Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Our Wedding Banquet Slideshow

For the out-of-town people who can't attend the wedding (or those who blinked during the show at the wedding.)

婚禮的點點滴滴 - Our DIYs

There were a bunch stuff that we made or put together. Some of them that I am more proud of:

Our wedding cake. Dummy cake inside, everything else in fondant.
我們的結婚蛋糕. 蛋糕是假的. 佈置是用糖果軟餡做的.

Centerpieces made of Ferro Rocher. 金莎朱古力佈置.Kids pack. (We added a lot more stuff afterwards.)
給我們年幼的賓客

Welcome Sign. 歡迎指示牌.

(It's an ugly sign. If I knew ppl would take so many photos of it...)

婚禮的點點滴滴 - Preparation篇

I had the privilege to wake up at 10:30am on the wedding day to prepare for it (I never understand how other brides manage to wake up at 5am to start their day and still look so awake and pretty at the end).

We purposely planned it so all of us were to get ready at Arcadian Court. For the first hour before my hair lady arrived, I was waiting alone in the bridal suite, playing on my DS. (I passed a few more levels!) That hour went by slowly and I didn't quite feel "bride"ish. Then suddenly, my hair and make up crew came, and as the transformation begins, time goes by much quicker. Alisa and Frances are like magicians! And with Vivian coming with all the bouquets and flowers, and helpers arriving, we were all ready to go!

婚禮的點點滴滴 - Ceremony 篇

We hosted our ceremony at Arcadian Court as well as the reception. The crew at Arcadian court has done a spectacular job at setting up the place. Elizabeth, the coordinator there was the most welcoming person who I have ever worked with. Our decorator, Sherisse (www.theweddingdecorators.ca), was great too. Both of them worked together, leaving us with absolutely no-worry, transforming a venue that was already lovely, to an even more elegant and grand hall. They are efficient and very professional. I was surprised to see how nicely everything was put together.

Our ceremony hall at Arcadian Court. 華麗的禮堂.

婚禮的點點滴滴 - 敬茶Tea Ceremony篇

On our wedding day, we did the tea ceremony. It is a Chinese Tradition to express thanks to the relatives on the wedding day. We had to kneel in front of our parents (and elders) and serve them tea to say "thank you" for bringing us up. We got red pockets as good luck and new gold jeweleries in return. We also gave tea to younger cousins and brother, but we could stand up for that. (Thanks June for being our "dai kum" - the person to help hand the tea and teacups and say special greetings.)

Us and Ka's mom

Us and Corrie's parents

Us and Corrie's brother (Pat)

Consequence Cards

On our wedding day, the MCs thought about asking guests to write down consequences for us to do if they are not satisfied with our kiss. Here are the list of consequences:

• Ka carries Corrie around to all the tables
• Sing a Love Song to Corrie
• Tango Dance (5mins)
• Both Ka & Corrie to come up with at least 5 things they love about each other
• Ask Ka to kiss the Best Man
• Ka kisses Phil Tsang on the lips passionately
• Ka piggy back Catherine (mother-in-law) to table 10 and Catherine to kiss all the males
• Ka should wear one of Corrie's dresses and take a picture
• For 15 seconds, kiss each others siblings
• Ka "arch back" kiss 30+ sec
• Feed each other a cake with mouth only... then kiss when done
• One person has to spank the other person with a fish
• Interpretive dance of the day you both first met
• Corrie goes to the balcony and Ka has to declare his love for her. And Corrie doesn't come down until she's satisfied.
• Ka and Corrie will do the spiderman kiss
• Ka and Corrie will use their mouths to pass a pack of seaweed (individually)
• Ka and Corrie will both do the Robot Dance
• If Ka has to choose either his camera or Corrie, which will he choose?
• Ka has to wear Corrie's shoes and walk around the banquet hall.
• Request Corrie's parents to do a proper kissing demo so the newly wed knows how to do it right.

What our friends said about our wedding?

From Billy's Blog (Chinese)

[記事] 攝影愛好者的婚禮

昨天出席了一位好友的婚禮晚宴.
小弟便攜帶我的小相機一同出席. (我多想帶著女伴出席啊~ 朋友啊~ 怎麼都不介紹女生給我?!)
其實我帶小相機, 是因為我知道不管我趕去買甚麼相機, 都及不上現場的攝影愛好者的百分之一的啦~
這還真是個萬千閃燈賀新人的婚宴啊~
在切蛋糕的一段, 真是有夠像甚麼荷里活大明星的新電影的記者招待會.



