Honeymoon

Dear Diary,

Today I wish to speak about hornymoon, ewwww. K. WRONG! Honeymoon. Hahaha! Okay, to be honest, D and I don't have any places to go YET for our honeymoon. HAHAHAHA! Well, D actually won 2 return free tickets to Krabi. Well, his mom did to be exact. She won the lucky dip during the expo promotion for signing up D's catering.

Another problem thing to highlight is our wedding day is just a week before Ramadhan, the fasting month. (Okay enough hint to when it is. Lol!) Technically, we have to go for our honeymoon within a week, at the same time it also means I'm turning a year older and that was the reason why, wedding day could not be on my birthday even though I wish, I wish, I wish, I might. Hurhur!

We also sign up for a post-wedding shoot with our bridal. (I was the one who sign up. Hahaha!) I mean, it is always best to do a pre-wedding photo shoot, so that you can settle everything once and for all and can you rest all the way after your wedding reception. But my late mom has always never quite like the idea of a pre-wedding shoot, I mean she is okay with it but she always said, a post-wedding shoot will be much better. Especially when you have the henna on your hand while doing the photo shoot and it also means you're halal already. I'm sure you've seen how people actually do a wedding photo shoot before. I've seen my sister and brother-in-law's one and they were asked to carry each other, touch-touch here, touch-touch there and kiss-kiss each other. HAHAHA! Nawwwwwww am I doing that before getting married. Hahahaha! Even the idea is nawwwww. Like I just cannot. Errr.  Can I just tell them like, "Sorry ah, can I just only hold hands and maybe kiss on the cheek?"

So with that, after our wedding day we have a wedding photo shoot to slot. I actually suggested a day after our wedding reception for the photo shoot so that we could have at least 4 days 3 nights for honeymoon BUT, after seeing my friend, JM whom recently got married, for a one day wedding event, she slept the whole 2 days straight because she said it was very tiring. So I cannot picture myself, for 2 days wedding event, how tired will I be then. Maybe I can't even wake up for post-wedding shoot the next day. So, I decided to skip a day for resting purposes and the next day for the post-wedding shoot. And that left us with 3 days 2 nights for honeymoon.

D suggested that we do the honeymoon after the fasting month. But I don't want lehhhh because, it will be 2 months technically to wait before we could actually travel together. 1 month for the fasting month and 1 month for Hari Raya visiting. Now that we are married, I'm sure we have a lot of visiting to do. By then, I don't know if D can ever get leave for us to travel, since it's always hard for him to get his leave approve and I don't want to end up not going anywhere either. Even if he get his leave approve but to wait 2 months just to travel, it's a bit too long or not? I know it's not necessary or wajib to go for honeymoon after a wedding but I think we deserve to go somewhere to relax and distress at least?

And I don't want to go Krabi just yet because I don't think 3 days 2 nights is enough for Krabi. A lot of people tell me, there is quite a number of things to do there like the water sport, snorkelling etc. Plus, we will be so tired from the wedding which I don't think D and I would want to try any of those water sports thingy. So, I want to keep that tickets open for much later at least after the fasting & Hari Raya month, so we can go for a long holiday + activities there. Because of our wedding dates too, I had to put my initial honeymoon venue to Maldives on hold too since we have Krabi tickets to go.

So what I need is to settle for somewhere that D and I can go for just 3 days 2 nights and which doesn't have anything much to do but for us to relax and chill, more of like your beach getaway kind of honeymoon or holidays. And of course, hoping it to be cheap too as well since, we will already be spending a bomb amount of kachings on our wedding. Hahaha! I just want a nothing-to-do-day + just-stare-at-the-ceiling + lay-in-bed and chill-at-beach kind of day, not forgetting to eat all I can too. Some of my friends tell me to do a staycation in Singapore, please, I don't want Singapore please.   Don't give me Singapore as an option, I WANT to CROSS the border of Singapore.

D suggested for us to go on a cruise, which I was sooooo excited about but when I tried to look and search for one, there are no cruise that travels on the week that I wanted to travel and that left us with no where to go again.

We are not very good in coming up with travelling stuff, ideas etc because...hehehehe, this will be our, mind you but our FIRST TIME traveling together and our FIRST TIME to travel out of the country. HAHAHA! We are one anak kental please.  Well, I did travel to Australia before but that was like 10 years ago and I was with my facilitator and friends, plus I'm hopeless with directions. So, during that day, they settle my food, itinerary etc. Hahaha! Just hopefully we won't get lost lah eh.

