Wedding stuff

So we finally kicked off some wedding stuff - and went to meet a hotel catering manager together to suss out a venue.

The dilemma has been on us for a while. I thought I like to have sit down meals coz I generally hate buffet reception. Always a crowd and a queue for food, hardly any place to sit down, you stand there with a plate of mass produced food (I know sit down banquets are also mass produced it just doesn't feel and look AS mass produced).

But given that the main wedding ceremony is at St Andrews Cathedral, we have to do a reception post ceremony so we will need to source for caterers to set up at the white tentage outside the church hall.

My folks are not big on buffets/receptions/church wedding but they will go with the flow. They have also requested to do a sit down dinner for family and we can't begrudge them that. I read somewhere where someone said that as much as the wedding is about the couple, it is also about the proud parents whose kids are getting married.

Initially, G & I thought we can manage to make this fairly small (something like 20 tables) and that was our agreed idea at first. Thanks to my mom's extremely fertile side of the family - these guys are taking up something like 6 tables. My dad's side of the family will take up another 3 - 4. That makes it 10 tables already. Plus G's side plus a handful of close friends/helpers for wedding we were hoping to invite - our original small do is starting to look like a fairly-large-do. And no thanks to kiasu people who are ALSO getting married in October, there are a few venues that are already not available. Anyway we will have to see what are still available and make our choices from there.

There is so much to do and the details worry me. I don't even have a wedding dress yet!

Slow day at work

Well there is stuff to do but I will get to that later.

Blogging is not in fashionanymore eh? I think everyone has switched to Twittering. It's faster, you write shorter sentences, it's more instant and you don't have to sit down at a computer and 'find time' to blog. You tweet on the go. I seriously hope Twittering is a passing phase coz I do find it quite annoying. It might just take away the whole face-to-face personal experience and further encourage funny spelling/shortcuts in order to fit the 140 characters quota. Smthin lk tis is v hard 2 read & is not reali Eng.

Starting to work on some wedding stuff - starting the guestlist, looking at bridal studios, looking at dresses, contemplating photos or no photos, caterers, dinner venue etc. Haven't really started and I was telling my colleagues 'Aiyah don't want to get married liao so mah fun!' What a cop-out I know! It's once in a lifetime you know but as G likes to say 'the wedding is one day, the marriage is for life' so we gotta know how to place our priorities right and set the budget straight too. Can't spend too much money on the wedding and then have not enough $$ to get a roof over our head. Our OWN roof over our own heads. But there is no such thing as a 'cheap' wedding - coz everything is so bloody expensive!

Oh hello there.... again!

I COMPLETELY FORGOT ABOUT THIS BLOG.

In fact I don't think anyone bothers with blogging as much anymore. I went through a few friends' blogs I used to read regularly and even their updates have lapsed. Unless they own a smart phone and blog on the go. That's a bit excessive but I may start doing that once I get my own iPhone. My Japanese colleague once said to me - 'what's up with Twitter and constant Facebook updates? Nobody is THAT interesting' and he's absolutely right. But in our little narcissistic little mind, damn we are important and people want to read what we are writing!

Random Ramblings was what it was meant to be - random ramblings of my life in HK and other random matters. Now that I have been back in Singapore for a year and half now, not that there is nothing much exciting nor interesting to update on my life in SG but somehow I slipped into the daily grind - work, home, TV, go to bed, next day, repeat and cccasionally meeting G or some friends for dinner after work. I must say I have been good with going home for dinner with my parents. With the 2 sisters married and living away from home and the lil bro in NS, it's just the 2 'old' folks at home with the dog and so I try to have a meal with them at least twice a week.

G reminded me of the blog the other day. I think he was thinking that perhaps I will use this to blog about the wedding preparation. Yes 16 October at St Andrews Cathedral - see you there. Been wondering how to go about starting the preparations now that we have about 10 months to go - very little time considering most people start 12 - 18 months ahead. On one hand, we want to keep it simple, on the other hand, how simple is simple? This is once in a lifetime! Very confused right now so I keep procrastinating.

Going to see the church premises this weekend and meeting a hotel to check out a possible venue this Thursday too. Hopefully by kicking off with these two activities, we or rather I would be motivated to get more stuff organized soon.

I may post again real soon, I may not. Coz I may forget about this blog again. I've only just turned 30 and I am already hopelessly forgetful......