Wedding Updates

well well well,it's the 30th again... let me just summarise abt my wedding stuff

2 more months to my BIG DAY!! had done the following:

1) Collected my wedding albums n stuff from Seletar Broadway...
2) Food tasting
3) Mums' tea dresses
4) Re-trying of my EG.. had asked them to add more glittering bits on my EG
5) the making of invitation card to remind relatives of the Solemnisation ceremony
6) Customisation of our ring pillow!
7) Date for an chuang & guo da li
8) Selection of flat. ( waiting for approval of loan, n signing of lease )

Things not done:

1) Choosing of wedding favours
2) Choosing of wedding theme. ( had 1 in mind already )
3) Finalise guest list. ( almost 90% confirm )
4) Plan sitting arrangement. ( more or less ok )
5) Things for guo da li. ( ordering of cakes will b in Nov, my jia zhuang will get it done in Nov)
6) Send out invites. ( will start giving out grp by grp starting from this week )
7) Buy furniture to prepare for an chuang.
8) Food for the relatives on AD. ( had decided to order what already, but will book later)

More or less are these.. can't remember so much also... haha... starting from this week, every Sunday will b packed to meet diff grp of frds, for a gathering, n to pass them the wedding cards as well... COUNTING DOWN...... 30th Dec 2007!!!!

Food Tasting at Holiday Inn Atrium 27-10-07

we had our food tasting today at HIA... reached HIA at around 12.40pm... went to MotionImage 1st to pass them the photos, in order for them to do the montage for me.. but due to some photos which resolution were too small, i had to dig out some pics in hard copies and had to make another trip down to pass it to them...

went to meet our coordinator at around 1pm.. went into the Xin Cuisine,and waited for our food tasting dishes... which started at around 1.30pm...1st dish was this combination platter.. which has a glowing candle.. quite nice man.. having diff colours...

had all the 8 dishes... no much comments abt the dishes,as they tasted great... Bro n Bong liked the dessert.. the rice dumpling! the prawns were great too... very fresh n Q...

overall, we had good comments on the food.. initially i was thinking to change the Ee-fu noodles... but just now when we tasted it, not bad eh... i went to several wedding dinners, and their Ee-fu noodles were just ok... HIA's much better...

The steamed soon hock was a big fish! the chef said it's around 1kg... he assured me that on our AD, the fish will also b that big.. it surprised most of us, as when we go eat, the fish were always small.. but HIA's portion is big... n it's very fresh... though Bro said that the preserved vege dun really match well with the fish...

We didn't ask to change any dish.. as all of them nodded their heads that the food are all good... actually asked the chef is there's any other choices for the dessert.. but all so common, Bro said dun take.. he told me,it's ok just that it might b too full as a dessert... but those sago,n other common desserts dun interest me at all... they think that the red bean is a bit too sweet.. but the dumpling is super nice... so,we just asked him to make sure that the dessert isn't too sweet that day.. n he jotted it down our points too...

After the food tasting, we went to our ballroom n took a look at their layout, as there's a wedding dinner tonight.. we brought our CDs along to try it out... Ivan brought us to Seletar ballroom to take a look at the new theme, Copper theme... not bad, it's a new theme... Ivan said he'll take a pic of the theme n will send it to me.. then will choose the theme n wedding favours we want in Dec... i quite like it, so most prob will take the copper theme! favours wise, we like 1 of the favours... it's a secret... on my AD, then u see for yourself!

Wedding updates

Here i am... updating stuff on my wedding prep again...

Today,i took some time out to create a small card... a Solemnisation Invitation Card for our relatives... as we r holding our Holy Matrimony on the same day as our wedding day, so we will b busier than other couples... our solemnisation ceremony will b held in the hotel that same day.. but time is slightly earlier than the dinner banquet.. afraid that they will forget the time, so i decided to make a card, and will slot it into the invitation card... had given to Bong for approval... haha... just need slight amendment, then will print it onto the metallic white gold paper...