Till here, while I keep on searching for places to go like macam faham.

XOXO,

Princess Azie Anni ♥

Wedding Tray.

Dear Diary,

I headed to work in the morning, it has been 3 consecutive days of working day for me during the Public Holidays. Anyway, I came back to the laundry at the same time having my lunch + watching the TV. It's my FAVOURITE thing to do, like eating & watching movies at the same time. Hehehe! Everybody notices that because this is what I usually do even during my lunch time at work, I'll buffer some movies and eat.

Spaghetti meatballs that my brother bought for me. It was nice of him but even nicer of him to upsize my meal which I couldn't finish it in the end. Hehe! Maybe he forgot that his kakak don't eat so much like him? Hehe! But it's the thoughts that counts of course!

And yerps! I can finally say it's one of my rest day today too since it has also been 2 consecutive straight days that D and I actually went out looking for our wedding stuff. Poor boy while I get to rest at home today, he had to go back to work on a full shift OT somemore. Nothing new about that, he has been OT-ing like craaaaaazy.

It's really tiring especially our engagement day is quite near to our wedding day. There are just so many things for us to do within a short period of time. Time consuming, money constraint on the both of us. Not forgetting the slightly tiff here and there occasionally. Like how I always get annoyed and vent my frustration at D because I have to settle many things alone  while D have the many help on his plate from his relatives. There was one time when D told me, "The reason why I wanted us to settle down in 2 years time after our engagement but you wanted it to be just less than a year away."

I wish to believe that I was the one who wanted our wedding day to be less than a year from our engagement day but deep down inside my heart, I know everything has already been written by Allah SWT. I can decide on the wedding day any time, any day in particular but it is HIM who ultimately decides since,

 

Something which Mama too has constantly reminded me since I was little. But all these obstacles are nothing compared to the thoughts of getting married to the person I want to spend the rest of my life with, to complete half of my deen with and to earn more pahala (good deeds), Insyaallah, being married (halal-fy) to D.

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Counting down to our wedding day, we are on our way to settle our wedding tray, Insyaallah. Bought some of these from yesterday and some we order it online.

Our matching Qur'an.

 

Very good Qur'an because it has both Tafsir in Malay at the side of the Qur'an and the Rumi words at the bottom of the Arabic words, especially good for those who wants to learn on how to read the Qur'an. But slightly difficult for me because the Arabic words are separated since I have always been reading the Qur'an straight on a whole sentence. But one good thing, at the bottom of the rumi words, it explain what is the meaning of the Arabic words. So prolly, I might be able to speak Arab now? Hehe!

 

And D told me to do a comparison of our hantaran Qur'an to the 'normal' Qur'an because our hantaran Qur'an is actually quite small in A5 size. So I don't know what 'normal' Qur'an means for him because the Qur'an on my far right was the first Qur'an I had when I first started learning the Qur'an and they no longer use it now for ngaji lesson, which was what he has at home. Basically, it's like "obsolete", so the Qur'an we use now are the one in the middle, it is in A4 size. Yerps! The Qur'an I use for my ngaji class now and I love love love this Qur'an. It's big and readable, the tajweed and etc are highlighted in different colours and I just LOVE this Qur'an. Hehehe!

 

One is mine & one is his.

Alhamdulilah! Finally got this book for the wedding tray too!

And his royal blue sejadah. This sejadah is really beautiful, it is in royal blue colour but no idea here why it appeared black. Hehehe!

In all the midst and busyness of all the preparations, I just realized we haven't book our honeymoon place yet. HAHAHA! Okay, we better get this settle soon. Till here, leave you all on a little update what happened too yesterday. Hehehe!

XOXO,

Princess Azie Anni ♥

The Wedding Blings.

Dear Diary,

At the rate of how D and I are going, I am not sure if we are behind time with all the wedding preparations.  So yesterday at 122 days to date, we settled one part of the wedding dulang (tray), which is our wedding bands. Okay maybe two for D, since he settled the hantaran money already.

Now behold the Princess! Hahahaha!

I didn't take long enough when choosing my wedding band as compared when choosing my engagement ring. Muahaha! I took 3 freaking hours the last time but for the wedding band, mostly all the designs are quite the norm but STILL, I had a little bit of indecisiveness because of certain things like the diamond placement (I wanted it to have diamond again ) which I will explain in a while.

