Wedding Bells

Have so many weddings to attend this year. So far, I’ve attended three weddings, and it is yet the end of 2008. My staff, Nina wed our ex co worker last May. My cuz, Baby aka Faizah got married last May too, plus Zam’s wedding in JB, next would be Intan, my co worker from Back Office system Dept, this end of June.

I love going over to wedding ceremony. The fact that I’m there to support a union of love makes me coming with a full of spirit. But surely, it burns a hole in my pocket. Usually, I would set aside a certain budget for wedding gifts. The gifts will depend on how many weddings that I need to attend.

Let see…if there is three weddings in a month, so you can imagine how small the gift is for each other. And that makes me think deeply; perhaps I should avoid having my own ceremony during school holidays as that would be a normal practice in Malaysia.

Other tips:
1. Plan ahead and things that you think trivial might give a headache later on
2. Try to avoid having wedding on school holidays as:
a) Mak andam and photographer tends to charge you a bomb
b) People like me has to think twice when deciding on wedding gift as there is so many gifts to think of. Tapi yang penting,ikhlas...
c) You have to call so many dewans or hotels as it usually fully booked. Mind you, you need to book a hotel one year earlier or nothing less than 6 months.

Well, that’s what I’ve been seeing so far. Perhaps I can get more tips later on by attending more and more weddings :-)