Highlights of Mr & Mrs Toh's civil marriage ceremony ( ROM )

Well, yes , after years of being in the 'market', I can safely say that I'm officially off the shelves ! I am now married to my sweetheart of almost two years last Saturday, 8/12/12.

We have chosen a tentative date for the Chinese customary wedding, but nothing is fixed yet..and as usual, all will be revealed in due time :) Our civil marriage ceremony aka ROM was attended by family members and a handful of my closest friends :) It was a event filled with laughter :)  Most Chinese elderly wouldn't have considered a couple officially married until they have completed the traditional customary wedding .

I am gonna interrupt my usual blogging with a short message by the groom 

Err....what to say har?
I wanna to thank my father, mother, mil, fil, friends....blab blab blab...you get the gist....lol
Oh...oh..oh...and my wife too!!!! Without her, I can't have a marriage....kekeke
So, we would like to share with everyone the closure of our courtship and the beginning of our married life....

To my wife.... I LOVE YOU!!

Do pardon his nonsensical yet somewhat meaning message :P he is still overwhelmed by the life changing event. 

Why now, don't let us hold you back from viewing our photos from the ceremony lunch  ..here are some highlights

 Doing makeup and hair 

in my aunt's room.. 

Mr and Mrs tags made by yours truly.

I didn't want to spend too much money 

on this ROM, so we decided not to 

have any flowers or sashes on the chairs...  

  


 our wedding bands




 My pretty bouquet...

can you spot my ring?  :)

 Let's begin!
Our fathers were our witnesses that day. 
 

 

 With this ring I wed thee.. 
 

Thats our solonimizer , 
Mr Chia Ting Yu. 
Quite a friendly person and helpful too..
Gave us some tips on how to maintain
a happy marriage.  

The signing moment


 We're legally man and wife!


Taken with family and friends

 
funny moment


my pretty bouquet  again :)


After the lunch event was over, a couple of friends, my bro and ourselves ajourned to
Scarlet Hotel for our staycation. I invited my friends to pop in to have a look at the place..
I have heard wonderful reviews of the boutique hotel :)

Will write about that in my next entry!

It has been almost 10 days since we have been married..
There isn't much difference honestly , and I kept telling myself, yes, Eileen, you are
\a married woman now.. :D
Well, next up will be the customary dinner..so yeah, we are in the process of deciding how
many tables and which restaraunts etc for the dinner.

Watch this space for more updates now!

Here's Mrs Toh signing off.. :)

Lunar New Year Part II

I am getting really lazy.. :P Even though the Lunar New Year isn't quite over, the mood just isn't there anymore.. In fact, there wasn't much of a festive mood this year :( So here I am , being lazy..not having much mood to blog about my new year either..  One thing for sure.. it's different coz I got quite a lot of red packets this year! Oh and of coz, I went visiting with Alex :P 

Here are some photos from first, sec and fourth day of the Lunar New Year .

Spent first day at home entertaining relatives

and cousins . Later in the afternoon, Alex and I 

went to MBS for the Titanic exhibition

( will write another post about the exhibition)

2nd day was slightly busier,  having to pop by Alex's place ( Bedok )  in the morning followed by visiting his maternal relatives at his uncle's place( Pasir Ris). That's where Ah Gong (grandpa is about 85? )lives . After late lunch and lou hei at his uncle's, we went to Pounggol for another round of visitation. What is new year if I didn't meet up with my gals! 

Took pics with Jeslyn and see that's her

seated on the table for the lou hei!

 

Stayed at Lynn's place for quite awhile..

We ate, we played some cards :P
we were entertained by the kids!

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Visited Christine and her parents on the fourth day 

and here are my cutest god daughter and god son..

They are growing up so fast!

In case you have not notice..all my clothing have so far

been rather bright and festive! 

I am trying to do the bright colored clothes for 15

days of the new year! I did it last yr :P

So far I have not worn any black top! hehe..

Will try to keep it going..

It's my brother's birthday~!

Was walking around NEX mall, thinking of which cake to buy him..and saw some really pretty cakes at Swiss Bake.. I have never tried their cakes, though have bought the puffs and pastries for breakfast before..So Swissbake cake it was for my brother on Thursday evening...

It's the Champagne Cake


Cute design ..so I thought..
and kinda assume it should taste good too..

It was wayyyy too sweet..much to
our disappointment.
Bro still ate it nevertheless hahahaa..



Happy birthday!!!!

Hop Bunny Hop! Part 2

I am happy with this year's lunar new yr only for I was able to meet all my dearest friends within the long weekend holiday. ( Of coz spending time with my family counts too..)

I spent my third day of the Lunar New Year with Liz and her folks :) She invited me to her place in Jurong East.

Me all prepared to go 拜年~

Liz' place was nicely decorated with bunnies!

Goodies in a row for her guests :D


This colorful kueh lapis
is from M'sia..


I wasn't there alone of coz!


oops..caught in action :P




my winning hand...


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It was family lunch after church service
on the forth day











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初五
I was a walking orange on the first day of work for
the lunar year .....

this was what i wore....



at my office!


Can't wait for the wkend to arrive!!

Hop Bunny Hop!

I spent the first day of the Wabbit year with the same bunch from reunion dinner. It has been a quiet new year for us ... I kinda like it this way. No need for pretentious small talk.. no need to put on my fake smile and no need to entertain people I don't like! :P

God is good... He gave us a bright sunny day!

We traded poker cards for
yet more monopoly deal!





Hope your wabbit year
has been good so far!


here!
have some 年糕～～



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2nd day of the New Year

We finally continued with our yearly tradition of gathering at Lynn's place with the girls. These gal friends are the ones who have been there for me when I was down and out..and they are the ones who shared my joys during those wild and fun 20s :P

Feb 2011
( Joey's children next to me.. )


rewind to few yrs back..
same living room..same sofa..
I dare say I look so much better now!! hahaha


See how hideous I looked in that dress?
I have never wore it again since..





Cute Vivia


Haha!
I have never done this b4..
but here it is!
taken in the lift :P

Last day of the Tiger year

Lunch with co workers...

Lou hei salmon yu sheng





salted egg yolk prawns.. *drool* yum


Black pepper venison


toufu with mushrooms and spinach


lets toss to a better and prosperous year~



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my neat and tidy work desk


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Reunion dinner at home








always love a good pipping hot steamboat


a round of deal after dinner



兔年快乐～


Different faces of Eileen
during this lunar new year~ :P