The Nightingale: The Wedding ❤

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It's done.

We cannot thank our guests enough for gracing their presence at our wedding, because it's really the blessings that made it super special.

A huge mega mega mega thank you to our brothers and sisters who did so much for us and without complaints. So touched and blessed! :)

Apparently the gate crash lasted for ONE HOUR long, and it was tough (like... VERY tough). My groom so poor thing! He was all sweaty and tired-looking (with some leftover lipstick nonetheless) when he fetched me and so I gave him a passionate muack.

Okay, this is SOP lah, so it wasn't much of a reward (LOL).

There were too many memorable moments to write and so I have no idea where to begin... It was a day of frenzy and more frenzy, but of course there's fun! We had our actual day photoshoot at Changi Airport Terminal 3 due to the unstable weather instead of the Punggol Lalang field but we had fun nonetheless. :) Update with more photos later when my photographer returns his goods! The most memorable part of our wedding was the first march-in. I was in between laughter and tears.

Tears - because I was so touched by the blessings from all our loved ones. There were no words to describe the overwhelming feeling I had (being the drama queen I am, yup).

Laughter - because we were almost buried alive by flower petals. I heard some people just HURLED the plates of petals onto us (thanks ah lol). ALOT of the petals went into my cleavage and I had to pick them out discreetly (while ascending the stage - I hope no one saw me do that *tak glam*).

The wedding planning journey was long and arduous, but I must say I have GREAT taste (buay hiao bai abit) and engaged super awesome vendors. :)

La Belle Couture - Peiwen was my coordinator and I adored her! She wasn't pushy at all when we were BS shopping and gave us great service. LBC was actually the first shop we went to but we signed with them anyway without looking at the rest. We didn't regret it one bit! They had many many beautiful gowns and it was so hard to choose! I thought I wouldn't have as much choices, being big-sized and all but surprisingly that wasn't an issue. Peiwen also gave good suggestions when picking out my gowns. My husband also had a fair pick of groom's jackets! There were a greater variety than I expected for guys, and he picked a pearl beige one for his day suit and a navy striped one for night.

Peiwen was very prompt in replies and proactive in scheduling appointments. I must compliment Vivi, my MUA from LBC as well. She has magic fingers! I love how she made my MU so glamorous yet not too over the top, and she was so fun and chirpy to talk to. Never a dull moment with her!

Yumetori - My live band consists of Ariel the vocalist and emcee, Ian the keyboardist, Amos the vocalist cum guitarist and Alvin on drums. Ariel has a lovely velvet voice that filled the venue and made it so complete. She's a pretty good emcee too! The band really played a huge part in uplifting the ambience and we loved it. :) I will definitely recommend Yumetori to everyone!

Moving Pics - A billion kudos to CP, my videographer! The SDE was WOW!!! I took a peek through the door and I think many of my guests were blown away because I heard nothing less than fantastic comments. I kept laughing! The footages were all so brilliant. I can't wait to watch the full video! Will most probably screen it at our housewarming party next year. :D

Darren Francis - Darren is so fun and engaging, always making people laugh/smile when they looked stiff while taking photos. I havent seen his works yet but I had a sneak preview of one photo from our mini photoshoot at the airport and I loved it! When taking table to table photos he was also super fast and good at people arrangement. My dad said he liked him alot (though he havent seen any photos yet lol).

Thanks to my dad for lending us his car as well! My Rilakkuma wedding bears totally stole the show on the road, people were smiling and pointing to it when we stopped at the traffic light, lol.

I loved my wedding and I'm missing every moment of it already. Best memories I ever had. :)

My married life has officially started - so excited for the next chapter of our lives! HUAT AH!

We just had our final 姐妹 meeting this morning, at North Point and I had alot of thoughts on the way home.

The realism of everything is setting in. "老娘 is having a wedding! ._." I'm going to be criticized by the husband for being so slow (again) but oh wells. D:

I've had people asking me "So how? Are you excited?" Yes and no. Yes because I'm sure it's going to be best event of my life. No because I'm a micro-managing a**hole.

