The Chewys’ Wedding Banquet @ Orchard Parade Hotel

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Greetings chewys! You all very emo cuz it’s Monday right? Haiii me too. Didn’t have time to work on my blog on weekdays so I did this over the weekend. It’s another post flooded with many many photos taken by Jack and Aaron from ZX Workshop Photography during our wedding banquet! 😛 If you have missed out on our earlier post on our wedding gatecrash and tea ceremony, here it is!

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When misterchewy and I were looking for our wedding banquet venue, we were quite sure that our main focus was on the food. Everything else was pretty much secondary. We only went to Orchard Parade Hotel because we love Tunglok and the food is always remarkable.

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Actually, I kinda regretted a little after making our deposit because the ballroom is quite small and the ceiling is low. Oh wells.. It was comforting to know that everyone loved the food that night! 🙂

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After my MUA was done with my hair and makeup, I decided to go down and mingle with our guests during the cocktail reception.

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Bridesmaids helping out at the reception table.

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My brothers-in-law and brother (background).

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Parents wore blue, my fave color. LOL.

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The husband’s colleagues.

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Some of my colleagues.

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Blogger and Twitter friends.

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My Director. He’s a funny man. Hahaha.

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Misterchewy’s secondary school buddies with their partners.

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The Four Heavenly Kings. They CAN sing. Really!

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My paternal grandpa and relatives.

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More colleagues.

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My 老姨 who took care of me when I was a baby. It was many many many years since we last met and she actually cried upon seeing me.

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More relatives.

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My uni friends.

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My bridesmaids from primary school, secondary school, JC, social media (blogging) and tennis.

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Relatives from my mum’s side.

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More relatives from my mum’s side.

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Twitter friend, Rae.

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Two of misterchewy’s groomsmen and also uni friends.

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Granny Chewy.

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My JC friends.

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NOT Mr and Mrs Smith hor! Hahaha. We had a very kind instant prints photobooth wedding sponsor!

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‘Business’ was pretty good! Looks like everyone had a good time at the photobooth. Will definitely blog about this in the next post! 😉

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Our emcees, Ivan and Maureen.

Our wedding photoshoot montage was being played right before our first march in. It was done solely by misterchewy a couple of days before the wedding. I chose the English song while he chose the Mandarin one. Enjoy! 😀

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Before our first march in! I was feeling damn nervous!

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First march in song: From This Moment On by Shania Twain.

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The husband machiam superstar leh. Kept waving and waving. *Faints*

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Tsk tsk.. Maureen told misterchewy to say “I love you” in 5 different languages. Luckily he managed to do so in English, Chinese, Cantonese, Korean and Japanese. Heng ah! 😛

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Social media friends MUST take photos of their food before eating one! Hahaha.

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Took a group shot at this table because misterchewy’s secondary school teacher and her little girls had to leave early.

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Before our second march in. Wasn’t feeling as nervous as before!

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Second march in song: Unbreakable by Westlife.

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Ok I had this really weird expression because I was actually a bit afraid of the champagne popping. LOL.

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Hahaha I shall expose misterchewy. He fake one lor. He just opened his mouth damn big and pretend he was shouting “YAAAAAAM!”

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I also dreaded the moment when we had to present our speeches because I did not and refused to prepare for mine! Hahaha. I just think that thanking through actions is more important than through a thank you speech.

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On the contrary, the husband was very well prepared and had everything that he wanted to say typed out in his iPhone. At that point, I was beginning to panic over what I had to say. LOL.

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He also dedicated a song 你是我最深爱的女人 (direct translation: You are the woman that I love the most) to me. Ummm not the entire song la. Just a small part of the chorus.

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To be honest, it was kinda awkward for me. It was like.. Am i supposed to cry or something?! Hahaha.

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He ended the song abruptly and asked me “Okay?” Wah lao machiam he owe me one like that lor. -_-

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When it was my turn, I admitted to everybody that I didn’t prepare for my speech and proceeded with some thank yous here and there. LOL.