看到檯上那一枝巨砲嗎? 就如我在twitter上說的一 樣, 真的比我脖子還要粗. 單是那一枝就不便宜了吧? 然後在場的賓客們, 我想是每一個人都有帶相機, 然後DSLR佔的比率, 是75%吧? 我的小Canon SD1000, 大概是人家鏡頭的百分之一? 單是不同款式的柔光罩就已經夠我大開眼界了. 加上有三成左右的賓客看起來就真的像是在跑新聞的樣子, 甚麼長距, 短距, 近拍, 廣角, 魚眼, 各式各樣的鏡頭組合, 但賓客明明就是IT界的專才們啊~ 為甚麼會這樣? 實在太誇張了! 品牌競賽上, Canon 和 Nikon 不相伯仲, 在我看來是數量差不多啦~

我在猜, 我這小相機也給拍了百來張沒啥新聞價值的照片, 不知道一整天一共有多少GB(甚至TB?)的記憶體給佔滿了? 統計還要等數個星期才有結果, 但只會多, 不會少.

然 後, 何以見得這是一個攝影愛好者的婚禮呢? 看一下美貌與智慧並重, 加上手藝也是一級棒的新娘子所作的可愛小人像, 新郎手中的相機表現出他是多麼的喜愛這樣的拿著相機自拍. (他拍別人的照片也不少! 而且他所儲的照片, 單是交給我用來作婚禮相片展SLIDESHOW的相片就有300GB!)



很可愛的小人像吧?
在此特別祝福一對新人, 白頭到老, 永結同心, 連生貴子, 三年抱兩, 開枝散葉...最重要, 健康幸福快樂.


P.S.
- 開首的3字, 除了剛好是指新郎哥是已進三字頭的年紀(也不是第一年!), 其實是我怕我喝醉了找不到車子泊在停車場那一層. :P 誰知道我結果非常清醒, 還在半夜市中心街頭跑步跑的氣喘呢~

P.P.S.
- 巨砲的資料 價值四千三百塊加幣, 稅後約十五萬台幣?!




From Joyce's Blog

Wedding

Went to a wedding over the weekend. Haven't been to such a good wedding like this one for a long time. Warm and genuine. A few of us stayed behind and we had quite a few drinks. Alcohol made me a bit more friendlier than usual. Everyone looked so happy and lovable. We hold hands and we hugged and maybe a few kisses on the cheeks. We tell each other how wonderful they are and what a great time we had. At that moment, it just seemed that life was perfect.

From Andrew's Blog

Congrats Karrie

Welcome to my bi-monthly blog entry :) This issue's topic is that crazy wedding party this past Sunday. I've said many times already but I'll say it again, CONGRATULATIONS to my very good pals Ka and Corrie! That wedding was a smash! And I must say what a wonderful recept they had that night :)

Btw, I just love this photo. Notice how the newlyweds are "guiding" their guests upstairs to where they are... Good thing I didn't follow their directions tho!! The stairs are actually to the left of the sign :p


From Lorraine's Blog

Mr. and Mrs. Lam

It's my two Canadian friends' wedding today. I have to admit that I wasn't very aware of their wedding taking place today because I was away camping and I seemed to have forgotten what was going on around me in the outside world. When I came back home and caught up with my daily rituals, I saw my friend saying it's his wedding today on his facebook status. I think it was funny to have a status like that. Then I read he and his girlfriend's (now wife's) blog with a love letter from her to him, and a reply from him to her. The letters were really sweet. "You complete me." It's not something I have experienced or can understand yet. But to realize that they're finally getting married today seemed so surreal. I have known very early on since they started dating. I have witnessed to a certain extent their development. But I can't believe it's been four years already. I also can't quite adapt to the idea that they're now husband and wife. I've been following their wedding blog for three months and it feels strange when the big day has finally arrived for them.

Anyways... I'm looking forward to seeing their pictures. I'm sure every aspect of their wedding will be detailed and carefully designed. I really look forward to seeing the bride's ideas and inventions.

All the best, my friends. It's a long, happy, and not always easy road ahead of you.

We are Now Husband and Wife

I woke up this morning. The feeling was surreal. I kept asking Ka if we really got married and asked him to show me his finger to show me he had a ring. All happened so quickly, I can't believe we are already Husband and Wife. I will list my 10 most memorable moments so i won't have a 100,000 words essay.

1. I finally felt nervous when I looked into the mirror when I saw myself a bride. I almost couldn't even recognize the person in the mirror was me! I was pretty nervous from the wait.

2. I was the most touched by seeing so many friends and families when I proceed into the ceremony hall with my dad. I wish I could just pause that moment.

3. I have never felt so glamorous in my life! Never have I seen soooo many cameras in any other wedding that I have ever attended. I felt we were movie stars on the red carpet! Holy smoke! I sooo felt the luuvvvvv. (Thx guys!!)

