Assalamualaikum~
I have a few minutes of free time. Zahra is sleeping and husband is out playing futsal with his kampung mates.
I'd like to write about our wedding day. I think it deserve a whole post. Not because it was extravagant (because it was definitely was not) but because of the kind hearted people i met along the way to make it happen.
First of all, you must know that we planned it many months before the day that we wanted something small. Something for friends and family. Something memorable because of the efforts all of us put and not the quantity or how it would look in the picture. Because in the end, this happen. We only remember the people in it. And not the detailed flowers on the sides of our chairs.
The attires
He decided he wanted his mom to sew his white baju melayu. With small amount of sulam at the neck and along where the buttons stay (you get what i mean right? Haha. Btw my MIL is a very talented tailor. One baju kurung upah RM25 only! Where got in other parts of Malaysiaaa). My dress was rented. It was a cream-colored one piece dress (i was angry at myself for letting hubby bought the kain for his baju melayu first because i was struggling to find the white dresssss where gottt). Anyway, we only rented a few things. A dress, 3 dulang hantarans, his accesories like keris whatever but he never used them and my accesories. My reason for renting the dress was because i wouldnt know what to do with a white kurung if i ever made one. Plus, the upah for beading etc will cost us more i think. Too many things to do, i didnt want to mess with my sanity at that time. But i requested a fresh bouquet of purple daisies (i love daisies and hubby knows since 2004 but i didnt get the correct color but whatever right? They were daisies for crying out loud).
The pelamin
This is where the part get interesting. We didnt get a pelamin from the bridal. I eas particularly grinding my brain liquid trying to make it happen ( i mean diy everything? When you have zero knowledge of at least make pom pom flowers). And Allah sent us Sir Isma & Kak Da. They were our super heroes. Everything they touch went amazing like for realll. Well, they owned a bridal together so no wonder la kan. But they never asked for even one cent but for us to be happy until we die. Btw they are my mom's best friends. My mom has the bestest friends in the world. For the pelamin, hubby requested white purple theme. We put pinches of purple in the sea of whites around the area. White drapes, whitel lights. But purple flowers. Simple simple things. And alhamdulillah everything turned out great. Very simple but nice. He bought two small treasure box where we can put things in side but we can sit on it because it has cussion on, and then we put dark purple cloth on it. Super cheap. Haha. Hubby bought 2 fairy lights but only 1 worked but we put it anyway because i saw it on pinterest and i think it would look better if there were 2 but what to do right? And then the A ♡ A letters that we bought together in KL. We never used them! Haha. But it was in the picture somewhere. It is not entirely waste of money because we can put it in our house later. They were made of wood and black in color btw.
The food
This section was handled by dearest mommy. Mom is a monster in making sure guests are full. As for the cake, mom bought a 2 tier cake with ANA TRUE LOVE written on them. Hehe.
The doorgift
This section was entirely sponsored by my sister and her husband. Thank you booboooo! The doorgift was a simple mini tepak sireh made of clay and candies. For the in laws, we put a jar of rainbow cakes in each bag. The rainbow cakes were baked by Kemma. Which was super yummy. Im still drooling. Thank you Kemma. And lastly we stashed everything in purple paper bags with custom stickers. Tada. Just that.
The family
Im forever in debt with my mom, my aunts and uncles and importantly my siblings for making sure everything went smooth. For taking our pictures. Actually Sir Isma also acted as the photographer. Thank you sir. All of them were my anchors. They took care of Zahra. Took care of the food coming out, filling the trays and giving the doorgifts. Kudos baby sisters and baby brothers.
Other special things
My daddy came home. Which was a major deal. Cik Zah & Izzul who came to help even we just asked them to come and eat but they helped around a lot especially when Zahra was crying. And the guests. Thank you for the presents and prayers. We pray the same for all of you.
This is by far the longest post. Haha. Ok then see you guys later.
Ps: we went to a kenduri earlier, MIL and adik. Tomorrow adik will be leaving for his school. I hope i can snatch my husband's shirt and tag along. Haha kbai