The Hunt for the Great Photographer

So, I've turned obsessive over the last 24 hours. David's heard from the photographer we really like and he's booked for the 7th of July NEXT YEAR!!! (More chorus of "wah, kiasu" please!)

I thought i was being OTT by booking the venue now and trying to get a JP to commit and just LOOKING at potentital photographers. But, boy, has someone (or two others!) beaten me to the top of the 'Super Kiasus-Kiasis of Singapore" list. Oh yeah, someone else has booked the other photographer we like; he's going to the UK to photograph a wedding.

My first thought when i heared that Lighted Pixels (our first choice) was out of the window was, "i gotta change the date of the wedding!". Ok, i wasn't seriously thinking it but it did cross my mind. If it is so hard to get a photographer, imagine what it's going to be like when i get a JP. No one wants to commit now because it is too far in the distant future but i bet when it is 3 months away (normal period), all of them will be booked up! So, given that rationale, isn't it just easier to change the date...to something less "hot" (yes! exact word one photographer used!)

Oh well, it's back to the drawing board. Back to the list we originally created months ago and hunting down THE ONE! If only we knew...if only we knew this was harder than hunting for the Red October.

Cliche Glam!

Ok, the date and venue are confirmed.

It's time to send out the invites!

"But it's almost a year away!!!" I can hear some people trying to stifle a scream, "wah super kiasu* man!". Yeah, but we've got friends and relatives coming in from the UK so we've got to officially send an invite so that they know, for sure, without a doubt, that they are DEFINITELY invited! So, next thing on the 'to do' list is to sort out wedding invites, for the overseas guests at least. Maybe we'll do one of those 'keep that date free' cards.

Anyway, the details are as follows;

Date: 7th July 2007
Venue: Bar & Billiards Room, Raffles Hotel



We fell in love with the place when we first sus'd it out for high-tea. We wanted to take our family there when David's family was in town earlier this year and when we found out we could have our wedding reception there, a lot of the original idea flew out of the window (goodbye botanical gardens).

I went there twice to look at the place and we spent hours going over what they'll offer us with the package before we finally decided that 'yes! this is where we want it to be. without a doubt. we still love it". We can only hope now that the celebrations turn out as we want it to be - simple, classy, relaxed. Only thing is, since then, we've also looked at a lot of wedding photos online to find our Actual Day [AD, for those of you who are 'in with the lingo'] photographer and found out that many an angmo/singaporean girl couple have had their wedding reception at the Raffles; great, now we feel like we're such a cliche.

oh well, who cares. the bar & billiard room offers a relaxed, casual atmosphere that we want our wedding to have. who cares if all the expats in singapore have done the same. ours will be different. besides the cliche glam of the raffles, we've also got the Smith & Jones coming for dinner. :)

*kiasu - local (singapore, clearly!) colloquial term meaning, "afraid to lose out".