5.30am – my anxious dad called me on my cell phone from the land line outside and said ‘Ooi, leow, wakey wakey’ (I actually set my alarm at 6am!!!)
5.30am - I dragged myself out of the bed, dilly-dally, took a warm shower, made myself a nice cuppa coffee, took breakfast, went into the room, on the PC, played 12 girls’ band music, checked email, MSN with Cynthia, post messages at brides forum (what was I thinking about???)
6.40am – Started my DIY makeup
7.00am – Wayne the photographer arrived at the door, the first thing he said was ‘Hey, your place is very difficult to locate eh’
I continued with my makeup while Wayne started snapping away on the camera, amused with the fact that I had only a small mirror to work on, and sat on a Ikea small stool. I sent a text messgae to Mike to request for delayed arrival at 8.30am instead.
Then I sat on the floor at the living room blow-drying my hair, while dad spoke with the new found football Kaki (Wayne) on the football matches. Wayne being all alert, took some pictures while I was blowing my hair, and tried to speak with dad at the same time. Dad was also speaking to me, seriously, I couldn’t exactly hear him well with the hair dyer by my ear!
Then I started to style my hair, and clipped on the DIY veil. Wayne questioned, ‘This is the first time I am seeing a bride putting on her own veil!’. (I simply shrugged off with a sheepish smile)
I then changed into the bridal dress (Mistake! It was difficult to change with my veil already on!!!) Packed in some stuffs into our luggage.
8.10am – I was all ready! Sent another sms to Mike, who was having coffee with his brother team at the coffee shop downstairs. Meanwhile, Wayne snapped some family photos, I’m not sure, but my parents were very camera shy, Wayne had a hard time getting them to smile.
I tried on the wedding shoes, oh gosh, 2.5″ was a little too high on heels to walk the day! I turned to Wayne and said, ‘How arh, I can’t sit with my ‘breath-taking dress’ and now I can’t stand with my feet hurting shoes!’
8.20am – Mike arrived, the door was already opened (hahaha)
Mum came to us and with a really serious tone.. ‘This is very important… Take 4-D numbers first’ (everyone laughed)
Shortly, we proceed to leave my home, and while downstairs, we started to doll up the contour-age cars. Oh, did I mentioned that Mike was the driver of the bridal car?
While on the way to Mike’s place, Mike suddenly remembered, ‘Oh my, I forgot to bring the ‘guo da li’ items to your home just now!’ We then laughed very loudly. It was funny how this slipped by unnoticed by anyone at home!
Wayne called me on my cell phone to ask if anyone was opening the bridal car for me when we reached Mike’s place, I said ‘No lah, I will open the door myself’ ‘Errr, then can you let me reach there first, so that I can take some pictures of your arrival’ So we slowed down and stopped over the roadside, for the entourage car to pass, there I snapped 2 pics from my phone camera.
9am – Reached Mike’s place, had tea ceremony, with a little chaos. Mike did not call back before turning up, so everyone at home was caught off-guard with the couple’s arrival. Some were not changed, some were out for breakfast. Alas, everything fell into places nicely.
10.10am – Left Mike’s place back to my place. The rare scene was that the bride, groom, photographer were carrying the guo da li items up to my place.
In the lift, Mike received a call from his client who wanted to purchase travel insurance! The first thing we did when we reached home was to switch on the PC, and Mike started to work on the premium. Wayne remarked, ‘Never seen couple getting married and yet still working!’
11.10am – Reached venue, pleased with the nice set up at the venue by the florist and caterer. My relatives were all smiley faces when they saw me, who soon turned into frowning faces when I waved hi to them. ‘Bride, try to behave more demurely, stop pulling up your dress, and don’t wave your hands so frantically in the air’, one of my aunts said.
11.30am – Tea ceremony for my relatives started.
12.30pm – JP Chan arrived, and began the solemnisation soon. He was one great JP, very thoughtful and also cracked a few great jokes. Mike was made to say ‘Yes I do’ thrice, and we were made to kiss twice, as we parted too quickly, JP Chan said ‘Hey, don’t part so quickly, the photographer needs to snap a pic, do it again’.
Another awkward and panicky moment would be when we heard JP Chan mentioned about ‘ring exchange’. I turned to look at Wayne who already knew that we were already wearing the rings! Therefore we would not have rings to exchange!!! Without anyone looking or knowing, we took off the rings quietly, and handed to each other the rings and held the rings. Oh well, Wayne had caught the aftermath in the picture though. We also had problem holding hands, it turned out that I was holding Mike’s hand instead of him holding my hands. Know what I mean?
12.45pm – Party time!
We were both so busy entertaining our own guests, Wayne asked, ‘errr, how come the couple is always separately walking around? The pictures are either bride with friends; or groom with friends’
(That didn’t change anything, we were still entertaining guests separately! hahaha)
3.00pm – by this time, most of the guests had left the venue. Stayed behind were few friends and some relatives. My brother-in-law’s sister was so happy for me, she said with almost hysterical tone, ‘Aiyo, you are finally married leow’. We left for airport after bidding goodbye to my parents and friends at venue.
Lek and Jess together with Mike and I took one car; while Wayne and Rex took another. We waited up for Rex at the Airport carpark, as they stopped over at petro kiosk to pump up fuel.
Shortly they arrived to join us and we started to take some ending footage at the airport. Wayne seemed more excited than Mike and I, as he thought it was rare to have wedded couple leaving for honeymoon right after the wedding event.
After the photoshoot, I went on to change down the dress to a really casual dress code. Sleeveless top with cropped pants, and slipped into slippers, and removed the veil.
Mike did not change his attire, he simply took off his coat. That made us looked like the characters from a movie; a businessman with a runaway kampong girl!
The event ended really nicely and funnily, and we took off to Bangkok!!!!!
8pm – Checked-in to our hotel in Bangkok, and was pleasantly surprised with the complimentary fruits platter and cake specially provided for honeymooner.
We ordered room service and enjoyed the yummy dinner in the comfort of our room. It was a fun and thrilling day, and we were tired, so we decided to unpack the luggage the next day. Just when I was falling asleep, Mike remembered, ‘Dear, know what? I did not give the wedding speech today!’. Our wedding night ended with laughters!
