I had 2 incredible weddings in a roll for the past two days.

One of them was my neighbour’s and the other was my beloved cousin’s.

It was fun and very tiring in fact as I had to work in the morning till evening and had to rush home to get myself prepared for the wedding dinner on last Saturday. I only managed to catch a 45 minutes nap.

Somehow, I have yet to recover from the oversea travelling fatigue and I am still really tired, physically and emotionally.

I just feel drained.

However, I still dragged myself to attend both weddings as both were relaly significant for me.

Let me tell you more about the first wedding – my neighbour’s.

The bridal car with its envoy of the brother’s cars came at about 7am. The loud series of horn blasts woke the whole neighbourhood up. The horn was to signify the coming of the groom to fetch the bride and it somehow started the day with a “bang!”

The wedding games by the bridesmaids were simpler compared to mine. They just had a game of passing the rubber using straws and had to be done using the groomsmen’s mouths, guessing from a paper of full of kisses and signatures which of those belong to his wife.

Later, was the declaration of love by the groom and he had to read a signed contract done by the bride.

Some of the non-negotiable terms are:
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As couples get busier with their work and it is really hard to take leaves or off days from work to plan their weddings.

Personally, I feel that even if the couples are planning their weddings locally, there are million of things to note.

What’s more for couples who are stationed overseas in different parts of the world?

It is going to be more challenging for them, especially for couples who are separated in two different countries and their wedding is just in 6 months’ time or less.

Imagine having to coordinate and plan their wedding overseas.

So, what are the pains that they may go through?

Possibly different time zones and one of them may need to stay up at 4am just to discuss wedding matters. I can’t imagine myself having to discuss from 4am to 6am and needing to go for work at 7am.

Wow, I would have been even more emotionally and mentally drained if this went on for 12 months.

What about other problems?

In fact, it is really tough to visualise the exact settings and layouts of wedding venues and wedding decors.

Yes, we can see pictures emailed to us. However, those pictures are created solely for advertisements and they only show the best sides of everything.

Sometimes, things may turn out to be otherwise compared to what we see in the photos.

Thus, a visit to the actual venue or a look at the actual wedding decor is definitely better.

However for couples who really have no choice but to carry out their wedding plannings from overseas, they have to take note of 6 things if they do not want to have a big headache during their big day.

1. Wedding Helpers
Who is in your team of wedding helpers? Are they committed and responsive? You can ask help from your siblings who may know you better than anyone else see through the wedding planning process. Also, ask someone who is responsible and reliable to head the team of helpers in your wedding so he or she will help to make sure every detail is looked into.

2. Wedding Finance
Sometimes you may overspend that what you have budgeted. It is difficult to keep all your expenditure in check, especially you are overseas. Plus, who can you rely to help you pay the deposit and any miscellaneous expenses. Get a family member such as your mother or father to help pay first.

So who to settle the payment, if any?
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This wedding video was done at Shades of Green Resort in Florida.

It was really amazing to see childhood cartoon figures at your wedding. I don’t see many guests around but I could sense gleams of joy and happiness throughout the whole video.

To me, the wedding couples were just like very happy children who have seen their idol, Mickey and Minnie Mouse at their wedding.

I fell in love with this video and after you have watched it, you may want to seriously consider having your wedding at Tokyo Disneyland!

I was wondering if we ever had our wedding in Hong Kong, what it would be like?

Would it be like a fairy-tale wedding which made my wife’s friend look like a Korean super star?

Would we be getting at least 4 sets of different gowns and attire?

My wife was born in Hong Kong and I’m proud of our marriage and my wife.

I think it was never easy for her to adapt to Singapore’s wedding custom and there were many times we were squeezed in between two cultures.

Cantonese are very stringent in following their wedding customs. Luckily, we were able to come to a compromise that we were to stick to Singapore’s wedding custom and if possible, give some leeways to the Hong Kong wedding customs when appropriate.

I was just thinking what if our wedding was really in Hong Kong.

How would our wedding preparation be like? Maybe our wedding photoshoots style may turn out differently, following the Hong Kong wedding photographer style.