Happy Birthday Mummy Dearest :)

 

The first year I'm away on your birthday ~ Happy Birthday my dearest mum! Though I don't say it to you, but you're the best mum in the world and we love you *muacks*

Weddings: Gavin & Jacqueline, Yen & Hui Fang

Happy Tuesday! I'm now in the hotel room in KL, waiting for the seminar to start in about an hour's time. A quick wedding entry of our friends who tied the knot (of happiness) :) Always a pleasure to join them on their celebrations. Attending weddings remind me of my own wedding day and once in a while, we need that flush of memory to keep the relationship going! 

 

 

Received this invite on our whatsapp group before the wedding invitations came along :) Gavin & Jacq got married on 20.12.2012 ~no excuses on Gav for forgetting this date. 

 

Leecher was part of the brother gang for this wedding. Each brother has a special character to pin on their jacket and Leecher got Eve, haha! We shamelessly requested Jac's sister to make a Wall-E version for us.

 

Jac's sisters took great effort to decorate the reception area ~ a post-box for us to mail our best wishes for the couples, lil corners around the place that displayed the couples' times together. 

 

Photobooth ~which was a hit amongst the guests! We even had to queue up to have our pictures taken.

 

Wedding flavours ~ specially love the cup & I took one more back to use, heehee! 

with Shuya & Leecher. When you put the 2 of us together ~ we'll ignore the guys and talk all the girlie stuff - bags, shoes and clothes.

 

Leecher & Kaiwei, the next in-line to get married. 

 

With Tracy! Recommended her to Gav & Jac and she was their official videographer for the day. 

 

Poor Gavin had to do what every groom does on their wedding day ~ drink up before you are allowed to head upstairs, heehee! 

 

The first wedding that we attended in 2013. The wedding was held @ Pan Pacific & it was my 1st time there for a wedding. I was looking abit loss looking for toilet and there was a staff manager who approached me immediately to ask if I need any assistance b4 I could even approach him. He also helped me to ask for scotch tape, so I could seal up the red packet for Yen. Sometimes, these small gestures are the ones that will go a long way! 

 We were early & I was hungry, so we headed to Mac for a quick fries fix. Mac fries are still the best to munch on :)

 

Blue theme for the ballroom 

I love how wedding flavours are given in boxes, tied up with ribbons :) Feels like I'm receiving presents.

 

Lovely Yi Xuan, all grown up now! It took quite a while for her to get warmed up, but she doesn't want anyone to carry her besides her parents. We tried to coax her by feeding her food, but clever girl didn't fall for the trick.

with the lovely 大嫂, always so pretty :)
 

We were the only ones who will turn red drinking alcohol, but the redness didn't show up in the pics. And yes, we all suffer hangover the day after and yet, amazingly we still show up at work. Workaholics at heart!

 

The deadly concoction that we created for the groom, but it was too easy peasy for him! 

Happy Wife, Happy Life

 

Source: ETSY

My boss has a saying "A happy wife is a happy life" .... and I've been trying to make this Leecher's motto in life :p

Our history of Kai Nian Fan

 I received this from Leecher yesterday morning

Turned out that Leecher was reading our my blog and it was the day when I posted about our Kai Nian Fan 2013. 

Presenting to you 

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Extracted our past Kai Nian Fan pictures and was amused at how much we have changed over the years! 

  

2008 ~ When we had Kai Nian Fan for the 2nd year (1st Kai Nian Fan was during pre-blogging days and we didn't own a digital camera then)
 

2009 ~ Kenneth joining us for desserts  - not much difference, cant tell for Leecher as he was hiding behind Kenneth *good strategy*
 

2010 ~ The year where me + Fionn organise the dinner. Yes, I had bangs that year (which was quite IN during that period) and now looking at the pic ... should i cut bangs again?? 

 

2011 ~ The year where we had to switch venue last min for it was a 45 min wait for the table, so we headed to some Japanese restaurant instead. 

 

2012 ~ Venue @ Ember, as recommended by FMQ.

 2013 ~ The latest edition

Weddings: Wanling & Yaw Jin

I'll normally blog an entry on weddings that I'm part of the jie-mei gang :) My last jie-mei duty was during Win & Van's wedding (read all about it here, here and here) where Leecher & I were on opposite camps ganging up against one another, haha! Felt so happy to tekan him "legally" and not forgetting all my Uni brothers, lol!

 

I was called up for bridesmaid duty end of last year, when another sister of mine got married. Met up with the lovely bride & she passed me my invite, which came with an embossed seal!

