Mun Wah & Sheow Chuin

Wedding Diary

Setting up our love nest

Setting up our love nest

Amansiara @ Jalan Ipoh, Amansiara, Jalan Ipoh, Bandar Baru Selayang

Date : Sunday, December 04, 2005

This is a special Saturday...We went to a show house at some where near our house. That area is new housing area. They are launching a town house concept at Selayang area. Although is not a new concept in others area but is a new concept at Selayang area. We love that house in our first eye.
At the next morning, we bring along our parents to have a look for the show house. After this we make the order from the developer agent. We use a night to make this decision to buy our own house.
Our house still in progress. It will be ready end of 2008.

Our wedding ring

Our wedding ring

Diamond & Platinum

Lot F20B, 1st Floor, 1 Utama Shopping Complex, Bandar Utama, Petaling Jaya, Selangor Darul Ehsan 47800

03 - 7725 3478

Date : Sunday, March 12, 2006

The wedding is one part of our love journey. So we quite choosy when we busy looking for our wedding ring. We used so many weeks to shop for our wedding ring. We went to many jewelery shops. There are gold ring, white gold ring, stainless steel ring and platinum ring. Finally we decided to buy a platinum ring rather than white gold as our wedding ring. We want to say thank you to the sales girl from Diamond & Platinum named Irene So. She gave a good service and advise to us when we were choosing our wedding ring.

Registration of Marriage

Registration of Marriage

Thean Hou Temple, Kuala Lumpur

65, Persiaran Endah, Off Jalan Syed Putra, Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan 50460

03-2274 7088

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Date : Saturday, March 25, 2006 | 12:30

Start from this date, Mun Wah and Sheow Chuin legally become husband and wife.

Actual Date selecting

Actual Date selecting

Loh Kim Put

15, Leboh Pudu (1st Floor), Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan

03-2078 4939

Date : Wednesday, June 7, 2006

Both us take a leave and meet up with Loh Sifu. There is another sifu at Petaling Street who also expert in selecting a good day for wedding, house moving and so on. We got this information from our colleagues. We choose Loh Sifu as our sifu in selecting our good date for actual day. This is because he selecting the date by manually rather than using a computer system. His shop located near to the Central Market, Kuala Lumpur. Is not hard to find his shop.
When we get into his shop, we got a big shock. His shop is very simple not renovation at all. He is an old man, very very old man. But his hand writing is very strong and creative. He is slow and steady.
He gave us 3 date to choose as our actual day
1st choice - 2nd June 2007
2nd choice - 20th June 2007
3rd choice - 22nd Sept 2007
After discuss with family, we decided 22nd of Sept 2007 as our actual wedding date.

Booking for Wedding Banquet

Booking for Wedding Banquet

Royal China Restaurant

Lot 26, 174-176A, Jalan Ampang, Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan 50450

03-2161 9188

Date : Thursday, September 07, 2006 | 21:21:10

Actually we quite lazy in finding the place for our wedding dinner. We already filter out all the restaurant in Klang Valley area. And left up Tai Thong Restaurant and Oversea Restaurant.Lastly we manage to get a decent banquet venue which is Royal China Restaurant at Jalan Ampang. We hope Royal China Restaurant will provide the good quality of food and service to our guest at our wedding dinner.

Our zzz nest

Our zzz nest

Dreamland Corporation (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd

56, Kompleks Selayang, Taman Perindustrian Selayang Baru, Batu 8 1/2, Jalan Ipoh, Batu Caves, Selangor Darul Ehsan 68100

03-6138 0676

Date : Sunday, December 17, 2006 | 16:41

Good news!! Dreamland is having their warehouse yearly sales. We went to have a look with mum. Their warehouse is quite near to our house. So we walk walk and see see. Lastly we decided to buy our mattress first even we haven't buy any furniture for our room. I have backside problem so we bought a better mattress. The mattress we bought is Chiro 3000 with 5 ft Queen size. Their quality assurance and control is strong enough until Dreamland provide their customer a 10 years warranty. We haven't test it. Dreamland is allow us to keep our mattress at their side until we call for delivery.
Thanks to Dreamland. We hope we have our sweet dream every night.

Final meet up with Washington Portraits

Final meet up with Washington Portraits

The Washington Portraits Bridal Studio

191, Jalan SS2/24, Petaling Jaya, Selangor Darul Ehsan 47300

03- 7873 9688

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Date : Saturday, March 03, 2007

Finally, we decided to take The Washington Portraits Bridal Studio as our bridal studio. The most attractive part from them is their photo shooting is simple but nice. This is what we looking for. We had our voucher from TT Resources Bhd RM1000 if we take Washington Portraits. We got the special discount because of that voucher. So we can save more money in our pre-wedding shooting.

