just minishorts.

Selamat Hari Raya Puasa to all, especially those who have been fasting the past Ramadhan. Maaf Zahir dan Batin, and may you have a very blessed holidays.

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Its a great day to settle the invitation card deliveries. We're having one of those massive Chinese Wedding Dinners where one table goes at over RM1000 each, and running on a budget, there's this 'limit' the number of guests. So what happens is, we have been very specific with how the invitation cards go. For couples, we're placing it as Mr & Mrs XXXX, or if they're not married yet, we're going for Mr/Ms XXX & partner. For just the lone guest, we're settling for Mr/Mdm/Ms.

There's the other issue of trying very hard to explain to friends from other cultural traditions why we have to be so 'stingy' on the invitations. I was at the card printers last week, and the workers were busy sticking on the inlays for over 2500 pcs of invitation cards, ordered by a Malay customer for her wedding in early December. So one of the workers said, 'Wah if it were a Chinese couple sending out over 2500 pieces of invitation cards, can you imagine? He'll probably be spending half a million on the wedding dinner alone.'

i.e. Per  table, 10 seats approximate RM1000, therefore, it costs RM100 per pax for the dinner.

With 2500 cards, assuming we're counting about two persons coming for each card, we'll have 5000 people attending this dinner, and the hosts will have to fork out RM5000 x RM100 = RM 500,000 per person.

I had one of our friends telling us that he would be bringing NINE (9) people to the wedding dinner. Eric and I were astounded, and we did spend some time sitting down discussing how we would explain why we're being so specific with who's coming. Finally, we gave up on 'being nice'. I just have to tell my friends who wouldn't be receiving a card from me these things now.

1. Space is limited. The restaurant can only fit so many people, so many tables.

2. We're trying hard to stick to the budget, both Eric and I are more keen on keeping our finances sturdy for the marriage rather than accumulating debt thanks to a grand, dream wedding.

3. Its not that we don't love you okay. WE DO! If you're not invited now, fret not, there's many more anniversaries, birthday parties, housewarmings, Christmases, Merdekas and etcs that both Eric and I are planning to host. We'll give you guys a holler then!

Ok it's back to the work for me. Happy Holidays once again.