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After we got off the stage, we didn’t have time for a single morsel of food and went round for the table-to-table phototaking session.

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As soon as desserts were being served, we had to prepare to see our guests off. From the beginning to the end of our actual wedding, the entire experience felt very surreal. It’s an indescribable feeling.. Heh 😛

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Group shot with our gorgeous bridesmaids and suave groomsmen. 😀

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Hahaha some kinda gangsta pose.

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LOLOLOL I couldn’t stop laughing at this one. The husband pretending to be unfazed by the ladies.

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A big thank you to our photographers Jack and Aaron, and videographer Chin!

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Tata for now! As mentioned earlier, we will be blogging about our photobooth wedding sponsor next! Stay tuned and have an awesome week ahead! Connect with us on Facebook www.facebook.com/missuschewy and on Instagram @missuschewy and @misterchewy 🙂

The Chewys’ Actual Day Wedding 3 March 2013 Photos and Video

Hihi chewy chewy friends! Sorry ah I know the above a bit distracting but please hear what I have to say. YES! I’m finally able to share our actual day photos and video! Ok that’s all I have to say for now. Before you do anything, please watch the above video first! Just need to click on the play icon but you might need to be patient and wait for it to load. Anyway, it will help to understand the activities which took place in the day better. Hurry and watch it! The husband and I LOVEEEE the video and we have watched it several times! I think if we were to watch it one million times also won’t be sian. Our videographer, Chin of ZX Workshop Photography did such a marvellous job! 😀 😀 😀

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I’m gonna share the photos taken during the day of our customary wedding in this post! But hor, I need to warn you that it’s a super photo-heavy post. More than 180 pics I think? 😛

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Aiya cuz I really love the photos taken by our main photographer Jack and additional photographer Aaron from ZX Workshop Photography so I ended up sharing like 90% of the shots here! Jack was also our PG for our ROM. There will be a part two, and that’s when the banquet dinner photos will be shared 🙂

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The husband and I got together as bf and gf on 26 July 2010. About 3 months later, we applied for a BTO and got a pretty good queue number on our first try! Things kinda fell into place and we held our ROM on 9 September 2011 (09092011) shortly after misterchewy proposed a day before our 11th monthsary in June 2011. We agreed on another nice date 3 March 2013 (03032013) for our customary wedding! 😀

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Needless to say, we had to wake up really early on this very important day! I couldn’t sleep the night before and ended up tossing in bed till about 11plus. Managed to wake up at 5am to shower and eat breakfast. My breakfast very simple one, just a small piece of kueh cuz I wasn’t hungry.

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My makeup artist (MUA), PG Jack and VG Chin reached my place at 6am like what I had told them. All of them got cracking and no time was wasted. I wore pink contact lens on this special day! 😛

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My bridesmaids arrived at around 6.15 to 6.30am and started preparing the 酸甜苦辣 (sour, sweet, bitter, spicy) concoction for the xiongdis to drink during the later part of the gatecrash!

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Vincent is very professional and skillful. I liked my eye makeup and hairstyle! Told him not to bun everything up if not my face would look damn round.

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It’s probably more obvious in this pic. Two days before the big day, I dyed my hair red. Some parts are fiery red because of the bleaching that was done earlier when I had my hair dip dyed purple last October.

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Haha believe it or not, this super single bed can fit two 😛 The husband and I were even contemplating on getting this bed size for our future home! LOL then got more space to move around.

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Only 4 bridesmaids in this pic because the last one overslept! LOL. Luckily she stays just across the street, so Maureen and Bee went over to knock on her door.

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And in the meantime, misterchewy and his groomsmen were running through the programme sheet that the both of us came up with. This was done only at the very last minute and we were quite stressed over it. We tried to be as detailed as possible and sent the sheet to our Jack and our XDJMs for a once-over to familiarize themselves with their respective responsibilities.

