After brunch, my cousin and biao sao to come over to my hse at 1.15pm to see if my white dress is suitable to wear on their big day. at the same day, they also brought their nicely printed wedding invitation cards which was just collected that morning. they got it printed in m'sia and i heard that it's so much cheaper, costing SGD10 for a card. if they add any clipart graphic on the card, it's of no extra charges unlike many printing co. in SG. No wonder pple wanna go over there to save e huge printing cost.
Together with them, we left e hse and met up with Nelson at IMM to discuss more abt the photography plan on e wedding's actual day (AD). We had a hard time finding parking lot at e carpark. 1st 3 hrs FOC and e carpark was so full that we had to park at e highest storey where there's no shelter, freaking HOT that we were burning anytime. joke of e day was that we dun even know where Swensen was & we were e one telling Nelson to meet there. so ended up, we were almost late for 15mins, reaching at only 2.15pm! sheesh~
The discussion itself was pretty smooth. I volunteered to take down notes and done up with the event schedule. This includes e events that's going to take place on e AD, from 5.30am till dinner commence at 7.30pm or so. The more things I wrote, the more excited I was. It's really my 1st time being quite involve in a wedding preparation. It becomes like e more I know, the more I find that there's so many things I dunno! Haha.. Nelson asked me if I'm stressed, I say YESSS. I am put to be in charge of e receptions for e groom's side as well. Think if I'm not wrong, e whole day I will be sticking to the bride. haha.. oh ya, I'm also gg to be playing e door games to block my cousin. I shd be siding my cousin and now i'm gg to give him a 'hard' time! lolz~
In e midst of e discussion, my biao sao gotten a call from e bridal shop that their wedding photo CD was ready for collection.So lucky of me cos according to my cousin, they said e photos won't be so fast ready! At the same time, they were asked to choose between 2 decorated photos for e bed top portrait. They took pretty long to decide which one to get. My cousin being e "anything" guy let my biao sao make e decision. In terms of such decision-making, I always follow my heart so I gave them my 1st impression of e photo that I like. I like it the portrait one iso the landscape photo bcos it's more fantasy and dreamy with 2 bubbles frames & e blue background makes e photo stands out more. My biao sao preferred the other one bcos her gown can be seen more visibly unlike e one as the decorative frames already covered up half e gown. my biao sao eventually changed her mind and decided to take what I've chosen too. She said she also prefer e colour combination and have no choice but to sacrifice e part where e full gown cannot be seen.
wahs.. the bridal shop seems very popular! alot of customers coming in. heard that it's always full house during e wkends. my biao sao wanted to choose a tea dress - traditional red Kua but they were so busy and no one could entertain her and they gotta fix another appt with them next time. their biz too gd man! otherwise, i will get to see 1st hand which Kua she's wearing on e AD.
Rushed back to my cousin's hse (it's my 1st time going after so long!) to discuss on the seating chart of the wedding banquet. who to sit where, with who, blah blahs.. e names are more or less out, just that we need to finalise everything b4 sending out the invitation cards. it's ashamed that my cousin, biao sao and my handwriting really cannot make it. if not, we will love to write on e card! they mentioned abt how nice my dad's handwriting was. he used to write chinese calligraphy. not many young generation like us can master this skill. anyway, we decided to get the help of my cousin's parents to write on e wedding cards. my auntie is funny also! halfway thru e discussion, she suddenly took out a very old wedding invitation card and it belongs to my parent's wedding in 1977. there I saw my dad's handwriting on it. it's memorable and priceless! anyway, we just got everything settled with a little hiccup here and there b4 rushing off again.
This time, we were at Suntec, the wine fair outside Carrefour. Wow, it's interesting to note that alot of wedding couples were buying bottles of red wines too. it's so much cheaper. there's alot of brands.. but we got a very gd tip. dun buy too exp ones if ur guest dun really know how to appreciate wines, they will just drink and waste it. we tried a few. some are really strong and heavy that i dun like. I forgotten e brands of e wine. not familiar with the terms they used either. from here, i also learnt smth. it's by consignment basis. if we cannot finish the wine, nvm. they even allow us to return how many percent of e bottles depending on how many we buy. so if we buy 36 bottles for a certain brand, i think we can return 9 fully sealed bottles to them if i'm not wrong. like that, there's no wastage, gd also! eventually we bought 36 wines costing $16+ each. U.P is $25. Save so much!! If got POSB saving card, can have further 5% disc but come to think of it, can only save $30 over dollars, we might as well forget it since we can't borrow from my cousin's sister. the wine fair really came at a gd timing!! Got them to arrange to deliver e wine to the restaurant on e AD. We dun even need to buy anything back home. cool!
Then it's time for dinner! my cousin's treat at Pastamania. at 1st i wanna treat them but ended up, was convinced by them. we were all famished by then and drank too much red wine w/o anything in e stomach earlier on. hahaha. happy time passes really fast. soon it's 10pm plus and next day is a working day, so we have no time to waste but to finish up with what we have and just chop chop go back. It's nice to be gg out with them since they have transport and bcos I live so near my biao sao, no need to feel paiseh if i want them to send me back since my cousin also has to send biao sao home.
Nice day spent. Thankful for everything!
11:30 PM.
