Saturday, November 21, 2009

Emcees at Chris & Zin Ee's wedding


Most people know Edmund is a great public speaker, but not many know his Mandarin is also very good! This was the 2nd time we were emcees at a wedding in the year.

It was an honour to be able to be involved in Chris & Zin Ee's wedding. Chris and I grew up together, we were in the same CPU in LSBC, and they are a wonderful couple to hang out with!

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Attending the 1st wedding as a married couple


Wedding of Edwin & Ee Leen

The bride requested we come in fuchsia and Carol gladly loaned me the fuchsia dress she wore to my wedding. I love how the girls in fuchsia/pink turned out!

I would have loved the dress tons more if not for the ironing bit. After spending 60 minutes trying to iron the dress, it was still creased. I honestly started to doubt my ironing skills (or the lack of it).

Edmund took pity on me and offered to help iron the dress. He spent a good 30 mins on it before declaring that the dress was REALLY difficult to iron and that this was the best he could do!

I was most consoled when Carol later told me that she had forgotten to warn me about that ironing nightmare dress. She'd given up trying to iron dress and handed it to the expert (her mum) to get the job done.

Phew! My ironing skills are not THAT bad!


On a side note, the top 2 questions we were asked at the wedding:
1) How's married life? [Ans: ok, not bad, good]
2) When can we expect a baby? [Ans: not so soon]

Wedding dinner invite



Instead of selecting a wedding invite card that came with the hotel dinner package, we decided to use one of our pre-wedding photos for the invite.

How I chose this photo came about when we were viewing the pre-wedding shots for the 1st time. Carol said that it looked like Tony Leung bringing Maggie Cheung to the Golden Horse Award. WAAAA... just that we all know that Edmund is no Tony Leung and I am no Maggie Cheung! Haha!

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Honeymoon in Prague


The weather in Prague was lovely and cool. With the exception of a day we had to walk in the rain to take the bus, the other days were either sunny or breezy with temperatures ranging from 14-26 celsius.


It was easy navigating around Prague. I'm impressed with their transportation system. We took the metro a lot and walked a whole lot more!


We explored castles,


walked along cobble-stoned streets,


visited churches,


had dinner with Edmund's Czech friend and even got to meet up with Audrey and David for dinner at Charles Bridge.


The restaurant at Charles Bridge had such great views and wonderful food but I couldn't eat a thing. In fact, I ended throwing up whatever I had earlier in the day because of the migraine I was having. I think that was the biggest disappointment for me during the honeymoon... that I couldn't enjoy and savour every moment of the evening with my good friend who flew in from London to meet us and and who so generously gave us an expensive treat at a posh restaurant.


Edmund felt the honeymoon was too short, but I was quite ready to go home because I was falling ill and wanted to "get on with life". Wedding preparation had been consuming me and had kinda put my life on hold. Strange thinking, huh?


I'd recommend Prague to others. It's a lovely, cheaper alternative to western Europe! We're glad we went to Prague for honeymoon!

Sunday, September 13, 2009

Wedding Highlights

Videography by Samuel Seah (simplemotion)

I didn't even realise that Samuel used the music that I mentioned on my blog a few months back until Pearlyn mentioned it!

Had great reviews about Samuel's videography skills. The money that went into videography was unbudgetted for. The good reviews from friends affirmed the money well-spent!

Saturday, September 12, 2009

Wedding Dinner


Even before the dinner started proper, I was already very tired. I had to be consistently reminded by the gals to smile, smile, SMILE!


I think many of us were amazed at how fast the dinner went. This was what Edmund wanted. By 10pm, dessert was about to come.


We didn't have any champagne-pouring, no fake-cake-cutting, no yum-seng and there was NOT suppose to be any 1st-dish walk-in music. However, I think there was some mis-communication amongst the hotel departments that resulted in a long wait in darkness for the music and 1st dish to come. And what horrible music came on with the 1st dish!!!


The other boo-boo I heard of was a waitress telling guests that there was no white wine. There was. In fact, the white wine was good!


ANYWAY, that aside, everything went well. Even the sabo dance was resolved with the help of Edmund's parents!


A big THANK YOU to everyone who made the wedding so warm, fun and memorable. We've been so blessed!

Makeup & Tea Ceremony at the Hotel


It was a mad rush from the tea reception at church to the hotel, because the makeup artiste was coming at 5pm. Before I could finish removing the makeup from the morning, she was here.


The tea ceremony was slightly chaotic because we weren't sure who should go first. We didn't realise the process would take so little time. Although we started late, we ended within an hour.



I love the above shot of Edmund and I taken by my cousin Grace's husband, Wen. So glad he made it back from US in time for the dinner!


While my 2 grandpas are no longer around, I'm glad I still have my 2 grandmas at the wedding.



I'm also grateful for the many uncles and aunties who love me and who were there. It's nice to be part of a big family!

Finally, a great shot of mum and I captured by Dominic, the photographer...