i need to lose weight.

Hello.
I do realize that I pretty much suck at blogging about my wedding preparations.
It's not that I do not have the time at all, it's just that most of the time I'm just not in the mood. And documenting the thousands of things that are undone will just get me all worked up. :(

Oh well, as mentioned in previous post, my wedding cards have been picked up. Thanks to Kanda Dinda.
It took me
quite awhile to get over the fact that there is a (stupid) flaw in every one of them. *nangis*
Thank you to the sister who kind heartedly helped me edit her phone number. :(

She also helped with the folding and is responsible for the writing the names in the card. What would I do without her ? :)
I have gathered quite a number of addresses and will be posting them all out within this week. I will be needing my guests to RSVP, so that I can do a head count or an estimation on how many people will be attending.
Then I can know whether I will need to add more food.
A few have not replied, and I have quite a number of cards that I have planned to pass by hand. Now I'm having second thoughts as I do not know when I will have the chance to do so !

Hantaran items for him have all been bought.
I have not gotten my perfume, cloth and hijab though.
I need to find time to go get them and pass them to Mr Sunshine !

Mr Sunshine will be going back this week for Aidiladha, and is planning to get his Baju Melayu for nikah tailored. Hope that goes well.

I am looking for shoes to go with my nikah Baju Kurung. A simple one would do, because I'd be wearing it on the way to the mosque and back only.
It should be something that I can still use after the wedding.

Something like this maybe ? From here.

I am depending the sister to get the house and rooms to look a bit decent.
Mr Sunshine and I have yet to go scouting for a bed set.
I have been contemplating, since we're both in Terengganu, and will be staying here for quite some time after we get married, it would be a waste of money to get two bed sets.
It's sort of confirmed that we're a getting a complete bed set for the quarters here.
And I might get only a bed for Gombak as Mummy's room already has a cupboard, dressing table and a bedside table.
The only problem is that it would be difficult to find a bed that would match the current furniture in Mummy's room.
Hmmmmmm.

ONE AND A HALF MONTH to go. InshaAllah.
I have been gaining weight like nobody's business. Some of my baju kurung are ill-fitting for me already.
It's a bit depressing to see how I have let myself go. :(
But I have started exercising like I used to, and hopefully I'll manage tone up in time before my dress fitting session. And my best friend, Diana's wedding.
Which is about two weeks away. Fat hopes eh ?
At least tone up a bit lah, please. :(
I HAVE ABOUT 10 LBS TO LOSE ! But I'm thinking that's impossible (and unhealthy) to achieve in such a short span of time.
Oh this is so depressing.

xoxo,
Melissa R.

picked up my cards, but...

I have my wedding cards with me now.
I am not too happy about it because I stupidly just realized the mistake in the sister's mobile phone number. 012 is written instead of 017.
How could I have missed that out ?!
Argh.
I have no one else to blame but me.
Stupid.

xoxo,
Melissa R.

of dress sketches and a card draft.

And so Monday has arrived. *vomits*
But the weekend did not leave me in vain, hehe.
Good news people, Mr Sunshine and I finally attended our marriage course a.k.a kursus perkahwinan ! Alhamdulillah.

Our certificates will be ready by next week, I'm probably not going to be able to get them at that time as I'd be working. The week after that, maybe ?

He arrived here on Thursday night, we used Friday to go to the tailor for her to measure us for our reception outfit. Here's a blurred sketch of my dress !

I blurred it on purpose, did not want to spoil the surprise. Hehe baik tak payah upload kan ?  I hope it turns out nice ! Risaunya !

We also went to order our wedding cards here. Their cards are simple and cheap. Hehe.
They've already sent me the draft of the card (they emailed it on Friday night itself !) but there are still some amendments to be done and Mr Sunshine wants to show it to his family first before we proceed with the printing. :)

OMG.
I am so nervous !

xoxo,
Melissa R.

raya 2009.

Hello, I hope it's not too late to wish everyone Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri.
How was your Raya ?
You can read about mine here and here.

I know I am guilty of not updating often enough over here.
But truth is, there is nothing much to update all of you with.
Mr Sunshine and I have registered to attend our marriage course next weekend, InshaAllah hopefully we'd be able to make it.
I am planning to take next Friday off (I have been working two nights straight this weekend) to go to the tailor for our reception outfits, order our wedding invitation cards and hopefully go for our HIV test.
Which reminds me, I've been wanting to call the clinic to check on the duration of validity of the test.
Oh, I would also like to spend a bit of quality time with him, hopefully.I miss him. :(

Happy Raya everyone ! :)


xoxo,
Melissa R.

cut, clarity, colour, carat.

Check out my ticker.
Exactly 5 months more to go. InshaAllah.
Feel like pinching myself. *pinch pinch*

Is it too early for us to get our wedding rings ?
It does not matter anymore now, anyway.
We have been scouting around for the past three months actually, and today we finally bought 'em !
Yeah, I can't believe it either. Talk about being over excited.
We were browsing at Habib Jewels, Alamanda today and when I set eyes on that ring, it took less than seconds for me to fall in love with it. It was a newly arrived item, for their Aidilfitri promotion.
I always knew that I wanted something simple, yet elegant looking (to me). I have never been a fan of huge flashy diamonds. This may sound cheap or foolish, but I do not see the significance of high carat diamonds.
I want something that I'd be comfortable having on for the rest of my married life (InshaAllah) and that would not get in the way of me doing the dishes, cooking or scrubbing the toilets.
Ok, maybe I won't be scrubbing toilets. Mr Sunshine has promised that he'd do that for me (for the rest of our married life). Hahaha.
Ok, back to the main point, Mr Sunshine also managed to find a ring for himself. I really like it too !

♥

You'll get to see how they look like on that day lah ok. Hehe.
OMG we have our wedding rings alreadyyyyyy ! :D

A busy, busy (and tiring !) weekend just went by.
Apart from me going to Kemaman and back on the same day (Friday) and attending Mr Sunshine's sister's convocation ceremony in UPM today, Mr Sunshine and I paid a visit to the Pameran Pengantin 2009 at MidValley Megamall yesterday.
I was super anxious to see all the exhibit booths as it was my first time attending such a thing.

I came back a with all these filled up in a paper bag...

..and a massive headache. I was just so overwhelmed.
There were good and reasonable offers but we did not find anything in particular that we were interested in, except for some of their wedding invitation cards.
Most of the booths had promotions lasting only for the duration of the exhibition, which mean you'd have to make a booking there and then in order to get the special prices they were displaying. Pretty good trick, but I did not think it was helpful for people like me who tend to take ages to make up my mind. :(
There were a few who had offers lasting until the end of the year. Yay !
I am thinking of dropping by one of the wedding card invitation shops to place my order soon. :)

I have finally got a rough estimate of the number of guests for the reception on my side and I am looking forward to book my caterer !

xoxo,
Melissa R.