Jay chou world tour concert 2010 (24th July 2010)

Woohoo.... I took a break from my wedding preparation and went for Jay Chou concert at the indoor stadium on Saturday (24th July). It took me alot of effort and time to buy the tickets as it was selling like hotcakes. The concert tickets ran out within 2 hours.

The sistic website was down early in the morning due to heavy traffic and we have to keep refreshing the screen till we reached the booking page. Was glad that we got the tickets. hehehe..... Even though we get the 2nd cheapest tickets (wanted to buy the more expensive one, but was sold out), the seating plan was not too bad... Managed to get a close up picture of Jay Chou.

The concert was really fantastic with the 3D stage effects. For almost half the concert, I was standing and swinging my LED stick to support my idol... Felt young again. hehehehe.... Was super high that night. Singing along with my idol, yelling and screaming at his name. hahaha... That was awesome!!!!!

Hope to see Jay Chou again soon. hehehe...

We have filed our ROM!!! Exactly 3 more months to go...

Early in the morning, we log into the ROM official website to file our marriage... Realised that the fee cost $26. Arhhhh.....Cute Gregory commented: Shouldn't the government absorb this cost since they are encouraging Singaporeans to get married and start a family. Sounds logical. hahaha.. but no choice lah... now still got to pay.

We were assigned a slot on 20th October 2010 between 8.30am to 9.30am to collect our cert. What a bad timing!!! My bridal studio is closed on Wed.. or else we can do everything on the same day. It's weird to collect the cert in the morning and go back to work in the afternoon... Wondering whether we should take a full day leave on that day.

Flowers....

Following the confirmation of my actual day wedding gown, I emailed the pictures to my florist, Lindt to design the wedding flower bouquet. The colour theme for my wedding is white, pink & purple.

For our church wedding, we will be using white & pink gerberas + Purple Forget-me-not as our main flowers to decorate the pews, altar flower arrangement, table reception flower arrangement etc. Gerberas represent innocence, purity & cheerfulness whereas forget-me not represent true love & memories. Great combination huh?

As for wedding flower bouquet, in order to look different from the church deco, we have confirmed using fuschia pink roses + white & purple eustomas. Isn't it nice and sweet? Below are the sample of flowers used.

Pink roses represents the glow of your smile & perfect happiness... As for Eustomas, not sure about the meaning. haha.. but it seems to complement well with my pink roses. hehehe...

A meet up with our solemniser today...

Right after work, we rushed down for our appointment with our solemniser, Father Edmund Chong at Church of St Joseph Bukit Timah which was scheduled at 7.30pm.

Father Edmund was very nice to guide us through the whole procedure. To make the whole atmosphere more lively, he cracked alot of jokes during the session. One of the joke which i can still remember was during the saying of vows, the nervous bride pronounced "fidelity" as "fertility".. it really make us laugh non stop. Hope I don't make such error on my wedding day. hahaha.. so malu...

We will be having a wedding service instead of a mass at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church because I'm a non Catholic. We have roughly done our church wedding slides, so he went through very slide with us to see whether any amendments to be made. Luckily there were not many errors. The whole session lasted for an hour or so. Cute Gregory will do the necessary amendments tonight.

As for me, I will keep the JP consent form safely in one corner as I need to produce the original copy when i go down to collect the ROM cert.

Yeah..... Another 2 more days to filing of marriage!!!!

A sneak preview of my white and pink gown....

Cute Gregory bought me a white and pink gown to match my fairytale theme... Will I look like a princess on my wedding day? I will be wearing this for my wedding banquet 1st march in.

99 more days to our wedding....

Woohoo.... another 99 more days to our wedding. Have been super slack and not doing any wedding stuff for the past 2 weeks since the gown selection. Cute Gregory was more efficient than me.

This mth, he managed to book more items for our Europe Honeymoon

- The coach tickets from London standsted airport to our hotel
- The train tickets to and fro Windsor from London
- The admission tickets to Windsor Castle
- Eurostar tickets from London to Paris
- Train tickets from Venice to Florence
- Train tickets from Florence to Rome

All these items make our journey more complete and connected. After booking all the miscellaneous items, our cost has increased to about $2950 per pax. However, considering that we are travelling to so many cities in 21 days, the cost is consider cheap and affordable.

Cute Gregory had finalised the itinery for London and Paris.. There are more to come!!

Some good news to share:

Today, we received news that we have been selected by Air Asia to take part in their 2 hrs focus group survey. At the end of the survey, we will each be rewarded with oyster card + london pass worth more than S$100 and baseball cap. hahaha... so our transport cost is now sponsored!!! Yeahhhh!!!!

Outcome of the AD gown selection on 2 July (Fri)

I finally went for my actual day gown selection at Venus Bridal. I was told by many that Venus are famous for their gowns. However, I was quite disappointed with the selection of the gowns.

I can't imagine choosing gowns for 5 hours... Super tedious task. So many gowns to change and try... Cute Gregory almost fall asleep while I was changing. After changing so many times, still can't find what I really want. I like a very grand, princessy gown with alot of crystals, beads and embroidery... Other criteria also includes minor minor details like

- Must look new (Some of the gowns I tried are already have abit of wear and tear)

- Need zips instead of tie up for convenience sake (Understand from Ivy that nowadays, most new gowns that comes in are all tie up.... So no choice. Out of my 3 gowns chosen, 2 are tie up. haiz...)

- Don't need long trains cos I'm careless and might trip and fall. (That eliminates more gowns because quite a number come with long train)

- I wanna have ball gowns with can can.(This is not too hard to achieve as alot of gowns are with can can. )

My coordinator, Ivy took out quite a number of the latest popular gowns for me to try, but none suits me.. maybe I don't have outstanding figure or face feature. That's why it looks awful on me rather than being outstanding. After so many hours of trying, I only managed to confirm 1 evening gown which is brown in colour and with zip... Convenient for me to change to other outfits. Just when I was about to give up my search, my coordinator took out 2 new gowns for me to try. Supposed to be a custom made gown by another bride, so it was not on display yet. Although it's not exactly what I want, but it still look quite new and presentable and better than other gowns. So just take whatever is available. Anyway, just wear for 1 day only. Doubt anyone can remember what I wear after a while. hehehehe... I have a sweet pink gown available for my first march in and cheongsum for my tea dress. This will add spice to my wedding.

Selected Wedding Gown Front view - Church Wedding

Selected Wedding gown back view

*** This wedding gown still fulfil my criterias. Very new/alot of nice beads & embroidery/ can put can can/ no train and no need to be afraid of trip and fall. Only disadvantage is the tie back which I hated...

Selected evening gown 1 (This is the only gown with zip) - For 2nd march in

*** There are really very few pieces of newer gowns with zips. This is the only few new pieces with zip and I'm still comfortable with the design.

Selected Evening gown 2 front view - For 3rd march in

Selected Evening gown back view

*** The colour is a bit too outstanding. But who knows, maybe with Liffey professional makeover skills, I might look outstanding too. Best part of this gown is it's new!!!!!!

Another item off my list.

I have fixed another date for hubby selection of suits as 24 Sept & AD gown collection date as 21 Oct. Looking forward to actual day...