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Soon, misterchewy and his brothers were ready!

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And so were we!

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Girl power yeah! Hahaha!

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My bridesmaids and their gatecrash weapons. LOL.

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Wanna thank my David ah gu and da jiu ma for lending us their Bentley and even got their chauffeur to ferry us around the whole day! Would also like to take this opportunity to thank Steven ah gu and er jiu ma for printing our invitation cards for us!

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Setting off to fetch his bride!

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Gold from my mum and white gold from my MIL.

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“老婆!我来了!” (Wifey! Here I come!) Watching this part of the video really made me LOL.

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Task #1: Twister

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Task #2: Yoga

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Everyone who watched the video said that Kelvin (guy doing yoga on the left) was super cute and funny! 😀

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A group shot before the guys proceeded upstairs for another round of ‘torturing’ session!

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Task #3: 酸甜苦辣

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HAHAHA it was damn funny (from what I saw in the video) because the guys “yam seng” really loudly and for damn long la!

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Bridesmaids also joined in “YAMMMM! YAM YAM YAM YAMMMMMM!”

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Still yam-ing until Maureen very sternly told them, “OK! 够了!喝!” (OK! Enough! Drink up!) and the guys really guai guai finish.

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At this point, the girls demanded for their “open door angbao” before the next two tasks could be carried out.

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Task #4: Dance to Wonder Girl’s “Nobody Nobody But You”

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During our meeting, my bridesmaids and I were thinking of a song to make the guys dance to and they were strongly against Gangnam Style. LOL. I suggested this because it’s like “I want nobody nobody but CHEW!” Geddit? Hahaha 😛 I must say the guys danced quite well!

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Task #5: Retrieve the right key to get past the gate

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The husband feeling victorious. LOL.

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Reciting his love pledge. He made it very “Ah Boys to Men” pattern. >_< Even shouted "Permission to enter the room, ma'am!" To which I replied, "Permission granted!" LOLOLOL.

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Presenting me with his handmade ‘Chanel’ bag. Wahahaha faints.

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Thanks to all our wonderful brothers and sisters for being so sporting! 🙂

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My maternal grandma, second aunt and third aunt actually reached my house early in the morning before the gatecrash so that they could watch misterchewy fetch his bride 🙂

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Setting off to misterchewy’s place for tea ceremony.

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Some Chinese tradition that my dad had to shelter me with an umbrella till I reached the bridal car.

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It was also a Chinese tradition that I had to throw the fan while the car was moving and my brother and to pick it up. He’s behind the lamp post in this pic. This means that I will still return home to visit them. Before the day of our wedding, I joked to my bro that I will make him chase after the car for 5km before throwing the fan. LOL.

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Since we were way ahead of time, Jack helped us to take some photographs at the mini garden. Ok I duno what is it called la. Haha.

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Tea ceremony commenced immediately and it was basically offering tea to all of our elderly.

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We were also offered tea by misterchewy’s brothers and god brother.

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So nice of my sisters to be fussing over me the entire day!

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HAHAHA this part was damn funny.

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Changed into my traditional Chinese wedding dress, otherwise known as kua. I was so happy to be wearing it because it was so comfortable and loose fitting!

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Went back to my place for tea ceremony!

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And again, we had some time for some photos at the playground 😀

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Thanks to all my relatives and cousins who took time off to come over to my place!

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A shot with my lovely next door Indian Muslim neighbors! We have been neigbors for about 20 years and almost every year without fail, auntie would cook a variety of dishes such as curry chicken, chilli prawns, nasi bryani and rendang mutton, and bake numerous cookies and kueh for us during Hari Raya.

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With some of my cousins, nephews and nieces from both my parents’ sides!

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Hope you enjoyed this post! Will try to share part two soon! In the meantime, do ‘like’ our Facebook page www.facebook.com/missuschewy and follow us on Instagram @missuschewy and @misterchewy ok? Cheerios! 😀