Wedding scrap book

Since we agreed not to have a professionally photographed wedding album, we decided to make a scrapbook of our lives - as individuals, as a couple, as well as of our families and friends.

So a couple of weeks before the Big Day, we brushed aside the cobwebs in our cupboard, blew away the layers of dust off the container that kept all our old photographs. It was quite a trip down memory lane.

We bought a nice wedding album from MPH with pages already pre-cut for us to put our photos. But we felt the layout was too restrictive for our mad, mad imaginations, so SP had a fabulous idea of making decorative backing for each page with nice wrapping papers. Now we could paste our photos any way we want.

Both of us put our thoughts and our version of the memories we had together - the vacation we took to Langkawi, Redang, Bukit Tinggi (now Berjaya Hills), our trips back home to our families, fun times with friends, and our Registration of Marriage.

I don't know if any of our guests actually browsed through the book, but both of us had fun preparing the scrapbook.

Wedding biscuit

These has to be the best tasting wedding biscuit I've ever had. SP's mom ordered these for all her relatives who attended our wedding reception in KL.

The wedding biscuits come in pairs, and are presented in a handy box with handles. There were some extras, so we took a few back for ourselves. The skin was thick and just flaky enough that it doesn't crumble in your hands. And the lotus and black bean filling wasn't too sweet.

Our wedding speeches

We decided to prepare a speech for our wedding reception, and what better way to get our creative juices flowing than lounging at Starbucks, sharing a cup of coffee, writing our thoughts into our little Moleskines.

And wouldn't you know it, that on the day of our wedding reception, the speech we gave was totally different from the speech we originally wrote at Starbucks.

Just Married

We're a married couple for three weeks now. How time flies. We were busy bees during the weeks prior to the wedding day - rushing to the cake shop, dashing to the hotel, making sure the preparations in KL and Penang are ready, ordering flowers, converting the other bedroom into a makeshift wine cellar...

So I think you'd understand why the long silence in the blog. More details to come in the following weeks, months, years, but until then, here's a short slideshow of our Chinese wedding reception at Overseas Restaurant in KL, our wedding at the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit in Penang, and our dinner wedding reception at Lone Pine, Penang.