2nd thing to update... yesterday night was discussing with Bong, about our outdoor PS after tea ceremony. i told him, if we can think of other venues for outdoor PS.. initially shortlisted Botanical Gardens.. but think back, it's very common.. every1 go to the waterfall.. nothing new.. so after some discussions n suggestions... Bong asked me a question which woke me up for new ideas!!! He asked me,what if it rains that day? he suggested to go to our hotel for the PS instead.. hmm,y didn't i think of it? HIA is a good place too! i like the atmosphere there.. esp the lobby, n the space outside the ballroom... lightings r very romantic... we decided to have it there,n most imptly 2 places that we can't miss: Wedding suite, n the ballroom itself! GOOD idea i told him! n of course,i had always wished to have our brothers n sisters going to have the PS with us.. so we have 1 more place to go b4 proceeding to the hotel for PS.. is to NTU!! the park opposite the heritage centre!!! after the brothers n sisters had their pics taken with us,then we will proceed to respective places.. they go change clothes n do makeup,while we 2 go hotel for the rest of the PS!! we loved the idea!!!

3rd thing: Bong agreed to have our ring pillow customised!!! YES!!! i've contacted the person who does customised ring pillow! asked her to make it light blue.. n had the design i wanted.. now is to wait for the person to send me the wording style i wanted.. n how the ribbons n matching of colours of other decorations on the ring pillow,i leave it to the designer. hope she can send me the necessary infor soon, as she needs 1 month to complete... So happy!! after wedding, the ring pillow can put near our bed, to put our rings there when we r going to bed...

Hope i can follow up my wedding prep promptly, as there is no much time left. Though lots of ppl commented that i'm already very fast... tats y until now, i still dun feel the heat.. as i know most of the stuff, or to b more precise, the more troublesome stuff, we had already settled.. now is to wait for next Sat's food tasting at HIA, n passing of pics to MotionImage for the making of our photo montage!!! looking forward to it!!!

Wedding updates V - HDB appointment

it wasn't really related to my wedding updates.. haha.. coz it was supposed to b posts regarding to my wedding preparation.... but i think,getting married is not just getting wedding gowns, taking wedding album photoshoot, banquet... it should also include flat, n other stuff...

for those friends who koe my updates rather well, should know we had an appointment with HDB today... we reached early to get our queue number... n surprisingly, as our number was D0096, when we were there, the number has already at D0092... so we waited for quite some while, for ard 20min.. by right, the queue number will be called in sequence... so we were praying that by the time it reached our number,our 'shortlisted units' are still available...

but dunno y or somehow, the next number being called was D0095, after ard 20min later, our number was next... we went in, the lady asked if we had any units in mind.. Bong told her the block n unit we wanted, and luckily we managed to get it... she explained so many, regarding personal infor, salary, n forms, i already blur liao... quite troublesome as there r quite a number of forms n documents to get ready... so after paying the 2K deposit, we had to send the required documents n forms over within these 2 weeks.. had to wait for their letter to see if our HDB loan is approved or not, how many years of loan we can get, when go down sign etc... we spent ard 1 hour+ at HDB before having our breakfast cum lunch...

if all procedures are smooth n successful, we should b able to collect our keys in 3-4months time... btw, we applied a 4-room flat in Jurong West... our block will b 675A... 7th floor... floor area: 91sqm....

Blissful Brides Magazine Aug-Jan2008 Edition

Yesterday, i went to IMM with Bong n his family to Long Beach for dinner.... to celebrate his mum's birthday....

After dinner, we walked around, til i walked past the newspaper booth, i stopped to purchase Blissful Brides magazine. though getting married in another 2 months' time, but i still have the habit to buy the wedding magazines to take a look at the gowns n stuff...

I was reading the mag at his house, when i read the page which advertised Seletar Broadway Bridal Shop, which is the BS i engaged with, i saw a picture which was so familiar!! our wedding photo was published in that page!!