My bridesmaids/sisters have been very encouraging and helpful throughout the planning journey, and I'm glad to have picked out really great ones. :D I feel and know, that these girls are doing their very best for me. It's strange, the way fate works, to be able to meet people that truly accept and believe in me, and they put in so much effort for me to be happy. You don't meet alot of people like that usually, but then there's this bunch. :) So blessed.

Thanks to them, I had a mad awesome bachelorette's party on 1st December.

Hen's Night!

Crazy bride-to-be. RAWR.

They arranged for a surprise self-shot photoshoot at Cheezz Studio! More photos to be uploaded later because my notebook currently does not have a CD drive to extract the pictures. >_< Then I was brought to Bugis+ to do a load of crazy things on a dare... I can only say, I die also will not step into Bugis+ for the next ten years. PAISEH DIE ME LOR. >_<" And then we went to K-Suites for ktv! I felt so heng sai because I can't drink to save my life so I'm not really into the clubs thing, plus I really like ktv (no secret there!).

It's the first time we went K-Suites and the sound system was really good! Food not bad too. However the staff there were damn stingy, don't let us upgrade room though not much people were there! It was 老娘's bachelorette's night leh! *rolls eyes* After constant haggling by my sister, they "upgraded" us to another room which was only slightly less claustrophobic. *rolls eyes again*

The night ended pretty early, with some logistics trouble I had with Gin Thye (long story, and I was super upset!) but I loved the night. Will remember this night forever. :D

Guo Da Li

The next day, I had my 過大禮. It was really a 過大禮 "party" where people come to collect cakes instead of having to drive everywhere to give them out! A stroke of genius.

Huat ah!

Believe it or not, I had about 65 cakes in total, not including the extra Bengawan Solo vouchers my mum bought. Can open cake shop already! I had one or two of the cakes (my mum bought extra, not from husband so I never break any traditions ok!) and they were yummy! I love traditional cream cakes with the gooey colourful syrupy things on top.

However there was a huge screw-up by Gin Thye. My mum ordered extra 15 boxes of Cantonese cakes and 2 of the boxes were wrong - they gave us cream cakes instead, which was okay lah... chin chye lor... But the thing was...

Looks nice from far right?

Look again! GINORMOUS PATCH OF MOLD!!! D:

The cakes looked good on top, but the sides were darkened... and there were cobweb-like stuff all around the cakes. What would've happened if we never opened up to check? People could've gotten food poisoning from this! I will be reporting this to NEA/AVA, possibly after my wedding. Imagine the contamination in their chiller for all the other cakes! Sigh. We forced them to replace the two boxes of cakes, and they still had the cheek to tell us to go collect from their outlet. It's like... "HELLO? I'm having my 過大禮 now???" =_= Then they relented and sent the two boxes to my door step eventually.

Other than that, overall, 過大禮 ended without much incident. :)

The countdown begins. SEVEN DAYS TO GO! D:

The rush begins! Countdown is less than a month now. So many wedding preps undone. D: There's really alot on my mind nowadays. Really stressed out. :(

Stuff to do:

~~Fix appointment with La Belle Couture for final fitting and choosing accessories~~ - Done; 10 Dec, 7.30pm

Confirm make-up artist for MIL's make-up on 15 Dec and sister's make-up on 16 Dec.

Confirm wet weather programme for mini-photoshoot during AD.

Order helium balloons for mini-photoshoot.

Buy flower hair accessories for sisters.

Finish planning AD schedule.

Emcee script.

Data entry and formatting for guest list & seating arrangement.

Mail out invites.

DIY: Angpao boxes x 2

DIY: Reception standees

DIY: Love Contract

And so forth... can't remember! D:

HDB appointment is happening next Friday! I dunno what to expect, but I do hope everything goes well...

Things to bring for the first HDB appointment:

Both our I/Cs

Marriage certificate

Resale checklist (with our agent)

Letter of Offer (from the bank)

Option to Purchase (just in case, not listed in HDB website)

Most likely getting our keys in the first week of Jan and we can officially start renovation! :) Since we're not rushing for CNY, I'm thinking of halting the works one week before CNY and continue one week or so after that... should be in time to move in by March.

Bits & pieces of my wedding stuff/decorations...

Rilakuma wedding bears for car decoration. Super cutez! Best purchase ever.

Ginormous 'Xi'!

An assortment of 'Xi's.

Wedding angpows.

