Fashion & Style Diary
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Every month, I’ll share some of my favourite finds – movies, books, places, buys – good things should be shared!
New year, new favourites to share! In January, some of my favourites include a movie that isn’t exactly a new release (oops), a book of poetry by Lang Leav and a cafe in my neighbourhood!
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With special thanks to Nathan Hartono for the music.
I don’t know why the boys continually cannot walk the centre of the aisle! From rehearsal to the final day! Haha…boys. Maybe they felt lonely and wanted of a partner?
Happy to see my girls got it right.
We could have gotten married in any Catholic church, but this was picked for its understated beauty (simple and small), history and special meaning to me.
My grandpa passed away a few years ago, and he is very missed by the whole family. His funeral and the 5 day wake was held in this church, and while that sounds really morbid, it’s actually not. We see the church as “his” church and I feel his spirit around.
Some people expressed surprise that we would pick this particular church to get married in: it’s one of the smallest churches, it’s not in the east, where both our families (including us!) stay, and, and some who perhaps don’t have “friends from other races” have said, “but it’s the Indian church”.
Erm. So?? Yes, it’s just off Sungei Road, is relatively near Little India and offers masses in Tamil (not all Catholic churches have Tamil masses), which could be reasons why more Indian friends attend this church, but we really didn’t see the point in making such a statement. I, for one, find it to hinge on a slight racism, which doesn’t generally sit well with me…
Anyway, I digress. So we decided to hold our church ceremony here, which to both of us, is the most important part of the entire wedding. I really appreciate how friends who had packed schedules on the day and couldn’t make it to the luncheon after, made time to attend the church ceremony – thank you!
Yes, I got really teary when mum and dad helped me with my veil. So much for not crying at my own wedding!
I see there’s always time for a wefie…
Just some of the awesome people around me. Shoutout and big thanks to my (limelight-hating) older brother who transported so many bulky items, and was always around for rehearsals, even when he wasn’t the most excited to be part of the bridal party (as he would have to be involved in the march-ins, heh). Even here he chose to lurk in the background of the picture!
He and my most awesome sis-in-law just showed up at 11pm the night before the wedding “in case we needed help with anything” and on the day, he apparently kept asking my mum if there was anything else to be done – basically, he helped out in his own quiet, un-showy way. Although we fought as kids and even more so as teenagers; and although to ‘kaypoh’ (meaning: busybody) people (who don’t know any better but think they do) we seem to not get on and think we are very brash and unloving towards each other, I think both of us know that’s how we show our love, and that we will be there in a heartbeat for each other in times of need.
Okay that’s like the most expressive vocalization of sibling love in perhaps 30 years. STAHP.
I love this shot of my beautiful bridesmaids and flower girls (unfortunately sans the maid-of-honour and the birde!). Everyone looks so pretty and so radiant – and don’t you love the blooms Liz and I hastily threw together the night before the wedding? Although they didn’t all know one another before this, each of these girls have been there for me through difficult times, and like an elephant, I never forget.
In this post are snaps by my friend, Jem, who was an unofficial photographer at our wedding. Jem and I go way back, back in SMU days where we would shoot all sorts of school campaigns together; he the freelance and budding photographer; me the ‘anyhow’ model who took on commercial modelling jobs that paid for textbooks (so expensive!), Statistics tuition lessons (embarrassing but very essential) and wakeboarding sessions (which was a luxury!). Later on, Jem also gamely shot my lookbook campaigns when I was running my online boutique, and true to his promise, shot these lovely moments on T and my special day. Thank you for bothering to arrive early and getting all these precious moments that my official photographer may have missed!
More photos to come!
Photo credits: Jeremy Nguee, now F&B Personality, Culinary Artist and Consultant, and also the founder and owner of Preparazzi.
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Awaiting the entire batch of photos from the wedding photographer we engaged on the day, but here are a few they have kindly rushed out for me!
First look at the dress and shoes. I actually had no idea what shoes to wear with the wedding gown. I had initially notions of wearing sparkly sneakers or striking red ones slippers (ala Dorothy in ‘The Wizard of Oz’, one of my favourite childhood stories!), but not only did Groomzilla seem extremely underwhelmed by the idea (to put it mildly), I also had trouble finding ones in these styles that I liked.
The period leading up to the wedding was extremely busy and stressful – work kept me busy and the preparations and tiny details seemed never-ending! There was hence no time to properly look for shoes; I just glanced into shop windows every time I found myself walking through malls. My dress designers were going mad as up to a week before the wedding, they weren’t sure what length to cut the dresses to as I had no idea what shoes, and more importantly, how high or low heels (or flats, as in the sneaker idea), I was planning to wear!
The good people from Bless Inc Asia Pte Ltd reached out to me, and like the quintessential fairy godmother in fairy-tales (how appropriate, given my ‘Dorothy’ aspirations), they presented me with the perfect solution! I love these Melissa Ultragirl + J. Maskrey flats with Swarovski crystal appliations – true to promise, they really made me feel like a modern-day Cinderella!
The icing on the cake? They are not only pretty as hell, they are super comfy!
Oh, and Groomzilla approved. 😉
With special thanks to Terence Yow and Chrissa Zhu from Enviably Me; Daryl Dee Teo and Jacqueline Lui from Bless Inc Asia Pte Ltd.
I got married to my love over the weekend, and I couldn’t be happier.
As the bride, I didn’t have much chance to snap any photos on my phone as I was running around trying to chat with everyone and make sure all guests were happy and taken care of; plus there were the dances and speeches to do! In the days following, I’ve been so happy to have received photos from friends and family who have kindly snapped shots on their devices. Special mention must be made to my uni buddy, Jeremy Nguee (now owner and chef at Preparazzi) who was a budding photographer back in the day at SMU. We worked together quite a bit that period and he later helped me shoot pictures for my online boutique. On my wedding day, true to his word, he came and shot some lovely pictures for me. Will share those tomorrow!
Another very special mention goes out to another friend, Ki’ern Tan, ex-editor at 8 Days magazine. He came, shot and edited this little wedding gift for me in less than two days. Slight delay on my side as my dear Groomzilla was undecided about me sharing it (he’s a very private person) but he finally came round when I told him it would be a real shame not to…so here it is! (Warning: You may not be able to watch this on mobile; view on your computer!)
(Ki’ern also chose one of my favourite songs as a backing track!) Music credits: You Belong to Me by Patsy Cline.
Thank you Ki’ern!