Less than 1 month

Stress stress stress. It all seems simple to do but somehow time just does not seem to be working with you.
We are meeting Z Wedding tomorrow to collect our long-awaited albums!! Yeah! Really dunno what to expect. Lois, our album consultant keeps telling us how nice they look but I guess we can never believe her until we see it with our own eyes. I have absolute faith that our albums will turn out superbly gorgeously beautiful but Darling has her reservations. Well…she also keeps thinking she’s fat and ugly even though she looks stunningly pretty and on the verge of being underweight. Well, we will know soon enough…
We will also be meeting Academy Videos on 23 feb to discuss our videography style. Hopefully the videographer can understand what we want!
I’ve already placed reservations for the 红绣球 we are going to tie to our black Jaguar and will be getting them on 10 march. Slowly can tick things 1 by 1 off my list of “to-do”!
Now the headache remaining will be:
1) Jie-Mei attire and accessories
2) Xiong-Di attire and accessories.
3) banquet table seating arrangements
4) travel photos montage for background playing loop
5) “special” montage for final march-in
6) 安床 which we will be doing on 11 feb
7) rehearsal with grand shanghai on 11 feb as well.
I think most probably still have a lot to do but my small brain cannot remember now.
Haha, have to ganna the wrath of Darling to boost my memory again.

You are all I need

It’s been a long time since I last had an entry. Today is Valentine’s day and I think the best song to suit the day will be “YOU” by Jim Brickman. This was our “marching-in” song during our ROM ceremony at Shangri-la hotel on 31 Jan 2010 and I still think we made an excellent choice of the song! Just wanna share the lyrics of the song with all the readers.
And also to wish my darling and all lovers a Happy Valentine’s Day!

Artist: Jim Brickman
Song: You

I never felt alone
I was happy on my own
And who would ever know there was something missing
I guess I didn’t see the possibility
It was waiting all the time
But it never crossed my mind
Till you opened up my eyes
Now all I think about is

CHORUS: You in my life
In my dreams
In my heart I know it’s true
That I belong with you
Because of you in my world
In my arms
I have everything and now
I can’t imagine what I’d do
Without you

I never thought that love could be
Such a curiosity
But what attracted you to me
Was so unexpected
But it was waiting all the time
And it never crossed my mind
Until you opened up my eyes
Now all I think about is

CHORUS (x2)

In my life
In my dreams
In my heart I know it’s true
That I belong with you
Because of you in my world
In my arms
I have everything and now
I can’t imagine what I’d do
I can’t imagine what I’d do
Without you
Without you

It’s going to be our actual day wedding soon my dear, on the 17 March 2012, we will walk the aisle of Grand Shanghai and enjoy the “red carpet” treatment again! Haha.
Our honeymoon itinerary is almost done and now it’s time for me to embark on another mission, the montage. It’s stressful but I’m sure it’ll all work out. Good luck to both darling and me! May the preparation journey be smooth and enjoyable!!
Oh yah, our pre-wedding albums will be out soon!!

Sweet Valentine Pink cake from Baskin Robbin

Photo Selection Day

Today is really a day of headache and heartache! Haha. Supposed to choose photos today!! We are both really excited about this…at the same time, we are also worried that the photos may turn out too nice for us to reject!
We only have 24 photos included as part of the package…with each photo priced at S$115, it’s no joke if we are unable to “throw away” photos.
Well, if we have to spend, we must make sure it is worth spending on…

We saw the photos…die liao…the photos are ALL DAMN BEAUTIFUL! 真的是美到。。。。。The indoor shots are all taken beautifully, darling looks great in the white wedding gown!!
The outdoor shots are equally nice. The only disappointment is that the rope swing series did not turn out as nice as we expected…sigh…The big pink balloon also did not seem to make much impact.
Our USS series 众望所归 contains the best photos of the day! We are both quite natural when doing candid shots…haha, really not cut out to be models.

I shall upload a few photos to wet your appetite…hiak hiak hiak…

The white Room

Darling in her Cheongsam, damn seductive

The Happy Universal Studio Couple

Pre-wedding photoshoot

The day has finally come!! The day when I can preview my lovely darling in a wedding gown, all dolled up… OUR pre-wedding photoshoot!! We are doing an indoor shoot at Chris Ling Studios in Orchard in the morning, and then will proceed to do our outdoor photography! Exciting day ahead, so I shall re-think the events of the day.
We have packed our huge luggage bag the night before with all our props for the day! The huge luggage is courtesy of Darling’s mum, the one she frequently brings overseas to bring back all the goodies from abroad…haha, really really huge! I brought my “walking tall” shoes while darling brought her ROM shoes and the newly bought Anna Nuci black crystal shoes. Attire wise, we just brought along our newly bought couple synchronized clothing, which happened to have a purple theme. Next are the props for the photoshoot. The main props are those for the Universal Studios session, comprising of
1) huge plastic heart shaped spectacles,
2) condensed milk cans joined by a rope,
3) Rilakkuma bears,
4) our giant purple lollipop, customized with “I Love You” wordings,
5) bubbles blowing liquid
6) Ring pillow from our ROM
7) green fan to accompany Darling’s CheongSam

Bag of of goodies

We also ordered balloons from the shop near Bugis Iluma. 1 huge pink one and 10 small ones. However, according to shop-keeper, the helium air can only keep the balloons floating for a 7-8 hours, so we can only collect today for best effects!

