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.

Today, I took a deserved Saturday off from work and visited the Bangkok Book Fair. At “4 letter words” booth, I bumped into Bubble, who just had her first book published. So I had my copy autographed and Bubble also give Chris and I a personal reading. It was interesting indeed!

As I always say, exhaust every ways in your quest for love. It is what we believe at MeetNLunch.

“4 letter words” is at booth D-12 in the Plenary Hall.

Has it ever happened to any of you, that no matter how sure you are of the person you are going to get married, you will have some doubt? 

I asked my mother yesterday on the way to picking up my engagement dress, “is it good to get married?”

My mom replied “Of course, it’s good!”

Knowing that my mom had her ups and downs with the marriage, I then asked her innocently, “what’s good about it?”

She looked into my eyes and said “Well, you have someone to get advice from, and someone to take you to the hospital when you are sick.  Like the other day, when I wasn’t feeling very well, your dad took me, and then yesterday he couldn’t sleep and wanted to see the dock, so I took him.  He really like this doctor, she talks well.”

I then asked my fiancee the same question that evening, and he repied, “it’s good to have someone to come home to”.

“….ไม่ชอบที่สุด คือ รองเท้า โอววววว ลอร่า ยังมีผู้หญิง ใส่รองเท้า สไตลนี้อยู่อีกหรือนี่ โอวววว ม่าบบบ น่ะ  เจ๊ใส่เข้าไปได้อย่างไรนั้น (ลักษณะ พื้นเรียบ คล้ายๆ รองเท้า วัดเส้าหลิน โอววว จอรรจ ใส่ไปด้ายยยยยยยยย)”

Above is a feedback given from a male client who went on the date that was set up by MeetNLunch.  Men don’t just look at your make up, or your dress, they also look at everything on you including your shoes.  My suggestion to a female clients who are about to go on the date is to wear a reasonable high heels. It doesn’t need to be 4 inches, but it needs to at least make your legs look an inch longer.  If you are not used to wearing high heel, then get one, it’s easy, it’s essential, and it’s certainly what you should be seen on the date!

MeetNLunch set up about 15 dates last weekend, and the feedback are coming in already this Monday morning.  Here are what we received so far:

Comment 1:

Did you enjoy the date?

“Yes, we talked for almost four hours.  I realized it was late (almost 10pm) when I started to feel tired.  And he bought me an orchid (sold at the flower shop next door) apart from buying one for himself to put in a vase at his apartment.  Nice!”

Comment 2:

“Khun Nikki,
 
Sorry I was away for a few days.  Here is some of my feedback.  I think Nui is very nice and can be very attractive to many women ka.  He is polite, friendly and easy going person.  We can share any general topic conversation which was good and made me comfortable to be with him.  He can speak some Korean which is very impressive.  I also speak some Korean so I knew how good he is in Korean.
 
He has a good sense of humor and know a lot about my field of work.  
 I am not sure I can find some chemistry between him and me though.  I think we just okay being friends ka.
 
Thank you for arranging this date for me ka.  It was good ka… 
Yours sincerely, 
 
Meow“

Comment 3:

“Physical attraction  :  Good
               Personality  :  Good
   Manners/politeness  :  Good
     Sense of Humour  :   Fair
   Conversation skills  :   Good
      Personal hygiene  :  Good
   Appropriate dress  :  Good
             Eye contact  :  Good
           Attentiveness  :  Good

Actually, there are none I don’t like about my match now. I think we need to continue to know each other more.”