Nikki Blog

As many of you may have already known that I’m going to get married soon, this comes with huge responsibilities in getting everything together, and I wouldn’t have been able to survive without my mother’s and my soon-to-be mother-in-law’s help.

New family comes new relatives. I have recently got so many invite on Facebook from Chris’s relatives: “Hi bride-to-be, wanna be friends with auntie…? Add me!” Rejecting the invite would be a disastrous attempt to save any privacy of posting drunken night out pictures with my girlfriends or secret holidays that Chris and I had been taking. No more escape from aunties and uncles.

My mother managed to arrange a well-known make-up artist for me for the morning engagement ceremony. Due to the inevitable faith at birth, my engagement time has to be precisely 6:50 -7:30 am. This means my mother insisting on me getting to the hotel by 5 AM to get my body all covered in powder, so it’s the same color as my face, and foregone any beauty sleep I should get. Mind you, my mother hasn’t been so active since 2000, so this is a real progress.

Chris’s mother has also managed to secure us a great florist. She has been so details with everything that Chris and I felt so lost at first reading her email. I’m sure it’s beautiful, but we had so little knowledge of what most flowers are called, so we googled all the images (see below).

“Met another florist today.

Cascading Bridal bouquette will feature Phalanaeopsis (purplish or dark pinkish) depending on availability, Lysianthus (purple/white), Rose (pink), Wax (purplish/pinkish) and soom kratai (I can’t find the Latin name for this).

Other flowers are:

Roses (60% purple, 20% white, 20% pink)
Carnation (50% purple, 50 white)
Vanda (purple)
Cattelya (white/purple)
Amaranthus (green/pink)
Gerbera (pink)
Spider (green)
Fresh Grapes (70% purple, 30% green)
Ivy
Kiwi Leaves
Plong Fa leaves (no translation).

The 2 stands at the entrance will be about 2 metre tall
The 2 stands at the Altar will be about 1.20 metre tall”

Phalanaeopsis = Oh, so it’s an orchid!

Lysianthus = Yes! I like this one.

wax =  okay, not what I thought it was.

Amaranthus=  hmm, interesting choice.

To be honest, I can’t understand why I need powder on my body at 5 am, and I can’t pictures all of these flowers + grapes + carnation + Ivy all together,  it sounds a little chaotic to me, but sometimes you will have to trust your mother and soon-to-be one.