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Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Wedding Pics!
Yes, its finally here! After a couple of weeks of anxious waiting, our wedding album is finally ready! Apparently, our album took a tour to Taiwan before making its way back here. Much to our surprise, some of our pics look really nice although we thought it would turn out diastrous during the shoot. The many hours of posing in the sun and yes rain, was well worth it! These 90 pics are the fruit of our labour - braving the slight drizzle, weird stares from passersby, frantic changing of suits and gowns, touching of make-up, timing the good frisbee throws, posing like authentic rock-stars etcetc!
Our online album is here
Here's a sneak preview:
Wedding Photoshoot!
So yes! We've finally done our wedding photoshoot over the last weekend. Although the weather wasn't exactly co-operative, we managed to get our outdoor shoot completed yesterday afternoon. Special thanks to Alvin and Denise, who so kindly lent us their studio space at Music Lab for our shoot.
The shoot was fun though, although we had to contort our bodies sometimes and try to look as natural as possible. I love my wedding gown and Dan loved the princessy look Fanny (the makeup artist) created for me. She's a genius, that lady. The smokey, rock-chick look she did for me (complete with big hair) totally rocks too. Erm, though i can't say the same about our "posing" in the jamming studio. Both of us were highly unnatural because there was no music playing (didn't wanna disturb the other people in the music school) and it was kinda awkward to pretend we were having fun when we're not really! I think we ended up looking more silly than cool, but still there were a few good shots here and there. The photographer gave me a sneak preview of one of the shots which had me on the keyboards grinning away (as if i was really enjoying a great jam session haha!) while Dan was just looking really, really cool.
The traditional kua part was more relaxed as we didn't have to look cool or sexy and we basically just had a blast. The indoor wedding gown part was quite good as the mood we were supposed to portray was fun and romantic (we'd both couldn't contain our laughter and would burst out laughing during the kissy kissy shots!!!). Evening gown part was the most daunting part of the shoot to me because i had to look cool, sensual and sit/stand in ways to accentuate whatever curves i have (or lack). I'm sure i'd end up looking super awkward but nevertheless, i love my 'do and the whole experience.
Yesterday was spent at Sentosa doing the final portion of the shoot with Chester. He was super naughty and rolled in mud halfway during the shoot and hence we had a very "natural-looking" dog for the rest of the shoot. Photographer caught a few pic of him in his sorry state and it was hilarious. I love this particular shot of him and Dan both sitting on a wooden bench with endless greens behind them. Super dashing, both my boys!!!!
Chester was probably the most tired amongst us because the photos which included him were all action-packed ones. Didn't help that the wind was strong and we probably weren't in the right gear to do the best frisbee throws (excuses!). Chester also seemed abit off-target yesterday and it might have been related to the ongoing stormy weather. It was either us having crap expressions while Chester did a perfect catch or us having great expressions and Chester doing a crap catch. I think he had fun though, especially the part where all of us went waded in the sea - that boy wanted to swim to God-knows-where and i had to stop him before he ended up at the Maldives!!
Glad that at least the photoshoot is struck off our to-do list. Photos will be ready in less than 2 weeks so till then, the only pictures of us are the above big-head-phone-cam kinda pics! Update again soon!
End-Of-The-Year Update!
Us during the church party acting cute with the party hats! Damn, the hats were bloody small (i suspect they're made for kids) and we had a hard time trying to get them on our big heads! We were the musicians for the carolling session and it was great fun although we screwed up big time, having only practiced once with the choir!
23rd was spent at my place and Dan's folks came over for the annual turkey feast. As the name very suitably suggests, we had yummy turkey (from Carrefour!), roast beef, pizza, spare ribs curry, fried noodles, guo tie (chinese dumplings), pineapple fried rice, nine-layered kueh and more! Super decadent but who cares since it's x'mas! We'll worry about the expanding waistline and the wedding shoot later!
Pan Pac, we're back again! This was our x'mas eve feast this year. Crisp, fresh italian bread, lobster capuccino (mmmmmmmm!), spaghetti marinara, beef medallions....and fruity wine to go with the spread. Can't believe this time next year, i'll be someone else's missus! Kinda surreal but i'm happy we've come so far to finally reach the altar! :)
One last shot for the x'mas record. Dan reckons he looks good with that quizzical expression on his face while i just couldn't wipe that cheshire grin off my face!
2007's gonna be here in a few hours' time and i'm sure it's gonna be a mad rush next year as we try to get everything settled for the wedding. The photoshoot's gonna happen in 2 weeks' time and i'm looking forward to it, especially the outdoor shoot with Chester and the shoot at a friend's jamming studio with all our precious gear.
