don't be fooled by the rock that i got

9 January 2011 marked my engagement to the man who has been with me for almost 5 years.

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee i am engaged!

i'm not gonna go all mushy because that can do for nikah so i'm gonna take the girly route and gush about my ring.

its the most gorgeous amazing diamond solitaire set in 4 prongs and i bring it to sleep every night. its only been 2 days so lets see how long i tahan to wear it to sleep. bukan apa, nanti garit muka or it gets stuck in my hair?

i love my ring! i was thinking of playing the demure newly engaged and wait until people ask to see it but sometimes i catch myself flashing the ring to people at the office haha. well, it depends on how biasa i am with the person. but happy to say that most people ask to see the ring =D

now on to the more serious stuff. as a reminder to myself, there is only less than 4 mths to go and since i can only run errands on fridays and sundays and there are only 4 fridays and 4 sundays in each mth, i gotta go turbo.

first and foremost, i need to decided on my bouquet for bersanding and ambil-ambilan.

secondly, alter my mum's wedding kebaya so i can wear it for my berbedak. can you believe it barely fits me? and she was 2 years older than i was when she got married. hrrmpf.

miscellaneously (is there such word?), i need to confirm on a pelamin design for the one at home, decide on how i want to decorate the house, decide on who will be decorating the house and also what to do with my room (paint? wallpaper? what colour?).

thats what i can remember right now. im still calm tho (for now..) hee. i just stare at my ring and everything goes away =p

much love,
newly-engaged be'ah

2011

i will be spending new year's eve and the first day of 2011 in singapore.

i have a couple of new year's resolution but the only ones i can share is:

1) i plan on losing 2kgs before April
2)i will NOT go overbudget on my wedding

wishing each and everyone of you a happy new year. may 2011 bring prosperity, health, wealth and wisdom in all of us!

much love,
be'ah xoxo

tabam

please tell me its normal for me to be pissed when someone says i am tabam, on my FIRST day of having my period.

and at a time when i NEED to lose weight for the upcoming wedding.

i minded very much when it wasnt true, apatah lgi now when i myself know that i am gaining weight and my bajus are all getting tighter around the waist.

sigh.

cheer me up.

dum dum dum dum

finally starting to feel like a bride and less of a bridezilla.

4 months to go!!

had my first dress fitting last sunday. it was amazing. the dress is exquisite. i can't find enough words to describe it. and to think the dress isn't even 100% finished yet. hee. Aaliah Asmara is definitely the place to go. take note future brides, since they're new so the price is pretty affordable. catch the designers early before their prices go up!

in that dress, i can happily settle for just nikah and skip bebadak, sanding and ambilan.

i love my dress so much.

much love,
be'ah xoxo

tomorrow is december already?

where did time fly?

i have neglected this blog for a number of reasons, numero uno because what with work and wedding planning, all i want when i get home is to crash down and sleep and not talk and type out my thoughts.

tho it would be a different matter if there was some way i could transform my thoughts into a post without moving a finger hehe.

lets do updates. my parents went away for hajj and they're back, all is well. extra good thing, they are uber sabar and that in turn makes me sabar, so its been a nice productive week.

on to the juicy stuff.

i've managed to settle down on the designs for my akad nikah dress and ambil2an dress. have deposited moeny in order for dresses to go into production. if i want to lose weight, its now or never.

have also confirmed venue for bersanding. will be in a hall and not at home as initially planned. this throws me off balance slightly because i was all pening thinking abt how my pelamin is going to be like, and now that the sanding will be in a hall, i can now be pening over two pelamins.

over this dilemma, google has been my bestfriend. i google every image of pelamins i can think of. pelamin contemporary. pelamin cinderella. pelamin unique. pelamin unik. garden pelamin. forest pelamin. pelamin princess. royal pelamin. pelamin glam.

and thats not counting the googles for pelamin pink, pelamin purple, pelamin green etc.

hehe. thank god for malaysians who have a wide range of pelamins to display on their sites. and all the blogs of malaysian brides-to-be showcasing the pelamins they want.

speaking which, its amaaazing how many malaysians have opened up blogs by virtue of them being a bride to be. sangat detail dgn stress mencari cincin, discussion with tailor on baju nikah, theme colour, jln beli kain for bridesmaids..

but hey, helps me all the same. im just surprised how many of these bride-to-be blogs are by malaysians.

i have gone off on a tangent there. back to the story at hand. have also gotten round to getting kains for my bridesmaids. actually, did not personally get them, got my cousin who went to kl for a holiday to get them for me. i havent seen the kains either cz she just arrived today. but thats one more thing off my list!

and a hundred million ones to go~

much love,
be'ah xoxo

what i am thinking right now

read this at a bridal designer website

'bringing out the woman in you'

so where was the woman in me before?


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i am still clueless about my colour for ambil-ambilan.

ditto to where to make my jemputan.

ditto to WHERE i'm gonna bersanding.

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i realised i can't really sit still on the floor. i fidget and squirm to death.

gotta practise for nikah tho. or can i just sit on a chair?

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why are the good tailors in brunei, the ones who specialises in making baju out of songket brunei, always always last minute?

how does one fit in at least 2 fitting sessions? what if the fit isn't nice and there's no time for fitting? can i get a discount?

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why are all the good hairstylists male?

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did you know u need to PAY in order to find out what the colour trend for 2011 is?

go figure. i'm talking about patone.com.

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make up artist and photographer done. now i'm at lost at to what's next.

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bridal woes

in case you havent heard, i am getting married.

well, not a big surprise since i've been with him before i got into uni and now that i have a job, it only seems the most natural next-thing-to-do.

the wedding is soon-ish and i shall be wearing lovely vintage lace which was bought by my late grandmother.

the lace is so lovely that it is having arguments with the fashionista in me. lovely (especially VINTAGE!) lace should be allowed to look its gorgeous self on simple cuts and sillhouettes, not complicated pleated drapey designs.

so trying to find a middle ground is a bit of a dilemma. i do want a simple look coz that dress is gonna be with me forever PLUS i plan to wear it (or at the the kain if not the top) for jemputan at istana but i dont want it to be some simple baju kurong, y'know?

i do know what i DONT want tho. i definitely do not want any of those long trains. i want the kain to not drag me.

i dont want to wear the lace from head to toe.

i dont want the dress to be 'kilat-kilat'.

baru baju nie. u havent heard my woes on make-up artist hunting.

maybe next post. toodles!

rabi'a xoxo