Wedding Preparation - 过大礼

Tomorrow will be one of the big days before our actual wedding day. Yes that's right, 过大礼 (Guo Da Li).

We have been busy with our 过大礼 preparation for the past few days. Yesterday, dar and myself went back to our hometowns separately for the preparation.

过大礼Checklist is a rather long list. e.g. Lotus, dates, sugar, salt, noodle, hard liquor, fruits etc. The most important items for the entire 过大礼 event is no other but 礼金 (Cash gifts) and 礼饼 (wedding pastry). Thanks dar and my mom-in-law for preparing all the necessary items. Really appreciate it :)

Our 过大礼 will be on tomorrow. Dar shall be arriving my place at 11am for the event. Hence he shall depart from Ipoh at 7.30am!

Guess tomorrow will be another tiring day for both of us. Gotta head to bed soon! Tomorrow will be a great day! ;)

Wedding Preparation Progress Report

1. Finalize Guest List: 80%
2. Send Invitation Card: 50%
3. Arrangement/ Program Discussion with Photographers: 50%
4. Arrangement/ Program Discussion with Videographer: 30%
5. Arrangement/ Program Discussion with Wedding Planner cum Emcee: 80%
6. Food arrangement (catering) on Wedding eve: Unknown
7. 办嫁妆: 100%
8. 赎契 and other stuff relevant to Chinese Tradition: 0%
9. Arrangement with Concorde/ Tai Thong: 80%
10. Select Wedding Gown : 100%
11. Collect Wedding Gown : 0%
12. Order hand bouquet/ Corsages: 0%
13. Arrangement/ Program Discussion with brotherhood （兄弟）: 50%
14. Arrangement/ Program Discussion with sisterhood （姐妹）: 30%
15. Arrangement with Make-up artist: 90%

16. Wedding Reception Checklist Preparation: 0% - High Priority
17. Wedding Actual Day Checklist Preparation: 0% - High Priority
19. Wedding Ang Pow: 0%
20. Purchase Wine/ Hard Liquor: 100%
21. Collect Wedding Albums: 100%
22. 过大礼 'Guo Da Li' preparation: 80%
23. Distribute Wedding Pastry （派喜饼）: 0%
24. Arrange Accommodation for friends and relatives: 80%
25. Prepare Thank You Gifts to sisterhood: 80%
26. Print Poster: 50%
27. Purchase Wedding Ring: 100%
28. Finalize Wedding Theme for Wedding Reception: 100%
29. Finalize Wedding Theme for brotherhood: 100%
30. Finalize Wedding Theme for sisterhood: 100%
31. Buy soft toys for wedding car decoration: 0%
32. Confirm Wedding Dinner Menu: 100%
33. Book Pre-Honeymoon Package: 100%
34. Plan for Honeymoon: 0%
35. Facial Treatment/ Spa: 0%
36. Hair Waxing: 0%
38 Manicure/ Pedicure: 0%
39. Shop for Wedding Shirt: 0%
40. The list goes on...



P/S: Wedding Reception RSVP closed. Thank you for replying.  For those who replied late, sorry to inform that the reception venue booked is insufficient to accommodate additional guest anymore. Really sorry about it.

Pre-Wedding Phobia?

Sorry for not being able to blog recently. We have not forgotten our blog. Nonetheless, we are very busy and our schedule is tied up with our wedding preparation.

'You don't want to get married twice after all the troubles in preparing a memorable wedding and the amount of the money you've spent or going to spend.' This is a Quote from someone... us..? or perhaps me..? Well... who cares.

Despite the money spent, (85% of our savings are gone now, sigh) we find wedding is very troublesome, no kidding. And, Chinese wedding is even more troublesome, especially when your parents are very demanding and they are the 'just-follow-rules' kind of people.


If you ask me what is a wedding to me...? Well, it is supposed to be a new beginning of another chapter in life for a couple, and hence it shall be a once-in-a-lifetime experience that shall be remembered for the entire life of the couple. However, in order to start the new chapter in life, the couple need to go through lotsa lotsa obstacles (that's right, wedding preparation) that are trying to challenge the couple's patient. Okay I am about to exploit!

