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Just watched the movie “Meet The Robinsons” which depicts a story of an orphan boy who eventually found acceptance in a family…
Talking about family, family is really important to wedding-planning…not just to show up for the actual day but also to provide support and resources during the journey of planning of the wedding…
I had lots of help from my family and relatives…
My relative who owned a printing firm provided free printing of my wedding card inserts…other relatives provide me 6 cars on the actual day plus when I deliver the wedding invitation cards…
some other relatives even provided the love and care when they realised that I’m super stressed up by the wedding…simple things like a word of concern or brewing of herbal tea for me to drink…
Not forgetting my friends, they are my helpers ranging from photographer to drivers to personal assistants and so on…
Last year was quite a lucky year for Chinese…and many of my friends who are of simliar age got married…about 10 of them in total…
Some were lucky to have support from friends and families…
Others were not so fortunate…I have a friend who is a foreigner did not have the luxury of having her family in Singapore to help her…she had to depend heavily on friends…
However, nothing beats the word of care and comfort from our very own parents, especially our mother…
My friend was at loss and felt torn when she was stressed up by her future mother-in-law at that time…Her mother-in-law was not understanding enough to stop adding stress and pressure onto her…
My friend got so stressed up that she purposely returned home just before midnight so that the mother-in-law had already slept…
The other story that I heard was this bride, had in fact severed ties with her relatives…However news of her wedding spreaded and all relatives knew and would llike to attend her wedding to give her their blessings, only if the bride personally deliver the wedidng invitation cards to them….
However, none of this was done and we were not aware of what happened later…I think many relatives didn’t turn up for her wedding…
After hearing such unhappy stories, I am really glad that my family support is really strong.
How did your family help you in your wedding? I would love to hear from you.
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As with many Chinese events, relatives and family sometimes have too much ‘MUST DO’ things in the list which don’t sync well with our own. They tend to live their dreams through us, perhaps some are due to the regrets they once had, now they are trying to ‘correct’ that through the next generation. At times it may become our regrets for forsaking our dream wedding, if that means a huge difference from what we first planned.
My sister has been a wonderful helper and ‘bridge’ to relate our expectations and tried to match those of my relatives and family. It’s easier for a third party who of cos has to clearly know each party’s standpoint. It wouldn’t be the same if the parents were to tell us directly what they want and not want us to do, our reaction sometimes maybe difficult for them to accept, hence the conflict.
The best thing my relatives and family members had done was to leave things to us. It wasn’t easy at first, but effective communication made it possible. To me, by giving me complete liberty to do what we really prefer our wedding to be, was the greatest gift and help already.
March 31st, 2007 at 9:55 am