The stress begins…
*DONG DONG DONG*
In between work yesterday (a.k.a. while waiting for my boss to approve a draft speech), I took some time to quickly do a spreadsheet on the budget we'll be working on for the wedding.
Church ceremony, luncheon, dinner, makeup artists, invitation cards, the dress, his tux, photographers, videographers, decorations, THE HOUSE!, the dinner, favours, the corsages, the bouquets, the boutonnieres, car-decorations, the renovations, the kitchen utensils, the this, the that, the blah… OMG I can buy a Honda City with the whole works!
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If I don't invite you to the wedding hoh, its not that I don't like you lah okay, it's because I'm too stingy, and I don't quite think your angpau can cover my expenses. *wink*
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Thus begins the stress…
November 2nd, 2007 at 8:58 am
One Word:
Elope
November 2nd, 2007 at 9:07 am
Exactly that (points to post above!).
November 2nd, 2007 at 3:02 pm
only a honda city?
oh yeah… thus begins the stress… couldnt agree more.
November 2nd, 2007 at 8:20 pm
Happy Wedding minishorts. Have a good honeymoon also.
November 2nd, 2007 at 11:01 pm
You wrote ‘the dinner’ twice. I also have no idea what a ’boutonniere’ is. The key is also to invite people whom you know will give you a fat angpow.
November 2nd, 2007 at 11:30 pm
buffer up..
just when you thought you had everything budgeted, there will be more coming last minute.
November 3rd, 2007 at 9:15 pm
vincent: boutonniere is those “corsage” (flower) for the groom/groomsmen
All the best in planning! Get friends to help or set aside an extra budget for planner? Reduces the stress…seriously. Seen the literal difference in friends with and without planner!
November 3rd, 2007 at 11:14 pm
Ooh… plus the honeymoon, I think you can buy an Accord!
o_O
Wait till you have to arrange for the seats..who to sit with who and where. Imagine you have to arrange for 500 seats…Good Luck and enjoy the process!
November 4th, 2007 at 11:07 pm
Oh boy o boy. Trying to guess whose angpau will be nice & thick with bills (& thus to invite them)….. hehehe… happy guessing!
November 5th, 2007 at 12:14 am
Weddings these days are super expensive… and when throw a huge Asian family into the mix, it gets even more crazy. We had about 300 ppl at mine and that was the “short list”… O_o
Good luck, and remember to breathe…
November 5th, 2007 at 1:01 am
I am chuffed to learn of this. If I may, just two pieces of advice from moi:
1. Focus less on the wedding day and more on the rest of your lives together after the wedding
2. Have loads of fun and have standby bullet men and women to take care of drinking ambushers, or pay the price (I did) :p
November 7th, 2007 at 10:36 pm
Oh! Congrats, congrats, congrats!
Don’t forget little ol me on your wedding day!