Times have changed

So, the conversation goes like this:

Me: dearie, my left hand feels abit aching recently.
Leecher: what happened? Your hands are very important to me, you know ... *pause for a moment*
Me: *waiting to hear what kind of mushy stuff he'll come up with*
Leecher: If not, who will wash my clothes for me?

Haiz ... 难到结了婚，一切就不浪漫了吗？ >.<

Bdae cake for Ivan

After I landed in Singapore from my Beijing trip, rushed to buy a bdae cake for Ivan :) Poor kid didn't get to celebrate his birthday as it was near the exam period. Well, at least he had fun during the long school break.

Pre-Wedding Albums Collection

The long awaited call from Ivy to inform us that our wedding albums are ready for collection! The whole journey took around 3 months and we were happy to strike this item off our wedding-to-do-list, as this meant that we had one less thing to worry about!

Leecher forgot to wear his contact lens & he invented his own glasses + shades combi, which I think was quite duh.

Driving Jet into JB for the 1st time ever and to collect our wedding albums!

Crossing the causeway. Thank god traffic was smooth on that day.

Our bridal shop, one of the best in JB.

Waiting while Ivy went to bring out all our barang barang.

The whole package. For those who don't drive, transportation can be arranged with the bridal house to send all these stuff back to Singapore (to your doorstep) at a fee of $5o - for those who don't drive.

One of the albums, where Leecher chose the cover and design. The other album was too heavy that neither of us wanted to hold it up for pic-taking.

My wonderful coordinator :)

Kevin & Ivy, who happened to be husband and wife too :)

Viewing of Layout for the Albums

Crossing across the causeway once again to view the layout of our albums :) Leecher decided to queue up for curly fries while waiting for Uncle to come & fetch us from the usual spot.

We had to look through quite a lot of layouts as we had 2 separate albums. We only did amendments for a few layouts and the rest were left untouched. Then, we had to proceed to selecting the pictures for other miscellaneous stuff, like table-tops, wedding invites, album covers etc. The next step - album collection!

Picture Selection

After our pre-wedding photo-taking, it was time to select the pictures! Gosh, Kevin (our photographer) took almost 300+ over pictures for us and we had a hard time choosing :( Coupled the fact that I had 10 different gowns for this package, this made our choice even harder. Before the selection, I've already told Leecher that I'm prepared to top up, haha! Must prep Leecher first mah - but of cuz we have a budget that we need to stick to.

Waiting for our usual pickup @ the causeway.

Before heading to the studio, we had to curb our hunger pangs, so that we will be full of energy and in a better position to negotiate the prices later :)

Waiting in anticipation when Ivy, our coordinator went to retrieve the pictures for our viewing.

To kill time, I decided to look through other albums to look for inspiration for our picture layout as well.

See, how to choose 300+ pictures for only 1 album? We were stuck in the room for almost 3hours, trying to eliminate the pictures. Ivy, our coordinator, gave us a tip on choosing the pictures. As the pictures will be blown up on the album, it's important to look at the facial expression closely. Finally, we eliminated down to the pictures that we wanted to keep and formed our photo albums. Yes, I succumbed and top up! Haha, Ivy gave us a good price and it was way cheaper than top ups in Singapore. And she kindly gave me all the unedited hard copies back for my keeping, yippee!

Happy 6th Year Annivesary

Pre-Wedding Picture Taking

The common question that I've been facing is how's married life? To be honest, nothing changed much since the day we said "I do" - except that now I have another set of parents, family and a ring on my finger. A GF shared with me how people's expectations of their partners changed after their wedding day and frankly, I'm glad that we don't have that kind of mentality, perhaps, that's what kept us going for so long.

Was sorting out the pictures for our wedding journey and going to start with our pre-wedding picture-taking. Leecher proposed on 6th Aug 2009 and we decided to take our pictures on the same day 1 year later :) Crossed the causeway and had lunch @ City Square.

Then, it was time to check into our hotel. Picture-taking will take around 2 days and we decided that it would be more convenient to stay in a hotel near the studio instead of shuffling b/w SG and JB. Sweet Fling booked the hotel room for us @ Grand Paragon :) thanks dear!

Our home for the weekend!

Lazy Leecher! Initially, we were discussing on which hotel to book and Fling recommended Grand Paragon over Crown Prince Hotel, as GP was newly opened.

And it has a better view too, since the hotel was built on top of a slope.

We were laughing our heads off when we saw this slip of paper on the dressing table. They even have a price list of the items on sale! Guess a lot of people must be "kopping" stuff from the rooms for them to resort to this.

Snacks to last us for the weekend.

You must be thinking why I took this picture? There was a story behind this ....

Leecher walked into the bathroom and came out very excited, holding this in his hand and exclaimed "Wa, dear, they even provide scented candles leh!" As I was lying in bed and watching tv, I didn't pay much attention to what he was holding in his hand. So he proceeded to light up the "candle" and seconds later, I smelt something burning. So I looked up and asked him if he smelt the same thing. He said innocently, "Ya, I light up the candle mah, so the smell must be coming from the candle". I replied "No, this don't smell like its candle-burning, rather it's more of plastic burning. You got smell?" By then, I was walking close enough to the "candle" and realised that our friend here mistook the water plug for a candle!

The close-up of the burnt "candle" , LOL!

Had our dinner @ this hawker place near our hotel. Free screening of shows/movies depending on the time of the day.

Our dinner before we proceeded back to the hotel to get our beauty rest :)

Breakie while waiting for Uncle to come fetch us to the bridal shop. Uncle is actually the dad of the bridal house's owner and he helps out by driving clients around.

Getting ready for our photo-taking! We didn't take a lot of pictures, as dent dent was kept inside the cupboard. I had to change a total of 11 outfits (1o gowns and 1 graduation gown) for the whole PS-taking.

Sneak picture of Leecher waiting at the side while I was posing in front of the camera.

Lunch was packed by the crew and we had chicken rice before venturing out for outdoor shots.

Waiting to set off for our outdoor shots with our balloons :)