Wedding of the year.. for our family la...part 2

24.05.09 Pagi-pagi we all bangun -- terus start buat kerja.. Cik Abang, terus menuju ke garden mama -- tolong gantung blinds, ubah pasu, trim pokok2 mama dan seangkatan dengannya.. Me, don't quite remember what I did that morning. Probably tolong mama prepare breakfast (as in, punggah semua dari bungkusan2 yang ditapau dari Market Taman Tun Sa'ardon oleh Abah) and buat air.. Cik abang pukul 1.00 tgh, dah nak bertolak balik ke KL naik bas.

After breakfast, I started with my bunga pahar yang tak habis2 -- mana nak habis, one of the 'inti' tersalah buat, jadi kena bukak balik semula, buat yang betul and cantumkan.. Dapat la buat dalam 10 je pagi tu.. By lunch time, Mama dah siap masak -- suruh menantu sulung makan dulu sebab takut terlepas bas plak.. Kebetulan Mamu Non, Mami Timah and Farhana mai.. join la makan sekali. Bila Mamu Non tau my hubby nak balik KL petang tu, he terus offer to hantaq Nasir ke bas stesyen.. Alhamdullillah..

Around 3pm macam tu, rombongan from Ipoh pun sampai -- Wan Chik, Wan Chu, Meor and Adi came from Ipoh. Meor yg balik dari Ipoh (which is routine as a 'weekend husband') drove Wan Chik's car to Penang so that Wan Chik and Wan Chu can help out the whole week. By then all the aunties and cousin2 pun dah sampai and they started the work on the chocolates.. Nasib baik the chocolates semua selamat.. Memandangkan the weather was quite hot and humid, all chocolates had to be stored in my room (actually it's Yone's room tapi dia dah dapat bilik pengantin terpaksala we all menumpang kat bilik dia) with the aircond on almost all the time...(bill electric abah mesti naik punye la bulan tu)...

Sekejap je, almost 3/4 of the 1,000++ boxes have been filled. Tu la bila banyak tangan kerja pun jalan cepat..Malam tu we had one final 'commitee' meeting which was chaired by Meor.. All aunties left earlier and the cousins stayed back for the meeting. It went well -- I brought out all the food for them to enjoy while in their meeting. I stayed out since my tasks are mostly before the wedding -- sikit2 je that I have to take care during the wedding -- so Cha took notes of my tasks and all the rest punye tasks as well.. Ala2 take down minutes la tu..

25.05.09 -- Continued with my bunga pahar.. baru buat sikit, stop plak to help with the bunga telur(ie kotak2 bunga telur).. Finishing up packing the chocolates, masukkan dalam balance kotak2 and betulkan all the ribbons.. Petang tu, lepas Yone balik dari kerja both she and I together with Wan Chu went to collect my baju kat Aunty J's place, then singgah jap kat rumah Mami Khairun to solat, then proceeded to T*sc* - Wan Chu nak cari kedai B*t* nak cari kasut, we all plak nak cari potpourri essence for the bunga rampai...While we were there, Wan Chu buat citer kelakar -- ala2 abah.. which left us giggling all the way sampai balik rumah..

26.05.09 -- Pagi-pagi tu Yone and Meor pegi kerja.. I started with my bunga pahar again.. By lunch time Wan Chik and Wan Chu ajak I and Cha to start decorating the bilik pengantin.. We all pun started with the curtains.. Adoiii makkk... luckily Cha ada -- the whole railing thing ada masalah..Cha kira terror la jugak jadi MacGyver..Then we moved on to the katil... Adi through out this event happily played with all the gadgets yg berada di sekeliling we all.. Tak larat dah nak larang..Petang tu Yone balik tengok bilik semua dah siap -- dia dah mula nervous.. alamak..dah nak kawin ke ???

Mama actually sew the sequins on the bantal2 dan kusyen2 warna beige.. Mama memang like to do the small, creative little things for her kids wedding.. Masa my wedding, she put in pearl beads on my cadar to make it more interesting and cantik...She even sew a new set of 'tikar sila' for my wedding and that has been used numerous times now by cousins and siblings..We are so lucky to have Mama as our mother..

To be continued....

Kotak coklat yang telah disusun elok2 dalam kotak besar...

Kotak2 yang diletak dalam the bakul -- ready for the guests..