Cute in a 'cheena' way wedding album.

Red fan for me to 'drop' when the wedding car goes off.

Red umbrella to shelter me from any lurking evil within the vicinity or something.

Ferris wheel photo frame! Am going to display this during reception.

Glass photo frame from my taiwanese bridal. Going to display this at the reception as well!

It's kind of weird having a wedding that is going to last two days long, but... at least I'll get to wear another gown. *positive*

No time to lose my arm fats! ...I hope my photographer has rad photoshop skills.

I was eating non-stop for the week and after during mid-October as laoniang became officially 27.

Korean BBQ for dinner on 12 Oct with colleagues. Delightfully 'meatilicious'.

The husband was working on my actual birthday, so he brought me out for sushi at Itacho on 13 Oct.

I forgot the name of this... tamagoyaki-something. See, I'll totally suck as a food blogger. ._. But this was delicious. The eggs went so perfectly with whatever's inside.

The husband wanted to buy me a whole cake, but I decided on having tea (at like 9pm lol) instead. We went into Pique Nique, a nifty looking cafe place.

My cake tasted quite dry and crappy. Husband's cake tasted aLOT better. I'm such a bad judge of cakes.

It wasn't a lavish affair, but I was pretty happy with the celebration. :)

On 14 Oct, I had food tasting for my wedding at Intercontinental on 16 Dec... which more or less turned out to be a free birthday dinner with the family.

Needless to say, the food was amazing. They had real crab meat (not the NTUC crabsticks hor!) in their fried rice and HUGE (like REALLYYYYY HUGE) portions for everything. The fish was my favourite... I would eat all ten if I could.

On my actual birthday on 15 Oct, I nua-ed for most of the day and joined the husband plus the 二姐 gang (lol :x) at Poulet, the french chicken place at Bugis+. The queue was LONG but I was late, so... it was our turn when we made it. :P

Tasted pretty good overall! I'll keep this place in mind. :D

Had my second food tasting for my wedding at M hotel during that same week. Food was pretty good too! The garnishing wasn't too desirable but generally the food was great.

Felt shiok to see our names on screen! *suaku*

Overall satisfied! :)

Ariel from Yumetori (check them out! :D), my wedding band, came to recce as well, and we agreed to top-up for the sound system because we felt it was necessary. We're having a four-piece band with vocals, guitarist, keyboards and percussion.

Final Song List

First March-in: It’s Real – Olivia Ong

Second March-in: 一家一 – 梁静茹 & 张智成

Wishes – Emi Fujita

Layla Kayliff – Shakespeare in Love

Bubbly – Colbie Caillat

Rest of my life – Bruno Mars

Nothing’s Gonna Change My Love For You – George Benson

最浪漫的事 –赵咏华

When you say nothing at all – Ronan Keating

Far Longer Than Forever - Regina Belle & Jeffrey Osborne

You and Me – Olivia Ong

Yellow – Coldplay

最想环游的世界 – 梁静茹

Always you – Charice Pempengco

Just you and me – Zee Avi

I wanna be with you – Mandy Moore

Two Words – Lea Salonga

Close to You

今天你要嫁给我 - 陶吉吉 & 蔡依林

I want to hold your hand – Beatles

Let Me Be Your Wings – Thumbelina Soundtrack

Every breath you take – Sting/Emi Fujita

Way Back into Love – Hugh Grant & Haley Bennett

We agreed that we'll open song dedications for the second half of the wedding... I have to remember to place song dedication notes on each table! I hope it'll be fun. :)

Checklist of things to bring around in bride's bag during AD:

Bride's items

1) Handphone, house keys, I/C, money pouch.
2) Make-up pouch (to touch up!)
3) Wet wipes/make-up remover
4) Tissue paper & wet tissue
5) Pen
6) Safety pins
7) White chalk
8) Basic sewing kit
9) Oil Blotter
10) Mints
11) Hairspray
12) Bottle of water with straw
13) Hair pins
14) Eyelash glue
15) Compact mirror
16) Handiplast & Panadol

Groom's items

1) Handphone, house keys, I/C, money pouch.
2) Wet wipes/make-up remover
3) Tissue paper
4) Pen
5) Hair wax
6) Compact mirror
7) Oil blotter
8) Gastric Pills/Medicated Oil/Panadol/Charcoal Pills for Diarrhoea (LOL)

