Saturday, March 25, 2017

Another milestone. Another step forward.

A few weeks back, I started to toy with the idea of setting up a wordpress website myself for to get myself more committed on developing the financial aspects of my life. And after brainstorming some names and some discussion with Dearest, I went on to set it up on last Wednesday night!

It's something new for me. Usually, I would just go for the free and convenient choice, like this blogspot. haha.. but I would want endeavor to be more professional, so I decided to go for wordpress, with my own domain name. 

The contents that I will be working on that financial blog, would be the things that are relevant to my current life trajectory, like savings account, cpf, hdb loan, etc. I'm not sure how things will go, or whether would I have enough contents (and motivation) to keep that blog going, but I think it's good to just try it out first! I believe those contents are worth sharing, and they would benefit those who come across. 

As a young adult in Singapore, it's not easy earning money while trying to save up for future plans (e.g. wedding, house, family), and also preparing to support our aging parents. All these, and the desire to gain financial independence, is pushing me more and more as I approach my 30 years of living.

Monday, March 6, 2017

Wedding Plan - Part 4


Yes~! After around 2 months+ worth of researching and visiting, we have finally settled on which bridal studio to go with!

Our criteria was fairly straightforward:

  • Good service
  • Good rapport with the sales personnel and the people who we will interact with most
  • Affordable pricing (Dearest did a lot of research on this)
  • All soft copies of pre wedding shoot returned
  • Suitable gowns
And it seems that Kelly's Bridal fit the bill quite nicely. Not only that their service was among the top that we have experienced so far from around 5 or 6 places, but Dearest also had a good interaction with them. The price was really one of more affordable ones that we have found so far, and Dearest like their gowns a lot. And so, on our 2nd visit to Kelly's Bridal last sat, we have officially placed our deposit. WooHoo~!

Along with that, we also confirmed Leftear photography as our Actual Day Photography, and we also confirmed our Pre Wedding Shoot Photography, but I can't remember the actual. It's either happycouplepeople, or happypeoplecouple, or something along this line. Dearest really liked their work, and we're going with them.

What's left is to decide who to be our videographer on the actual day. We have limited our choices down to two, and will be meeting them soon~

In addition, we recently found out from the HDB website that our BTO completion date got pushed forward again. So we will be receiving our keys in this year, Q3! That's like another 3 to 6 months! It's coming so fast, we feel like we need to catch our breath with all these wedding and renovation stuff coming along.

At least we are starting early on all these things. And I'm glad she pushed us to quickly settle all these stuff. haha.. If it was all on me, I think I would just be starting to plan things now only.