Besides, guest list is always an issue. Seriously, it evolves just like the earth! Our KL guest list started from 25 tables to 33 tables, and to 43 tables now. Even the reception venue booked cannot accommodate this amount of people and we need to look for alternatives. This is seriously crazy!

Luckily things are so far going well in Ipoh. Thank god. (Just in case if you do not know, we have 2 wedding receptions, one in KL and another in Ipoh. Hence we need to take care of our family, friends & relatives at two locations.)

Seriously, I do not enjoy the process, not at all. Maybe I have got pre-marriage phobia. It is so stressful and sometimes things just pissed me off.

I always question myself recently... 'Is this what I want?'; 'Is everybody facing the same situation as we are now?'; 'Is it worth it to spend all our savings just for a wedding?';blah blah blah... and the list goes on.

These questions keep bugging me, and I am just so tensed!! Sometimes I wonder how nice it would be if the money is spent on our honeymoon...?

Sigh I really don't know. I'm trying so hard to gain some, at least a little excitement, but I just find it is so hard... Sigh... God bless us please. I need a break. What I am longing for is actually the pre-honeymoon in Phuket right after our wedding. How sad it is.


Written by MM



P/S: P1W1max sucks!

Wedding Preparation - Guest List & Other Stuff

Life's been rather busy recently. Apart from busy compiling the receptions' guest list, we also made a decision, that is to rent an apartment nearby the place where we are staying now, as the condo we bought is still under construction and not ready for us to move in.

Here is our checklist in August:

• Book accommodation for our relatives and friends - Done
  
• Compile our Wedding Guest List - Partially Done
  
• Learn Photoshop to touch-up some of our wedding photos before they can be printed into album - Not Done
  
• Build/ Come out with our wedding site - Done
• Shop for necessary stuffs for our new home; i.e. furniture, electrical-ware, kitchen-ware etc - Partially Done
• Clean the new home and ready to move in - Partially Done
• Pack our stuff to shift to the new home - Not Done
• What's next? Our minds are empty now
  

Shifting is messy. Shopping for the new home already gives us a headache. What to buy? What not to buy? Our shopping list is restricted by the budget we have.

From furniture like Sofa TV cabinet, beds, tables, dining set, kitchen cabinet, wardrobe, to electricalware like Washing machine, Fridge, Rice Cooker, Air-Cond, Microwave Oven, Hair dryer, Iron, Ironing Board and other small small thingy like pails, broom, dustbin, mirror etc etc... The "What to buy? What not to buy?" questions are still bothering us.

Besides headache, it also gives is a heartache. What a great damage it causes to our wallet. Oh my! Gotta work extra hard to earn the money back!

Despite the busy schedule, we managed to come out with our wedding website. Thanks to mywedding.com for providing such a wonderful tool, it is very user-friendly and most importantly, it's 100% free XD

Herewith is the URL to our wedding page: www.mywedding.com/ansonmimi.

Feel free to drop by and leave us some words ;) And, for our friends, esp. the INVITED ONES who have yet to confirm your attendence to our wedding reception, kindly do so via the RSVP page on our wedding portal. Thanks mates.

What's next? Yeah can finally recall now, after urging you for the confirmation of RSVP ;P What's next is our checklist in September

• Red Wine Tasting, Selection & Purchase - Not Done
• Food Tasting - Not Done
• Table (Head) Count Confirmation with both Tai Thong Ipoh and Concorde KL - Not Done
• Printing of Wedding Invitation Cards - Not Done
• Wedding Gown Selection (On actual day & Wedding Receptions) - Not Done

Oh my! Wedding is tiring! Chinese Wedding is even more tiring!!





P/S: My long-lost Engagement Ring is finally found, after it went missing in action for ages!! Yesh!!

Wedding Preparation: Wedding Card & Dinner Gowns

Both MM and I were rather busy during the weekend. Both our family met up to discuss on our wedding. Apart from the discussion, we also selected the wedding reception invitation card. Thanks to my cousin who works as a graphic designer for giving us some samples for reference.


MM and I prefer the western or Christian wedding cards better than the Chinese ones, but our parents think otherwise.



Though it is our wedding, but it seems to us that it is the wedding of our families rather than just the 2 of us. So our parents selected a Chinese style wedding card.