Air ticket booking for our Honey Moon

Air ticket booking for our Honey Moon

Date : Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Is Air Asia promotion period again. So is a good chance for us to get cheap air ticket for our Honey Moon. We went to Bali with a group of best friends at Jul 2005. We love the place very much. We like their culture. So we decided Bali as our Honey Moon destination. We didn't engage any travel agent to plan our Honey Moon. We want to plan our Honey Moon ourself. We will spend almost a week there to enjoy our Honey Moon. Bali, we are coming this September 2007.

Booking Number : HP7RBM
Departure Date from KLIA-LCC Terminal : 1055 Monday, 24 Sept, 2007
Flight : AK900
Departure Date from Depensar Bali : 1425 Saturday, 29 Sept, 2007
Flight : AK901

Our 1st gown fitting

Our 1st gown fitting

The Washington Portraits Bridal Studio

191, Jalan SS2/24, Petaling Jaya, Selangor Darul Ehsan 47300

03- 7873 9688

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Date : Saturday, April 07, 2007 | 15:00

This is our first gown fitting. We need to select which wedding gown and evening gown for our pre-wedding photo shooting. We are so exciting when our gown fitting day. My whole family come along with us for the fitting session. We manage to get what we want within 3 hours.

Pre-Wedding Photo Shooting

Pre-Wedding Photo Shooting

The Washington Portraits Bridal Studio

191, Jalan SS2/24, Petaling Jaya, Selangor Darul Ehsan 47300

03- 7873 9688

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Date : Thursday, May 10, 2007

Both of us took a day leave for our pre-wedding photo shooting. Actually our first photo shooting was postponed due to bad weather condition. So sorry to our company... Ah Mun and Bee Chu, they purposely took leave to help us. Luckily, the weather was nice on our 2nd appointed day.
We reached SS2 early morning around 10am. We booked Leong as our photographer at that day. He is very famous at The Washington Portraits Bridal Studio. He has been delivering best shots to the couples who engaged that bridal studio. Lets hope it happens the same way with us. My make up artist(Jasmine) and hair stylist (Mei Ling) use around 45 minutes to apply simple make up and hair do for me. I love their skills.
After this we depart to Ulum Yam. There is another 2 friends (Suit Pei and Boon) came along with us. They are our special photographer and videographer. Besides that, Leong bring another helper named Pei Yong. This is our pre-wedding photo shooting start point.
Is a sunny day. But we didn't feel hot because we are located at a place full of tree, water fall and mountain. The whole session is smooth. We manage to finish the photo shooting at 3pm.
After this is our stomach exercise time. We went to a famous restaurant at Batu Caves. We are the last customer for that restaurant that day.
After finished our lunch, we discuss with our photographer, Leong where is our next destination. Mun Wah love a place at Temple Park, so we request permission from Leong. He is flexible, so he agreed with our idea. So, we continue our journey to Temple Park, Rawang. We took few shoot at Temple Park. We finished the shooting around 4pm.
Then Leong suggest us to continue our journey to another place which is Taman Tun, Petaling Jaya. We continue our photo shooting at a Taman Tun Park. Everything goes smooth. So our outdoor photo shooting finished at 6pm.
After this, we back to bridal studio and continue our indoor photo shooting. When we reached studio, i start change my wedding gown to evening gown. Same to Mun Wah. After our pre-wedding photo shooting, we took few photo for our family photo shooting with wedding gown.
The whole session finished at 8.30pm. After this we went for our dinner with family.
We feel relax for the whole day session. It looks like we went travel with friends.

Photo Choosing

Photo Choosing

The Washington Portraits Bridal Studio

191, Jalan SS2/24, Petaling Jaya, Selangor Darul Ehsan 47300

03- 7873 9688

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Date : Sunday, May 20, 2007 | 11.30am

We make an appointment for our wedding photos choosing on 20th May. We were late that day because we wake up quite late that morning. We reached around 12.45pm. We can't remember total number of photos we took. We start to choose our lovely photo out of all. We spent 4 hours at Washington to choose our photo. We are success to get 48 photos.