Bilik pengantin yang disiapkan oleh Cha, Wan Chu, Wan Chik and myself.. Ni hantaran pun dah siap letak tp blm susun betul2 lagi time ni..

Wedding of the year.. for our family la...part 1

It's been more than a month now since the wedding of Yone and Azri.. It's about a year ago when they got engaged. Time do fly by quickly...

Anyway, this is my take on the whole wedding preparation from my point of view...

Both Cha (my younger sis) and I took a week of leave from work to help/start with the preparation at home for the wedding. For me, the week started from the afternoon of the 22nd of May..

22.05.09 (Friday) - around 2.00 pm went straight to Serdang to B**y*'s Chocolate factory to get all the chocolates for the wedding favours..Decided to bring all the chocolates home (sebab takut cair -- almaklumla, the climate is so hot and humid) then continue with the tasks to be completed. Sampai rumah around 4.00pm, unload the stuff and saw hubby sampai.. Told him about the things that I still need to do, he said he'll come along after Asar. So, right after solat Asar, went straight to S*F in Damansara for last minute purchase of stuff. Left around 7.30pm, called Aunty Nie nak check whether we can come over then. Got green light, went straight to her place in Kelana Jaya. Aunty Nie is the one decorated the bakul2 hantaran so went there to collect all the bakul. Bila sampai je kat sana, tengok Tok Bachik and co. is there..so, I agak mesti sangkut lama punye ni..True enough by 9.30, we are still there -- I have 1 more stop to make -- W**d**m**k to collect my cupcakes, tapi tengok cik abang dok rancak berborak.. terus ajak Peepee(Syafiqah - anak dara A. Nie) to accompany me to collect the cupcakes and came back to the house. Nasib baik sempat.. brought back some cuppies for orang rumah to rasa.. Left A. Nie's house almost midnight.. Sampai rumah dekat pukul 1.00 pagi -- terus flat, packing tak habis lagi -- esok lah...

23.05.09 (Saturday) - planningnya nak balik Penang awal2 pagi, tapi pasal packing tak habis - gedebak-gedebuk pukul 1.30 tgh baru keluar rumah.. Bila tengah sangkut dalam jam kat area Batu Caves tu, hati dah mula risau takut coklat semua cair tengah hari panas ni.. Hubby kata better not to take the risks -- nanti bila sampai Penang, semua coklat melt -- baru habis citer semua.. So, call mama -- told her that we will leave bila dah malam/sejuk sikit sebab takut coklat cair. Mama was ok, Abah was not so excited (before that Abah dah brapa kali call, dok tanya pukul brapa we all nak bertolak -- tak sabar-sabar Abah) -- tapi bila dah explain -- ok la..We all pun patah balik, unload back all the chocolates into the house and tunggu sampai around 6.00pm.

By 6.00pm -- all the chocolates were all back in the car -- the Myvi macam tongkang pecah -- all the seats behind had be flatten sebab too many things. Nasib baik tak kena bawak the wedding cake. If not, dah tak tau nak letak mana. I had to riba the cupcakes sebab takut terpenyek.. Anyway, ngam-ngam 6.30 we all bertolak, hujan pun turun dengan lebatnya. Terpaksa singgah R*B Bank dulu - nak drop chq for car repayment. Nanti terus terlupa.. The journey wasn't eventful as I was knock out most of the time -- letih.. At around 10.00pm berenti kat Bukit Gantang to have the nasi lemak and hilangkan mengantuk cik abang.. At around midnight, we all pun sampai -- Abah setia menanti, menunggu nak bukak kan pintu untuk we all sebab semua orang dah tido..Abah bagitau that Emilia, wife my cousin Haikal baru bersalin at around 7.30 kat Tawakal Hospital.. Alahai, apsal tak cakap, tidak we all pun dapat singgah tadi sebelum bertolak..

**To be continued...

P/S: Dengan blurnya, I forgot to take pictures -- yg ada ni pun atas ehsan cousin2 yang rajin menangkap gambar.. The ones yg quite blur-blur tu are from my handphone. Almaklumla, tak dak kamera canggih..

Birthday cuppies for mama (more fore makan2 sebenarnya..hehehe..)

The bakul-bakul hantaran together with the hantaran... Pandai A. Nie, mengubah..

The wedding cake yang almost dibawak balik..Nasib baik tak jadi..(Wedding Cake is courtesy of Aunty Jan..)