A life after marriage, for me, has been the same. Why is there a need to be different when both of us are still the same person anyway?

I chose to treat my wife as who she is, the same person who I have met when she was my girlfriend.

Why is it that we have to mould our partners into someone who we think is an ideal wife or husband?

Didn’t we, in the first place, find that s/ he is the right one and that is why we married her/ him?

What an irony?

Talking about expectations…we definitely have expectations on ourselves, our partners, our friends…and many others…

Married couples definitely have expectations one ach other too…some realistic while others are not. There are also time we may take each other for granted as we expected or even assumed our partner understand totally and will give way to us or forgive us of whatever wrong doings…

I hope that we will always remember to respect each other, to openly communicate with each other (no assumprion or mind-reading games) and always treasure each other.

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Finally, I have managed to get into the room smoothly and saw my beautiful bride for the first time on wedding day.

My bride is really very pretty and beautiful. She is my angel.

>.<

I gave her the wedding gift. And for a moment, I was also quite clueless of what to do next after I got through the multiple hurdles before entering.

Cameras were snapping away as I kissed the bride.

Finally, I can bring her home.

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Answer to Mel:

You are a wonderful sister….Your sister is very lucky to have you to help.

Depend on your budget.

Go to Tanjong pagar road to go in and ask…

Tell them “the wedding is in 2 years’ time”. Cos the sales staff are very persuasive and pushy.

Window shop around and have a feel what the packages cover.

I’m sure there will be more wedding shows coming. Keep a look out from newspapers, websites and bridal magazines.

Go here for more info http://www.romance-fire.com/2006/10/21/at-tanjong-pagar-road/

and http://www.singaporebrides.com/forumboard/messages/1/1.html

Cheers,
JR
My Wedding Blog
www.romance-fire.com

Email from Mel:

hi, I am actually assisting my sis who will be having her wedding in Nov this year. We are in the midst of searching for a bridal studio. Do you know of any good ones that you can recommend?

Thanks v much.

Cheers
Mel

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Dear Blinko,

For more info on photographer, go here http://www.singaporebrides.com/forumboard/messages/7/7.html

It is a forum page with all the wedding photographers.

For my package, it is by Ant.

Price may differ.

For me, it is $1800

Details: Journalistic photography coverage of full day event with unlimited exposures, high resolutio images of minimum 300 images with CD-R and DVD-R plus a slot-in album with 300 (4R) album.

I’m very satisfied with Ant’s work and working attitude.

(I don’t receive any commision from him for recommending him. call him to talk to him and see if you are comfortable with him.)

Cheers,

Jhong Ren

www.romance-fre.com

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I’m very happy that I am able to provide free consultation to wedding couples. Recently, I have received about 15 emails from wedding couples (mostly brides) who wanted to know the things to do before their wedding day.

Just to share with you, this is one of the email and my answers to it….(hope it can benefit all instead of just the sender)
So keep on posting or sending me queries…submit the query in the box on the left side bar.

Email from Audrey:

Hi JR,

Its only a few more days to my wedding and I’m still not sure of what I have to do. Can you send me a list of things u did 1 week before your wedding?

Thanx!

Audrey

My Answer:

Hi Audrey,

For what I have done:

1. Remind guests to attend wedding dinner and re-tally number of guests

2. Sleep early

3. Drink lots of water

4. Prepare a wedding gift for groom/ bride

5. Wedding speech

6. Slideshow of wedding photos

7. Video montage of child hood and teenage life

8. For more info, go to this web page: http://www.romance-fire.com/wedding-checklist-1-year-to-6-months-ahead/

9. Do something relaxing. (I watched “Open Season” to loosen up two days before my wedding.)

Hope these are helpful.

Let me know if you need more help.

Cheers,

JR

My Wedding Blog

www.romance-fre.com

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awake…my laptop got infected by “worm” a moment ago and the processing was as slow as a turtle…

after marriage…we would love to turn in early..we can’t longer sleep as when we like…

we tried to sleep at the same time so we can chit chat and casually what we had encountered for the day…we will sleep after we give each other assurance that the coming day is going to be a better one…some encouragement before dozing off can help relieve some stress…

(now, the adaware programme is still scanning my laptop for any spyware. You can click here if you need any anti-spyware programme. It is absolutely free.)

I’m dozing off and my eyes are heavy.

Yeah..the scan progress is about 88% complete…got to getr eady to go to bed…goodnight all >.<

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Many of my readers emailed me what is life like after marriage.

In fact, I’m not even sure what the right way married couple should feel after marriage.

For me, I feel comfortable and glad that the wedding was finally over. We had painstakingly planned for one year plus and everything ended in less than a day.

At this stage, I feel really comfortable with the shared life I had with my wife. I tried to minimise changes in our daily habits. We still carry on to be who we are and continue to do what we do.

There is definitely some shared roles and responsibilites like washing clothes, vacuuming and mobbing the floor and washing dishes after every meal.

For me, I also learnt about respect and communication.

Respect in the sense respect that she is tired after work and I just keep her company.

Communication in the sense we share with each other our thoughts, problems and challenges so we can better understand each other and learn to cope together.

Two heads are definitely better than one, aren’t they? >.<

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