::The man revealed::

Nah share with you all the outcome after the tiring 12 hours. Will take photo of the heavy album when I am 'really' free OK...Now very busy blogging la. :D Bah Enjoy la Peminat! keke



Beauty comes from the back...

The 12 hours shoot

Ok there you go...

After the gowns selection done, here we came to the photoshooting session. The package that I've chosen allowed me to choose 6 different gowns, 3 gowns for indoor and  another 3 for outdoor. I took my outdoor shoot at a lake garden somewhere nearby Taman Tun and also another one was in a "home-transformed-to-castle" house.

It was a long shooting as it took us 12 hours to complete all shoot. Phew~ I think normally the groom will be so damn bored as most of the time is only the bride will keep on changing gown, make up & hairstyle. Pity my Kaka also la.hehe So I think it would be good if you can bring something to keep yourself occupy so that the long hours of waiting wouldn't kill your mood then causing fake and unnatural expressions. :)

By the way, I am glad to introduce my MUA ( Make-Up Artist), Doris for my pre-wedding shoot. I really like her touch as she wouldn't make you looks like Marilyn Monroe or Lady La La ( I don't mine if I do look like Princess Diane..HAHA). She will keep asking if I am okey with this and that or what type of make up or hairdo that I prefer. I do love all the touch-up on me cause I look so natural and not overdone. Doris is actually a Taiwanese. So you might have language gap with her if you totally can't speak mandarin. Thank God I still have about 200 chinese characters in my head. So to tell her "我要变漂亮" wouldn't be that hard. LOL

Again, Thank you so much Doris for making me a beautiful bride..:)

Check out Doris's blog for her latest updates!

http://doris-sp.blogspot.com/
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=575092981#!/pages/Doris-Brides/284661483370
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=575092981#!/profile.php?id=1583160400

Classic hairdo

side view

 

My favourite Korean bun..

 

Front view

Big flowers grow on my head..haha

Front view. WAIT! Is that my bikini stripe? Keke

The Arabian Queen look.

A rich wife look...LOL

I love this dress, actually.

Pose atas pokok...ntah apa2 la ni..

The Assistant

:)

Run away bride..haha

Love the big eyes..:)

My super good cam-whoring pic!:D


Ok last but not least, let me intro the VIP for the entire pre-wedding shoot.
Presenting--- >>  Alfred!!! ( Handsome lei..Jealous la tue..;p)

OK. Sekian Terima Kasih.

Time sia mau kahwin suda butul..

Hahaha seriously I don't know why I suddenly feels like writing bout my wedding again though it had been passed more than 8 months now. I think it is probably because of last night someone asked me if I do owe her anything and I said No. After 10 times (or more) of guessing, I ended gave up.

Guess she is kinda bored with my never-get-correct answers so she threw me a super duper good question, "Isn't you promise me that you'll write bout your wedding once everything is done?" Opsss~ ada meh huh? (Pura-pura lupa mode.)...keke Macam ada oo kan..kekekeke sorry babe..bah now start writing la ok..but i can't promise a good one now cause lama suda bah..need to recall the memories need time juga tu..( i think with cornetto or rootbeer would help..:D )

Bah how do I start....

Let's talk bout the Pre-Wedding shoot la kan..cause normally when people think about getting married, the first thing that would cross their minds wil be pre-wedding shoot. Am not sure la if that is compulsory but it seems a trend nowadays. But if you ask me, though it is compulsory or a trend I'll still go for it for ONE reason: I LOVE CAMERA & I AM A CAM-FREAK! Solid enough right?keke

Well, to be honest I don't really have much selections for the pre-wedding shoot. I mean not like I don't really have choice but I just don't spend much time and effort to really go through each & every bridal shop. I remembered I went to the Bridal Fair around Dec at Mid Valley. Actually at that time a friend of mine did suggest Mon Liza Bridal Gallery to me as her brother took his pre-wedding photos there and it seems the service is quite good. So when I went to the fair I didn't go to all the booths cause it seems I have made up my mind that I will just choose Mon Liza as my pre-wedding vendor. Perhaps you might think I should do survey on other bridal as well but for me taking pre-wedding photos is jz part of the entire wedding, actual day shoot is more important. Yeah of course I wanted the best shoots for us but looking at their website and with the good words from my friend and also compliments from the Malaysianwedding's forum, I think ( I hope) I've made up a correct decision.

