Phew!

What a relief that much has been acomplished over the past two days. Although we took Friday off, we were both up and about early in the morning attending to our respective chores and tasks. Off went Jo to her medical checkup which came with a scrumptious breakfast while Anderson braved the heat in an attempt to clean up what was still left of our garden.

The afternoon portion was spent meeting our printer in what we would say was our quickest and briefest wedding appointment, ordering our sofa set (only to discover that material prices had gone up!) and trying to settle Jo's credit card validation and activation. It wasn't till about four in the evening that we actually had time to sit down and fill our tummies with sourdough sandwiches and ice cream!

More cleaning and packing ensued for Anderson, as Jo went for her first gown fitting at White & Lacy. Excited as she was that her gown was finally ready to be worn, she was a little afraid at the same time, not knowing what to expect or whether she would like how it turned out. Of course, her worrying was uncalled for as the gown was how she had envisioned it to be, having designed it based on several pictures she had come across in a bridal magazine :)

With that in check and the next fitting appointment set, Jo set off to her makeup artist's place to be dolled up and powdered. It was weird looking at the pictures taken of her, as she herself found it difficult to believe that the person in the pictures were that of her!

Since it would have been a waste to remove the makeup right away, we went for an early celebration of Jo's birthday. We were half expecting most places to be packed on a Friday night but were pleasantly surprised to find the One Bangsar strip relatively empty. And so, the remainder of the evening was spent savouring a plate of dips, grilled lamb and chicken served with couscous before we turned in for the night.

We headed over to the hotel the next morning after squeezing in a McDonald's breakfast on-the-go and spent a good three hours finalising our dinner requirements and catching up with our super-chatty contact person ;) Imagine our relief when we managed to reduce the number of tables to a more manageable figure without so much of a fuss. And to think that we had been so worried about how we were going to fulfill the 55 tables we had initally booked!

Next stop: florist. Jo is still hoping to get her burgundy callas and is praying hard that the florist will be able to import them in. Failing which, she'll have to make do with the locally grown ones and be content with their smaller size and common colour. On the consolation, we have much to thank the florist for given the flexible payment terms and that no deposit was required of us :)