Checklist of things to bring to hotel on AD:
(other than the above)

Bride's items

1) Wedding Gown
2) Evening Gown
3) Make-up pouch (to touch up!)
4) Hair and Wear-on Accessories to match with the all the gowns
5) Shoes for 1st & 2nd March-in
6) Floral bouquet

Groom's items

1) Suit for 1st-march in
2) Suit for 2nd-march in
3) Bow-ties/ties
4) Cuff-links
5) Belt
6) Tailored Shirts
7) Corsages
8) Socks for March-in
9) Shoe pads

Miscellaneous items

1) Wedding Album
2) Big Portrait
3) Decorative Items (to list down in details)
4) Guest Book
5) Guest List to take attendance
6) ROM Highlights DVD
7) Pre-wedding Slideshow CD

Right. It's like 2 and a half months' away and I'm feeling less than ready. *snorts*

Schedule
6 Oct - Getting our wedding invites from T-Dragon
14 Oct - Food-tasting @ Intercontinental + Choosing themes & favours
21 Oct - Food-tasting @ M Hotel + Choosing themes & favours (Recce by Yumetori)
27 Oct - Bridesmaids' Meeting (work out agenda with Angela)

Outstanding Stuff
- Wedding Bears
- 喜 stickers
- Tea Set
- Bedsheets
- Purchase of Bridesmaids' dresses
- Pearl earrings
- Angpow for helpers
- Guestlist (my parents' side)
- Angpow Box (Bird cages?)
- Love Contract
- Reception Decor
- Wedding cakes
- AD schedule (to email to Darren Francis & CP Moving Pics)
- Final decision on location for mini-photoshoot
- Book manicure appointment
- Final fitting in December (date/time TBC)

So much to do, but so little time...

Went for my make-up trial at La Belle Couture today... for some reason, my coordinator seemed quite 'high'! :P

Okay, my expression was damn act cute during the session... the MUA kept making me giggle and laugh! I had fun, and felt so comfortable with her. :D

I don't worry that much about make-up because (1) my MUA Vivi has good reviews (2) I actually don't look very different without make-up... to most MUAs I should be some sort of an idiot-proof palette. But Vivi still managed to wow me... I loved it! I felt like some Korean chiobu.

Probably will look a little more dramatic when Vivi puts on falsies for me on my actual wedding. I never really liked my lower lashes because they trap dust easily and it's damn annoying. Finally see them put to great use! I actually liked my lower lashes after make-up. :D

After the trial, we went to Tonkotsu King for ramen. It is like THE best ramen in my list!

Located at #01-19 of Orchid Hotel at Tras Link, it is a stone's throw away from Tanjong Pagar MRT Station and it's always crowded on weekday evenings. Thankfully, we reached there at an awkward timing and there weren't that many people.

They have free-flow tau gey and hard boiled eggs! The tau gey was quite yummy, especially considering that I'm not a tau gey person. I opt out tau gey for my mee rebus, vhar kway teow and laksa, and I cringe at the sight of a tau gey dish... but the tau gey at Tonkotsu King was good.

For the ramen, you can either choose the standard Tonkotsu Ramen, the Red Spicy version or the Black Spicy version, and you'll have options for nori/seaweed topping, the egg (runny yolk!), or all of the above. Both the husband and I ordered the Red Spicy version, and "all of the above" for toppings. :P

The broth was thick and flavourful but not overpowering... the chunks of chashu were HUGE (can't really see from pic, they're under the noodles)... and the ramen was soft and chewy... Mmm. *slurp* I'll be heading there again soon!

Confirmed the text and layout of my cards the night before at T Dragon! :)

I opted out of inserts and decided to print onto the cards themselves instead. This is such genius technology, because I don't have to tie strings for over 200 inserts! *pops champagne* I'm the laziest bride in the world... :x Anyway I think the shiny gold hot-stamping is pretty chio, and 'ching-cheong' enough for relatives. They don't have a sample of shiny gold text on my pink card, but they showed me another card's design with the shiny gold hot-stamping and it's gorgeous! They're sending me the draft layout some time tomorrow before I confirm them for print.