I signed up my package during the fair anyway because I know during the fair normally there will be more free gifts or extra free things/service and you pay lower than the normal price. As my friend suggested to me, Alfred is my incharge person. He is absolutely a nice and very helpful one! Thank God for that! And thank you Kian Ying for your suggestion as well..:)

Share some photos of my gown selections day, those gowns will be worn for the pre-wedding shoot :)

Love it..but too big on me. So this is OUT.

Quite pretty but again too big. OUT!

Totally OUUTTTT!
My hubby said I look like sotong in this gown. LOL

Am not sure if this is the one for me.
So I assumed this is out too.

Mermaid gown. But I didn't choose this as well.haha

  Ok all the above were all the rejected gowns. Haha will show you some that I chose for my pre-wedding in future k. I actually forgot where I keep all those photos. After I find them I share then ya. :p

3 THINGS TO REMEMBER!

TIP 1: NOTE DOWN EVERYTHING, YES EVERYTHING!

Make sure the staff noted down every single thing he/she has promised you when you sign up with them. Normally those people will promise to give you this la that la but when the next time you ask them about it again, they might pretend like they never say it before. It's not about trust or what, we all human being tend to forget things. Not like in your life you'll only need to remember 1 thing, especially when you are in the process of planning your wedding. So many things to do and so many stuffs to remember. Even a robot might forget, apa lagi manusia biasa kan? Just make sure they write down everything la. I believe you don't want end of the day what you pay is not worth compare to what you get right? Pre-wedding shoot is a trend now ( you know also wat..), so when something that is called TREND, apa-apa pun mahal. Not only mahal, everybody knows alot of people get cheated on their pre-wedding shoot. You know la when people wanna get married everybody so excited one. So whatever they offer you also will say "Wah nice OoO...Wah I want OoO..Wah Wah Wahhhhhh" ( Sure the husband will be "uwekkkk" when see the price.keke). So make sure get a copy for your own reference too. ( For counter back purpose actually..hahaha)

TIP 2: GET THE RIGHT PERSON INCHARGE!

Of course you can't predict them until you work with them but at least try to get someone that you are comfortable with cause you will need to deal with him/her all the time. Not only to request but to complaint too! So rajin-rajin la check through forum and see what others recommendations ya. Not to really follow what they'd comment, but take their words as a guideline.

TIP 3: CHOOSE THE GOWNS THAT ARE YOURS!

A lot of people when they choose wedding gowns they will tend to choose something that is nice on others. Why? Cause normally when one is about to get married, naturally her fingers will be busy to google here and there to find out which gown looks superb! Yeah it might be superb on others cause people maybe got the height mah...or maybe the body figure so hot mah. Of course nice in any gowns. So when it comes to reality, you should consider something that is suit your figure well cause those gowns will indicate your "title" too, either you are "slim chick" or "fat chick". No harm to try all the gowns that you likes, but just be careful with what you choose cause you don't want to look like "Guo chong" or "langsir bergerak" in your wedding photos right?

For more enquiry, check them out:

Monliza Wedding Castle

66-18, Jalan SS2/24,
Petaling Jaya, 47300
03-78772330
http://www.monliza.com.my/

Her

Ridwan & Jesse Pre-Wedding Shoot with Littar Tan

Ridwan & Jesse - Throughout the 10 years..

Pre-Wedding Photoshoot with Shaun Tan

Uwah..Lukily today is holiday. I finally manage to take this rest day to do some editing & select best shots to be shared with all of you. Well, guess my half day is gone for just selecting all these photos. Too many to choose, so I ended up chosen the one I think I like the most! Well let's the photos speak the rest then, cause I wanna go shopping now! Enjoy the touch! Creadit to Shaun.

Budgeting

First thing first, the wedding budget. As a bride-to-be, of course first thing that popped out in my mind was my dream wedding. I want it to be like this, to be like that, to be like fairytales wedding. The excitement just over the top & reaching to the maximum until I do not know how or where to start. Luckily I have my hubby at that time, suggesting me with an online wedding budget worksheet that I can download & list down everything from A-Z.

For me, a wedding budget is absolutely essential to planning your wedding. In fact I think setting your wedding budget is one of the very first things you should do to ensure you will always stick with your budget & prevent any extra expenses. Yeah of course there are situations when we really couldn't avoid and money needs to be spent but at least it is spend for something valuable & worth. I have this handy wedding budget worksheet to plan out what I'll need to pay for, and how much I should plan to spend on each thing. I would say it wouldn't be exact figures of every single thing as this is just a rough estimation based on the budget that we have. It was really helpful to me as I am a forgetful person eventhough am kinda scrupulous. ^^

Here is the sampel of the wedding budget worksheet that you can easily find online or maybe you can just use the template in the microsoft office.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/wedding-budget-planner-TC006089822.aspx

The Proposal

Well, everything starts with a proposal...

