ask ask...

We met Elaine(I/C of Ritz) and told her what our needs are and whether she is able to provide us with the budget we are willing to spend.

We were happy that they are able to meet our expectations and we completed our wedding-boutique-hunt that day. I signed a MTM package at $4888.

Sept 05 - wedding rings!

2005-09-14T00:38:00.000-07:00

Today is a day for "rings hunting"!

I told dear before that I would love to have Destinee as our wedding ring. So off we go to Lee Hwa, my preferred white gold jewellery shop.

We went to the jewelley hub located opp. Somerset Mrt Station. So crowded today, a humid day, and the shop like no air-con, somemore the staff serve us hot tea.... Requested to change to sky juice if not I dont think I will have the mood to choose...

the Destinee counter so many ppl, so went to browse rings of other brands, all were nice... wah... so tempting, hahaha. Was abnout to leave when the Destinee counter is emptied. So dear and me sat down and started browsing round 2.

Finally found a pair that caught both our eyes.... hahaha, so happy. Make a deposit as Dear size is out of stock and have to have for a month before it arrives.

ok then, shall come back next month...

So happy!

My diamond comes with a Cert. Only mine ring has diamond so this pair only cost us $2k.

most romantic resturants

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1) Altivo, mt faber. Alternatively book dinner on the cable car that takes you from mt faber to sentosa. great view, great food. package comes with wine.

2) Villa bali, 9a Lock Road

3) Ooch, Dempsey

4) My Secret Garden, middle road

5) Halia, Botanical Gardens

6) PS Cafe, Dempsey

7) Tex Mex Riverboat - they have a private room at the top that you can book. It comes with a jacuzzi and your own private waiter

8) Au Jardin Les Amis at Botanical Gardens.
- Great French food and wine list.

9)Indochine Waterfront
- at Asian civilization musuempoppi at

10) legends fort canninggraze at 4 rochester park

11) the cliff at sentosa resort and spa

12) oomaphticos at tanglin mall

13) One Rochestor
lil colonial bungalow turned into a restaurant!ideal place to getaway and unwind amidst lush botany & softly tinkling fountains.

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Ritz Conture/

Lee Hwa/

Gold Heart/

petite queen/

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About me

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set up this wedding blog to keep all my photos taken for my ROM, Photo Album as well as customary wedding.

And, all the weddings I attended. A great place to safekeep and to record whats good and whats not, for my galfriends future easy references too.

I am the first to get married among my peers, so I always got questions asked regarding wedding. Yes, anything about wedding!

From rings, ROM locations (poolside or not), banquet location, outdoor or posh hotels, rates, photographers and videographers, and the lists get going. . .

I will try to update as much as I can here, to give you the most wedding questions answered.

happy viewing!