Honeymoon

Edmund and I have spilt our duties. He takes care of the wedding dinner and house, while I handle the church wedding and honeymoon.

I've finally settled our honeymoon destination after spending many hours and nights on the internet and making 2 boo-boos.


Thanks to Edmund's sister, she gave us her frequent flyer miles on SIA and NWA to use. It was too difficult trying to get flights on SIA/SilkAir, so we had to go with NWA. But here's where it got complicated...

The nearest NWA direct flight from Singapore is to Tokyo. Since I've been to Tokyo before, I thought of going to Honolulu. Unfortunately, there wasn't enough free flyer miles to get us there. I did some calculations after a day's draining work and felt that topping up S$500+ more to get us there wasn't too bad.

After using my credit card to make the top-up, I realised my calculations were WRONG!!! I needed S$1000+ more and that was excluding tax. I was SOOOOO upset with myself. Every screen in the process of purchasing of miles stated that the transaction was NON-REFUNDABLE.

Edmund was really nice about it eventhough I just threw S$500+ down the drain. He knew how upset and frustrated I was.

From there, I turned my attention to Europe and realised I didn't have to top-up anything to fly to that part of the world.

With my very limited annual leave, we only have time for 1 European city. We've decided on Prague and I'm glad I've been hearing good reports about that place. It's supposedly one of the most beautiful cities in Europe.


[My 2nd boo-boo: I accidentally selected Edmund's sister's name in the reservation booking instead of mine from the drop-down namelist. And I only discovered it after making the credit card payment for the airport tax! Fortunately, the reservations office in Singapore made an immediate cancellation and said that there would be no charges incurred since the tickets had not been issued yet. If I had to "donate" another few hundred dollars to NWA, I'd just kill myself!]

I swear I have a phobia of airline internet bookings now.

Unconventional march-in

What a sporting bridal party!

If you've been following my blog, you might have noticed I'm not your conventional bride. I like to do things differently.

The above video made the whole march-in sooooo different and soooo fun!!! Too bad I can't dance! hee hee...

We got our keys!

We've gotten our keys! The house looks small without anything in it!



I think I like the kitchen best although it's probably the place I'll spend the least time in! ;p

Now to get the fumigators, painters, and cleaners in before Edmund shifts in 1st.

Wedding 6

Edmund was busy taking note of all sorts of details at this wedding. I'd forgotten the next wedding I'm attending is MINE!

What was cool about Randy & Kara's wedding:
1. The variety of pre-wedding photo-shoots they had. (I especially love the one they took with the horses. So not-Singapore.)
2. The funny NG takes of their thank-you video.
3. Kara's very mod evening gown.
4. Kara walked down the aisle alone and unveiled. (my applause for doing things differently!)


Shanghai night

Cards & Stickers

Work stress has been manifesting itself in a migraine that won't go away.

Jasmine sms-ed me to inform me that the wedding invites were here and that made my day. I mean, that was the only thing I was looking forward to at the end of the day (besides seeing Edmund).

I slightly regret having such a small card (my fault) but then again, I have to remind myself that the card will be lost/forgotten in no time by the majority who receive them.

My invites are VERY SIMPLE... a bit on the minimalist side (except for the wordings cos of the English & Mandarin) and I guess that's very me!

Bonus that night: Quan & Miin delivered the stickers to my doorstep!

Thank you Jasmine and Quan! I've been so so so blessed by you.

Now to assemble a team and find the time to settle the writing of the invites!

Leave

When I was in Rome, I found out from my manager that I had to quarantine myself for 7 full days after I got back to Singapore before I could go back to the office. Working from home wasn't an issue until I found out that HR wanted me to take annual leave.

That got me boiling mad, cos that meant I wouldn't have enough leave for my honeymoon. I got Chris to get the cell group to pray that somehow I wouldn't have to take annual leave.

When I got back on Tuesday, my manager sms-ed me to say that I could telecommute from work and not have to take annual leave. PRAISE GOD! More so when I know that my other colleague who's in Tokyo for holiday has to take annual leave for her quarantine because she left for holidays after the HR circular came out. I left before.

I'm praying for her too that somehow she will not need to utilise her annual leave when she returns from Japan. She's getting married 1 week after me, and I totally can identify with how angry she feels/felt!

On a separate note, I still haven't finalised my honeymoon destination yet. The original plan was to go to Lombok.. and this time round if my company still has that ridiculous/unfair 7 day quarantine using annual leave rule, I'll not have enough leave.