12 Nov 05 — So with Admund and Siew Yin gone, what have we been up to other than me birthday? Well, Billie’s been trying to work when not pestered by me, and me, heh heh preparing for our ROM of course! Just about every girl’s favourite project in the world isn’t it? Well, other than the BIG wedding of course. But man, it sure hasn’t been all that easy, especially when you’re trying to organise things remotely. Take the venue for one, quite a few times, I almost threw the towel in, proclaiming “I’m not getting married!” Right. But frankly, couldn’t have done it without Jeff and Serene who went round scouting all the places for us, liasing with the restaurants and being “our eyes” for us. Jeff also took tons of pictures so at least we have some idea of what the places look like. Frankly Singapore changes so fast that a lot of the locations we were considering we’ve actually not even been before! Really really had to stretch our imagination… But finally after much consideration, and even more negotiations, the venue has been booked. Hoorah!

Oh, oh, oh and after the venue, the next most important thing was of course finding the right wedding bands. Somehow the notion that this was something I had to wear everyday for the rest of my life created a certain amount of anxiety — we better better make sure it’s a design we won’t get sick of wearing or looking at! We must have visited at least 30+ places, from the poshy-poshy upmarket ones like Bvlgari and Cartier to funky hippy places at Paddington, until my Billie want to scream out “Enuff Oredi!” I think. We were down to two designs we really love. One: the Georg Jensen “Fusion” rings (on right), which would cost us A$3200 for just the 18K gold ones! Or Two: a matching set of rings at some neighbourhood shop called Linda Jewellery in this really ulu suburb called Rhodes (we just happened to pass by ‘cos there was an IKEA there). Here it would costs us only about half the price for the two rings in white gold, and I even get 0.5 carats’ worth of diamonds in mine. So just two days back, sick and tired of searching, we settled on the latter option. Hah! Rhodes?!? Who would’ve thought!? You really never know where and when the right one might just pop up, kinda like men…

With those two hurdles crossed, the fun bits begin. From the dress to shoes to guestbook to accessories, etc, etc, etc. Whoa! Didn’t realise there’s so much to prepare! Especially since I’m so picky — EEVerything must match our ROM theme colours. But that’s part of the fun isn’t it? So come, let’s go shopping!

Accessories…

Favours… (So adorable aren’t they, the mushroom chockies?)

Stationery…

Great range from Cristina-Re! Lots of D-I-Y projects for zou-boh people like me…

Met a couple of “twins” on our excursions…

How? Green or pink? What do you think? And aren’t these pumps gorgeous?

And of course, when planning a wedding, bridal mags are an absolute treasure trove for nicking great ideas and resources! I so kiasu I don’t just devour the local ones; when Admund and Siew Yin came from Singapore, I also got them to get me the ones from there! And for all those pretty, yummy Good Things, Martha Stewart has got to be THE authority.

So after all that roaming and searching, slowly but surely, things are starting to come together. Whilst I’m not going to spoil the surprise by telling all, here’s a peek of things to come…

Any ideas? Shhh…

One thing I can reveal now are the funky shoes we’ll be wearing:

Bi will be wearing these old-fart ones, and me, these sexy slinky heels.

Actually dunno can walk or not?!? Hey no joke man… my very first pair of 3-inch heels! I’d do my mum proud, she used to wear 4-inch ones like nobody’s business!

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