D and I went around quite a few of the jewelry shops to recce for our wedding bands. We went to Cartier, SK, Love&Co, Soo Kee, Lee Hwa, Gold Heart, Citigem and again D didn't put a price to my wedding band and told me to go for something that I love. It's easier to find a female wedding band for us (Muslim girls), since we can wear anything when it comes to gold but the problem comes with D because he can only wear Silver, Platinum or Palladium ring. No gold or what sort. And then, as easy as it is to find a female wedding band, my ring was the hardest to match because...this cheeky princess decided to be all unique and got an engagement ring looking like this.

So whatever wedding bands especially those simple design that I tried on, they look pretty much odd looking when being placed together. My criss-cross engagement ring has smaller side diamonds, thus bigger wedding bands or big diamonds on the wedding bands make it look so odd and unmatched. I couldn't have it in gold or rose gold (I wish I could) either because the colour combination isn't nice with my white gold engagement ring.  Unless if I want to wear my engagement ring on the left and the gold wedding band on the right?  Like how my sister does.

 

Big diamonds, a nope.

 

Odd looking gold wedding bands on me.

 

Example of what I think as odd looking wedding bands & engagement ring placement.

 

 

 

Giving up on all these simple and nice wedding bands, the sales assistant tried to help me matched some wedding bands that could match my engagement ring.

 

Yes, a thin eternity wedding band which perfectly match my engagement ring.

 

 

 

So yes, it look something as close as this although this is not how my engagement ring look like. But both the engagement ring and wedding band fit and matched nicely. Hooray!  I was so happy that it matches! But then...I realized that I didn't like the idea of a thin wedding band because to me it doesn't look like a wedding band at all. LOL! My idea of a wedding band has always been, and should be a thick band. To me, if I were to get a thin band which can almost "see nothing" and could cost almost the same price of a thick wedding band, I might as well not get the small one.

D was being patience as always with me-self.  Hahahaha! We went to look around and...I went to this particular jewelry shop which has the same series as my engagement ring and somehow I found a thicker wedding band with the perfect smaller diamonds, a few of them at least and it matches my engagement ring! Alhamdulilah! So I eliminate a few of them and came down to these 2,

 

I couldn't find a similar picture online that look like that wedding band BUT it has slanted smaller diamonds like this and one bigger center diamond piece in the middle.

 

OR

 

 

 

Yet again, I couldn't find a similar picture online that look like the wedding band but it somehow look like this, with 2 line-up side diamonds top and bottom and a bigger center piece diamond in the middle, just that it doesn't look as fanciful as the first picture.

 

With all the likings of my wedding band, I couldn't purchase their wedding band 'set' at the shop (which is cheaper when you buy them in set) because the male wedding band at the "normal" jewelry shop don't carry platinum or palladium ring but in white gold (which D can't wear) instead and even when they do, it doesn't have much variety in terms of the design for the male+female wedding bands in platinum or palladium. D is a very SIMPLE man, almost everything he wanted them to be simple but for me, I always wanted things to be 'something' since wedding bands are forever and for a lifetime, so might as well pay for 'something' and get 'something'. (Hopefully, we don't outgrow the wedding bands in years to come. Lol!)

D prefers black ring, I have no idea why but God knows! Even our couple ring (the fake ring) was in black but I decided to get it in gold (fake gold) instead but of the same design as his. So, this man WhatsApp me and told me, he wanted a simple ring and showed me a picture that look like this,

I almost fainted! ALL BLACK?!!  My colleagues were telling me..ermm..nobody ever get a whole black surface ring before for a wedding band because it looks..ermm..black is just a not nice colour and probably not appropriate for a wedding. I am actually not a very superstitious or the pantang-pantang kind of person BUT still black? To me, Silver is always, and still a nice colour for a male wedding band. And what green stone thingy is that?!!  I wanted us to get a similar wedding band, so if D were to have green coloured center piece thingy, I have to match an emerald stone at the center of my wedding band too, right? Although, emerald is my birth stone but I don't like green colour lehhh. I don't know if he think he was some kind of green lantern super hero or what..

 

 

Roll eyes hundred times.

 

And then when we met up, D showed me a google of ring images in his phone with a "B, look."

