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Today we had a meet-the-parents session @ Tung Lok Signature, Central, with his parents and my parents with my granny. Initially I was quite worried that my family will spoil the scene.

Luckily my mom didn’t ask for alot of things…only a roast pig with 8 oranges. I thought she will list out alot of things. My granny told me that initially my mom had alot of things to say but was ’scolded’ by Florence auntie that she is not in the position to make lots of requests. Also, my granny was there to ‘control’ my mom.

i’m very gald that it was over in a postive note though Ronald wasn’t feeling well. The lunch was quite experience..abt $300 for 7 pax.

We met the hotel banquet exec at Novotel Clarke Quay later at 5pm to discuss abt the banquet details and confirm the booking of the ballroom. OH YEAH!!! We have finally confirmed the date to hold our wedding ceremony on 21/10/2008.

Our dating anniversary: 01 Sep (can’t rem which yr)

His birthday: 7 Sep 1974

Wedding date: 21 Oct 2008

My birthday: 30 Oct 1978

I thought it is very much confirmed that we are going to get registered on 12/2/08 for the main purpose to qualify for the HLE & get concession loan.

He called me this morning & told that he would like to postpone it to the same day as the customary date or till we manage to get a flat. He mentioned that he doesn’t have the confident that we will able to get a ‘ideal’ flat.

After hearing that, I smiled  …finally we are in the same frequency. We will have more time to prepare.

i like this phrase that he told me….Together, we will make it works.

Attended another wedding show on 13/1/08 @ Meritus Mandarin. It’s quite different from the one we attended the day before. Oh…it’s messy & chaotic.

The event was like a fashion event with 6 bridal show featuring their 8 gowns each. Frankly, the gowns looks the same & some are not nice.

Anyway, we are unable to book the hotel which was our main aim (no available dates & one of the ballroom will be undergoing renovation in Oct 08.

Nonetheless, we got another task done…ie. we had confirmed the bridal package from la Belle Couture @ $3988 ($2000 paid by 12 mths instalments) That is the 1st & only booth we looked at & yet we just confirmed with it without scouting around.

Anyway, the guy, Eddie, was friendly, professional & transparent. We tried to sqeeuze in as much things as we can to cover everything so that we no need to source the other stuffs. The package includes normal photos shoots, makeup artist/ photography/ wedding car on the actual day.

Good thing is that we had mentally prepared my husband-to-be that photo taking is not that easy..& need to go the studio at least 12 times.

I shall cross my finger that everything will go thr smoothly including sliming down, photo taking, banquet booking.

Anyway, I think we gotta have the soleminization soon on 12/2/08. Hope that we are able to secure the Justice of Peace for this event.

Next, we gotta find a flat liao. Actually it’s quite hard on him that he needs to juggle with work & lots of personal matters. Anyway we will support one another.

Today, we sent mass email to the hotels to source for the best available one. Luckily, they had responded to us so that we can make further planning.

We attended a wedding show today @ Marina Mandarin. Initially I was not very unhappy as I still can’t over it (ie. I still need to ROM first in Feb 08).

The wedding gowns are nice but he’s was not interested to look at the bridal studio stuff yet. No dates available for us in that hotel. So we look forward to attending the next one at Meritus Mandarin the next day.

Good thing is that we got our wedding band today after shopping for 2-3 hrs.

Today, we just went to the wedding show at Bugis & i gotta know that my company will incorporate the AWS into our montly pay.

Knowing that my monthly pay will increase, he got panic & wanted to register for marriage ASAP (in Jan 08 loh!!) so that we are eligible for the HDB loan or housing grant.

I was abit pissed initially as I had told him that I want to do the register & customary on the same day. Just because of the change in salary scale…I have to take it?? Ayy…I haven’t prepare enough mentally & physically leh.

What the heck!! I may need to give in just to try to get the grant which is actually alot (abt $40K)…but no guarantee that we will find the a flat that we like by before the expiry of the HLE and our salary will more than $8000 soon.

I shall see the nightmare #2, 3, 4…..coming. Will it happen to many couples?