Oh, and here're the wedding bands we bought. The lovely viney designs on the ring surface (kinds lotr-ish) is not that obvious in this picture but i'll try to get a clearer shot another time!
Ring-A-Ding-Ding!
This picture was taken in early October - stuck in a traffic jam on the way to G&E's wedding dinner. Dan, being the driver was understandably annoyed, hence the pursed lips and weary look.
Anyways, i hope you like this new layout. I think it's pretty cool with all the cats and dogs and what-nots. And yes, 6 months 1 week and 5 days to the big day!!
More updates: we've finally bought our wedding bands! The same Jem-vine pair from Goldheart that we've been eyeing for such a long time! Don't think there was any point in shopping anymore because i'm quite sure no other pair will catch our eyes as much as this pair did! So yeah, gonna collect them tomorrow and get them engraved too. :) Photos later, i promise.
Over the weekend, we also went to do some wedding invites "window-shopping" and Tecman at Bras Basah won our vote. We've more or less decided on the wedding theme for the church invites and mass bulletin cover, so now it's down to the nitty gritty details like hymns for the mass, flower girls, emcees for the wedding dinner etc. I can't decide what song i want for the Bridal March!!! Canon in D is good but too common. We both quite like Jeremiah Clarke's "Trumpet Voluntary" so maybe we'll use that. Didn't realise it till i did a search, but Clarke's piece was actually used during Princess Diana's wedding too! See, we do share a similar taste with the royal family after all!
Finally printed out the list of dishes from both Kriston and Lavish Dine and these will be "submitted" to my mum and my future mother-in-law for their perusal and approval. If anyone has good experience with any caterers or is dying to suggest a good wedding hymn for the mass, feel free to drop us a note!
Let's Gown Up!
It seemed like yesterday when we settled our bridal studio and now we've already gone for our first gown-fitting session! It was pretty thrilling - jumping in and out of the gorgeous weddings gowns and just basking in the excitement of this whole wedding business. The golden moments were the look of approval on Dan's face when he saw the gowns he liked - he seemed to like alot of the wedding gowns though, especially the very princessy gowns with the long, long trains....heheh!
In the end i picked 2 bridal gowns (one with a long train and another sleek, halter-necked one (that Dan appeared to like very much) and 2 evening gowns for the photoshoot. Tentatively, we've decided to do our outdoor shoot at the beach (with Chester!) and another one at one of the jamming studios with our precious axes. I reckon the black evening gown will go really well with my black Jem!
We've paid up the initial deposit for our wedding banquet as well and have more or less decided on the menu, the march-in songs and songs we'll include in the CD to be played during the banquet. Yes, you'll definitely be hearing some good ol' sappy love songs but there'll also be Skid Row, Firehouse, Bon Jovi and Steve Vai involved! Now we'll just have to settle the wedding band and the equipment part.....
Oh, and we'll probably need to get the wedding bands (the rings!) soon too. We both fell in love with this pair from Goldheart after looking at so many blah one. Better head back to Tanglin Mall soon to grab it.
Can't believe it's Christmas so soon and this will be our 9th Christmas together (and also the last Christmas we spend as a dating couple).
This is us, at Pan Pacific last Christmas. Love the scrumptious Italian Food, the great, great view from the room and most of all, the company. It was an exceptionally special x'mas for both of us and let's just say our fate was sealed around that time.
I've got old shots of us spending x'mas together. Will go dig them out some time soon and post them up when i've got the time. :)
One more down..erm many more to go!
Ok..another milestone!! We finally decided on a studio and placed deposit for our photoshoot!! We decided to take a walk along Tanjong Pagar Rd to look at wedding studios after having dinner with my parents at Murray Terrace, Maxwell..Its our fav haunt for Chinese guo-ties, jiao-zhi and zha-jiang mian..this place called Fong Ji. Cheap and very good! Apparently, while browsing the MakanSutra book at Borders, we realised its actually the best place for such stuff with like erm 4 chopsticks rating?? Haha! Never knew that!
Worlds Apart But Heart To Heart!
Another tip of the day for staying in love.
If you can't read the caption, here's it: Love - accepting each other's differences (even though your partner may be a total bird or a complete nutter)!
This picture was taken at Hyde Park during my trip to London last October. That's probably gonna be my last alone-trip and we've since made a pact never to travel without the other's company. We're planning a year-end trip back to our old fave Perth just so we can catch the G3 2006 Down Under Tour ! I'm sure we're gonna have a whale of a time there. Definitely hell-raising! Heh.
