Had a great sumptuous lunch today, thanks to Dato’ Tan. Lunch delivered via his secretary and as predicted, I have to consume 80% of the total order because she has to fit into a dress this coming Friday. -__-

It was just pork knuckles my goodness! Anyways, girls and their “Oh no I’m so gonna get fat on that!” while on other hand they go “OOOHH I LIKE PORK!!!”.

Girls… So anyways, to my point before every other girl starts bashing me

Lunch conversation eventually landed to the question of me having a girlfriend or not. My answer is of course “Nope.. anyone to intro?” Right? We need to keep on prospecting, although am not serious about it.

So, she got a cousin sister to intro but well a little elder than me and her cousin sister likes shopping. (OH NO!) I told her, “Age doesn’t matter! I may look 18, actual age is 24 but I’m way better than my age.” (Don’t you agree? )

Wait, I haven’t got into my topic yet! -___- Somebody stop me from babbling pleaseeee!!!

So, she got married and I was asking her, “How long it took you to plan your wedding?”. “Five months.” she said. I paused and repeated in disbelief, “Five Month!?”. Oh wells, there are people who are ready to their wedding within 3-4 months. Again, I look at her in disbelief and she said, “NO! NO! Not accident! Nothing happened!”.

Hahahaha

So, my question is that how long usually would it take to plan a wedding? I mean, a memorable one. Doesn’t need to be the talk of the town and what not but a memorable one.

Ideally, in my own opinion, more than 5 months of course. Say one year? Which is the usual time frame one would take from engagement to marriage.

But then again, it really depends on budget in actual fact. See, she spent about RM 70-80K on her wedding (Wonder if that’s the actual amount). That’s like easily twice an average person’s annual salary. Non-executive level lah…

If I would plan my wedding, I would plan about one year ahead with proper timeline and expectations ahead. What kind of wedding we would want? where we want it to be? How many people we want to invite? Do we need to filter the 3rd or 4th generations or just call the whole ‘kampung‘? What outfits we want to choose? Do we want a theme? Do we want Chinese or Western or Malay meals? What are the suitable dates? Are we ready financially? and many more questions… *phew*

But, let’s get into the budget of all things which would decide how big or posh the wedding would be. I will go through the essential ones…

Venue = Four/Five Star Hotel (Hotel lah baru ada gaya…)
1) Wedding Invites and Prints = RM 3K (Should be sufficient)
2) Dinner Cost = RM 1500 per table x 80 tables = RM 120K. (I’ve got big family tree and I’m assuming my future wife’s family gonna be big too!! And I want everyone to eat good food! No shark fin but ginseng chicken!)
3) Venue Deco Cost = RM 10K (Must got the environment FEEEELL)
4) Performers = RM 10K (We can’t be entertaining 800 guests!)
5) Wedding Rings = RM 15K (Mr. Diamond will do just nice)
6) Wedding Gown for her = RM 10K (More than enough right?)
7) Wedding Suit for me = RM 5K (Tuxedo babeh!!)
9) Beer & Liquors = RM 10K (My friends drinks alcohol like water!)
10) Wedding Photo Shoot = RM 10K (Fly all the way to Maldives!)
11) Church Wedding Service = RM 5K (Oh it cost to wed in church okay!)
12) Church receptions = RM 5K (entertain the church people)
13) Ang Pows for bla bla bla bla = RM 5K (tips and what not)
14) Honeymoon = RM 20K (To the land far far away!!!)
15) Hotels for wedding guests = RM 10K (Families and Friends from afar)
16) After party = RM 10K (The whole of SkyBar for the night!)

Total Damage? = RM 248,000.00 Whoa! *drops dead*

*breaths in… breath out*

Don’t think I can manage 10% of that amount right now. But who knows? Five years down the road I’m more than ready?

Who says love and relationship doesn’t come in material? It happens and we are just humans…

That’s why plan plan and plan!!!

There you go, I’ve planned it already! I’m on track! Looking good for now. I’ve got my priorities set right. Just need to fine tune…

But then again, planning is just easy to say but after reading KimOng’s blog, it is gonna be a crazy long process…