mummy - for planning every single thing and detail. from picking out my outfits to coordinating the event. im sorry i was never good at making decisions. its better that you made all the decisions anyway. even though the one outfit i picked was rejected by you and later you bought it anyways to wear it to the other reception. for telling me my akad make-up was fugly, so i could fire her on the spot and hire a new emergency one or risk looking like a cow. for locking the kitchen cabinets so i could loose a few kgs. for driving me around KL for the fittings. for deciding on the perfect bed and mattress until i nearly died of starvation after 4 hours of mattress testing. actually, i wasn't keen on the last one, it was just because i wanted to get it over and done with that i lay there and didnt want to get up and test the others. for understanding that Da Vinci furniture is so not my thing. for fulfilling the request of your daughter who hates nasi minyak that we would not have nasi minyak for the reception. for requesting your batik factory friend to come over and do my henna tattoos complimentary. for working hard with the wedding planners while i sat playing paris hilton diamond quest, yawning every ten minutes. for giving me the chance to make all the decisions which i never did. i have never imagined that i would have a beautiful lakeside evening garden wedding. flowers and lights. for all that you've done, you will always be the one.
papa- for doing all the necessary paperwork for the application so i didnt have to move a muscle for the tedious process. plus we all know how sore i can be dealing with government officials. for dealing of application of signages (seriously, putrajaya can be such a pain. naik signboard pun kena ade ruling). for application to park illegally alongside the road. for performing the nikah even though the ustaz was such a pain and decided to pick on you with his questions instead of the groom like they usually do. bersungguh je D menghafal rukun nikah, tayamum, doa qunut dan sebagainya, orang lain pulak yang kena tanye..
for putting up with mummy's wrath because you waited till the very last minutes to do things. for being the cashier. for being ever so agreeable that mummy misconstrued it as not being bothered. for all that you've done, im still your little girl and you still have to pick me up and pulls strings to get me what i want. :P
my sisters - for leading the walk on the red carpet. for rehearsing with the flower girls. for repairing my makeup so i didnt look like a cow. for making sure things were in place even though you guys take a lot longer than me to get ready and i was ready to scream. for secretly massaging my cramped feet cos i can never bersimpuh for more than two minutes. for accompanying me when mummy took me to hours of pointless shopping for the event. i would've gone mad alone.
thank you girls.
yana (hanif's gf), gee (my sister), hanif (D's brother) - during D's reception
wani (my sister), aizat (D's brother) - during D's reception
my brothers - seriously i don't really know what you guys did for me. expect melarikan my bridesmaid for ciggie breaks in between the ceremony. and having a party on the third floor till i couldnt sleep on the eve of my wedding till i had to wake mummy up and she barged in your room and it reeked of cigarettes. oh but you guys did help buy D's contact lenses two hours before the reception - emergency. and then the little kid who tagged got lost at the mall and you guys were late and D was frantic and by the time you got home there was no time to wait for you to get ready that we had to find another ride to the jetty to ferry our way to the lakeside. no worries boys, im still here to fix your midnight hunger meals.
the crew who helped me a lot; am, abby, maisarah, irna, azwa, heidi, arni, malik, ashrafthank you. thank you. thank you.words fail me. '
sorry for not spending enough time, hope you understand.
please, please, please forgive me for my violent mood swings and snappy behavior.
being a bride is so stressful. i don't recommend it. was completely high strung.
Mummy and us will be hosting a thank you dinner. will update everyone by cell.
Please attend. I'll be nicer this time. Without all that make-up im a completely different person.
Much much nicer and a lesser control freak.
anis - holy crap! what would i have done without you.
with my entire make-up crisis i was in no mood to smile and was seething every minute of the way. thank god you held my hand, took a look at my cow face and told me that you would make everything okay. im sorry im restless and am completely unable to hold my head still. im sorry that my eyes cant accept any foreign objects and water so easily that the false eyelashes would not stick. thank you for being in the background with a bottle of eyelash glue. thank you for being patient with the fact that my eyelash fell off even before we got on the boat and it caused a fifteen minutes delay and everyone was standing around waiting for my eyelash to dry. thank you for holding my veil during the hot sun photo shoot so it would appear that my veil was flying beautifully in the wind when actually you were the one holding it up and they're gonna photoshop your picture so you don't appear in the pictures. thank you. thank you. thank you.
i know im fussy, bossy, demanding and sulky. but im a much nicer person without the eyelashes!
nad-yah! & kepal - one inexperienced and one three time pengapit. job nicely done.
thank you dear nads for making sure no one steps on that two meter veil and the kain's train (serious letih, berat kepala!) and making sure that my nose wasn't sweating before running off with my brother for a nicotine fix and realizing that the little flower girls were staring at you only after lighting up.
next time don't come up to the high table asking "are you okay dear? cos i nak pergi isap rokok ni" cos i think my mom and grandma may have heard you. thank you so so so so so much for being there during nikah, saying goodbye to yet another friend who's gone over to the other side to join the sad married life. for picking up my baju from the designer's after that stupid last minute alteration. some people just don't learn. you've done wonders for the both of us. god bless you babe.
thank you kepal for being there, driving all the way to putrajaya for two consecutive days. you've been great even though you were hitting on my sister during the red carpet walk that she lost concentration while carrying my veil and stepped on my train and that pissed me off. im sorry our reception offers no booze. we'll get you drunk some other day kay?
photographers & videographer - sorry, i didnt smile at all during the nikah. i was pissed and was in no mood.
i didnt look at the camera, i didnt wanna talk and i was so irritated.
sorry that i snapped even after you told me everything was okay and i had to look happy not like as though someone had just died.
im sorry with your cold and all i didnt offer to switch off the air conditioning as heat would've made me even more crankier. haih, selfish nye saya ni. sorry if i was fidgeting the entire time at D's reception as i absolutely hated that baju like hell. the alterations were bad and i felt fat and frumpy. i hate that baju!!!!!!! ok dah. im probably the crankiest bride you'll ever meet. i don't think i can ever pay you enough to deal with my tantrums.
i was sooooo glad the entire thing was over that i was totally in a good mood during the outdoor shoot. even though it was boiling hot and my eyelashes were hanging off my face.
thank you, thank you, thank you.