Counting down, three months (and one day) left to the wedding! >_<

Chosen my wedding invites! Red for 男方 and pink for 女方 at T Dragon, the appointed supplier for our venue - M Hotel.

The designs mostly were super blah and traditional, and I seriously don't really wanna top-up for other invitation designs because I know people will throw these away and use as shitting paper or something... but THIS! This isn't bad at all, and I like it. It's HUAT enough for the older generation to like it, but not TOO orbiang. I like the little birds and the modern-looking fonts.

Was thinking of printing inserts at T&T over at JB side but hubs thought that it's too troublesome and we should just do it at T-Dragon. I'm okay I guess, think it's pretty inconvenient to head to JB as well, considering that we are car-less. Will need to work out the invitations required and place order for the inserts soon!

Another thing down! We'll be engaging Yumetori for my wedding's live band. :) Met Ariel over Starbucks and she was a really sweet gal. She was pretty surprised that I found them, considering that they haven't set up their website and stuffs yet, haha! The Power of Google yo. She has also sung for other bands like A Little Dream, and she has a really nice voice. I'm getting a 3-pc band with her as the vocalist, a keyboardist and a guitarist, and will be engaging their emcee service as well. They'll drop by the place to check out the sound system and everything during our food-tasting session sometime in October. :)

Time to work out the song list!

Having a live band is pretty important to us, because music works wonders for creating the ambiance of love... and we're both simply music lovers. Hope our guests enjoy it!

I seriously DO think that this is the best part of pre-wedding preps - picking out your wedding dress! :D Well, I never really had a "dream wedding dress" per se, but I do have a preference for tulle which was a pretty simple criteria.

At about 2pm, we arrived at my bridal studio and I told Pei Wen (who is my coordinator btw) what kind of gowns I liked. Angela and Joey came along, and I don't think I would know what to do without them! At least they're able to give more constructive feedback than the hubs who only says stuff like "OK" and "Nice!" and "Not bad!". D: But anyways it was the most enjoyable experience.

Think I tried about 10 rounds of wedding gowns, and I finally decided on this one!

I majorly photoshopped my arm but didn't do a very good job... Too lazy to perfect it. Time to lose some flab. -_- I also had this really kooky smile for some reason. How come no one told me I was smiling stupidly?! Must be the lace. I love the lace details at the bottom of the skirt. The skirt was pretty bling with sequins(?) or something in the under-lying layer of tulle. In the daytime, the bling will be pretty and understated. At night, when spotlight is cast on meh, the sequins will catch the light and I WILL BE A SUPER DA-BLING BRIDE! :D Shiny is good, hiak hiak.

Okay and so I picked this.

I was more worried about the selection of evening gowns... they either have too much details (somehow other girls look good in detailed gowns but I will look like a getai singer!), or they look like D&D dresses (not too bad either, if you're going for simple and classy)... when I didn't know what to do with myself, my dear coordinator brought out this new gown which I think will be in the September collection. OH MY HEART!

Fleshy girls can wear chio gowns too ok. They have other chio gowns but personally I feel this one beats the rest hands down. I like the uniqueness of the colour, the chocolate-coloured overlay on the skirt, the A-line neckline, and the motif-ish waist part, whatever that's called. It's perfect. Okay, I admit that both my wedding and evening gowns look essentially the same but WHAT THE HECK I just prefer puffy gowns to hide my huge ass - makes me feel more confident too. The skirt is actually also glittery from underneath (can't see from the picture though), so I will be DA-BLING! again for my second march-in!!! Hiaks.

I feel like a princess - albeit a size 14 one. :D

We were officially married on the 24th of March, 2012. :)

Our solemnization event was held at TAB, Orchard Hotel, and it was fabulous.

I sincerely thank all my friends, especially Angela and Joey, who helped me pull through my preparations. It had been truly tough, as my then-fiance had to fly around for work and I had to cope with many things alone. The event could have been better, as there were quite a few screw-ups throughout, but overall it was okay and I was happy. We were happy. :) All the people who mattered in our lives were in attendance and we're glad that they could witness this very significant event in our lives. This sounds pretty cliche, but it's really the company that matters most. :)

More photos! I didn't include photos of family members for their privacy, just in case they mind.

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