Today we were talking about our wedding blog and thought it'd be nice to give it a new look... so tah dah! A new theme to match the season, and a new name - "The Cruisin' Pereiras" - after the song by Gwyneth Paltrow and Huey Lewis, the first duet we sang together as a couple some 7 years ago. What started off as a blog to document our wedding preparations will now be the place where we share our life together with you. Stay tuned!

7 years ago, he asked me to be his girlfriend. <3

A result that's 7 years in the making <3

woot!

 And so the wedding process begins - it starts with a few weeks out from the actual day, the groom's side with the help of an aunt brings over goodies to the bride's house. This is to show their sincerity in the marriage.

Every dialect group does it differently - although I'm hokkien but what i'm doing is a mix of hokkien and cantonese (grandma). We did a simple ceremony that covered all grounds... which left the grandma and the mother of the bride very, very happy.

It started out with Marcel and Aunt Judy coming with boxes of cakes, oranges (for lack of kam), wine and of course the ang pows. Then part of the goodies Marcel brought were returned to for him to bring home. 



From now: 3 more weeks to the actual day :)

Just so we remember the whirlwind of events over the past 2 months!

Church Recce, June 2009
That's us pacing around.. getting a feel of how many guests the place can take, trying to visualise what to do for actual day.

we will officially be Mr & Mrs. P.

<3

We are SIX weeks away from the big day. Wow.

Since the concert ended, we've been working furiously on wedding things with our families - invite list, getting ready chinese ceremony stuff, invite cards, selecting and finalising with church caterer, coordinating with Hyatt, meetings with wedding planner (Jearina!), brainstorm and deciding on renovations at home, liaising with our band, ring maker, finalising church requirements, dressing up parents (only 1 out of 4 almost done!) etc etc.

And all these were done simultaneously over the past 2 weeks!!! Gosh. Didn't realise how much we were doing until now as I'm typing out and recounting all these.

And there's actually a lot more to do. This coming week, we need to:

1. Finalise the invite list
2. Confirm all arrangements with Hotel
3. Arrange evening outfits
4. Finish packing room (so that renos can start next week) + arrange for people to cart away furniture
5. Buy our bed by this Sunday (for delivery next week)

And to think I'm still squeezing in one 'off' day to celebrate my birthday in peace. tsk tsk.

But it's a happy busy - there's lots more to come, so stay tuned!!

Saturday 6 June 2009 was good day.

On 06.06.09:


Marcel got thru round one of Singapore Idol

On a late Sunday night - just did a time check and wow, we're 2 months and 1 week away from the wedding!

I chanced upon an old school friend's blog earlier and saw that she's happily pregnant - prolly one of the most radiant moms I've seen in real life! (celeb moms don't count, that's why Baz Luhrmann says "Do not read beauty magazines they will only make you feel ugly" - same line of thought)

Anyway, she did a test of how her little one would look like - and curious me went to try as well =p

Presenting, our "name=undecided" baby - 

Ok the results of the babies on this site tend to look a bit scary. But it's comforting to know ours might just be quite a good looker! (oh, imagine the girls I might have to pry him away from starting from kindergarten days)

LOL.

So we have completed one major milestone last week - our wedding album. After several fittings, my gown was finally ready and we trooped off last Tues (21 Apr) to the bridal shoppe.

We started out with our usual drive-thru Macs brekky in the car at East Coast Park, then we drove down to La Vie. Once we got there, they just sprang into action with all the make up, outfits etc. They're really nice people, and we're so glad we picked them. My personal take is that I now sometimes have a 'comfortable silence' with them - like when I was doing my make-up, I was happy to just hear them talk amongst themselves and they are very nice to sometimes stop and explain to us what in what context they are saying some things, like the last 'punchline' towards another colleague and why they said so.

It makes you feel closer to them and like you really know them beyond the services they are providing.

Our first shoot was in our casual outfits, followed by the traditional kwa, 2 evening gowns and then the BIG actual day gown. The actual day gown is really quite big, and will require 2 people to carry it.. and I LURRRVVVVEEEE it. Whee~ Looking forward to hopefully losing another 2 inches to look even better in it by August.

After a quick lunch break, we were back to get dressed for the outdoor shoot - him in a champagne gold suit and me in another white gown. We were very pleasantly surprised when we walked out of the shop and saw a Mercedes waiting for us - I guess, in my mind at least, we were wondering if it was going to be a smelly van to to cart us out, especially me in that big dress. LOL. Well, it's good to know our worries were unfounded!

So off we went to Clarke Quay, NTU and finally Sentosa. Clarke Quay was interesting, with many nice backdrops. NTU was nostalgic.. and I'm so glad we did it. Sentosa was beautiful..  but shooting under conditions of sunset (in your eyes), strong winds and trying to keep your foothold on the breakwater in 6-inch heels.. was really quite an experience. I think we were both quite spent after that and were really glad to get back to the studio to change into something more comfy.