Wedding Invitation card selecting

Wedding Invitation card selecting

Red Card Gallery

Lot No. 123, 1sr Floor, Kompleks Desa, Jalan Kepong, Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan 52100

03-6273 5879

Date : Sunday, July 01, 2007 | Afternoon

This is our second time to visit Red Card Gallery. Our wedding invitation cards are provided by TT Resources. There is a few shop is appointed by TT Resources. One of the appointed shop is Red Card Gallery and is located at Desa Kompleks.
When 1st time we visit their shop, only few type of Invitation card is free by TT Resources. If you choose out of TT Resources appointed card, we have to pay the cost ourself. The sales girl advise us to come over on July. TT Resources is going to promote another few type of wedding invitation.
So on the 1st day of July, we go to the Red Card Gallery again to choose our wedding card. TT Resources just promote another few type of wedding invitation card. We are luckily that our timing is matched.
Sure we choose the latest card as our wedding invitation card. If not because of TT Resources, we have to pay RM4.80 for each card and RM120 for printing cost. Yeah!! We save more money in our wedding budget.
Estimate the card will be ready on next month. We will keep secret what type of card we chosen.
Dear friends, we will pass over our invitation card once it ready. No rushing and be patience!!

Our 2nd gown fitting

Our 2nd gown fitting

The Washington Portraits Bridal Studio

191, Jalan SS2/24, Petaling Jaya, Selangor Darul Ehsan 47300

03- 7873 9688

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Date : Thursday, July 12, 2007 | 18:00

Yesterday is our 2nd gown fitting. We need to select 1 wedding gown and 2 evening gowns for our actual day. Our appointment set as 6.00 pm. But i was late from work and the traffic was jam along the LDP. So we are late for one and a half hour. We reached there around 7:30 pm. My whole family came along with us for our gown fitting.
Their new gowns arrived last 2 days. So they purposely ask us to arrange our gown fitting on yesterday. So that our chances to book new gown is higher. Our wedding is planned on Chinese calendar August. This is a peak season for Chinese wedding.
We start off from wedding gown. The sales girl and my family start choose some wedding gown for me to try. This time they ordered quite many new style of wedding gown. I quite satisfied with their gown. I tried many gown until myself cannot remember how many gown i tried. We took some photo so that is easy for us to view back.
After wedding gown, is the turn for evening gown. But there is not many new evening gown compare to wedding gown. We tried this and tried that. We compare this and compare that. Everybody is giving their comments on the gown that i tried. The sales girl also advise me how to wear the gown so that is safe and fit for whole day session. Thanks for the advise.
Finally we make our mind to fix which 3 best gowns for our actual day. But we will not give clue which style and what color of my gown for the actual day. We keep it secret first. The clue only open on our actual day.
So please wait for our actual day which is 22nd of Sept 2007 and we will open the clue for all my guests.

Invitation Card Collection

Invitation Card Collection

Red Card Gallery

Lot No. 123, 1sr Floor, Kompleks Desa,, Jalan Kepong, Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan 52100

03-6273 5879

We received a call from Alice last few days and inform us that our wedding invitation card is ready. So, we planned to collect our wedding invitation card today.
This is our third time to visit Red Card Gallery. We are so unlucky. Every time we visit the Red Card Gallery, sure is a rainy day. It happen flood at Desa Kompleks Car Park before. We are scare to park our car in the Desa Kompleks Car Park even is a rainy day. So we park our car at the loading bay.
We are so excited with our wedding invitation card. Our wedding card is sponsor by TT Resources. But the card we choose is the latest and it cost RM4.80 each card. So we have to pay the printing cost ourself. We pay RM50 as our name printing cost and RM120 as the whole card printing cost. We are satisfy with our wedding card.
After we paid the money, is the exercise time for him to carry 380 peaces printed card and envelope from first floor to our car. It is very heavy because our wedding card is hard copy. The distance from Red Card Gallery to our car is not that far. But is a rainy day, so it make it more tough.

Confirm our wardrobe

Confirm our wardrobe

IKEA Malaysia

No.2, Jalan PJU 7/2, Mutlara Damansara, Petaling Jaya, Selangor Darul Ehsan 47800

7726 7777

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Date : Thursday, August 02, 2007

