Oh, so this is 过大礼。

Somehow, the 过大礼 was over before i knew what was going on.

After all the preparation, shopping and ordering of items for this tradition before the wedding ceremony, it was all over in about 15 mins.  And it was only till the moment JF rang the bell then did we know that his parents are not to be present, hence they had JF's 舅舅 and 舅母s coming over as 媒人... And it was only when JF's aunt mentioned, then did we know that we should have informed and invited our relatives to be present during the event, be it to witness the occasion or simply to 凑热闹...

We knew none.  And well, we did none. Kua kua kua...

So JF and relatives came over with the Pine Garden cakes which he claims taste reallyyyyyy good, and there were cartons of canned pig trotters, a vintage basket of sweets, bottles of martell, 聘金 and some random stuff which i never got a chance to see.

And in return, mommy and daddy returned the favor.

Lazy mommy decided to pay a little more, and left it all to The Chinese Wedding Shop @ AMK to gather all the stuffs she needed for the 过大礼。How convenient.

Don't they look good? ;D  Why all so red?

I CHOOSE ONE LORH *GRINS*

And the cakes JF bought from Pine Garden, at AMK too!  The 过大礼 went by so fast that i didn't get a chance to snap pictures *sulks*

One less thing to worry about!

...

So learn from my lesson k.

#1: His parents will not be present, expect a 媒人。

#2: Inform your relatives!  If they care enough of your wedding, they'll be there to 凑热闹。

#3: 过大礼 doesn't take very long, get your cam ready!!

Oh and after the 过大礼, everyone else seems all busy, except for me.

Strange.

The Wedding Invitation!

Ooo, when did i draft this post.  It's totally overdue.

So this was a post when i was all busy over the invitation cards.  At this very moment while the clock's ticking close to the wedding day, we prepared an E-invitation for friends whom we didn't manage to meet in person.  感觉有点可惜... 好不容易有个机会叙叙旧的咯!  没办法... 我真的尽力了啦!

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I think i'm crazy.  I couldn't live with giving out to my friends the plain red invitation the hotel gave, so i decorated them with ribbons!  Most people barely look at wedding invitations and it may seem its pointless to even be bothered by how it looks.  But thing is, 我过不了自己那关啊!  

Yar la, i eat too full nothing better to do.  What's new? ;p

Thanks to Xueling, we didn't have to go around sourcing for a great deal for the printing of wedding inserts!

If anyone ever needs the details, refer below!  While City Square is on renovation right now, they have a temporary shop space at the basement where all the food chains are.

They charge about SGD60 for 200 wedding inserts, which is as far as we know, really cheap!  Our hotel printer quoted us SGD120 (before GST!) for the same number of inserts lorh! Kns.

Just remember to go along with your parents' name in English and Chinese.  As for the other details like the wedding dates in the chinese calendar, chinese name of your hotel etc. and even the map of the hotel, you could prepare it just in case.  For me, the print shop helped me with all the details ;D

The sample was ready in an hour, and the inserts were ready for collection in a week.  They've lotsa templates to choose from, but the inserts are only available in cream or pink color.  And if you're thinking of printing nicer and interesting invitations, they charge a very reasonable price too!

That's about all!

Oh and i gotta complain.  Preparing invitation cards' by far the most tedious and time consuming thing to do amongst everything else! Arghhh~~~