Weddings and Dramas

So a good friend of ours, F is getting married tomorrow. Congratulations, dear. Hope all will be wonderful.

Matt and I are cracking our heads (in a good way) to finalise all the paperwork and other wedding-related stuff.

The stuff that comes hand-in-hand with wedding preparations is... wait for it... THE DRAMA! I am surprised at how an itty-bitty detail can start a wildfire of misunderstandings, miscommunication and other misses. Matt and I are so glad we have each other. After all that is said and done, this is OUR wedding.

Got me thinking about the past when we were finalising the guest list. The list of people that have filled/touched/made brief contact with you and your life. So who to invite? Who not to invite? Won't we offend them? Do we care if we offend them?

I suppose the people of the past is important only to certain extent. Because what matters now is that yellow-bricked road that will lead you to eternity as husband and wife. I'm not saying we should disregard them or even discard the memory of them. I'm just saying that to dwell on the past, and sometimes wondering about those people, is unnecessary. I'm happy now. We're happy now. More than we ever imagined possible.

But what about the people who are still in contact with those from your past? Your old flame or fling? Will it be uncomfortable for them? Is it selfish of us to ignore that there is a possibility that we will stir some discomfort or to question their "loyalty"?

Drama, drama, drama...

xoxo,
Anis

Layers...

Good day I bequeath you, peasants!!! HAHAHAH! May you seek solace, and stumble over ambi-ance from within the drag, boundless infinitious shadow of the King!!!

Pardon do I beg, and humility do I offer.

Onward.

At this moment, one wishes to impress upon the land that are the participants, a tale. A tale of onions, of cakes, of minds and feelings, of good minus bad, of you and me. A tale of layers.

One has come into contact with this term, this denyut- denyut particle of particles not too long ago. In one occasion, one found out that to marry is strictly NON- Personnel. Rather, it's more of a joint Chiefs of Staff sort of endeavour.

Consider.

WE are the ones who are getting married, yet others are contributing towards this insyaAllah blessed event. WE are this! and WE are that!, and at the end of the day, one wonders whether all parties may be well- served simply by one smoothly describing how their ideas, their hints , their innuendos are ill- advised, ill- informed and ill- received.

All of a sudden, one find that this tale is, and cannot be, complete. One will delve into this at a later date, God -Willing.

Utmost care, participants. Remember, just as two teaspoons' worth of sugar can sweeten almost any dish, so to can two seconds worth of a smile can brighten up any dull day. Smile, and indeed, the world may smile with you. A lot better than THE WORLD NOT SMILING WITH YOU, isn't it?

Matthekage

Engagement; Matt & Anis - December 15th, 2007

What a wonderful and blessed day. InsyaAllah, there'll be more to come.

xoxo,

Matt & Anis

Here I am ....

Hail! All Hail!!! The One, The Only, Matthekage a.k.a. King is here, ready to grace your abysmal lives with my posting, one of many to come. Kiss my feet subjects, and revel in my glorious presence and bow to Your Superior!!!

NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAH2HAHAHAHHAHHIHIHIH!!!

Pardon the gloating. One feels more compelled to write wholeheartedly honest-like when one has been freed of self-love. Onward.

I am here(finally ;)) to give participants MY take of how my life becomes TRULY life once My Soulmate, ALisa has been found, has been gauged, and has been met with utmost love.

Alhamdulillah, we are safely (and blessedly) engaged. Oh, what a day!!! A day that makes a man a man. A day that makes a man a man, simply by humbling himself before God and His infinite Bounties (much like how a blue bee transforms into the orangest bee you could ever see, thanks be to just a drop of honey from the purest flower).

Onward.

Now, the wedding is our top priority.

FEED my BACK. Put it IN my FO. Want more? No hal. Let me know.

Until next time participants....

Remember, life begins not when you meet the love of your life, but rather when you realise that the breath you breathe comes from the love of your life.

Matthekage

Forms, forms and more forms

Must be wondering why I'm the only one writing all the entries. Haha. In due time, Matt will post an entry or two.

Anyways, good news for Matt and myself. Our official engagement will take place, insyaAllah on the 15th of December 2007. I am so giddy I could puke. :) Now comes the heavy preparations and the intense cracking of the brains to think of wonderful stuff to get for the hantaran. Well, usually, when in doubt, go with food. But we want to get something non-commercial, like Star Wars books and/or socks. :D The planning and scouting for items is simply exciting. I speak for Matt and myself when I say we love it.

But the thing that is making me cranky is all the forms that you have to fill and get processed in order to get married.

So yeah. More running around chasing signatures next week. Hope we don't get lost. I may sound like I'm complaining, but we are getting married and we are that damn excited. Ranting is more like it, but never complaining. In March, insyaAllah, I am marrying the most wonderful man ever. What's a little running around when in March, I will be his wife.

Simply euphoric,
Matt's wife-to-be

The First Step is done

Before the Pre-marriage course that Matt and I went to last weekend, we thought we knew what to do/the steps to take to get married. We were so wrong.

The amount of paperwork that goes into getting married is, shall I say, ridiculous. Headache la. First the bridegroom has to attain an approval letter (which allows one to get married, without it getting married is impossible). After attaining the approval letter, only then can the bride start her process of attaining her approval letter. All must be done within a month or three months, depending on which state you live in or which address is stated in your ID. Havoc!

Didn't get the opportunity to take alot of pictures because both of us were really using all of our energies to stay awake. We had to listen to talks that took up 2-3 hours straight. Thank goodness we're from the University. Stuff like ILTRA/LeadTrain and Taaruf Week really prepared us for events like these. :)

Day One at the course and the next is the second day at the course. Took pictures as something to pass the time during intervals.

Alhamdulillah, this first step is done. InsyaAllah this week, we both can start going to the Pejabat Agam to pick up our forms and the names of the Imam Jurunikah that will wed us. I am euphoric.

So excited,

Anis

The Pre-Marriage Course

In the country, to attend a pre-marriage course is a pre-requisite before getting married. The course somewhat explains the how-to in marriages as well as the procedures of filling in forms, looking for the perfect witness, etc. and all this takes two (2) days.

Today will be the first day of our pre-marriage course. We registered about a month ago at a supposedly reknowned place in Bangsar. AR and NH went there for their pre-marriage course, so we thought we'd give it a shot. Hopefully there's more to say in the next post after we're done with the course.

It's so exciting. Maybe some would question, "What's so exciting about a course?" Well, to us, this is our first step towards starting our lives as husband and wife. And it's really, really exhilirating.

Love,
Matt & Nis

The Reason

Wow. This is it. We are getting married.

So, I decided that it'd be fun to document our journey from being strangers to friends, from friends to Dearests and moving on to marital bliss. More than a thousand and one things to fill in in here.

InsyaAllah there'll be accounts by Matt and myself, so there are two point-of-views here. I am so excited I am (almost) literally bouncing off the walls.

Love,
Nis