 

Roll eyes hundred times again please!  I swear I didn't know he had 'Lord of the Ring' ring at the back of his head. My gosh! I don't even watch this show or movie is it? And I have no idea what is this ring all about. Tsk! Smack my head a hundred times also please.  So I look at his phone and looked away pretending to ignore him. HAHAHAHA!

*I know you read my blog*

But sorry sayang, no lord of the ring nonsense all okay. I can buy you this ring but next time and maybe fake ones and cheaper ones lah okay, with the similar look. HAHAHAHA! But definitely NOT NOT NOT this kind for our wedding band okay. I love you, regardless. Lol!

Haizzzz! Sometimes I don't know if I want to laugh or cry at this boy. The last time his wedding dais/stage, I also had to somehow chose a few and asked him to decide from the most appropriate ones. And AGAIN...This time I PICKED his wedding band design and asked him to choose from the few designs that I did a research on, all by myself okayyyy. I tried to follow his preferences as close as possible. Since he likes black, I tried to include some black stripes on the wedding band but not too much.  So that he will somehow at least will like and love his wedding band. Hahaha!

 

 

 

 

Showed him these few wedding band designs and something similar as these and he told me, "Anything sayang. I don't mind either one of this. I want a wedding band that simply signify that I'm married to you."

So go figure!

I had to decide on my wedding band first since I am the more indecisive and particular one. Hehehe! If I were to get the slanted diamonds wedding band, his black stripe will be slanted and if I were to get the top and bottom line-up diamonds wedding band, his black stripe will follow accordingly. Took me an hour to decide on my wedding band at the jewelry shop, that D even said he needed to sit down (knowing I'll take a while to decide. Lol!) Again I took wedding band A, took it out and then put on wedding band B and then put both wedding band A & B on top of each other. Then put my engagement ring with wedding band A & B, take it out and put it on again, etc etc. Hahaha!

After deciding, I actually get to take the ring back home on the same day, yay! Since the jewelry had a new piece for the wedding band of my size. I asked them to engrave D's name inside the ring for FOC. Heh! Initially, they said D's name of 8 characters is too long and they say it needed to be only about 6-7 characters for engraving and asked me to decide on a second choice IF by any chance they can't engrave the 8 characters in. BUT, I just couldn't think of anything else.

Me: Ermm..Takkan I nak letak Rasyidi sehhh. So funny. Your name setengah like that. Rasyidi. Hahaha! Siapa seh Rasyidi. HAHAHA! Or is Din okay for you, what do you think?
Him: Nooo! Macam what seh, Din. Hahaha! Taknak lahhhh. 
Me: Then what else can I put if it's not Din? Takkan nak letak Achid? (The name his family calls him.)
Him: Ah boleh lah, Achid.
Me: Eeee, no! Achid is what your family calls you and we don't even have a specific and definite spelling for the word 'Achid'. It could be written as Acit, Acid, Achid, Achit also is also pronounce as Achid what. Why must spell as Achid? Tsk!
Him: Ra...syid...Rasyid...
Me: Ahhh, Rasyid? I put Rasyid eh? Dah macam dispatch I kat kerja pula, his name also Rasyid. Hahaha! But okay lah, Rasyid. At least something.
Him: Taknak lah Rasyid! Macam nama orang-orang lama seh Rasyid.
Me: Eh, nama orang-orang lama pun, nama you juga, Rasyid! Then nak letak the wedding date instead?
Him: Ah okay juga.
Me: Aiyerrr! But I'd rather engrave your name then the wedding date seh. Haiz!

Seeing us like this, the sales person had to interrupt us half-way and said "It's okay, you don't have to think about it now. You can leave this as it is for now. The engraving will take at least 2 days. If we can't engrave this long, we will give you a call." That settle the problem and I was secretly wishing that they can engrave his whole name for me. So after making the payment, another girl sales person that handled our payment asked "Will you still be around here by any chance in 30 minutes time? I'll do the engraving and I'll call you once it's done." In my heart, I was like...Eh, how come that guy told me engraving take 2 days?  I agreed and didn't want to question further or make a "mountain out of a molehill", the faster the ring complete, the better. So, we left the shop and went to chill at Coffee bean. While D went to get us some drinks, still in his queue prolly around 10 minutes, the girl called us saying that the wedding band is ready.  So I told her, I'll come back later, in 20 minutes time.

