Betrothal and dowry items for Guo Da Li

Together with my mom-in-law, hubby, sis-in-law and her boyfriend, we went to Chinatown to procure our things need for Guo Da Li. My MIL had went racky around the shops selling bridal stuff in Chinatown a few weeks before.

The dowry is one of the main category of stuff to buy for the bride's side. Dowry are the things which the bride's family give to bride for her new life at her new home. This is usually given together with the return gifts for the groom's family.

Apart from the dowry, the groom family need to buy dragon and phoenix candles and a basket to carry the betrothal things like 2 bottles of liqour, bride price, oranges, 4 types of gold (si dian jin). These things are needed to to be brought over to bride's home during betrothal. I did not manage to take photos of the things bought by the groom's family to show here.

We went to a bridal shop called K.K Marriage Goods located at Chinatown Complex. These are things which I had bought for my dowry.

Bathtub, towels (2 sets), mugs (replacing brushing teeth tumbler), ornament symbolising spitoon and basin.

2 sets of plates, bowls, chopsticks and spoon

Bedroom slippers for the groom

A pair of bedside lamp

Tea Set

All these things above will be passed to the groom's family. Other things like 2 bottles of orange juice will be returned to the groom too.

Below are the item which the bride will use during her wedding day.

Bedroon slippers

2 sets of fan

1 red umbrella

1st meet up with my Jie Meis

Time flies! Its a month to our big day!

Had met up with my Jie Meis this evening. My jie meis are Lena, Karin, Xiao Yun and Pei Ru. They are my good friends who I'm closer to and had kept in contact.

This is my 1st official gathering at Rocky Master at Marina Square. I chose this place because it is not crowded (in fact, empty).

We had a little warming up session to get to know each other and a some discussion on what to do on early morning that day. I also passed them a list about their roles for the daytime segment.

Its a fruitful meet up and I will most probably arrange another meetup to brief them the details of the wedding day.

Guo Da Li's cakes ordered

I ordered cakes on the behalf of William's family for our coming Guo Da Li (bethroal). They had empowered us to order cakes we like and will be using ang pow to represent cake.

I surfed through a few websites. Shortlisted KYO cake house, sweetest moments and Chocz confectionery. All three have delivery service. I decided on Sweetest moments in the end because of the price, personalised card and presentation of the food.

A pair of champagne glasses

Lena, who is my buddy aka my "pa" had recently came back from Germany after 9 months of training by her company. I met her up for shopping last weekend.

She passed me this lovely gift which she had bought online in Germany. This gift is for William and myself. I like it very much because the picture of the couple looks very cute. Thank you pa! I have not shown this to William yet. My pa hopes that we could use it during our wedding banquet. I hope that I can use them too! If cannot, we could use them during other special occasions like pator anniversary, rom anniversary, wedding anniversary, valentine's day and our birthdays!

As William and I are not don't drink alcoholic stuff much, most probably it will be sparkling grape juices and soft drinks!

Our food tasting

Its our food tasting session today! We had its as our lunch at the Square restauant in Furama Riverfront. Both sides of our family members participated in this session.

The food tasting session is just like sitting together and eating banquet food. The restaurant would provide the menu with a remarks section at the end of each dish which we had selected. We can put our feedback in the remarks section.

Overall is food is very good. We are satisfied with most of the dishes we had eaten. Only, some slight changes with the cold dish and feedback on noodles and dessert.