I was screaming, and all of them thought i was crazy.. i was laughing... then i showed them the page... though it was a small picture in the page, but it was a pleasant experience! this picture was 1 of the rejected ones... we were surprised that they actually published into their advertisement. Uncle did inform us last week, that they took 1 of our indoor church photo for display.. but i thought it was for the road show, so i didn't pay much of a notice... but who koes, it's in the magazine...

When we went for photo selection, Uncle told us that they loved our pictures, so eventually let us signed an agreement notice, that we allow them to use our wedding photos for display. Uncle loved our church photos, but we only like the ones we took outside the church, n not inside the church....

It was really a pleasant day to see our photo in the magazine... though it's taken back to back... but for ppl who koe us very well, might b able to recognise us, or even find the pic familiar... a small pic, but we were already very pleased, coz not all couples' wedding pic will b chosen to help their BS advertise... we felt blessed... i tore the page down, and will be keeping it.... by the way, it's page 237...

Dad's birthday 08-10-07

Today is our Chin family, Old Dog's birthday... We went to his favourite food court to have dinner... I went to fetch my bro 1st,then made our way to St91... we ordered the food 1st, then my parents arrived...

We ordered his favourite seafood CRABS!!! ordered 2 of them... some meat, vege, soup... N of course, not him paying the bill...





Everything was fine, just tat something was short... guess???



It was my sis Angie... well, babe, do u miss the food here??? Felt strange w/o u having birthday dinner together as a family... must come back soon ok?? stop trying to make it a secret!!!! All of us hope u can come back earlier....


Dad is turning 49 this year.. this old ah beng always eat so much of high cholestrol food.. mayb need u to persuade him!!!

Received HDB appointment letter

A piece of news,but dunno if it's good or bad...

Bong received the appointment letter from HDB, given a date 2 weeks later, to go down to HDB hub to select flat... Our date is 15/10/2007.. I dunno our appointment lies on which day of the selection period... Bcoz the web site has not updated anything abt our July ballot thingy...

I read up the article about the shortlisted applicants...
HDB will first invite applicants up to 2 times the flat supply to select a flat, before inviting the rest of the applicants who are further down the queue (subject to the availability of units and ethnic quota).

Booking of flats by the applicants with queue numbers exceeding the flat supply would be subject to availability of flats and ethnic quota when their turn is due.

number of flats were 54... my number is 96.. so our queue number is considered as the one which is exceeding the flat supply part... so i can't determine if we manage to get it this time.. no confidence... Bong will go n apply leave for this event... i was also planning to apply tomorrow, but take a look at my diary.. 15th no need to apply at all, bcoz 15th is considered a holiday for us... haha... wasted!!!!!! Now,all i can do is to pray n pray, that HDB can give us this wonderful wedding present....

Wedding updates - E-file

Yesterday, Bong n I finally got to e-file our marriage notice online with ROM office... 26th Dec has to make a trip down to ROM office to do the declaration... both our dads will b our witnesses..

Downcounting to my wedding day... but these few days had been feeling rather unwell... my stomach flu has been with me for the past 4 days... last thur was on MC due to my headache... but later that night,my gastric started to cause pain,which made me sleepless for the whole night, n still need to go back to work on Friday... so the stomach pain kept making me feel sick for the past few days,until today... simply no appetite to eat.. well,another good chance to slim down... haha just joking...

After e-filing our marriage notice, i felt more secured.. not in the way that i finally tie this man down with a marriage cert, but a relieve that, we had settled another thing, b4 our wedding day.. we anticipated that some hiccups will still come on the AD itself, but we will try to minimise as much as we can.. tats y i want to do some things asap.. like BS stuff etc... so after waiting for so long for ROM office to release the date, we finally submitted our application... More things coming up this month... collect albums n photos from SBway, food tasting, meeting with our PG & VG etc... exciting month....