Wedding Regrets?
Last week after dieseldawn wedding, I received a phone call from her telling me about how she felt with regards to her Singapore wedding. I shall not go into details but the gist of it is that the typical Asian wedding is all about the parents and making them happy. She then asked if I regretted having my wedding in Singapore. To be honest, it's something that I've never really thought about. Did we have this wedding in Singapore mostly for the parents? Definitely. Do I regret having a typical Singaporean wedding just to make my parents happy? I went back to read all my wedding entries and watched my wedding videos and Dawn, my answer is still no.
Right from the beginning, it was clear that both Merrill and I were not wedding people. I've never been one of those girls who dreamed about the perfect wedding since young. From the time Merrill proposed, we just kept putting off planning the wedding as we thought it was just too much of a hassle. Instead, we were more interested in researching and planning the honeymoon. In the end we decided to fork out the money for a wedding planner so she could take care of everything and I have to say it was money well spent as she did an excellent job coordinating everything.
When she first started planning our wedding, she asked if we had any specific ideas/theme that we wanted and we said no, just keep everything simple. Sure we could have customised lots of stuff to make the wedding special and unique but it just wasn't important to us. We didn't need to have a grand wedding to impress everyone. We just wanted to get married, to say the vows that we've written ourselves with our closest and dearest as witnesses, and then to celebrate and have fun with them. And we did end up having lots of fun, maybe not so much during the wedding dinner but definitely during my hen's night, the tea ceremony games, wedding ceremony and after party. To this day, I still smile whenever I look at the photos and videos of our wedding and see all the happiness and joy on everyone's faces.
What I am trying to say is that I do not regret it because the wedding itself was not that important. It may not have been THE perfect wedding but I got married to my best friend and soul mate and we had an awesome time celebrating with family and friends. That, to me, is just perfect.
Photostory of our wedding ceremony by kelvinkoh
Video montage of our wedding day by substancefilms
P.S. Besides, Dawn, if not for my wedding P wouldn't have seen how enthusiastic you were when it came to catching the bouquet and figured out how much you wanted to get married. ;)
Right from the beginning, it was clear that both Merrill and I were not wedding people. I've never been one of those girls who dreamed about the perfect wedding since young. From the time Merrill proposed, we just kept putting off planning the wedding as we thought it was just too much of a hassle. Instead, we were more interested in researching and planning the honeymoon. In the end we decided to fork out the money for a wedding planner so she could take care of everything and I have to say it was money well spent as she did an excellent job coordinating everything.
When she first started planning our wedding, she asked if we had any specific ideas/theme that we wanted and we said no, just keep everything simple. Sure we could have customised lots of stuff to make the wedding special and unique but it just wasn't important to us. We didn't need to have a grand wedding to impress everyone. We just wanted to get married, to say the vows that we've written ourselves with our closest and dearest as witnesses, and then to celebrate and have fun with them. And we did end up having lots of fun, maybe not so much during the wedding dinner but definitely during my hen's night, the tea ceremony games, wedding ceremony and after party. To this day, I still smile whenever I look at the photos and videos of our wedding and see all the happiness and joy on everyone's faces.
What I am trying to say is that I do not regret it because the wedding itself was not that important. It may not have been THE perfect wedding but I got married to my best friend and soul mate and we had an awesome time celebrating with family and friends. That, to me, is just perfect.
You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com
Photostory of our wedding ceremony by kelvinkoh
You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com
Video montage of our wedding day by substancefilms
P.S. Besides, Dawn, if not for my wedding P wouldn't have seen how enthusiastic you were when it came to catching the bouquet and figured out how much you wanted to get married. ;)