Avoid Wedding Dress Disaster

bestbridalprices.jpgMy friend, Mary, and I were chatting last night and she mentioned that she just got married. I couldn’t believe my ears! I know she has a boyfriend but I wasn’t expecting that they’d get married that soon. She sounded so happy all throughout our voice chat and I can tell that she’s still in cloud nine. She showed me some of her wedding pictures and I was like… wow! The wedding looks so lovely. Perfect setting, perfect wedding dresses, and perfect weather. I told her that she’s lucky to have it all but then she told me that it seems to be perfect and it is actually almost perfect but there was one problem. All bridesmaid dresses were done perfectly but her wedding gown was not done according to how she likes it. She told me she cried about it but she was not able to do anything anymore because they didn’t have that much time. To me her wedding dress is not looking bad at all but of course, I understand that every bride wants it to be done perfectly according to how she likes it.

After “rushing”, two mistakes one can commit when planning the wedding are “not being resourceful” and “not having alternatives”. You should give yourself  ample time before the wedding date and you should not limit yourself to only one option because there are a lot of ways to get wedding ideas, wedding services and bridal dresses. The internet is always a good place to start and websites such BestBridalPrices.com should be checked before deciding on what wedding gown to buy. At BestBridalPrices.com, you’ll have a wider option on wedding dresses from different designers. You’ll find the most enchanting wedding gowns from the simplest o the most extravagant design.s Just always remember that the key to the perfect wedding is enough time for the preparations and always have alternatives.

Home Alone

It’s utterly boring here. Marcus is away in a business trip for a week or two and it sucks. The longest time we haven´t seen each other since we were married was I think 10 days. That was when I went home to the Philippines earlier than him so I can spend longer time with my mom and sisters. It was already bad then even if I was with my family… now I am alone so it´s worse and it looks like we won´t see each other for more than 10 days. :(

When he told me there´s a business trip he should go to, my first reaction was… ok. I thought it shouldn´t be that bad. I can spend this time all to myself and I can stay longer in front of my computer. :D But now that he is not here, it doesn´t feel nice. I don´t know how to explain it but I am just so used to having him around even if he sometimes bothers me with what I am doing. He walks around the house and he talks to me about some random thing when he knows I am focused on something like blogging, reading, studying, etc.

He wanted to take me with him but I can´t miss two weeks of school and Shenyang does not particularly excite me. We´ve been there last spring and we didn´t like it. I pity him that he needed to go there. I hope he can come home earlier than two weeks because I really miss him already even if he just went there this morning.

1st Wedding Anniversary Gift

Ten months ago, we got married so that means in two months, we’ll have our first year anniversary and being the nice wife that I am (haha), I am already thinking of what I could give Marcus on our first wedding anniversary.

red-shoe.jpgI am not the kind to give expensive gifts. For Marcus, I think the most expensive gift I ever gave to him is the Nikon camera flash. Normally, I give something that is intimate and personal. I won’t go into details now but just to give you an idea… ummm…in one occasion, I gave him a pair of red 6 inch high heeled shoes—the strappy kind. It wasn’t for him to wear, It was for me (*wink).

For our first year wedding anniversary, I am thinking of giving him a lap dance. How’s that? Haha. I wish I can make a lap dance but maybe not this time because I am not so comfortable with my body right now. I was 7 kilos overweight two months ago and I don’t think I can shed the extra 5 kilos before October plus he must be EXTRA nice to get a lap dance (haha) so I have to think of something else.

Suggestions, anyone?

Married Guys Have Lower Alcohol Tolerance

Marcus got drunk last night and that’s the very reason why I can blog today—a Saturday. A day we dedicated for us. A day supposedly spent with just the two of us. No works, no friends, no family calls. It’s OUR day of the week. Normally, I would feel incredibly guilty if I sit in front of my computer on a Saturday…but not today.

Marcus is there lying on the bed incredibly afraid to move because a slight movement makes him feel that he’s going to throw up. It’s almost 3:00 in the afternoon and he hasn’t eaten yet. He said it’s no use because he can’t contain the food that long anyhow. So yeah ok, being the good wife that I am, I am leaving him in peace. Haha.

