Hafeez and Vanessa's Wedding

Shortly after Vanessa's hens night , it was her actual day wedding. 

Got to wake up at 5 plus am to get ready to head to the west for gate crash. She stays just a 5 mins walk from my parents place though, too bad I've already moved out of the west :( That morning Esther came over to fetch me so I'm very thankful for that, no worries for not being able to find a cab and getting late for preparing the gate crash. 

#selfie while in the lift going down to get breakfast for the ladies and at the same time wait for Esther to arrive :)

Yes it's team Fiona(from shrek) for us that day (hence the plaited hair lol) because of the bridesmaid dress that look so much like what Princess Fiona wore. -_-'  

Breakfast for the ladies.. 

We reached Vanessa's place and had our breakfast before starting to prepare for the gate crash.. 

The usual sour, sweet, bitter and spicy station all ready..

#welfie before the groom and brothers arrive 

We waited quite awhile for the groom and brothers to arrive because there was some miscommunication. We didnt even know they arrived because we can't hear the car horn. They were slightly late due to that hence we were behind schedule. In the end, ee had to rush through the games.

Them challenging the first station. It looks like a buffet spread for them though lol.

This is the 2nd game and I totally forgot what word they trying to form already haha! It was quite chaotic as there were quite a number of them squeezing at that limited space..

Alright the last station before the groom go in to fetch his bride.. That is to sign the 10 promises requested by the bride. 

A group pic before we set off to the hotel

After the gate crash, we proceed to the hotel for their Nikah Ceremony. We went to set up the reception area first. It didn't take us too long since it's a simple decoration.

All done within 10 mins with 4 pairs of hands. 

We went up to find the bride while she's getting ready for the Nikah Ceremony. We had sometime to rest/washup before going down for the ceremony.  Before she left, we took another photo again.

The Nikah Ceremony starts around 11am (can't really remember the exact timing) and lasted for probably for half hour.

Officially man and wife now :)

We had a chance to take a full #ootd shot in our princess Fiona dress haha! It's like one of the highlights of the wedding is us wearing this dress lol.

A group shot with the couple before they go up to change again to welcome the guests. By then guests(from the groom side) have already start arriving.

We never fail to have this classic photo for all our weddings! 

One last photo before we go home to get ready for the wedding dinner..

I manage to have a quick nap of 1/2 hour before getting ready to go out again. We have to help out for the tea ceremony hence all of us got to reach earlier. 

No more princess fiona look haha! #finally

Loving the lace details of the dress 

#OOTD taken with this nice swimming pool background. Photo credits to Esther 

The wedding cake that Jase from Sugar By J made 

The couple took photo with the beautiful cake before the tea ceremony commence.

Anyway the wedding dinner started around 7 plus. It's a buffet event so when the emcee cue the guests to take their food, they may proceed.

The first march in

The 2nd march in

One last group photo before we left.

All of us have lots of feedback for the hotel which we eventually asked Vanessa to feedback to her hotel coordinator.

Here are what I could remember after 4 months..

1) The hotel coordinator was mostly nowhere to be found. No idea where he is, but it seems like he's helping out at the hotel buffet restaurant instead. 

2) The last minute change of table arrangement which resulted in us(bridesmaid) redo-ing the seating arrangement

3) We have to placed the table number on the table ourselves, they only bring to us after we requeste -_-" 

4) There were no knife provided during the cake cutting ceremony and 1 of the bridesmaid have to dash out to find the waiter for it. (Why can't they just place it by the side of the cake?)

5) There were not much waiter/waitress situated inside the banquet hall. So if you were to look for help, one have to walk out to where the food is. 

6) The worse part is, we have to be the door ushers to 'open' the door for the couple to walk in. Hotel coordinator and everywhere else is no where to be found.

7) In short, we are 'bao-ka-liao' for this wedding. For the 2nd march in, the emcee (which is our friend too) cue us to cue the couple to walk in. They were waiting outside so once the video is almost done playing and the 2nd march in song is playing, we (who so just nice sit so near to the door) cue the couple to walk in. Aren't all this suppose to be done by the hotel coordinator? 

To be honest, I think none of us attended such a bad service wedding event. Glad that we brace through it despite the N number of hiccups. The wedding ended around 9 plus which was early for a wedding dinner so all of us could get home to rest for work the very next day.

Ending this post with a meaningful photo..

One by one walking down the aisle as we have found our life time partner :) 

Hereby wishing Vanessa a life time of happiness with Hafeez and a blissful marriage ahead!