MCQ

1. I am looking forward to the wedding because:
a. I finally get to sleep.
b. My hair and nails won't matter anymore.
c. I need not obsess over pimples and wrinkles.
d. all of the above.

2. Weddings are:
a. So much work that we don't ever wanna get married again.
b. A good way to experiment on the minimum amount of sleep required to be functionable during the day.
c. A good way to remember your family members as you crack your head around the guest list.
d. Expensive.

Other snippets:
- It's hard to come up with the guest list when your mother remembers your relatives as "3rd Uncle", "Cousin's youngest son", "Ah Meng / Peng / Tin", "2nd Cousin's youngest daughter" etc. How do I come up with a namelist?
- Given our taste for rock / alternative music and general disdain for poppish love songs, choosing songs for our wedding was harder than we thought. Switchfoot, U2 and David Crowder Band do not flow for weddings. We seriously tried to imagine what will it be like to have the processional to "Sweetest Thing" but ... nah.
- I have better things to do at this point. Cheerios for now!

It's the final countdown!!!!

Come singalong...

Choosing wedding worship songs are nothing like choosing songs for cell group or gatherings etc. Songs that are dear to our hearts somehow don't quite flow in a wedding context :P

An example?

A favourite hymn, "It Is Well With My Soul".
When peace, like a river, attendeth my way,
when sorrows like sea billows roll;
whatever my lot, thou hast taught me to say,
It is well, it is well with my soul.
Refrain:
It is well with my soul,
it is well, it is well with my soul.

Umm... not so appropriate.

No wonder why the past few church weddings we attended all sing the same songs. The only hymn that we can think of that's suitable is "The Love of God", and we've sung it plenty of times.

Updates from a Unglam Bride

Hello friends,

1. I haven't disappeared from the surface of the earth. I can be regularly found at my office desk / my current home / my new home / travelling between these places and recently, at my printer's.

2. I have never been so horrified by broken nails, and unfortunately, I've been breaking nails with an alarming regularity at this point. An unfortunate combination of the need for nice nails during the photoshoot, intensive housework for the moving at the office and at home (oh, deja vu, how you stalk me. yes, i'm moving house AND office at the same time, AGAIN!), and keeping the nails so that i can get a decent manicure for the wedding. Alas, i shall be known as the bride with broken nails. At least it's not a broken heart :P

3. Late nights have given me eyebags galore. Hello panda.

4. Intuition is VERY good with Excel -- A Very Attractive Feature that I never knew existed prior to this. This model of husband not bad, can keep.

5. I have designed and printed my wedding invitation cards. My printer is Francis from LS Print. He is every bride's Best Friend Forever when it comes to printing cards--helpful, patient and accomodating, with quick turnaround to boot. Please look for him -- francis@lsprint.com.sg (tel: 6339 1208). This is a plug for him because he has saved my skin this week to get the cards out in time for CNY. He can print posters, banners, cards and such. i heart him lots lots (but of cos i heart intuition more).

So friends, yes I will be distributing my wedding invitation cards very shortly. Please be overjoyed when I pass one to you, for with my fragile disposition at this moment, anything less than an "OH I'M SO GLAD I'M INVITED!" will send me spiralling into depression.

Thank you much much :P

Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock.

ONLY SIX MORE WEEKS!

I STILL HAVEN'T DONE MY GUESTLIST!

I HAVE NOT DONE MY SEATING ARRANGEMENT!

THERE IS CNY AND VDAY IN BETWEEN!

I'M STILL BUSY AT WORK!

I DON'T KNOW HOW WILL I SURVIVE!

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