We will stay with family after our wedding while waiting our love nest to be ready. So we only need to decorate and buy the furniture for our bedroom.
We hope to get a better bedroom furniture with reasonable price. So we start visit furniture shops early of the year. But there is a wardrobe which we found at Ikea is keep appearing in our mind after we visit few furniture shops. Our bedroom is not big so we have to plan wisely before we buy the furniture. We provide the size of wardrobe and bed frame to my sister. She is an interior designer. So she helps us to plan our space.
Ikea is having sales now. So we planned to visit Ikea today after work. At the same time, our best friend, Ah Mun was at Kuala Lumpur. So after met up with him, we enjoyed our dinner "Hokkien Mee" at Kota Damansara.
Is a good time to visit Ikea on weekday. Because it not too crowded and easy for us to shop. We decided to buy wardrobe and a 3-drawers chest from Ikea and bed frame from other furniture shop. This is not the first time we visit Ikea, so we can easily find the bedroom section. Then we list down which wardrobe that we going to take it back home. After list down, we pass the list to the Ikea Assistant named Wai. He help us to key in to Ikea system and print out our purchase order with the ID code and price.
By holding the purchase list, we went to Ikea Store at Ground Floor to collect our items ourself. The store is big but is very easy to find our items. Because everything is written in the tags. Luckily, Ah Mun is came along with us. He gave a big hand to help us carry up our items to the trolley. After this we pay the money at the counter. We decided to send our wardrobe by Ikea Home Delivery because the wardrobe is too big and cannot fix inside our car. We have to pay RM65 for the Home Delivery.
Ikea design a very good system, so they can works continuously on lowering prices.
Ikea concepts are
1) Assemble the furniture ourself - it means not paying third party to do it for us
2) Ikea furniture is flat-packed - cheaper for storage and transport
3) Deliver ourself - can get the furniture on the same day and do not pay for "free-delivery service" that's included in the price
4) Put furniture through rigorous testing - make sure it can stand up anything
5) Serving yourself - it means not pay for help that you don't need
6) Make good quality at affordable price
7) Pencil and paper are provided every where - make note of products information found on price tags and collect products ourself
8) Produce and distribute in bulk - get better discount from supplier and make low price for customer

Setting our bedroom

Setting our bedroom

Our lovely room

Selayang Baru, Selangor Darul Ehsan 68100

Date : Saturday, 04 August, 2007

Our plan for today is set up our room. Ikea will send our wardrobe this morning around 11am to 1pm. So at the same time we ask our friend, Ah Tiong (On Aircond & Electrical Services)to service our air-cond before our furniture come in.
Our timing is well planned. Ah Tiong sent his staff to clean up our air-cond early morning around 10am. They take almost 1 and half hour to service our air-cond. They disassemble the whole unit for indoor and outdoor. Then clean up every items from small component part to the whole casing. They provide special service compare to others. Thanks to Ah Tiong and his staff.
After they left our house not more than 10 minutes, Ikea Home Delivery arrived. Wah, their timing is match. The lorry driver help us to carry our wardrobe into our house. Is really heavy. After this we start up our "engine" to assemble the 2 wardrobe that we bought.
We open the carton box and all the component is inside it including a manual book. We follow the manual book to assemble our wardrobe. Seem like very easy, because all the instruction is drawn in carton type. The manual book is very user friendly. It make us think back our childhood memory, like playing Lego. We told ourself that we manage to get our wardrobe done before our dinner.
The wardrobe is so small when it show at Ikea Show room. But it become "huge" when we move into our room. But don't worry, I asked my sister who is interior designer to draw our bedroom plan before we buy the furniture. The wardrobe is quite high so there is some place that we can't reach. We request some help from Mun Wah's parents to help us in the half way. Because it really heavy for us to carry with our 2 pairs of hands.
Our plan was fail, we cannot get our wardrobe done before my family dinner time. So we are late to the dinner and get scolded by my family.
We continue our work after the dinner. Is really tired until we do not have energy to talk to each other. At last we finished assemble our first wardrobe before mid night. Is a tired day but it really fun to us.
We continue our second wardrobe on the next day afternoon. This is we had experience, so we manage to assemble the second wardrobe within 2 hours. So now we had our own wardrobe that we assemble ourself.

Collect our pre-wedding photo shooting album

Collect our pre-wedding photo shooting album

The Washington Portraits Bridal Studio

191, Jalan SS2/24, Petaling Jaya,, Selangor Darul Ehsan 47300

03- 7873 9688

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Date : Sunday, 05 August, 2007

