Behind the smiles
You know, last time when I read about how people lament about how stressful and difficult it is to plan their wedding, I would always think to myself; With proper planning and management skills, this shouldn't be a problem.
So from the day that I proposed to ah mi, I dedicated myself to plan a wedding that will be stress free, smooth and happy to the participants. I threw in all my project management skills into it, spreadsheets, task lists, target tracking documents were drafted, milestones were planned and scheduled and action items were tasked. In my mind, nothing should go wrong, but even the best laid plans will backfire.
In the past few blogs, we announced many items accomplished, even the mother of all difficulties, the flat, was settled. You guys must be thinking, hey, its really going quite smoothly leh. Well, it's not. We are having lots of problems, and they can be summarized using one word: Parents.
People who have gone through this will know what I am talking about.
We want this, parents say cannot.
We say we don't want to do something, parents also say cannot.
When parents say they want something, we cannot say cannot.
Parents say "Up to you two to plan lah", but it's written on the fine print that you cannot do this that this that, and you have to do this that this that.
In short, this is the gist of what we are facing now. On one hand, I would like to satisfy our parents requirements, but I would also want to have a wedding that we enjoy too. As of now, I cannot really say that I'm enjoying the process of planning the biggest day of our lives. There were a couple of times where I'm really tempted to ask my parents that who is the one getting married, but I chose to swallow it instead. *Explodes* It's really not easy to satisfy others. Sigh..
Hence now, I'm in a silent mode at home, where I choose to keep my trap shut, rather than risking to say anything inappropriate. And since I cannot talk at home, I choose to rant here. Wahahaha.. So to those who already went through this, now I understand. To those who will be going to go through this process in the future, read up and prepare yourself. :P
Pete out.
So from the day that I proposed to ah mi, I dedicated myself to plan a wedding that will be stress free, smooth and happy to the participants. I threw in all my project management skills into it, spreadsheets, task lists, target tracking documents were drafted, milestones were planned and scheduled and action items were tasked. In my mind, nothing should go wrong, but even the best laid plans will backfire.
In the past few blogs, we announced many items accomplished, even the mother of all difficulties, the flat, was settled. You guys must be thinking, hey, its really going quite smoothly leh. Well, it's not. We are having lots of problems, and they can be summarized using one word: Parents.
People who have gone through this will know what I am talking about.
We want this, parents say cannot.
We say we don't want to do something, parents also say cannot.
When parents say they want something, we cannot say cannot.
Parents say "Up to you two to plan lah", but it's written on the fine print that you cannot do this that this that, and you have to do this that this that.
In short, this is the gist of what we are facing now. On one hand, I would like to satisfy our parents requirements, but I would also want to have a wedding that we enjoy too. As of now, I cannot really say that I'm enjoying the process of planning the biggest day of our lives. There were a couple of times where I'm really tempted to ask my parents that who is the one getting married, but I chose to swallow it instead. *Explodes* It's really not easy to satisfy others. Sigh..
Hence now, I'm in a silent mode at home, where I choose to keep my trap shut, rather than risking to say anything inappropriate. And since I cannot talk at home, I choose to rant here. Wahahaha.. So to those who already went through this, now I understand. To those who will be going to go through this process in the future, read up and prepare yourself. :P
Pete out.
Labels: Rants, Wedding plans
posted by Peter at
8:03 PM
2 Comments:
how true! :P
haha thought the fine print part was funny. i know its tough but ultimately its you and my sis thats gettin married. just show them you consider their opinions and advice but dont take them if its not making you both happy. they just wanna be a part of the wedding plan. so just humour them alil. ahah
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