It was Friday October 23, 2009, on our 10th anniversary,unlike past years nothing much we could do to celebrate since we were far apart. Thus, we decided to be less extravagant this year, just stayed home and "skyping" . No flowers, no romantic dinner, no hugs, no kiss as I used to get every year and it was our first time not to celebrate our anniversary together. It all begins on our anniversary eve while I am on my way back home after work, I received a call from him telling me how sorry he is for not able to celebrate our 10th anniversary together. I was a little bummed but I told him that's fine. As usual, he asked me to wait him come back after work at 7pm and "skyping". (which is actually 11pm Malaysia time).


So the night, once I reached home I turned on my notebook & started waiting for him..

1 hour passed…
2 hours passed…
3 hours passed…


It's 11pm but no online sign from him. Strangely I didn’t feel upset at all but in fact I started to worry about him. I then tried to call him, but couldn't get through his number. My heart beating so fast as if anything might happened to him. I mingled around my tiny hut, crying alone in my own, thinking of how to get through him. Darling, where are you?:(


All of sudden, the skype call rang!! It was truly breaking the silent night. The “blink blink” sign of his name was really gave me an immediate joy! I was so glad to see he's safely home. At that moment, I just couldn’t help myself; my eyes started welling with tears. I told him how much I hate him for letting me waiting & worrying. I hate him! We started to chat: we talked and laughed pretending that we were sitting in a restaurant together with candle light having our romantic dinner. Of course, deep inside we feel sorry for not able to celebrate the day together but we tried to get that off our mind and enjoy the day as much as we could. Initially the conversation goes as normal as it used to, but suddenly I felt awkward when he started to talks in the way of more (and more) romantic and he kept talking without letting me to interrupt.


To make it short, here are some of his sentences that is always fresh in my mind;

“Babe, we’ve been in love for a decade long and it’s been an amazing and unbelievable journey we had together. Thank you so much for your constant love and special way of caring for the past years. I sincerely appreciate all that you done for me. I enjoy every second of our time together. In whatever condition good or bad you are there to give me your full support consistently in whatever means. And now I guess it's time for us to move on to the next level….If you do realize the clock now pointing sharp at 12am midnight, and babe I wanted to share my life with you for as long as we live and breathe, so will u marry me?”


My response was..

“Oh Dear…this is not a right time to play such joke” and spontaneous I said,
“No” (with laugh…hahaha).
“I am not joking, I am shaking here. Will you marry me, Babe?"
I looked at him in disbelief and said, “What? Are you serious?”

At this moment I know that he really meant it by the look at his face, but I still kept asking if he is being serious. Within few seconds,it brings tears to my eyes and again he asked me for the third time and this time I finally said, “I’ve been waiting for this moment to come for so long, and the answer is definitely YES!!!”

Finally, he got a big smile. It's a precious moment in our relationship especially when it happened on our anniversary and yet the best anniversary gift I've ever received from him and it came miles away from Abu Dhabi (Thanks to Skype!!!) And now here we are, together hand in hand we gonna start another new chapter of live, not only as husband & wife but as best friend, partner, companion, teammate and soul mate. When I posted this, We are actually married. Yeah..Finally!

When God Made You, He Must Be Thinking About Me...

Beautiful moment came from beautiful things...I am in tears everytime I play this MV..Thank you so much for capturing such a meaningful moment of Me & My hubby, Bryan. You are the BEST, Man! Awesome!

Ridwan and Jesse from Bryan Casey Kouju on Vimeo.

Real Wedding

Dear my lovely bride-to-be friends,

Glad that all of you will end your single life soon. I completely know how is it feels like as bride-to-be. No deny it is truly a wonderful feeling but never forgetting the real hectic is just about to start. haha So as per requests, I will try my best to blog all about my wedding's preparation flow. From the planning, to the gowns selection, meet the vendors till the actual day...I promised to share with you once I am done with my wedding ok! ( let me complete the last part of mine first! EXECUTION!:) I cant wait to see the results of my whole year efforts! Hope the outcome is marvellous! btw, I hope those details will provide you the information that you might need to know k..cheers~

I would like to take this opportunity to wish all my Muslims friends a very happy raya!

Best Regards,

Jesse

My Wedding Site

http://www.mywedding.com/ritcheeforever/

Finally, our months efforts is now paid.

Our wedding website is now ready to be shared.

Dear all, please feel free to leave your message in the guestbook ya.

A big thank from both of us...:)