Upon seeing my wedding band, I was very happy but the engraving part ehhh, like cannot see only D's name and the font also quite ugly.  And you can actually go more than 8 characters.  Still got space for more characters to be engraved on the wedding band.  Tsk! Drama only that boy but nevertheless, he was still very nice, helpful and truly patience with my indecisiveness. Syukur Alhamdulilah! I've finally got my wedding band.

After which, we walked and headed to Gem By Gem to get D's wedding band customized! This place was recommended by my own cousin, Fadil whom bought his engagement ring here. You can also hear the advertisement usually in the radio, Warna 94.2FM. This place is seriously awesome. I am not even lying! They do ring customization, so you can do whatever or however you want your ring to be like, to look like at your own expense. Hehe! They do not have a pre-made wedding ring for you to buy on store but they do have some sample on display but they are not for sale. So usually the norm is, you have to set an appointment with the shop owner, Mr. Tanweer Hussain (Quite good-looking ehhh. Do I even need to mention this part? Okay, maybe not necessary. Hahaha! I hope D won't kill me for this.) and head down to the jewelry shop and you can discuss or address your concern to him, on what kind of wedding ring/band you want, the design and you can even set a budget and he can advice you accordingly etc. You can also check out their website or Instagram @gembygem to see more wedding ring and wedding band designs.

But D and I decided to be some kind of "superstar". 😂 Twice we came here, twice we did not make an appointment and twice Mr. Hussain wasn't at the shop but his father. So poor thing, his dad always had to call his son from wherever he is, to rush back to the shop.  Opps! The first time when we were just surveying around and the second time when we wanted to purchase the ring. Hurhur! His dad told us that Mr. Hussain had another appointment in 30 minutes time but he will slot us in now, which was seriously so nice of him. I knew somehow D and I won't take long because we knew what we wanted already. True enough! We did it in 15 minutes. Hoorayyy!  All Mr. Hussain had to do was just asked questionssss and D answered him promptly of what he wants. Like what kind of design, what colour diamond (Muslim man can wear diamond lehhh, apparently I ask Mr. Hussain. Hehe! Because he knows better), what type (matte or shiny), what kind of ring (silver, palladium or platinum), where D wanted his black stripes to be or look like, measured D's size, how thick he wanted the wedding band to be etc. and wala! Got the wedding band.

But it won't be ready so soon because customization take at least 3 months. Mr. Hussain will even draw out D's ring design and e-mail the drawing to D in 2-3 weeks time for D to see or make any final changes before sending it out for customization. Woahhh!

The ring is a lifetime guarantee and the good thing, payment can be made in one shot, 2 times installation or even up to 3 months instalment. Of course Silver ring being the cheapest, Palladium the second expensive and Platinum the most expensive. I allowed D to choose his own wedding band type, not going to care about the price (like real only) 😐 but D was being so nice to me.  He chose the Palladium ring instead, so that I don't have to fork out so much compared to a Platinum ring. The Silver was not an option since Mr. Hussain said that it scratches and tarnishes easily. The funny thing when Mr. Hussain asked us about the payment wise, D was trying to tell him that the payment will be in one shot and I quickly look at D,

Me: Ehh, I yang bayar your ring ehh. I get to choose the payment method.
Him: Oh! A'a eh, I lupa, I ingat I yang bayar. Hahahaha!
Me: I don't want to pay one shot. I'm taking the 3 months instalment method.

At least I don't feel the pain of paying a lump sum of kachings gone even though I could have done the one shot payment, easier to settle everything once and for all actually. Heh! And that made Mr. Hussain giggled. We got D's wedding band engrave with my name too and I guess their engraving font is so much nicer. Tsk! So while, putting all the sample ring away, Mr. Hussain accidentally mistook my wedding band as his sample ring and I took his sample ring thinking it was my wedding band and we both placed it into our ring holder box and immediately realized and had the same reaction and went... "Ehhhhh?!" and broke into small laughter. HAHAHAHA! So funny this one. Damn epic I tell you.

After purchasing the wedding band, I was really quite tired. I wanted to walk around somemore and look for some more wedding stuff which I did try for a little while and told D, I gave up and wanted to head home as I was really exhausted. D was quite surprised that I don't usually complain of being tired. So, he we had tiny bites are Burger King first to feed this Princess'hunger and headed home after that.

And till I blog again for now.

XOXO,

Princess Azie Anni ♥