I didn't want to break the seal, so I took a pen-knife and sliced the envelope at the top.

Reached her place @ 5.30am sharp ~ I'm getting very punctual nowadays, haha! The pretty bride already had her makeup done and was goofing around the house, lol! She took our breakfast order, but I went easy with just pandan cake (caught eating in the pic) - can't have a full meal that early in the morning. BTW, took some of the wedding pics off the photographer's Facebook page (those watermarked with www.onexposure.org) as I only had my iphone with me.

 

Spotted this @ Wanling's place ~ apparently, this was part of the GDL gift accordingly to their custom. This  gigantic sesame ball is known as Chin Deh 煎 袋, which symbolize a fulfilling and blissful marriage. I was told that it took days just to make one, so better to order in advance if you have this on your list.

 

 with the pretty bride :) Still so cheeky!

 

The love contract that Joy (one of the bridesmaid) made.  

 

 By the request of the bride, we went extremely lenient with the xiong-dis. They just had to form alphabets using nothing else but biscuits - easy task right? We have given them 3 options on what will be the sentence: 

1. YJ ♡ WL

2. I ♡ WANLING

3. YAW JIN ♡ WANLING

The groom would had it easy if he has chosen option 1, but fate left it that he has to go with option 3 ... All fair and square as he picked the papers himself.

  

The brothers having their breakfast munching on the biscuits.

  

The guys getting creative on how to shape the biscuits into alphabets - some nibbled gently, while some crushed the biscuits into crumbs. We even saw one guy using his IC as a "knife" to cut the biscuits to shape. 

Impressive attempt, though they took slightly longer than usual.

The next hurdle is for the guys to plant a kiss on the groom, haha! Wanling even bought a bright pink lipstick just for them.

 

OK, we very practical ... 红包到手，we'll open the door for them.

 

Posing with the love contract, bound for life! I specially like one of the clause - my money is my money, your money is my money :) Why me no love contract?? Dearie, can we re-write our vows or not huh?

With the rest of the jiemeis @ Yaw Jin's house, where Wanling will be staying before their hougang place is ready. Can't wait for her to move to Hougang, for her place is near to parents-in-law place, haha! MJ session, but must teach her how to play first. 

 

In her red kwa, back to her parents' place for tea ceremony.  

 

Group pic before we adjourned to the hotel. The rest of the brothers have left to pick up their other halves + kids for the wedding lunch. 
 
Checked into the room @ lvl 63 (I think) .... view of Singapore, but can see the dark clouds looming above.    
 
Love her bouquet ~ I take this pic first, then I saw the photographer taking it thereafter, lol! Of cuz, he did a much better job than me.  
 

I was tasked to decorate the ROM table *stressed* Think it turned out pretty well :) Wanling is a major fan of stitch, she got 3 pairs of stitches just for the wedding ~ on the wedding car, reception table and ROM table, in different wedding outfits somemore!

 

A closer look @ the fake wedding cake.

 

We placed another pair of Stitch & the wedding contract on the reception table.
 

Wedding message for the lovely couple :) 

 

Then, the heart-throb came! Baby Liam, all grown up ever since his 1st month birthday party. So cute right?

 

Ok, another shot before we start passing him around like musical chair, lol!   

 

Leecher carried him & Baby Liam tugged close to his body - can see his lil hands tugging Leecher's jacket? Leecher joked that he's a safety baby; making sure he is always secured in the arms of the carrier.

Baby Liam actually fell asleep in Leecher's arms, cute to the max can! He must have felt extremely comfortable (especially with Leecher's body fats cushioning him), haha! He slept so peacefully, so Leecher carried him a while more before putting him down in his pram.

with the wedding couple ~ before we adjourned into the banquet hall for luncheon.

Wedding flavours in the form of keychains ~ I have collected way too many and my cupboard is now bursting, have to start taking some stuff out to use.

 

with Bobo, who sat at another table so we didn't had the time to interact, yet I kept bumping into him during others' weddings. 

 

with Kok Yew! He didn't get his version of calendar girls this time round, as Leecher sat on the same table, lol! I'm still waiting for his red bomb :p

 

Throwing the petals, enthusiastically.  

 

Playing with Baby Liam from across the table and he was laughing away *heart melt* 

 

Baby-sit him while Merisa can eat her food. He's really such a joyful baby :) If the mummy is not around, I'll steal him away, lol! 

 

Sorry, cant help it but another shot ^^ 

 

04 girls, ever since 2001 :)  

 

Stay blissful forever!