I totally collapsed in bed and spent the weekend sleeping. If one tiny ROM event is so tiring, I can't imagine how much worse organising a wedding dinner is.

It was raining on Saturday morning when we left the house. Had to reach the makeup artist (MUA)/salon place by 10am. umm. we left the house at 10am. Melvin has an issue with leaving the house. Everytime, I'd be standing there dressed and ready to go while he runs around doing his hair, looking for socks etc. And what was he doing when I was getting ready? Reading comics online =.= One of these days I'm just going to leave the house w/o him and go wherever on my own.

Anyway, we left the house and it was raining. Some lady walked in front of us and totally stole our cab so I waved a friendly middle finger at her. If my right arm wasn't busy clutching my ROM dress, it would have been two middle fingers.

The makeup was fabulous. the MUA gave me double eyelids. All she did was stick a masking tape on my eyes for a few minutes and voila! Double eyelids for the rest of the day.
The hairstylist almost killed me with the amount of hairspray. And she tied my hair so tightly, my scalp hurt for the rest of the day. But it looked good. And I got 'pearls' stuck in my hair too.
I got it all at a good price too. We paid like only 80 bucks? 85 bucks?
Commercial prices stand at about $200.
If you don't mind your hair and makeup being done by 50 year old aunties, then it's a good deal.

His parents then picked us up and we made our way to Furama Riverfront.
Then came the whole issue of Melvin asking his dad to go by Havelock Road, and his dad insisting on going by Orchard. There was this huge jam at Cairnhill/Orchard so... we got stuck there.

Then the hotel called to say 'Your JP is here..' then Alex (photographer) called to say 'err.. I'm here.' then some of guests called as well...

And we were STILL stuck at Orchard.

Then Melvin suddenly said 'errr. we forgot to print our vows.'

Shite.

Then my aunt called and said "Where are we supposed to go? Up the escalator?"
To which my response was "Yi. Furama RIVERFRONT"
My aunt's response? "Oops. Wrong hotel"

And to think I printed a map for her.

She arrived even later than I did (and she's one of my witnesses so we couldn't proceed without her)

The JP (who's a director at ITE?) must have been thinking 'OMG these people...' Especially after Melvin told him 'umm, can we use the standard vows? We kinda forgot ours'

So Mr Chia (JP) had to improvise.

Maybe that's why he decided to play a prank on us. I don't know. But I nearly died when he said 'To show your guests how much you love each other, you now need to declare 'I love you' to each other'

Gaaaah! Down the mic. in front of all my relatives. omg so embarassing.

When it came to 'You may kiss the bride', I turned my cheek to Melvin so he wouldn't embarass me further by errr.. wet smooches. I swear he wriggled his eyebrows at me.

We took alot of photos. I paid for one photographer but had the services of three and more.
Uncle Edward (Melvin's side) and my Uncle Teng love to take pictures... plus kaypoh tourists at the hotel lobby snapped pictures as we walked by...

Uncle Sam said it felt like some VIP event with all the random pictures taken by people who weren't even invited.

I guess it's to be expected when we're holding it in the lounge.

After everyone left, i changed out of the dress and we rushed to look at a flat. Someone was urgently selling his flat and was willing to let go at valuation price. 5 room flat for 380k? Floor area was 121 square metres. Quite spacious, though the house has not been renovated in 15 years and is in desperate need of re-tiling.

It's a fabulous buy, and if we got it, renovated and tried to sell it later, we'll def make a profit.
I mean, goodness. The size of the bathroom is prob almost equivalent to the size of a new flat's bedroom. It's HUGE.

Decided against it in the end because no matter how you look at it, we're not financially ready to own such a flat. Sides, what do we do with all the space...
Plus I hate it that the unit is on the top most level.

Then I got home and literally collapsed in bed.