We suppose to collect our album yesterday. But our schedule was too full, we changed our mind to collect the photo album today early morning.
Very excited to collect our album. We had seen the design few months ago. Now is the whole pre-wedding photo shooting album show off time.
When we arrived The Washington Portraits Bridal Studio, our sales assistant Mei Ling is outstation. So we serve by another girl. Wah..she carry a gold box out from the room. Seem like is a heavy box and full of gold inside it.
There is 3 albums inside the box. The main album is light gold color cover and another 2 albums are gold color cover with size medium and small. We are excited to flip the first page of the main album. We quite satisfy with The Washington Portraits Bridal Studio works. We still can recognize ourself in the photo. Hahaa...
They pass us all the photo with frame, 4R photo and so on. They did what ever they promised before without any extra charges. But there is a 11R photo with frame which i'm going to hang it at my mother's house is wrong develop. This is my fault too because i changed once after we confirmed the photo. I think they already confuse by me over the phone. I didn't mention the photo no when i want to change it. I just explain the photo pose without saying photo number. They are so nice, they agree to develop another new one for me and free of charge. So we get a free 11R photo with photo frame. This is same to one of the 4R photo which called "Ji Mui" photo. They also miss out 1 pose but extra 1 pose. This is same case, i changed it over the phone. But they agree to replace for me for the miss out pose. For the extra pose they free to us. So we get more 4R photo.
After confirm everything, is our wallet show off time. Total our package is RM3599. But we have voucher RM1000. So after minus the voucher is RM2599. Wah, we are good in control our wedding budget. The cost still below our budget.
Can't wait to show our pre-wedding photo to our family and friends.

Our Sweet Sweet Honey Moon at Bali

Our Sweet Sweet Honey Moon at Bali

Bali, Indonesia

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Date : Monday, September 24, 2007 till Saturday, September 29, 2007

This is our second time to have our holiday at Bali. We love Bali very much.
We spent first two nights at Ubud. We stay in Green Town at Ubud. Is a Balinese style villa. The villa is in the middle of paddy field. So we can enjoy our breakfast facing the paddy field. We enjoy SPA and famous food Bebek Bengkil and Ibu Oka Babi Guling at Ubud.
After that we rent a milky white Jimny DK 713 KG to travel from Ubud to Lovina. Along the journey we stop at Besakih Temple. This is the mother Temple of Balinese temple. We are so luckily, they are celebrating their festival when we visit there. So we had the chance to experience it. At the same time, the festival make our journey took longer time to reach Lovina Beach. We reach Lovina around 6.15pm after 6 hours of journey.
At the next day, we wake up 5.30am. Our dolphin tour start at 6am. We enjoy the sun rise while waiting the dolphin. After 1 hour sitting in the small boat, we still cant see any dolphin. We are so unluckily, there is no dolphin appear in the sea. This is because of full moon. Normally fish will not show out when full moon. So we planned to go back to our guest house.
After had our breakfast at the guest house, we check out and drive back to Ubud. We pass by Bedegul and reach Ubud around 12pm. After return our car, we enjoy our 2nd times SPA before we leave Ubud. We get a driver who can fetch us back to Kuta. The driver recommended a good restaurant for us to enjoy our lunch before we start our journey. But for us, the lunch is consider normal meal.
After the lunch, we start our journey to Kuta town. We reach Kuta around 4.00pm. The driver recommeded a good hotel for us with good location and good price. It is Kuta Puri Bangalow. It located thirty seconds from the famous Kuta beach sunsets. Kuta Puri Bungalows has set all its accomodation in sumptuous spacious walled tropical gardens reminiscent of old time Kuta. The friendly Balinese staff in hotel includes six gardeners to insure that the four acres of grounds are beautifully kept. So all the hotel rooms are surrounded by a gorgeous garden. We rent a car at Kuta town. The rental is a bit higher compare to the rate at Ubud.
Our first destination at Kuta is Uluwatu. We enjoy the sun set at Uluwatu. But have to becareful of the monkeys at Uluwatu. All the monkeys are fierce. After that we enjoy our Japanese food at Restaurant Fukutaro, Kuta Paradiso Hotel. We selected Shabu-Shabu as our dinner.
On the 5th day, we travel and shopping at Kuta town. At evening, we went to Tanah Lot to enjoy different sun set of Bali. Is a lovely sun set. After that we manage to get some shopping before all the shop close. Can say half of the present we bought from Tanah Lot. After that we enjoy our dinner at Poppies Restaurant Kuta. Over the past three decades this restaurant has become the center of attraction for the tourists. Set in the lush tropical garden, the restaurant has a small pond with dragonfly and koy fish in the center. We took our dine beneath a canopy of flowers, amidst pools and waterfalls. It so romantic~
On the last day, we wake up early in the morning. Because this is the last day we enjoy our honey moon at Bali. So we had to full use of it. After our breakfast, we went for shopping to finish shop for presents. After that we went swimming at Bali Kuta Beach.
After an hour, we back to our hotel and prepare for check out. We went to airport by taxi. After check in at airport, we had our lunch at Restaurant Fukutaro. We finished all our pocket money in that lunch.
Bye bye Bali~