Solemnisation “tickets”

Happy 2012 everybody! We’ve just finished doing up our solemnisation “tickets”, which will be included within our wedding invitation cards for a lucky number of you. The face value of each of these VIP tickets is a hefty S$20,120,219.00, which is not redeemable for cash (not that you’d want to anyway, right?)

The solemnisation will be held at Mandarin Oriental as well, on the 19th of February 2012 at 11:00 AM, which is about an hour and half before our wedding banquet. You’ll want to go to the room on the fifth floor (“level 5″) called “Harbour View 3″.

Printed Solemnisation Ticket

Solemnisation Ticket

“Private Dinner” @ Mandarin Oriental

Last Saturday we went down to Mandarin Oriental to do our banquet taste testing, and it was great! I especially liked how it made it was made such that it looked as if we actually paid for a “Private Dinner” (just see the private dinner message they placed outside the room we had the taste testing in).

Private Dinner Notice outside our room

Appetisers/Cold Dish

Vegetarian Appetisers

Vegetarian Soup — with truffles!

Lobster Soup (texture very similar to shark’s fin)

Scallops with yam (very nice)

Duck with special house sauce

Duck with special house sauce (individual)

Cod fish in teriyaki sauce (very nice)

Cod fish in teriyaki sauce

Crispy buns with chill crab sauce

Vegetarian glutinous rice

Hazelnut Royaltine (chocolatey fudge cake) — winner in our dessert choosing contest

Tiramisu — runner up in our dessert choosing contest

Malaysia Banquet

We are now semi-man-and-wife! Our Malaysia banquet has come and gone, and a very enjoyable one it was. It was the second time our parents have met at Batu Pahat, and I think they got along well enough despite the language barrier (thank goodness for the similarities between Teochew and Hokkien).

Generally no major hiccups, and though our dinner started slightly later than scheduled, it’d beat most experienced wedding dinner participant’s expectations.

(We’re now just slightly over two months away before our Singapore banquet and getting legally married!)

Rings are made of Gold gold.

Our Malaysia wedding/engagment rings

Printing of the Wedding Cards

Last Saturday we went down to the printers to get our cards done up. Were a little disappointed that they didn’t have as many customisation options as we’d expected, but it’d do. With this done, though, it’s a load off of our minds.

Our Malaysia banquet will be on this Saturday, held in ah hei’s kampung at Batu Pahat. Soon we’ll be semi-man-and-wife.

Our Anniversary Dinner At Jurong Hilltop Japanese Restaurant

We had our dinner @ the Jurong Hilltop Japanese Restaurant today (a little expensive, but very good service). Didn’t take any photos of the food as we were too busy eating! After dinner we exchanged our anniversary gifts: a silicone Samsung Galaxy SII case for Him and a Steve Jobs book for Her.

On the 28th…

of this month (November), it’ll be our fourth year together!

Three years ago, on our first anniversary (in Perth):

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Because you asked for an update!

Hi all,

This post is just to let you know that we hear you! Some of you have asked for an update to this site, so here it is!

We’ve decided on a couple of colours of invitation card: a red and a white. The majority of them will be red, because it looks better with the 囍 (the Chinese word “xi” or happiness) on the front instead of “Wedding Invitation” which is just so blah. And being so rooted in the Chinese culture (yeah. right. maybe lishya.) we’ve decided to go with the chinesey version.

Ok, what else… we’ve also trying to get our wedding songs, though we haven’t really thought about the theme… anyway, here’s a couple of bonus pictures from the recent Mandarin Oriental Wedding Fair we went to (where we got some free food-tasting!):

Finally a big thank you for all those who have responded positively to our pre-wedding-invitation invitation. We will see you there (unless donn does the smart thing and runs away).