Happily ever after...

2 of my favourite pictures...

We R Married!

Guo Da Li, 25th Feb 06

from the groom......

Show me the money!!!

 

From the bride's family to the groom's family.

Food tasting sessions with both familes.

 

one mth away..........

and we r so unprepared! the guest lists are in a mess and the last we counted, there's now a total of about 85 tables!!! and it seems like it will keep increasing..the folks have gone crazy...

and the house is still not completed! argh................................

we r the giants..

Got both the sofa n coffee table over the weekends! sorry guys, u'll jus have to walk crab style when u come over, cos the set is huge n our living hall is jus so tiny. Haaa..........but we jus love it for it's massive size. Nicky has pronounced us "The Giant" couple cos we seem to like everything big and have requested for alot of things to b bigger n higher than the standard sizes.

Hard at work...while I skive n play wif the camera

 

Productive Week(end)

We got the Iman dining set!!! Yeah!!! cost quite a bit but after 1-2 mths of contemplating, we decided we JUST got to have it. It is beautiful with its' simple lines, nothing fancy, something which we both like. We have viewed hundreds of dining sets and each time, we just kept comparing them to the Iman. So by last week, I told darl that we shld go ahead n get it. Our petrol costs over the many weeks prob already total up to a pretty neat sum. So when u girls come over to party, make sure u take care of my precious dining set ok! I'll kill anyone who bangs against it or spills wine on it. It's not a threat, it's a promise! hahahaha...

Besides the dining set, we also got the lights all settled. Pretty nice uncle who attended to us. He gave discount without asking and helped us save cost by dishing out good ideas. At one point I was checking out crystal lights which cost abt $150-$200 ea (small ones), and he actually said "dun wan lah. buy the downlights/halogen lights, makes ur foyer looks neater n nicer" The downlights cost less than $20 ea, if I remember correctly. He also gave some tips on feng shui which was funny cos it made us buy less lights frm him. He's also not pushy which I really like.

As for the paint, we too settled that with Nicky, the ID (finally!). Rite, I ate my words and went thru the colour scheme wif my dearest again. But I must say, the new colours should look better than what we first picked. We checked out the 1st coat on Sun, and they look nice. They should be a shade darker when the house's complete.

Next on the "to do" list will be sound/ entertainment system. Went all the way to Adelphi yesterday only to find K.E.C. closed. So we checked out Jamo (irene's recommendation). Pretty good and not too ex. The sound's really clear as mentioned by Irene, clearer than the Bose Lifestyle 28 and one grand cheaper. The speakers n woofer r big thou but we both decided that if we r not getting the Bose (known for its' cube size speakers), we might as well go all the way and get huge ones! More shiok! However, as it's not a cheap investment, we want to check out a few more before we decide. So we r going again this week and hopefully make a final decision come Sat, if not Nicky will start to panic cos he needs to know the measurement of the "Am" before he can start on carpentery work. This is one chore I am happy to do. Will bring my own music CDs to check out the systems and I'll have u know that I am now an expert on the movie "Hero" Scene 17 (i think), chess n rain drops effects!

Crazy...........

It's offical. I am going crazy and the cause of it is non other than a certain Mr Ng. From Sun till now, i have already lost count on how many times he has re-chosen our house colours. I have decided not to participate in this chore from now on. So if u guys think my house colours are darn weird or ugly, blame it on him and of cos, if u think they are very nice..the credit will go to him. If i contine to "play" along with him, i swear i'll end up wif a heart attack.
While I understand he is really trying very hard to chose the best paint to suit our needs (prevent cracks etc), it is really quite ....(argh)......to pick, repick, pick and repick again rite. Even my bro was shaking his head when he saw how Mr Ng was studying the colour guide. Sigh...I have decided not to shift in the coming 10 years! It's too hard on me....

It's our 7th anniversary today...

Today also means we have been engaged for a year. And when i remember the day he proposed, I also remember Simin. She had been his assistant that day, helping WX to keep me away from my room for hours. She was so funny with all her giggles and screams whenever I happened to walk pass my room. Though she tried real hard to do a good job, her weakness was a soft heart. after 5 mins of non-stop whining frm me, she gave in to my request for a tiny peek but i swear I didn't see a thing. I was jus hvaing fun teasing her. I think she had loads of fun that day. Sad thing was, she never got her reward. All she wanted was a pizza treat.

Anyway, it has been 7 years but it's funny how it doesn't feel like it has been so long. Though i tell everyone we are such an old couple, seriously it feels more like 2-3 yrs. I'll like to think we can maintain this lovey dovy feeling forever. We'll be the sweet old ah ma and ah gong who hold hands in the park. hahaha...

Oh ...o....

Oh..o...the mr is darn pissed with me for not gg to the doc.

1st session with Lola/Laura, the designer..

 

The ladies choosing their pics & family portraits

 

Grand?

Does the venue of the banquet determines if a wedding is grand?

the piles of rejects

I think we were quite ruthless when it came to rejecting the pictures.

the pictures are out........

That's us with the selected pictures!
According to our photographer David, he took close to 1000 pictures of us and family. took us hours to go through the pile of pictures. We step into the studio at 3pm and left the place at only 9.20pm.

I confess that I was really, really worried about the pictures after our photoshoot. We even discussed abt the possibility of re-taking the pictures. But i must now say, I am quite pleased with David's work. He may look kinda ah beng (wx words), but he does noe his stuff. But of cos, what pleases me may not be for another person. my mum for one think they r "hhmm....ok lor" and my sis was more interested in her own pictures.

Yvonne must have gone home a happy woman last nite. She's our coordinator btw. We were much poorer when we left the studio. She said she expected us to go all the way to 10k!?? (this is additional top up we are talking about, excluding the package amount ok..) Mad.... I wasn't willing to spend so much on pictures, 3 k was my max and i was trying hard to convey that message to weesiong by punching hard on the calculator and shoving it in his face. but the sweetie decided it's once in a lifetime and he wants me to have the pictures. Aww.....i vow to be more docile and sweet from now on..

so there...we prob have to eat grass for a couple of months and looks like we ain't gg anywhere for honeymoon. not straight away I mean. At the crazy rate we are spending on the house reno and wedding prep, we are going broke soon. I thank God i m not a woman into details. imagine if i m, the cost will only keep escalating.

a room wif 2 doors.

Can u tell this is the same room as the one posted below?