We also went shopping for wedding dresses or gowns. While mom was trying 旗袍 (Qi Pao) in the fitting room, I selected a few pairs of 旗袍 for MM to try.



I think she looks great in 旗袍, she did not buy any, though.

Wedding Photos - Where a blissful marriage begins...

Preview of some of our wedding photos taken few weeks ago...

Day 1: Indoor Studio Session

Day 1: Outdoor Photo Session

Day 2: Outdoor Photo Session

We have taken 400 photos, and have gotten the softcopies with no touch-up; nevertheless we are only allowed to choose 40 to be included in the albums. What a tough decision to make...

Pre-Weds Photo Session... Continue

During a pre-wedding photo session, a beautiful bride usually takes longer time for make-up than a groom.


Hence, while waiting for my Ms. Lovely Wife for her hair-do and makeup, I started to play around with my toy - that was to take photos around.


And here are some random shots..,


Noticed that her right eye was a lil' redish, it was due to allergy.

Finally... here comes my gorgeous wife, and we were ready for the shooting session.


Written by,
YS
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--Updated on June 16, 2009 by MM--

Talking about the wedding photo session, our wedding package comes with 8 poses or styles, hence it may take a whole day for the photo shooting. The photo session was supposed to be done in one day, however, we were a lil' unlucky on the 1st day.

On the photo shooting day, we arrived at Bliss (the bridal house) at 10.30am, and started the makeup session. Once done, we proceeded with the photo shooting session, that lasted for half a day and we managed to complete photo shooting for 4 poses in the studio. It was already 4.30pm so we quickly rushed to Kellie's Castle for outdoor session.

When we arrived at Kellie's Castle, the sky was a little gloomy, and it seemed like it was gonna rain soon. As expected, after snapping a few photos, it started to rain. Sigh. After grabbing a few snaps in the castle, we decided to go back to the studio. As it was raining very heavily, our bodies were all wet. Sigh.

It was already 6.30pm, we were very hungry as we did not have our lunch, and our bodies are all wet and cold, sigh.

Upon arrival at studio, we quickly grabbed a few bites of the "chap fan" the staff prepared for us and continue the photo session. Nonetheless, it was already 7++ pm so the photographer decided to arrange another photo session for us.

Therefore, we ended up having a 2-day session.

The session on 2nd day was rather relaxed as compared to the 1st day's. The outdoor session was rather tough, the weather was fine, though. This was because the photographer suggested a rather odd place for the outdoor session, and we sacrificed a lot for it. I'm not gonna disclose it. *Grin* Attend my wedding reception and you will know.

Overall, the photo session was tiring and stressful, but it was a very good and memorable experience for both dar and myself. We're looking forward for the photo selection soon! Can't wait to see them!

I'd also like to thank my buddy MK for helping me in looking for Lilies for my photo session. Thank you very much! Really appreciated it :)

I hope you like the prep photos posted by YS earlier, too.

Pre-Weds Photo Session

Just finished a two-day wedding photo session in Ipoh. The session took 2 days due to the bad weather (will blog more about what had happened), but thank god we made it :)


We are really exhausted after the two-day session. It was very tiring but yet it has given us unforgettable experiences and moments in life. Thank you to Ys and Mm for making this happen. It really means a lot to the both of us.

Wedding Gowns Selection

During the weekend, dar and I went to the bridal house for wedding gown selection. The chosen gowns will be used for wedding photo shooting session in June. It is my very 1st time in my entire life to wear wedding gowns! I was so 'kan-jeong' lah!

It was a vey tiring day. I tried more than 30 gowns, but am only allowed to choose 8 (2 from the designer collection and 6 from the VIP collection)!! Argh!! what a tough decision to make!! Dar claimed that it was the toughest decision to make in my life -_- duh!

Basically, the gowns that I have tried are all very nice! And it's no surprise that it took me 2 days to make up my mind.

Oops, almost forget to mention, I did not choose the gowns in the photos above, as there are others that are so much nicer that them. I like the 2 gowns, though.

Chinese Wedding Dinner Venue

Our wedding day (according to the Chinese Traditional Ceremony) is finally confirmed.


Things to do NOW:

1. Prepare the Wedding Dinner Guest List
2. Select a venue to host our wedding dinner.

-_______________-" Headache...