Of veils and rings...
Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue"Something old" symbolizes continuity with the bride's family and the past. "Something new" means optimism and hope for the bride's new life ahead. "Something borrowed" is usually an item from a happily married friend or family member, whose good fortune in marriage is supposed to carry over to the new bride. The borrowed item also reminds the bride that she can depend on her friends and family. "Something blue" is the symbol of faithfulness and loyalty.
Source: http://ask.yahoo.com/20031027.html
A tradition worthwhile carrying on...as you read many things out there...friends get taken forgranted as the wedding band is slipped onto the finger.
Because as we all know...the wedding day is about them...not you.
So, a bridemaid's job is as many say the most challenging ever...
1. Bridal magazine galore
2. Venue seeking and emailing and contacting
3. Bridesmaid's dress
4. Wax, pluck, hair do and dress up the day before
5. Make-up and early morning
6. Driver to family and friends while trying not to ram into another car manuvering the uncomfortable dress
7. At the receiving end of snapping and angry remarks
8. Running after a large dress
But it doesn't end there...
There is the holding the dress up to help her pee.....and even helping her dress in the morning and seeing things you just don't want to see at 7am in the morning.
Things no one else sees and no one else realises. A job much more than its mere description.
However, you see your friend's best day and get a nice little thank you card.
Ever felt so loved? You answer that for me.....
I'm cupid!?
I think I am starting to write bullshit all over again. Going back to uni makes your brain mushy and unusable.
Having been there watching two couples from their first meeting/date to walking down an aisle is a termendously wonderful thing. I think anyway.
The first one...I cried tears watching their wedding video and held back the sobs as I told her she looked beautiful in her gown. My best friend....meeting this handsome man in a bar then falling in love so wonderfully.
The second one...I remember the hilarious laughing I was doing when I met him for the first time. I knew him from somewhere else. But apparently blind dates do end up in wedding bells. Well, they havent walked down the aisle yet but 3 weeks down the track they will with another 2 weddings on the way.
These two people have been able to be together despite all the odds....despite all the myths your mother tells you on where NOT to meet men...blind dates and pubs.....so the only one common factor is....ME?
Is this the reason why I have so few friends? Cuz I cupid them into commitment and coupledom?
Haha...oh well....you know who is next then right......
But then again I might be wrong....just too much dreaming.....or meeting people just at the right times.....or perhaps I was cupid in another life time.....
We will never know.....
When is the age?
When was it the proper age to settle down?
My grandma's time would most probably be that...by my age I would be married to a nice Chinese man loaded up with 4-10 kids.
My mom's time...more liberal.....careers came first....so by my age I would be still single or just married. Tho I must say, being single at her time at my age would be horrendous...all the "lou ku poh" (read: old maid) sneers would really wreck my nerves.
Now, this time and age...as extreme as everything is...so is the settling age. Young lovers marrying at age 18 to busy,i-have-no-time-for-such-things women losing their virginity at 40 to their first loves. Regardless of which way it goes, no one cares which age you get married...or if you ever do....except the oldies from you previous generation. The mom who is worried you would get old alone. The dad who thinks you need someone to protect you. Or the grandma who thinks you are ferrocious for dragging in a different man each family dinner party. But all this nagging so far has not dampened the free spirit of choice.
Me? Watching one wedding in progress scares the living begivies out of me. All the hassle just to tie the knot? Way over my league. Tho I would say it would be a fun career move as a wedding planner but the prospects of it too hard to comprehend.
However, at the end, we will never know til we arrive there...right?
