Showing posts with label Change. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Change. Show all posts

Sunday, September 15, 2013

about goddamn time, goddamnit

Oh my oh my, what do we have here?



(Credit: Adib & Mizah)


 (Credit: @kieraroxanne)

 (Credit: @ninahalim. For more pictures, search #rssecretgarden on Instagram)

Looks like the future of local Malay wedding decor is finally starting to pick up some goddamn momentum. I am seriously loving the direction local Malay weddings are heading towards and I really can't wait to see how local Malay weddings will start to look like in the next year or so!

Note: I don't know who the decorator is for the first wedding (Edit: Now confirmed to be FM Events!), second and third weddings were DIY-ed by the pengantins, whereas I have reason to believe that the concept for the fourth wedding was executed by the same creative people who did Helmindra and Fizah's wedding (Edit: Or maybe not, judging from the comments below)

Friday, June 7, 2013

oh hai, tok kadi! (part ll)

 After I wrote yesterday's entry about tok kadi booking, I thought that was the end of it.

Saliheen and I had accepted that our #1 choice tok kadi Ustaz Mohd Khair is not available on our wedding date so we decided on Ustaz Mohd Suhaimi instead - what else is there to it except wait for our wedding day to see our tok kadi in person, right?

So I blogged about our experience, continued doing my work, left office at the end of the day and went home. Same old, same old, right? Well, not quite. Because one hour and a half later, I received this notification in my email inbox:

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 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW RIDICULOUSLY EXCITED I WAS????? 

But obviously not as excited as my mat because when I called to tell him about the turn of events, he started shrieking and insisting that we apply for change of solemnizer on the ROMM website now now NOW -____- 

Dude refused to listen to me when I told him to call Ustaz Mohd Khair the next morning first to ask whether it really is possible SO to shut him up, I opened up the Change Solemnization Details application on ROMM website to do the necessary. Realized I couldn't do it because Ustaz Mohd Khair tak bukak any slots for November 2013 so my mat was forced to calm the eff down and wait until the next morning to ask the Ustaz.

Sooooo earlier today, my mat called Ustaz Mohd Khair to inform him that our wedding will be on a public holiday and asked whether he will be working... to which he laughed and said no, and told us to give him five minutes to open up a slot for us.

Five minutes later...

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 YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!

Now we not only can haz a tok kadi, we CAN HAZ OUR #1 CHOICE TOK KADI!!!!!

Sure, we had to pay $15 for making a change to our application but what is $15 as compared to having Ustaz Mohd Khair, who is our #1 choice tok kadi, preside at our nikah proceedings?!?!?! Definitely worth more than a mere $15, if you ask us. Woohoo!

Oh, but can someone tell my mamat not to be such a freak and hantar this kind of text:


Wahlau, must declare love and fangirlism segala...

But lolz aside, we really must give special thanks to Sis Haida actually - thank you so so so much because if not for your comment, we wouldn't have made the move to try asking Ustaz Mohd Khair again whether he can open up his slot on our wedding date.

And of course, all praises to the Al-Mighty for giving us this rezeki, Alhamdullilah! This is yet another incident that strengthens our faith in Qada and Qadar - you see, my mat and I were pretty bummed when Deepavali was changed from 3rd November 2013 (Sunday) to 2nd November 2013 (Saturday) because that change meant we wouldn't have a public holiday on Monday and will have to apply leave for Monday instead. 

Little did we know, that change turned out to be a momentous blessing in disguise - now that Deepavali (public holiday) is on our wedding date, Ustaz Khair can be our solemnizer when he wouldn't be able to do so if it was on any other working Saturday mornings.

Never fails to amaze us how God will give us our rezeki if it is indeed meant to be ours.

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

ZOMG

Guess what my mamat and I did over the weekend??? We watched our favourite Running Man episodes, revised our draft wedding itinerary, recalculated our budget... 

... aaaaand we changed the photographer for our outdoor photoshoot.

Very gatal, I know, but this last minute change, my friend, is well worth a million times over. Because our new photographer for our outdoor photoshoot?

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Is the ridiculously talented Zakaria Zainal (who I blogged about before here)






(For better viewing, you can visit his website here and Facebook profile here.)

MAHA LOVE HIS STUFF OK! Reaaally cannot wait for our outdoor photoshoot now!!!

Not sure if I've mentioned this before, but my mum has agreed to sew my outdoor photoshoot dress for me - Have to resort to a DIY dress because I've tried looking online for a nice pretty dress under SGD100 but can't seem to find anything I like with such a budget hence the shameless cry for help to my supermother.

Tapi yang buat lagi exciting is ape tau?! The fact that I've found the perfect dress sample for her to recreate!!!!! Ran through that dress sample with two other dress samples with my bridesmaids just to see what they say and they voted for the exact one I wanted (without knowing that it was my #1 choice) because they agreed that the dress is "very me" :D :D :D

Happy sigh. Really love the amazing wonders of good old Internet lah - I was aimlessly browsing through wedding inspiration ideas and stumbled upon the dress by chance ok. Even found a super detailed online tutorial for my mum to follow step by step after that. So freaking happy!

Going out with my supermother this weekend to buy the fabrics! I am SO pumped to see how this turns out! (Pumped with excitement eh, not pumped with minyak)