The Making of Our Wedding

I was quite nervous about today. Firstly, we had an appointment to meet Father Philip for our prenuptial enquiry. Next was an appointment with the bridal shop to choose our wedding photos.

When we got to the church, Ray realised that he had left the documents at home. We saw Father anyway and decided to schedule for another time. We left and headed to the bridal appointment.

We arrived at the bridal shop at 11a.m. The night before, I was quite anxious about this and even dreamt of it. I was worried that I'd not like the photos because of how I would look with make-up. I never wear any and don't even own a lipstick.

The girl at the shop made us tea and we waited while she downloaded our photos into the Mac. Then we were seated and she proceeded to show us all the photos in a slideshow with Minuet in G playing in the background. Well, I'm glad to say at first glance I didn't wince at myself and I actually thought the majority of them look nice.

The slideshow ended and now we were given all the time we need to pick and choose. Our starting point was 171 pictures. At first Ray and I were quite optimistic thinking that we will not be sucked into buying the whole lot. So we begin eliminating right away. By the time we were done with our 1st round elimination, we had around 120 pictures.

We started our 2nd round elimination and that's when the girl came with a pot of tea instead of our initial one cup each. She must have seen enough to know that we won't be done anytime soon. When we finished round 2 and 3, we ended up with 97 photos.

Now we did some calculation and decided to negotiate to purchase the extra photos we had chosen. This was when things got a little heated between us and the girl who must've assumed we printed money. We were quoted RM2,000 for the extras to be printed into albums! Even if we didn't print them and just want the softcopy, it cost us RM50 per picture. It was ridiculous.

So off we headed back to the Mac and decided to trim our selection further. After a long time, we eventually ended up with 67 pictures. This was the last cut. By now, the girl at the shop knew that we are capable of cutting down more and more so she offered to let us purchase all the 171 pictures with editing thrown in for RM1,150. But the offer came too late as we were already happy with our trimmed selection and wanted to stick to it and not pay anything more.

By the time we were finished with the bridal shop, it was almost 5p.m. Couldn't believe we spent close to 6 hours just to choose the photos, and we didn't even have lunch! But most importantly, both of us are happy with the pictures and I can sleep fitfully tonight.