In the morning, we took a cab to Chris Ling Studios…haha, the cab uncle probably though we going airport with the large bag, sorry to disappoint you…hahaha. Chris Ling studio is actually a private terrace house, upon arrival at about 10.30am, we walked around the house interior, admiring the many themed interiors they have. Our assigned MUA is Angela who came just on time so darling can start to have her makeup hairdo.
Dick is our photographer, apparently he is damn good and is the top 2 photographers of Chris Ling Studios… …we shall see!
Wedding indoor shoot commenced with darling in her White actual wedding gown, Simply Gorgeous!! Then we went through the many rooms and corners of the studios, with darling wearing her actual wedding gown, the Chio Cheongsam and the Victorian style night gown.
After the indoor shoot, we took a short break and ate pizza…before we commenced on our outdoors!
First stop will be Grand Shanghai, but we will need to collect our balloons enroute to the restaurant. Lucky the balloons can be squeezed into a car…HAHA
We were early for Grand Shanghai and there are still customers eating or finishing their lunch. With a professional photographer around, there will always be photo opportunities. In the waiting room, we took a series of pictures, most noticeable is the set where darling is exposing her calves sexily…YUMMY! There is also a series taken through the window panes, super artistic!! Darling totally suits the Cheongsam, super SUI! I am looking forward to darling wearing the cheongsam and walking down the aisle of Grand Shanghai!! Everyone will definitely have a JAWDROP expression!
After Grand Shanghai, we proceeded to Hort Park, Alexandra hill. This is a hill full of greenery and big trees. There is even a rope swing! This place has a perfect setting for a romantic picture series. This is where we shot the pictures of our balloons and the rings. Really got feel. Carefree, happy, having fun together, these are the feelings portrayed in this series.
Last but not least, there is 1 place which is strongly associated with us… …my close friends will know… UNIVERSAL STUDIOS SINGAPORE! Where else right? We both held the year pass for USS and We went there at least 6-7 times?? Haha, knew the place inside out! The universal studios set is extremely fun!!! Dick is really creative and talented in taking candid photos. He also makes sure that we used all our props that we brought along!! Darling is so natural and relaxed when taking pictures in USS!! I think being familiar with the place has its benefits. =) We did some extraordinary stuff in USS, darling and me both attempting stunts which we will never thought of doing, if not for this photoshoot. We totally love the photos from USS and have a strong feeling that the USS photos will turn out to be the best!!!

We totally enjoyed today’s photoshoot and even though Dick keep saying he wants to vomit blood and shouted his voice hoarse…we are sure he enjoyed it as much as we do!

The making of a Happy Z Wedding Bride

Today marks THE day when we settled Darling’s wedding gowns! We have already chosen some gowns for our indoor and outdoor shoots but short of a “spectacular” Cheongsam to truly match our Grand Shanghai Theme…..until today!

Darling is the one making all the research for her gowns, browsing through hundreds and thousands of pictures on the internet, flipping through the online catalogue of Z wedding gowns, as well as catalogues of Dang Studio, Le Grand etc, in order to find her perfect gown. Well well well, 皇天不负有心人, Darling finally came across her perfect gown after months of research!

We signed with Z wedding about maybe 3-4 years ago? At that time, we were attracted to the gowns already. We were curious to find out more about Z wedding and their services after we signed the package so went on the Net and searched….to our horror, Z Wedding has many mixed reviews. They even banned 1 forum from listing a thread under their name coz of too many bad reviews! We were worried, Darling more worried….did we ganna cheated again? Regularly, Darling would pay the Z Wedding website a visit to view their latest gowns over the years. The gowns of subsequent years after we signed were not as impressive and Darling was having second thoughts about continuing with Z Wedding. Luckily somehow from late last year, Z Wedding gowns actually picked up standard and became beautiful again. And it picked up the standard at the right time coz we are in need of beautiful gowns for our wedding on 17 March 2012!

We have both indoor and outdoor shots, all done in a day. 3 outdoor locations and 2 indoor themes. We have 2 indoor gowns and 2 outdoor gowns. How can we take it lying down to have only 4 gowns? There’s 1 evening gown which Darling like but not available on our Actual Day for Darling to wear. Our coordinator Grace actually is kind enough to allow us to use that gown for our photoshoot only and also allowed us to choose ANOTHER evening gown for our Actual Day! We initially have a White Can-Can wedding gown as well as a pink evening gown for our outdoor shoot, and a White Can-Can wedding gown and a Victorian style green evening down with black lace for our indoor shoot.

Darling set eyes on a Le Grand Cheongsam a few days earlier and has been dying to try it on! So we fixed a meeting with Z Wedding today and got Darling into the Cheongsam and OH MY GOD!! It fits her almost perfectly! Almost like made to measure gown!

So we decided to pay s$1788 for the rental of the LeGrand Cheongsam for photoshoot and for actual day wear! Totally worth it, 简直一见钟情!

After some negotiation today, we managed to fix a more favorable arrangement. A total of 6 different gowns for Darling to wear!

—– Outdoor shoot —–

1 white wedding gown

1 pink Chiffon material evening gown

1 Cheong Sam from LeGrand (special request to bring for outdoor shoot)

1 Casual wear (Most likely our ROM gown)

—- Indoor Shoot —-

1 white wedding gown (also for actual day wear)

1 green with black lace evening gown

1 Cheong Sam from LeGrand (also for actual day wear)

—- Actual Day —-

1 White wedding gown (same as indoor shoot)

1 Qun Kua for tea ceremony (to be rented)

1 Grey with black lace Victorian Evening Gown (only for Actual Day wear)

1 LeGrand Cheongsam (same as photoshoot)

The photoshoot is happening on the 6 Nov…hope everything goes well! I am choosing locations for our photoshoot in the meantime.

I am so so so Happy to see Darling in such a Happy mood when she has her perfect gown! Wish that Darling will be this happy forever!!

I love you Darling. XOXO