♫ Lenardily .

♥ Love is

patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking,
it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

1 Corinthians 13:4-7(NIV)

Wednesday, 14 August 2013 @ 06:24

So loooooong but...

❤

Soooo good! (: We are counting down 31 days to the wedding! -hyperventilates- anyways apologies for the long haitus but we have been really really busy doing up the house and the wedding at the same time. The days seem to be zooming past with the renovation, pre-wedding photo shoot, food tasting, more gown fitting for our banquet in Malaysia, the banquet in Malaysia, meeting with various vendors to settle wedding details, having our invitation cards designed and printed, writing and sending out invitations and MORE! However, all these have been part of a joyous process and rest assure, we will back track and record them down in the following weeks leading up to the wedding.

Today, let's talk about the Malaysian Banquet that took place about 2 weeks ago (: on 4th August, Lenardily held their preliminary wedding banquet in Kluang, a small state in Malaysia. Lily's Malaysian relatives and 5 tables of Singaporean relatives and friends were gathered there for a relaxing celebratory lunch. It was only so relaxing because Lily's parents had helped us make all the arrangements including booking of restaurant and planning of seating in Malaysia. Thank God for awesome parents (:

Anyways, that was one enjoyable luncheon and Lenardily sure learnt plenty from it. Here are some pointers we noted to ourselves after having our first taste of being bride and groom:

1. Slow down when you march in.
The spotlight had a hard time chasing us as we marched in at lightning speed. Pictures speak a thousand words.

The only time the spotlight was cast on us. (And do not stand behind a door which opens your way.)

Spotlight missed.

Missed again!

We definitely need to slow down on 14th September.

2. Learn to cut a pseudo cake with a big smile.
We were so tickled when we realised we need to draw a vertical line in the air to pretend we are cutting the wedding cake which was really a plastic cake. Remember to smile to look blissful when cutting your fake cake. Pictures speak a thousand words.

Yay! We are going to cut the cake! (Funky Malaysian Emcee behind us.)


Lenardily: Uhh.. Is that a fake cake? Waiter: Please pretend to cut the cake.

Cake-cutting in process.


Yes, we 'cut' our cake!

But in all honesty, that was pretty fun and it still tickles us when we talk about it (:

3. Grooms, learn how to pop your champagne in style.
In case of emergency, just keep shaking the bottle and laughing.

It's popping, it's popping! (This went on for 5 minutes..)

Aim at your brother!


YES, IT FINALLY POPPED! (No brother was hurt during this ceremony.)

What followed after this was the champagne tower and the crossed arm drinking. Those went pretty well (:

4. Plan and strategise your "Yum Seng" route before you start going table by table.
Tables which you know you will be made to drink more should be kept for the last.

With Lily's second uncle and his family. Super cute girls! (Our first table, note the number of children -wink-)

The next table. (Note: Many elderlys and they will not make you drink.)


How our toast with the last few tables look like. Lenard's Singaporean relatives having a Yumming good time.

Those are all the lessons we can impart after our Malaysian banquet. The rest will have to be experienced on your own, brides and grooms-to-be.

Jokes aside (: We really want to thank all our family members and close friends who have made the luncheon such an enjoyable and electrifying one.

Lily's immediate and extended family.

Lenard's paternal relatives.

Lenard's cousins!

Lenard's maternal relatives.

Great friends (:

Lily's cousins!


Lenardily made it on 4th August (:

Thank you, Rachel for being our photographer for the wedding and Randall, for ushering the guests at each table (: Thank you, Nicole and Wenli, my dear sisters, for doing up my hair so beautifully for me. Thank you all of you who had taken the time out to be with us. We love all of you and you are truly a blessing to us. Most importantly, thank You, Father God for making this happen so smoothly that day (:

We also want to thank Dang and Yuhan for picking out the gorgeous additional gown that I wore in Malaysia. Grooms, you can have your suit made by Justmen as seen on Lenard (:

Alright, just a sneak peek:

A snippet of our home in the midst of renovation. Photographed by Bobby Kiran.

We love our pre-wedding shoot with Bobby Kiran and we are definitely going to put up a post on it soon! (:

Time for us to mop our floors at our new home (: tata.

0 Holler here! ♫

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