4. I was sooooo happy that people were looking at my cake.

5. I felt so sweet hearing all the speeches. I know my dad has spent a lot of time thinking about what to say. Vikki was up the night before stressing out over it. Ray's speech was genuine and entertaining (just like him himself). Just moment before we went up for the speech, Ka said to me "I am completely blanked out." But I could feel the every word was from the bottom of his heart.

6. The walk to the hotel after our banquet was crazy. After the banquet, Ka and I were already a bit tipsy from the many shots we took. But two of us carried 3 huge evening / wedding gowns with 2 suits. On top of that, we had a laptop bag, a few bags of accessories and shoes, Ka's camera, my purse... But we somehow managed. We just needed to walk 5 to 10 min to our hotel anyway. As we went to the elevator, the Arcadian Court manager handed us a HUGE box of pastries!! (3ft W x 3ft L x 1ft H) I am so glad the pastries were in OK shape today.

7. I can't say enough THANK YOUs to people who have helped me along the way. (Tung, Ta, Vikki, Raymond, My brother Pat, Peggy, Vicky, Kendrick, Billy, Chiesa, Gladys, Vivian, Andrew, Keith, Edmund, Keith, Francis, Pat&Paul&Mercedes, Mike&Cat&Nicholas, Vicky, Henry, June, Mickey, GayGor, Carmen, Sabina) .

8. Look at all our friends at the wedding! We both felt the friendship. We know most had to work on Monday, some are having exams the coming week, and we knew many babies were sick last week. It meant a lot to us that people witness our wedding with us. There were some guests who couldn't make it. I hope things are ok. But we will make sure we send them our photos.

9. It is unbelievable how many photos Ka took on *HIS* camera on the wedding day :P

10. Before we knew it, the wedding celebration was over. And it marks the start of our married life together.

Getting Ready

Had a pretty good sleep. Going to take a shower and start my day!

reply to 情信

My hun hun,

I don't usually write, as evidence by the few posts I have on this blog. It's not that I don't care about this blog, but I am just not a writing person... However, I always feel very happy and sweat reading your posts and the stuff you wrote to me, about our wedding and our lifes.

Many things happened in the past 4 years, some sad, some happy, and everything in between. Thanks for going though life with me, by my side, supporting me when I need it, cheering me up when I am sad and sharing my joy when I am happy.

I know I hasn't been a very romantic BF. Odds are, I am not going to be a very romantic husband. But I will always be there to support you, and whatever you want to do in life.

Life is a long journey in front of us, together, we will grow and learn. When we are old, and our kids grown old, we will have our Toogood Pond 大遊行. :P

Love,
Ka

Today is the day

Just done jotting down point forms for my speech. Vikki is nearly stressed out working on her MOH speech too :P We had the Chinese hair combing ceremony tonight. 一梳梳到尾. 二梳兒孫滿地. 三梳白髮齊眉. Had sweet dumplings. My wedding dresses are hung up in the house. I still can't believe today is my wedding. The feeling is surreal.

倒數第一天: 給你的一封情信

親愛的hun:

還有一天. 還有一天我們就會變成另外一個身分.

數數手指, 拍拖原來有四年了. 跟你變成男女朋友還像昨天才發生的事. 當中經歷過開心的日子, 無理取鬧的日子, 難過的日子. 不知由何時起, 你這個男朋友變成了我生命中不可缺少的一個. 星期一起床我發燒, 頭又疼得要命, 你給我拿藥, 煲粥. 我享受着那照顧, 不只你幫我做得有多少, 而是當中包含的愛.

記得那晚我考完Finance final, 我們兩個都睡不著? 我們談起你爸的病情, 說着說着, 說到我們不如結婚吧. 還記得我倆的睡意突然完全消失了, 興奮地談何時結婚, 那裡婚禮, 竟然三時多起床, prepare我們的guest list.

那幾天, 還沒有人知道我們的"大計". 只有我倆獨自回味那種很特別的感覺, 很幸福, 很甜, 但很實在. 我們雙方一起認同大家就是大家生命中的那一個, 認同對方就是會陪你走餘生的路的人. 在得意的時候為對方高興, 在失意的時候互相扶持. "You complete me", 我終於明白這感覺.

明天我要嫁給你啦. 不知你現在的心情如何. (看見你還在甜美的覺覺豬, 應該沒有緊張吧. 如何也好, 明天會是我們最難忘的一天.)

往後的日子一定有開心有難過. 但我相信我與你會一起經歷, 一起栽培我們的感情, 到老時一起回憶.

Love,
Corrie

倒數第二天 Just two more days

Just two more days before wedding. We will be heading to our own parents' home tomorrow for wedding eve. So after dropping off most things at Arcadian Court today, Ka and I decided to go out for a dinner date to celebrate our last days of single life. We went to Baskin Robins to have a nice ice cream first, and then went to a really nice steak house (The Braised Bull) for a nice juicy T Bone Steak! Sooo Yummy.

