photo diary (night)

walking into the war zone haha:



perfect depiction of me being overwhelmed by all the unfamiliar faces of ad's family! i think even ad was shocked at the sheer numbers that greeted us when we opened the door to the vip room!


focusing, focusing on the reason we're doing all this:


adrian welcomes me into the ballroom by serenading me: (i had no idea - as is for most of the whole day)



my crazy MC's; ad's best man, jerral (politician in the making eh?)

my popo and adrian.. having heart to heart talk :)

taking a break; listening to our MCs tell stories


on stage with our heng tais and chee muis. don't they look grand :)

we had to ask our heng tais and chee muis to lead the toasting cos both our families were stage shy! and chicken.

My family - mum's side

ad's gang:

Darling FOJ-ians (without whom my deco wldnt be as gorgeous):

OJ-ians!! also part of our wedding committee:


claire, me, weipeng, meilin:

uni friends, old friends:

dear adelyn, tirelessly executing everything. no wonder i cld relax on my big day :)


my ham sap co-MCs and fellow rebels in cell:

showing off our sexy shoes to ah jon:

papa and mummy post their bedtime:

ad's dad and mum:

picture diary (morning)

wiling away time cos my chee muis were super late


the boys in all their glory and matching pink ties!!



out the door, down the stairs:









i didn't know ad was singing while i walked down the aisle. chieh! wasted... he should have told us, instead of surprising us. we all thought it was the cd...

and papa kept whispering to me when we were walking down the aisle: "eh.. walk faster, we are the last'. duh... i'm the bride. i'm supposed to be last. "eh.. they reached the front already". "pa, stop stepping on my dress". "pa! sloooowerrr..!!!!" "eh, adrian is singing la!! look look!" "are you sure??". "yes la! walk faster"



my favourite pastors:




both mums burnt their fingers cos they used the tea lights to light the bigger candles. haha.. their eureka moment only came after the whole thing was over:






the best moments of the entire day:


mr and mrs lim!!!

my wedding day recap

i really enjoyed myself on my wedding day. but i actually have no idea what actually transpired during the day hahaha. strangely enough i wasn't tired or exhausted as most ppl warned me about. i think it's the adrenaline high that accompanies being the center of attention for a whole day! hahaha.

it was great to be quite oblivious to the many panic attacks that visited themselves upon my friends at the last minute. apparently my wedding day was fraught with last minute crises. ooo how lovely lovely to be able to chuck it to the back of my mind and assume that it will be taken care off. and it mostly was! cos i obviously never knew the difference. i love my husband for being the calmest of calmest and just trusting god that everything will turn out ok.

list of crises:

- our worship leader was struck by dengue 2 days before our wedding and had to be hospitalised. it was quite serious. and becos he chose all the really cool but difficult songs to play, the rest of the worship team didnt have the confidence to play without him. so... voila! up stepped wallace and the team to change every single song and play superbly with only 1 practice. wow... lots of faith being put into action there! i was blithely unaware of how stressful it was for them. i just said... ah.. you guys can do it. and i didnt even bother to ask what songs they decided upon. so it was a wonderful surprise (not really la, i knew they would do a good job - they're all veterans) that worship on our wedding day was super. we loved the songs.

- my deco person forgot my headpiece. so i had no flowers for my hair for the church wedding AND the dinner. so we yanked a few rose buds from the bridesmaid's bouquet in the morning. and took some flowers from the table arrangements in my hotel room for dinner. hah. we plucked different coloured roses from some arrangement in teh VIP room during dinner also. cos i forgot my change of dress. haha

- power outage at the club before the church reception started. and our poor worship team were in the midst of their only practice. good thing dad knows ppl who knows ppl. and voila! we got the power back on 1/2 an hour beofre the service started i think. oooo.... how melodramatic

- my bridesmaid left the communion in my house. only realised when we were 1/2 way the the club. problem solved with wonderful ppl who had backup.

- my whole gang of chee muis were fantastically late (the heng tais wanted to sabo them and break into my house and ask them for angpows instead) becos my bridesmaid's tyre got punctured really badly. i dunno how we managed to start the service on scheduled time, but we did.

reasons i didnt panic and cry:

- adrian was an absolute rock and merely laughed everything off and said don't worry i prayed already. so it'll be taken care off. waaaahhhh! even i don't have that kind of level of faith hahaha. so obviously that faith transferred to me, so i also didnt bother much.

- mei lin told me at the end of the day, the most important thing is being married to the person you love. so all these details are mere icing on the cake. i just needed to focus on the whole point of the day. which is being married to adrian!!!! and thank you thank you thank you my darling beloved mei lin. becos for every single crisis that happened, and every single thing that didnt go according to plan, i always remembered what you told me. and you know what? that was one of the main reasons i totally enjoyed every bit of it. it kept me focusing on the right thing.

it didnt even bother me that my dress was super loose and i had to keep tugging at it. so lame. serves me right for not trying anything on at all since i took my photos. which was 6 mths prior. heh.

what a wonderful day...

on married life

wow.. it's been ages since i've updated any posts. they're all saved as drafts. problems with my broadband connection for eons.

old entry:

MARRIED!!!! at last! still fantabulously giddy when i think of it. to think that 2 years ago, the idea of marriage was quite off putting. i have to eat my words now :) if only i knew how lovely it would be i would have done it sooner and not balked at it. haha. the benefits of hindsight. many ppl have asked me what's the best part of being married. here's my humble answer: to wake up next to the person you love most in the world, and his face being the last you see before you fall asleep.

i think your whole mindset actually changes. so it's really not the same as when we're courting. i can't quite describe this change, just that it's an immense knowledge knowing that you are part responsible for another person as well, and that another person is depending on you. yeah, it's cool.

it's also involves lots of conscious effort and commitment not to take each other for granted. of course, we're still in the honeymoon phase so it's not apparent yet. but we're well aware that familiarity and apathetic feelings can creep up slowly and subtly, hitting you only when the symptoms are quite severe, and it's harder to reverse. so.. we must always be on guard. see? i actually paid attention during our pre-marital counselling sessions. heh.