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I think most people have enough of my wedding photos. Well just a couple more - Lunch and Tea ceremony, KL and From a Child Point of View and My favorite from D40.

You can do it! After this you can run me down ^_^

A Lazy Sunday Lunch

Getting married sometimes is also about making the key people happy. And the key people are always the parents. I know my dear friend Eunice first received the guests list from her parents it came up to 400 plus people to be invited.

So, to make everyone happy, you either go their way, or make them do it your way. So we told them how many seats they can have, as long as we are paying.

In honour of our parents (aka my parents in law), we had lunch for them in Merdeka Palace Hotel. It was a Sunday and we have 130 seats for their friends and some relatives. Surprisingly parents did not go against the idea

Since we don’t know 80% of the guests, we thought we could leave the going round for a cheers bit, reason being we have to get out of there in 2 and half hours :)

Lunch went well. I had 2 very dedicated bridesmaids for the day – Chyi and Rachel.
Merdeka Palace coordinator surprised us. All the waiters and waitresses dressed in tropical attire to suit our theme. I was so pleased.

Plus! We had the honey moon suit for 2 nights! Was that great or what?

The only down side was the return wasn’t as good as dinner…

Presenting A Lazy Sunday Lunch and Lunch and Tea Ceremony on Saturday.

Finally

9th of June was the wedding day. Ling woke up pretty early to get everything ready for me.

It was dry season in that part of the world. Kuching had been so warm since we arrived. During the rehearsal, we were sweating like pig. We hope it will rain a bit on wedding morning.

Thank God it rained. It not only cool down the earth, everyone seems to be more relax. The rain stopped as soon as I arrived in the church compound.

Alvin side of the story: I think the groom pray too hard for the rain to come. Someone told him to stop praying and he did. THe rain stop.

Some colleagues and friends flew in that morning just to make it to the marriage blessing. Everyone loved Rev. Father Albert. His sermon was personal and fun.

Presenting the wedding photos It's a brand new day, wedding bell and An Evening in Oasis

Pre Wedding Drama

We had so many things going on before the wedding. We went to see the manager in Merdeka palace, the manager of Little Lebanon, the priest, both of my hair dressers, sorting out some tiny problems here and there. It wasn't stressful, which is a good thing.

When we thought everything were fine, we worried about the 2 and half years old flower girl. We were not sure about whether or not she can follow instruction.

Well we can't ask too much from a 2 and half years old right? We let it be since it's my mother in law who went and ask the parents without seeking for our approval.

Anyhow, she is the cutest 2 and half years old I know. The best thing is she didn't make any noise during the rehearsal and wedding. This is wonderful.

Becky, the wedding coordinator try to brief everyone about who should do what and how to react when thing come up. Everyone just listen by thinking how important they are which they are all important and we can't afford any screw up. When it came to the wedding car which we borrowed from the parent’ friend.

"We will take the car on Friday afternoon and send it back on Sunday just before lunch." Becky said. "Eh" The mother in law protest, "I told him we'll return the after church."

What?!

Who on earth will use the wedding car for half a day only?

Who on earth can take off all the decoration on the car in 5 minutes?

Who on earth will ever think that anyone will have time to send the wedding car back to the owner when the church ceremony and lunch and tea ceremony and dinner only have 30 minutes breather in between?

Yes! My mother in law.

I almost exploded!

Becky had already figured a backup plan. She asked the owner if we can return the car on Sunday. And the owner said, no problem.

Ling and Julian came to join us and we invited them to join us for dinner at home... I thought everything will be ok but my father in law made them read an article about him and the wife.

Oh dear... I don't know how to react to it because they look so darn uncomfortable. I felt bad about it. Well reading the article is ok, he made a copy for them to take home! ~~Roll eyes~~

The old man will do what he wants whether you like it or not but he is quite used to rejection from the family but whoever outside the family will be quite polite not to say no.

And then the dinner mother in law organised for her friends and relative on the eve of the wedding. My father in law gave speech and made my mother, uncle and sisters to stand in line with him for at least 10 minutes. It was a long speech and I know how uncomfortable my mom was.

Their flight was 4 hours late and they are tired and we are hungry and we already waited like 1 hour for the dinner to start and still we have to wait another 15 minutes for him to finish talking and another 10 minutes of cutest prayers on earth performed by his grandchildren and the finally we get to eat.

But my uncles were so impressed.

The highlight of his life was the article again. Everyone in my family got a copy of the article... well what we gonna do with it? Frame it up?

I seriously don't understand this.

I'm glad everything went well although all these things really irritate the hell out of me. But the key to happiness is to allow your parents do what want before the wedding, because during your wedding, they can't do much.

Well, lots of people told me you married to such a beautiful family... I told them, "Behind the beautiful things you saw, there is a lot of nonsense going on too."

The worst part ever, someone said to Alvin, "We have done so much for you already."

How arrogant!

Picture perfect does not mean all is well.

Thank You Card

One week after the wedding we started writing and sending out thank you card. Since I’m going to do the writing but I would love to have Alvin’s input. I asked Alvin what are the nice thing to write on the card.

Being an extremely romantic, sensitive, thoughtful and drop dead considered man, he said, “Thank you. It was nice to have you in our wedding.”

“Like that only ah?” I asked.

“Yea! What else you wanna write?”

“Dunno… haiya… useless lah you!”

“So now how?”

I think and think and think and then I thought I’ll use his line as a base and write something more personal.

‘Dear so and so… thank you for the whatever. It was very nice/generous/kind. It was nice to have you join us in our wedding/since you missed our wedding, here’s a little something from us to you. With love, Alvin and YY’

“Wah!!! Need ah like that?”

“Of course lah!”

Me being a very personal person, I wrote them in a very personal manner using the above guideline.

So we sent off some thank you card and still sending some because we are extremely busy we have not seen these people yet.

Aileen was telling us she received a thank you card from her friend on their 1st anniversary. I can’t believe how anyone should spend one year to unpack all the presents.

I went out drinking with Sue and Meei Tyng, I passed them the thank you card along with the thank you card to Arnold.

Arnold called Sue.

“YY have thank you card for you.”

“Oh… that’s so nice of her. Are they divorce yet?”

Yea… very funny…

Anyway, that was just a touch of something. So who gave us something, in cash or kind (dinner don’t count), please come and claim your thank you card, or we’ll go hunt you down (which mean you might get it on our 5th anniversary, if you are lucky.)

Ya ya… I can hear some of you saying: PICK UP THE PHONE AND CALL LAH!!!

OK. We are working on it =)

Sneak Preview

Wedding is beautiful. Considering myself lucky since the wedding went smoothly without anyone gone missing or sleeping on the job. Lots of people are waiting for me to post some photos. But I only see Andy this weekend. So, stay tune!

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