Geomancer

We started the wedding preps by engaging a geomancer to calculate auspicious dates for the various customary traditions and events. It's quite important to pick a date that does not clash with anyone in our immediate families. After a few rounds of elimination, we settled on 16 June 2012. The date doesn't coincide with any dates special to us but it does have a nice ring to it with all the sixes.

Details were exchanged thru email and phone. We met him once at his Bukit Timah office to collect a red folder containing a list of the auspicious dates and timings. He's really nice and helpful.

Master Ng
Hong Seng Geomancy Centre
HP: 94557856
Email: hsfengshuicte@gmail.com

Venue

All local couples would have known how difficult it is to secure the venue of your choice if you didn't book way in advance like 1 year. We began the hunt on venue, majority keeping in mind our requirements: 

1) 20 tables
2) Grand Ballroom
3) Reasonable price
4) Weekend

Greatest challenge was the lesser than average tables yet we wanted the grand ballroom. We didn't fancy co-joined function rooms due to the long walkway with low ceiling. M Hotel was my first choice (not his though) but I couldn't meet min. 25 tables for dinner banquet and the march-in was rather weird (L-shaped). We visited Regent Hotel which I felt it needed some refurbishing works and anyway we couldn't meet the min. for ballroom either.

We didn't reece any hotels after that since we realised it was quite a waste of time. Eventually, we settled for lunch banquet because there was no way we could get a ballroom for dinner with 20 tables; smaller ballrooms or function rooms couldn't fit 20 - like Mandarin Oriental.

My husband shortlisted Goodwood Park and Conrad Centennial Singapore. Catheryn from Conrad was the first & only wedding coordinator we met. We considered it for a week before booking it with a $4,000 deposit. Didn't actually make it to meet anyone from Goodwood Park afterall. You could say we were quite mesmerized by Conrad's grandeur and exclusive single Grand Ballroom. Since we saw it, we were pretty were set on it, except that we didn't want to confirm it on impulse, so we booked it a week later.

Proposal Ring

We knew we would get married one day. So I ever told him that I would like to pick my own engagement ring in future. I would hate to end up with a ring I didn't like to wear, that would be such a waste. So that's how we ended up with me picking the diamond and him deciding the setting. My little stone is from eClarity. They have a pretty big inventory of diamonds to choose from.

It's interesting that in the process, he told me if I wasn't involved, he would have picked a solitaire with side diamonds setting for me. My personal choice was a simple half carat solitaire on twisted setting. He kept it for a couple of months and told me he would propose when he felt like it. Of course I was anxious for it to happen.

About 3 months later, all excitement gone since making the purchase, he popped in my office on a random Friday morning. I walked into my office table with this pink card, a letter and a piggie plush toy on my desk. I was like 'OMG' and quickly swept the items into my drawer, worried my colleagues would ask me about it coz it would be just too embarrassing. In split seconds, he appeared out of nowhere behind me, got down on one knee and proposed with the half carat diamond ring! Turns out he actually had it planned with my colleague to let him into the office early morning.

I was so overwhelmed with surprise I could only nod in response. It's so unlike of him to propose in public given his private nature. If you ask me again, I still, would not have seen it coming from him.

It's really sweet everytime I recall it and happens to fall on a very meaningful date as well, 16 Sep 2011, exactly 9 months to our wedding date.

A little background

Nothing out of the ordinary, we got to know each other through mutual friends during secondary school and got together in April during that school term.

Who knows time (and youth!) just flew us by and we're getting married this June. I suppose it's been good for the past 12 years since we only remember the joy and laugh at the bad.

My hubby-to-be is a very loving, forgiving and compassionate person. He has the most gentle temper and the strongest mind & faith. He's got the biggest heart for everything and I haven't quite seen anyone like this yet.

My posts will not be in chronological order coz i'm 3 months away from my wedding. I'm just recounting the events. :)