On Monday night, we went down to select the photos and they turned out really nice.

In fact, as I watched the slideshow I almost cried. After 6 or 7 years of seeing us in normal photos.. we're now looking at ourselves in WEDDING photos. I mean, when I first saw him in those T-shirt & jeans and his deuter backpack - I would have never imagined him to be my groomie, brandishing a champagne gold suit at the altar waiting for ME.

:)))

So we have selected the photos and now being laid out, etc. One big step closer to the actual day!

3 months, 1 week and 1 day to Our Great Big Wedding.

At this time, I was waiting for my turn at Ubi Driving Centre to take my practical exam.

Today, I graduate from my P plate! Yaay!

 Yup, just 3 plus more months to go!! Wow, time flies..

We were working on our mass booklet last weekend and we're glad we've got most of the details all sorted out. Yaay! All thanks to our organist Mabel, who helped us narrow down all the song choices, getting the right sequence (and what's optional), and most importantly sharing with the the all-important book which lists the sequence and all the choices of readings etc, for a church mass. That really helped!

Once we get it done, then we'll be hooking up with our dear Mr. Yew for all our printing needs :)

We're in the stage of sorting out all the details now and pretty soon we're gonna print all the invites, etc. Which brings us down to the meetings with Hyatt to ensure we have the right stuff for the big day. 

Our photoshoot is next Tuesday! Pray for us that we'll have good weather for the shoot.. so that my gown doesn't get ruined before the actual day, that we look good (it is freakin' hot in those clothes) and that we have cooperative students who will let us take our shots nicely.

Which brings us down to shopping items this weekend - our casual outfits for the shoot, his shirts, my 'inner wear' and falsies of my choice. Hee.

I bet along the way, many small items will surface - for a start I know we need nice pens for the signing ceremony.. and silly me only thought about the tea set when I read the recent Her World Brides magazine. And we prolly need to buy many Ang Pow packets right (for helpers). And erm, we need to find out where's good to buy materials like ribbons (not spotlight - that's not wholesale price).. hmm.

Anyone knows where we can get nice feather pens like these?:
  

A quick search online showed a shop in Bras Basah and another one in Clark Quay.. any other suggestions are welcomed!

Till the next time~ stay tuned for developments on Our Great Big Wedding <3

 So dearie and I are going to be miles apart again this week.

A few weeks back, he went to Australia while I scooted off to Korea. Now, I'm leaving in the next 15 mins for the aiport to HK and he will be leaving this Sunday to Malaysia for another conference.

Well, at least we made up for lost time last week - when I tagged along his work trip to Vietnam. 

From the looks of it - I think we're going to be MMS-ing a lot for these 2 weeks. That pretty much what we did when he was in sunny Australia while I freezed my ass off in Korea - self portraits of where we were and what we were doing.

Thank God for technology.. but I'll still miss him.

Take care dearie! *muackz*

So today's our first wedding gown & suit fitting day! It's such a relief to get another thing settled and now we're sailing closer to our photoshoot in April :)

So we tried out the bridal make up for me today, my made-to-measure gown and his 2 suits. I also managed to select another 2 outfits for the photoshoot next month and so we've settled the urgent and important things on hand so far. I just need to continue losing weight and return for a final fitting when I come back from HK, and then we're set for the photoshoot.

Naturally, we'll be going to NTU for the photoshoot. I'm sure there'll be tons of students staring at us then and probably think we're crazy - but hey, it was all romantic while we dated in and around school back then.

We're not gonna post any peek-tures (literally, geddit?) until after the big day.. so please do bear with us ;)

Here's me with the day make up before slipping into the gown:


We were pretty much exhausted after the few hours there, so we went to chill out by the sea and had dinner at Brotzeit Vivocity:


Our sweet dressmaker, Jeff from La Vie had suggested Marcel might want to wear an earring in one of the shots in the upcoming photoshoot. And since we were pretty much chilling out and clowning around...


See! THIS was the "bad boy" I had seen 7 years ago in NTU!!! (Yes, I totally thought he was a bad boy based on Gerald's 'pitch'. Then again, he thought I was a damsel in distress that needed saving. Hah.)

Anyway, we're off to Vietnam tomorrow - we were on separate work trips a week ago (me to Korea, him to Australia) so me thought we might as well redeem some miles so that I can accompany him (as far as possible) on this conference he's attending. Cause next week I'll be off to HK and him to M'sia so that's another 1 week plus of separation.

Till the next post - hasta la vista!

Marcel's now away in Sydney on a business trip.. and to cut the long story short, the rear windscreen of our first big-ticket joint-purchase item, the Honda Fit, was busted.

From inside: