Hi Petrina and Gin!
Petrina: actually i'm thinking more toward giving every lady a carnation cos every lady is made to be a mother and they should be appreciated whether they are a mum already or not. And i wanna pay tribute to my mum and my husband's mum. We are not born very rich but our mums tried to give us the best such that now we are successful people. One thing that prompted me to do this is becos i'm very very close to my mum and my hubby too. i know that my mum went thru a lot to bring my sis and i up cos my dad had a stroke when i was two years old and altho' he recovered almost 100% now, my mum had to bear and tolerate all the "white eyes" from my relatives when i was young esp. she gave birth to two girls. I remembered how all my families lived together and my mum was the one who had to cook, wash and do everything while my aunts and aunts-in-laws just sit around. I had so much admiration for my mum that i dun mind giving her the limelight. I may even wanna do a short clip of my mum and my hubby's mum but still dunno how. Anyway, the thing that confirm must have are the carnations (i know it's ex at that period but i hope to get a cheaper rate thru my cousin cos she used to be a florist and is part of the ikebana club in spore so i hope she can have cheap lobang for flowers) and my hubby's parents and my parents march in before us. how do u find it?
Gin: hmm.. actually, in my opinion, i think the guests wun be so bothered abt the confusion and all. my cousin's wedding was at lei garden at orchard plaza, great place great food but they still open up the place for other people. But it's something that no one remembers (until i thot about what happens if there should be two weddings). what i rem was how happy the bride and groom looked when they walked down the aisle, beaming in bliss and happiness and the food (thumbs-up!). Of cos there were other people and it was quite noisy but it din bother me a bit nor the rest of my family. we commented on the food, the happy couple. I think just put it in perspective, i dun think the guests will mind as long as they end up at the right place in the end and as for those who walked wrongly, i think they will know to just say that they are at the wrong place.
let me give you another example. I was at the grassroots club a few months back as i was receeing gim tim restaurant there. on that day, there was a wedding at the restaurant (3rd floor) and another one at the function room (first floor) and during the short period of time that we were there, we already saw quite a lot of people going to the wrong wedding! There were like two big posters at the lobby stating who's wedding at where yet there are still people following the wrong crowd to the wrong place. But once they saw that there was no one they recognise at the wrong place, they will look for the correct place.
Gin, just relax and dun worry so much. if there should be two weddings, just make sure that you have someone whom everyone knows standing outside to tell people that that's ur wedding or put up a big big poster of u and ur hubby's picture.
that's what i'm going to do leh. Cos if farrer park has two weddings (i hope not), the guests will enter from two different doors, one at the front and one at the back and people who drive will tend to enter from the back (cos that's near the carpark door) and those who take mrt will tend to enter from the front. I'm going to ask my first aunt, my mum, my dad and my sis and bro-in-law to stand at the front door (cos i'm taking the bigger ballroom) to "jagar" the people and some frens (who are like auntie- and uncle-killers to be the ushers) and on top of that, i will do up a big big poster and mount on an easel at the door so even my frens (like colleagues and all), who dunno my parents and never seen my hubby, will also know that that's my wedding. and of cos, tell everyone again and again that enter from the front door. Good?