D's Mama- erm. yes i am demanding. yes i am difficult. yes i am stone cold.
the question is, how do you put up with it? ive never seen anyone deal with me with such patience. D must have taken after you. thank you for understanding me. thank you for understanding why i bathe only once a day. why i eat only when served and not find my way through the kitchen. why i need to lie down in the middle of the day when ive done absolutely no housework. i dont know how some girls can just barge into their boyfriends homes and start doing the dishes and folding the clothes. i cant. i freeze. that's why i prefer to ask you directly "can i help you with anything?" when you told me no and told me to lie down instead, thats exactly what i did. i seriously have no idea how you train your boys but they amaze me. they wash clothes, hang them, take them in, wash dishes and do pitch in with everything in the house. the last time i hung out stuff to dry was probably back in form 5 after scrubbing my school shoes. sigh.
"i train all my boys to do housework, S. nanti dah kawin senang bini masing2. kalau dah ade rumah sendiri nanti, suruh je D buat semua housework." erk.
and when u hugged me in front of all those people and told them i was your new daughter 'tapi belum pandai nak panggil mama' - thank you for understanding, auntie.
for the beautiful etienne aigner bag you got me. for the beautiful hand bouquet you made like how i exactly wanted it only to have me throw it to a bunch of single chicks, where it all fell apart. for the fresh white roses hantaran you handmade exactly the way i wanted it.
for everything.
you never had a daughter, let's hope you have no regrets.
to the people who made me look the way i did -
man kajang - that baju nikah and shoes. ketatla kain. dahlah kena bersimpuh lame...cramp la
radzwan radzwill - the garden reception outfit. so many compliments. thank you for not wincing when my waist was gazillion inches. and thank you for the flawless alteration when i lost a few inches. im so in love with the baju. its hanging there waiting for something to happen.
amin jauhary - sigh. you never got anything right. the alterations were so so bad. i was so dreading D's reception. My arms looked huge! but you were nice enough to rework again and again when you saw my near tears face. i can't say im 100% happy, but some people during the reception did say it was nice, so i'll let it go.
romy from jakarta - for the selendang akad. wow. sparkling and swarovski. it got stuck everywhere. so messy. im hanging it for good, its beautiful yet too difficult to wear.
kareem al-khadani - for the henna tattoos. what an honor! erra fazira, sheila majid and now you're doing mine for free. let's just hope my marriage last longer then theirs did.
and the rest of them all..
Jay Yee of The Carat Club for D's ring -sorry we took forever to decide what to engrave. not easy putting 7 years of love into one inch of space
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My Dear Friend Lucillus - for driving me around the eve of my akad getting my last minute things done. Thank you for being patient and driving ever so slowly since the fragile sugar boxes were filling up in the back seat. Rimas kan? I pun rimas mase tu. Thanks for coming and sitting in the front row. You were the first person i saw during the red carpet walk and i instinctively smiled. Tak sangka you came with your supervisor from whom you extorted the A for your thesis. And your date wasn't too bad either. Hehehehe, why i interview her you drag her away? you scared ar?
D's brothers - we use to hang out and party and smoke together. now you boys are kissing my hands. wonders never cease. but seeing you guys stripping down to your boxers tu dah biase sangat. no surprise there.
a moment with the new sister.
kesian my hand bouquet. dah takde bunge...
Gamelan UKM-so beautifully played. i love Gamelan! when you guys took pictures with me, i heard one guy said 'cepatla..nak letak kat friendster ni!'. Bless you all. Hope all you of get A's.
Kak Ju and Diddy- thank you for working with mummy and planning out the beautiful reception. sorry i couldnt contribute more, never good at weddings, never liked them.
All those who came to my reception - thank you berry berry much. hope nobody gets mad when i say this, but we really didnt have the time to open the mountain of gifts. they were there under the stairs until the fourth day and mummy started complaining of the space they took. so i told D we really should start unwrapping them ASAP. we have four rice cookers, bohemian crystalware that rivals the whole of mummy's collection, tonnes of aussino bed sheets, table wear and what not. i guess that pretty much sums up of what is expected of a married girl. interesting stuff include, a set of baby clothes which annoyed D and a set of book titled '20 cara menjaga hati suami/isteri'. my gf's from uni gave a beautiful candle stand with a scented candle. other single frens gave tonnes of photo frames. i guess married people tend to be more practical with gifts hence the blenders and rice cookers, where as single people are more romantic. A table lamp from AIEU was D's favourite.
Those who came to D's reception - he'll do the thanking, hehe. but we were just curious about two unnamed gifts which we absolutely love. one is the personalized square glass plate with our names hand painted on them done in bangsar and the other one is the painted wooden key box. thank you we love all your gifts. and we love all the ang pows!
thank you. thank you. thank you.
ps; to all the single ladies, please don't rush into getting hitched. enjoy. single hood is by far the besterestest time of your life. we had a 7 year relationship without ever discussing of getting married. it wasn't until he proposed last Dec 06, that we started to really think about it. eight months later, it happened. take your time, no hurries. i had hell a hard time convincing myself marriage was for me. The only reason im married is because im sure that i know D well. He has my trust and i know im safe around him, and that he'll take good care of me. And also i can't imagine life without him..:)
