Wedding pictorials

Pic with robbie the photographer

with Candy their chauffeur of the day

Location: Auckland Botanics Garden

Courtyard

Managed to find a picture of the courtyard after it was decorated. Most of the decor work here is done by jake's uncles.

Cutting of the cake followed by short speeches from newlywed.

Newlyweds - All smiles

Group shot

Ceremony 2

It's time for exchange of vows. They have decided to write their own vows. First Groom read his.

Then it was bride's turn.



After exchanging vows, they exchanged the wedding rings.

Bride looking all radiant with her bouquet.

The newly pronounced Mr & Mrs Wee


Congratulations J&R

Ceremony

R gave me permission to put pictures of their wedding in my blog. Hehe. so here I took liberty to pick the photos I like to feature on the blog.

Here, everyone waiting for the bride's arrival on the stage. Pachibell's Canon in D is playing in the background.



Groom thinks, "Phew, she's finally here!!! Here comes my darling".

P Ken thinks, "Good, all here and ready to proceed".

The Unity Candle flanked by the two separate candles.

Lighting the unity candle. Two shall become one.

Details 2

There were light refreshment served in the church courtyard after the ceremony. Above featuring the seafood tartlets that Jake made. Again, our LG was great. They stayed in the kitchen and helped us with kitchen duties and replenishing food etc..making sure guests are well fed. God is very good indeed.


R designed her own wedding invite and the bulletin.

We used all the leftover poms poms, garlands for the buffet tables.

Jake's uncles and aunties who flown from Malaysia wasted no time helping with balloonwork, floristry and also they brought purple tulle with them which made all the difference on door frames.

We probably blew close to 400 balloons. We experimented the week before the wedding to see how many would burst. The 'weaklings' would all bursts on the same day. The survivors would stay on for days ! Only one balloon burst during the whole ceremony. It was during the sermon from P Ken. He went "When God made woman,..." POP goes the balloon . That certainly would make good memory for everyone who attended the wedding.

They also decorated the bridal car. I supplied them lots of clippings and prunings of my bushes and some from the reserve.

The courtyard from the bride and groom's view.

Details

I was very glad that R let me help out in the wedding. I was appointed to look after decor at the church. After scouring wedding craft websites/blogs/forums I was inspired to use several things/concepts for the decor. I was also very blessed a dear friend at church, G loaned me heaps of materials (swags, flounces, loads of white material, artificial flowers for the pew, candle stands , the list is almost endless) so all I needed to buy was loads of tissue papers and ribbons and minimal draping materials. Nat also spent time doing the swags for the pew.
I narrowed the theme down to purple, white and pink.



The aisle were flanked with tissue pompoms and they were surrounded by rose petals. And I spent a few nights doing the heart garlands. All was put to good use.

The cake was a rich chocolate mudcake made by a pastry chef.

We used the leftover rose petals on the cake table.

R's friends helped with ushering. I bought the L-O-V-E blocks during my trip to Wellington from Courtenay Pl. Jake brought the red guest book when he was in Beijing.

Two of the banner that we did using some templates I found in Martha Stewart's websites.

More pics of the wedding

Abel hanging around the foyer waiting for the arrival of the bride while Noel is in the 'waiting' room with P Ken, Bil and Joseph.

Abel and Jake both wear their tux on the day.

bridal car

here's one of my favourite shot of me and the boys during Bil's wedding.

5 more sleeps...

The kids are looking forward to Christmas so much so that Noel had already opened one of his present much to my annoyance!!!!!
Anyways here, we put up the tree a week or so ago with the boys help and I dressed them up in identical santa's little helper outfit.
Are you all looking forward to Christmas?

On ministry front, I am so busy with the cantata. I still have not memorised all the songs.. I doubt I can memorise everything.

Noel , the ring bearer

Here's a collage of photos of the wedding. From top left corner, Bestman Joseph, Ringbearer Noel, and Groom Joe. Then everyone waiting eagerly for the arrival of the bride on the stage. Noel taking his job seriously. When the bride and groom exchanged vows, Noel stood still on his position. No fidgeting, no pulling tongue :) After that, he exited with Lily the bridesmaid and Joseph. You did a great job, Noel.

p/s: He chose to wear a white tux.

The Wedding - Rehearsal

There was a wedding in the family in October. Bil was getting married. Noel was the ring bearer.

Below was the rehearsal at the church two nights before the actual event.