Food Tasting

Last Saturday was our food taking. We also took the opportunity for our parents to meet for the first time. The first future in-laws meeting, of course my heart was pounding with anxiety. How her parents would react to mine, will they say something wrong to offend the other, can they get along? All these and a million other questions raced through my head. Well there’s only one way to find out and I’ll be keeping my fingers crossed.

The dinner is where our parents we will talk “terms”. Find out what each party wants and is willing to give. What the bride’s family will give and what the groom’s family will give, so on. Pig’s trotters, oranges, cakes; just to name a few. According to traditional customs, there are quite a number of things to follow. Luckily we are both not from very traditional families thus a lot of customs are done without or are simplified. Or else, I will suffer any splitting headache. Dinner went uneventfully; food was rather good and the portion ultra generous. There we at least thirty prawns and we struggled to finish the food. Burning with curiosity and contempt, we questioned the captain that will it be the same portion on the actual day. His reply was: “Yes, of course!” However, we all doubt so.

In retrospect, the dinner strikes me that it is pretty much like a scene in Hong Kong gangster movies, where the triad boss “tan pan”. Well I can’t help but find the setting very similar, a negotiation over dinner at a restaurant. Each side stating their terms and the other party will be trying to bargain for something more favourable. When an agreement cannot be reach, they’ll turn the tables and a huge fight erupts. Luckily our meeting was more civil, no turning of tables of smashing of wine bottles. However there was still quite a bit of tension. Diplomatic etiquette and choice of words were the order of the day. Well at least more so in the beginning. When the first dish was served, I swear that on one dare touch it for at least 2 minutes. It just lay in the middle of the table. I suspect that everyone was waiting for someone to make the first move. At last I have to step in to start the ball rolling by offering it to the elders first. Well over food and drinks the atmosphere started to lighten up and I could see that both families are more at ease when talking. The ice begins to melt and some small jokes can be heard. Over the course of the dinner, hopefully my parents and her parents got to know each other a little better. Well I could see their effort in doing so. My worse fear would be nasty in-laws relationship, for that I can heave a sigh of relieve. Well as the Chinese saying goes “A good beginning, is winning half the battle”. It still a long journey, hopefully through the years, their relationship will be just a good.

Photoshoot Session

My outdoor photoshoot Gown.

Make-up & Hairdo for EG

Had our Photoshoot last wed. Had our breakfast at bk before reaching Sattine at ard 10am. Jessie was already there waiting for us. Started off with make-up after I gave her my comments for the trial make-up. She made some adjustments to the make-up then. While Jessie was busy putting on make-up for me, FH was busy entertaining himself. First of all, he went into the room whereby all the alterations was done. Took out their iron and start ironing his shirts( its my fault that his shirts are crumpled, i made him squeeze his shirt into his bag cos i said it looks ugly carrying his shirt ard). After satisfied with his ironing works, he went on to try the suit. He helped himself with the scarfs and vests on the rack. Trying to figure out which combination would be the best. haha...it was a comical scene though. Not long after, Yan came up to the second storey. He n his assistant actually stayed over at the studio to finish up some photoworks. Tough job for them..
After my make-up was done, i went to change to my EG. Afterwhich, Jessie did the hairdo for me. I let my hair down for the EG's hairstyle. had a silverish hairband over the permed hair. However, my hair was too short. Therefore, the effect wasnt very good. Sigh...Hopefully my hair grows longer on my wedding day.
When the photo-taking session starts, both of us really had no idea how to pose nor react. Yan kept giving instructions n tell us not to be nervous. He said "juz be yourself".. FH is not used to smiling into the camera, so Yen kept cracking jokes with us, making us feel as relax as possible. I was able to smile very cheerfully for the first n second gown. Afterwhich, i was attacked by the regular migrine.. Couldnt smile for the third gown. Sigh... Yen could immediately detect that there's something wrong with me. Then i told him i had a headache. So FH went to cheers to get panadol for me. After taking panadol, i felt much better.
At ard 3pm, we set off for outdoor photoshoot. Upon reaching our first destination, Yen immediately carried out the photoshoot session. The weather was so hot that im feeling so uncomfortable, but had to act like im feeling so happy n in love...Sigh..Wasnt an easy task. It was so stuffy and humid. I felt as though im baking in an oven...
The second location at alexandra was much better. Up in the slopes, was very airy. Hopefully the pic turned out well. The third location was labrador park. We took pics at the beach there. It didnt have v nice n clean beach there. But Yen said its much nicer than those at sentosa. He said everyone is going to sentosa for photoshoot, so dun encourage us to go.
Tml we will be going to choose our PS photos. Wonder how would it be. I've already set a budget, so im not gg to burst my budget for the photos. Wish me good luck ya.. *_*