I am very sure, he got 3 beers and 1 shot of Ouzo (I didn’t drink alcocholic drinks last night so I was not “too drunk” to know how many he had) but he looks and acts like he drank a whole bottle of vodka. This is amusing me so much. My husband is a changed man. He’s not used to alcoholic drinks anymore. Haha. That is what happens when guys get married.

To Shanghai Please

Like I tweeted last Saturday, my husband and I went out. We intended to buy some house stuff. Things that we can bring to Europe because if we are moving to Austria, there are a number of things we’ll surely need and because of the extreme prices in Europe, we thought we might be able to spend less if we buy these things here in China then ship them later to Austria.

So we went to one of those big House and Home stores and we saw some really nice things like jars, plates, kitchen wares, beddings, etc. I wanted to buy a lot but we realized that we are not sure where to go yet. I mean, there is a possibility that we are going to live in Shanghai for another two years after Marcus’ contract here in Changchun and if that happens, we will not need anything more than what we already have. After two hours of roaming around the store, we decided to wait another week for any news about his application to work in Shanghai. I really do hope that it would be Shanghai for the mean time and not Wien.

We still did some shopping though, I bought a nice bag (*wink). Then we spend the evening in a nice Japanese restaurant having dinner and getting drunk.

Random Thoughts on the Go

I am sitting right here in Lei Cafe Beijing Airport having coffee and updating my blog. I have to use the internet as much as I can now because for sure, I won’t have a very generous internet connection when I get home in our oh-so-remote town.

This is my view from right here.

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That is my flight right there and I have to check-in in a bit. Chinese New Year is not my favourite time of the year to travel because airports are crowded; flights are more expensive accommodations in hotels are more expensive as well. Hate it.

I am coming home empty handed. My three nephews will look at me and wonder why their aunt Vienna doesn’t have anything for them. I can imagine now that this will break my heart. See, I didn’t know until a few days ago that I will be going home to the Philippines. We were expecting to go there in March so I said ok from now until March, we have time to go to for a weekend in Beijing to do some shopping but unfortunately that didn’t happen. Marcus working schedule changed and so the rest followed. Nobody’s fault. I was feeling a little bit heavy-hearted last night about going home empty handed but Marcus said we will make it up to them when he gets there (he will follow in a few days).

I won’t be seeing my husband for a few days. This is our first time to be apart from each other since we got married. Would be very interesting how it will be. As for me, I miss him already.

Obligatory German Lessons

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Disaster or Success?

So far it is very much of a success. It’s not that I am waiting for it become disastrous but a lot of people are asking me if we are having problems with our marriage already. Haha. People are funny.

Anyway, I can honestly say that we are doing fine. If I am to think of it, one notable difference comparing now to when we were not yet married is that now we are more comfortable with each other. Another is that we are feeling more secured. It’s really a wonderful feeling to be married to my love—way more wonderful compared to when I was just living with him. Nyahaha. Now, I am getting mushy.

On to other things. So far, the most difficult (if you call this difficult) thing we are going through is deciding what to eat. I am an Asian, I love to eat rice. I can eat rice with anything. I feel that I cannot live a few days without rice. R is European. He likes bread. He eats bread with anything. He feels weak after a few days without eating bread. He doesn’t like Asian bread. Asian bread is sweet. He wants a bread that he can eat with meat. We live in China. In China, the rice is very good but in China, the bread is not good because it’s sweet. Therefore we make our own bread. R brought all the things needed to make bread from Europe. I make the bread. Some days R and I eat rice some days we eat bread. In this way, both are contented. But there are some days, I wouldn’t like to bake a bread but that’s cool because there’s pasta which R likes very much but which I (and most of the Filipinos) don’t consider a main dish. To me, it’s just a snack. I could go on and on this nonsense but I think you get what I mean. There are days that one has to give up his or her choice of food to give in to the other’s choice of food. I know it’s not a problem. It’s just another musing on this intercultural marriage thing.