Wedding Frills

This morning, I finally gathered all the ribbons, lace, flower I got the past week or two for my angbao box project! I hadn't done any craft project in ages, and was really excited about it! Though I knew I really shouldn't spend too much time on these frivolous things and tire myself out... but I just cldn't help it. It was something I HAD to do! I really cldn't bear buying those ugly angbao boxes with a wedding couple teddy pair and gaudy ribbons (yet cost a staggering $70!!) from the stores...

Very happy with my completed piece; as they go well with my vintage decor theme! :D

  my pretty craft materials...

 the decorated angbao box! (the box came plain, with just the angbao slot)

I laced the simple white guest book I got from Prints too!

If there is one word that can sum up how I feel this past week, it's the word "thankful". I feel extremely thankful to the lovely friends and family around me; who have so generously given up their free time and energy to help me with various bits of my wedding preps... I dun even know how to begin to describe this very warm, fuzzy feeling that I feel towards the ppl who have helped me in his/her own special way.. :)

2 more weeks (and only 5% of honeymoon planned bleah)! Wish I had enough leave to take the whole 2 weeks off!

Less than 3 weeks to the wedding and a million small things not done! And the million things is indirectly a consequence of my wanting to do things in a more DIY fashion.... :( I realised that it takes a good 20 - 25 min to fluff up one paper pom pom nicely, and this translates to minimum 400 min to fluff up my 20 pom poms! The time and effort that goes into this is... prob not commensurate with the meagre savings I got from asking my wedding florist to leave this to me... But it's too late, and I need to get them all fluffed up by this weekend, for handing over. Engaged mum to help out; but I think after two she already suffers from pom pom fluffing fatigue... I can do it decently well, but I just have no time! I suppose have to close one eye and fluff it up quickly and if it is done more uglily, so be it huh.

London!

I didn't really take many pictures in London; most of them were of food at Borough Market.. which had really high quality and enticing street/ market food. I loved the pretty pretty flowers at the dept store florists; why can't the roses at local florists come in more natural, neutral shades??

 

Poor rabbits :(

 

Dunno why they were selling portuguese egg tarts at Borough Market...

 

Extremely cute flower-pot bread! 

 

Colourful veggies :)

 

The beautiful great court at the British Museum

 

A pretty cool and inspiring quote at the museum

Cute flowers... Happy Valentine's dear friends!

It was a tiring but productive weekend! We FINALLY finished buying the lights for the house; and made some progress with sending out e-invites and penning down names and addresses for some hardcopy invites. We have slightly more than a month left now...

The actual house gate looks pretty much like what I envisioned it to be earlier! It has more blemishes when scrutinised close-up, but i suppose closing one eye for some trivial things will help me remain sane... 

Am on a short weekend work trip to London and there has unfortunately been a cold spell since last week. And so the weather these couple of days is looking pretty bad. It's snowing lightly outside and freezing cold! So though I had some time to spare in the evening just now; the temperature just made it too uncomfortable to walk down Oxford St for shopping. Shall hide myself in a museum or two tmr :(

I feel like I haven't written a proper blog post for some time... and sadly haven't written about anything else much besides home and wedding stuff. Even over this long CNY weekend, half of it has been kinda spent on wedding-related stuff... I dunno if this is a 'normal' ritual every couple goes through, but am starting to feel wasted having spent a disproportionate amt of time and effort online looking at wedding favors/ cake designs/ flower decor and such. I suspect it's just ME. And the growing bridezilla in me has repeatedly chosen these tasks over those that prob matter to me over the longer term... such as the acquisition of general knowledge through... reading of newspapers and keeping up-to-date with current affairs stuff, which my current job requires me to be.

Was also thinking about the wedding speech portion of dinner; and wondering why anyone wld want to say anything about me; and what can anyone possibly say...? Choosing WHO to give the one wedding speech for you is also a headachey decision to make. Perhaps the best solution is to have no other wedding speech aside from the one that D & I will give and save my dear friends from any trouble/ sleepless nights?

Need to remind myself not to get so carried away with making everything 'right' that I neglect to appreciate all the selfless things that my friends and family have and will be doing for me... I suppose weddings are still weddings and it's odd for a wedding to NOT revolve around the couple getting married. But just need to be mindful that it should also be a time to have fun, enjoy and appreciate the company of friends and family, so it wun end up being an overly self-glorifying, self-centred affair?