Just 2 more days till the wedding. We certainly are ready!

倒數第三天

今日Ka就四出奔跑. 買睡衣, 買wedding用的物品, 接機又再接機... 他回家還為我帶回黑加崙子糖. (不過他還未回家我已猜到他會這樣做了. 不知是我太過了解他還是他太transparent.)

我每一次做papers或溫書, 都要有黑加崙子糖. Ka今天忙着買東西時都不忘買筒回家. Thank Q hun! =*:

倒數第四天

今天開始放假. 我們可productive呢. Final fitting for evening dress, 拿了engagement photo (嘩! 好大張!) + guest book, 到醫院探Ka's daddy, fit了伴娘裙, 拿到了褂睡衣 (Thank you Vikki and Jenn to get that for me from HK!! 好靓, 我好鐘意呀!), 跟Vikki晚餐, 把slideshow交了給我們的DJ (Thanks Billy!). 清理了屋企一番, 又準備了些Thank You cards.

昨晚我弄了個我很喜歡的Gift Box. 原本可以借朋友的, 但後來online見到個很可愛的Gift Box, 所以自己又試試DIY. 都幾cute架.今晚... 今晚要做paper. 2 more that are due tomorrow.

Less than 1 week to go!

Less than 1 week to go. Just a quick update on the bride-to-be and groom-to-be.

At 2:00am, both of them are still awake. SHE just finished working hard on her MBA essay #2, HE is playing on HER new NDS so she won't get a chance to play it. THEY both ate a lot of snacks and sugar tonight so SHE could stay awake for her paper. (That explains why SHE is still blogging at this time.)

Walking Down the Aisle

我們昨晚在家進行了個簡單而搞笑的婚禮彩排. (We have decided to do it on our own since we won't be able to gather everyone together.) 媽媽扮演officiant, 我也客串扮演maid of honour and 花仔花女.

當然其中一樣要彩排的是我嗲o地怎樣拖住我walk down the aisle. 對上一次何時拖住嗲地已經不記得了. 一定有二十多年沒拖過我爸爸吧. 媽媽常笑說我小時後出街一定拖住嗲地 (像知道誰知道那裡有好地方玩般).

我的童年很愉快. 因為我有一個會拖住我四處去的爸爸. 他放工會帶我們去球場踢波, 去游水. 週末又會帶我們去圖書館, 去遊車河. 到大了出來工作才發覺小時後很多東西都take for granted. 真的不是每個父親都能放這麼多時間跟子女玩.

嗲地從未試過向我們發無理的脾氣. 每次我們做錯事他都會慢慢的跟我們說道理. 聽的時候我都覺得很囉唆. 大了當然就明白父親的苦心, 但更加敬佩的是他那份耐性及consistency. 我小時後的趣事實在太多太多圍繞着我嗲地. 但因為我還未知到我會用那一個做我的wedding speech, 所以暫時不提了.

婚禮當天不知道嗲地拖住我進場的時候心裏會想甚麼呢? 會百般滋味在心頭? 會為我感到驕傲? 會想起我小時候的故事? 還是會太緊張而只顧"1-2-1-2"的數一步步? :)

Helpers Meeting

"貴人出門招風雨", 我說"貴人嫁娶招風雪"就真. Toronto已經幾年沒有十二月落大雪, 今年居然十二月一號就snow storm. 10cm雪, 又freezing rain. 希望wedding當天風和日麗就一定沒可能, 希望不要snow storm 吧. 真的不想我們的guests要stuck in traffic.

雖然外邊的路像溜冰場般滑. 雖然冷得要命, 但絕對蓋不住我們一眾wedding helpers的熱情! GM described一次我們的schedule. 大家也大概picture到當天的流程了. 我間直覺得我們的helpers team is a Super All Stars Helping Team. 個個都是醒目仔醒目女.

12.09.07 - Here we come!!

The Sweetest Girls Night Out

From this photo (and the time I am blogging), you can tell I had fun tonight again! Vicky and work friends organized a bridal shower for me.

We used marshmallows to make wedding cakes and yummy chocolate chip cookies!! (A lot of the ingredients went into my tummy. Sweeeeet~~ May be that's why I am still awake at 5:16am.) The girls even made a ginger bread house for me! 1 Ka and 1 Corrie, with 4 kids. They look a bit strange.. (Most of them you can't tell their gender.)

Then we chatted till 3:30am about many many things. Who said we need to go clubbing or hire a stripper to have a fun bridal shower? Just good friends who can share a great conversation - that makes the best party.

P.S. The bridal shower theme really matched with my theme colour. :P

(Group photo is missing Joyce.)