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When wedding planning started, there is no way to stop. Once proposal has been done and a date has been set for your wedding day, you will not stop planning until the end of your wedding dinner.

I remember a typical day of my week is discussing with my wife what should we do next week.

Next we asked ourselves how should we go about planning it.

Planning takes discipline and once we decided whatever we had planned, we put our mind and heart to it.

However, our wedding planning was never smooth as both of us had to work and I was working, giving tuition as well as taking up a Graduate Diploma course in NUS.
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Decided to have something really light-hearted for a day.

Saw these two interesting photos of wedding gowns during my Yahoo! Search.

Are these men ideal wedding gowns?

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Once after proposal, the preparation of your wedding begins. I remembered once after my own proposal, the first thing on our mind is to announce to our parents.

Announcing to our own parents is easier. The most difficult part for me is breaking the news to my mother-in-law.

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During the first visit to my in-law’s place, I brought beer and fruits, hoping that gifts can make the task seem less hard.

The beer was for the father and the fruits for the both.

Such happy news calls for celebration.

When I was about to tell my in-laws about our plans to get married, I was breaking cold sweats.

After our parents both know about our wedding plans, the next-to-do things on the list is to have a rough idea what your ideal wedding is. Plus, how much wedding budget you have.

There is a fine line between spending just what you think should be spent and over-spending.

A wedding preparation plan should be drawn out. Both of us got a scrap book as our wedding planing book.
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In Chinese Wedding, there are always reception tables for the guests to ask about their table which they will be sitting at.

In addition to that, this is a time when guests will give red packet or ang pow as a gift to the wedding couple.

There is money in the ang pow. If you are just a normal acquantaince or fellow colleague, the amount of money is about S$80 to S$100.

For very good friends, they may give about S$120 to S$150.

For relatives, they may give from S$200 to S$2000 depending on the closeness and relationship.

Some relatives may even give to S$10,000 to the wedding couple.

At the reception table, there is an ang pow box when guests can slot their red packets in.

There is always a close relative or family member who is incharge of the box as the amount of money in the box may build up to S$40,000 for that night.

I have heard of con man who posed as relatives and divert the attention of the person who is in charge of the box. The con man may lied that the groom told him to take over and he ran off once he got hold of the box.

You may choose to do-it-yourself or buy a ready-made one.

How you can do a ang pow box for your wedding?

You need to get a box for A4 papers, a piece of wrapping paper, glue and a decor.

For the decor, you may be able to get wedding bears, dolls, angels or any item you think is suitable.

Here are some ang pow box designs you may want to follow:

from singaporebrides.com

from blissloft.com

Marriage is a funny thing. We look forward to it so much and spend our entire savings on having the best wedding we can have.

And yet, newly-wed or long-term married couples do quarrel and have conflicts every now and then.

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Likewise, courtship experience such patterns.

When you see the girl of your dream, you are determined to have her as your stead. And once you got her, maintaining the relationship requires more effort and hard work.

Moving from a stead-status to a wife-status becomes a partnership.

Similarly for marriage, it requires a life-time of commitment, perserverance, understanding and many more factors to build a strong foundation.

Planning wedding is easy. The tasks are simple. If some of you may find wedding-planning overwhelming, a hundred more times load and stress await you in marriage life.

I was talking to my female friend who had a tiff or two with her boyfriend once in a while. It is normal for many relationship. Even the best of friends do have disagreements once in a while.

They may be in the form of short spat, all-out shouting matches or stony silence.
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