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Here are some of the live video recordings of the wedding guests that evening at our wedding dinner.

My childhood friend, Yeong Lilian, and her adorable daughter join in the fun wedding video here

Mr & Mrs David Lo, wishes the newly wed couple in this video message

Our MC, Chelsia Ng looks so serious in this wedding video (compared to her bubbly funny personality on TV screen)

Gavin Foo translates popular chinese wedding wishes into English & it is quite entertaining! No wonder he’s in the events & entertainment industry.

Norhuda of CakesMalaysia.com (one of our coaching participants) video is at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6509521806669369080&hl=en

George of www.8OfficeFurniture.com (his wife is one of the most hardworking coaching participants) delivers a short & sweet wedding wish video at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2552340106831953203&hl=en

Myriam Oliveres from France, showers us with wedding greetings at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3323730893705389521&hl=en

Suppiah, the owner of the McCurry restaurants records his wedding wishes at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-873058519329676149&hl=en

James Chong, our financial planner who’s helped us invest in unit trusts and many other financial products, shares his views on http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8652912810268348984&hl=en

Shirley Leong enjoying the event at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5585105390525270221&hl=en

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Here are some photos of the cocktail reception we hosted last Saturday.

The first thing is to have the registration table. Check out the huge crowd lining up to register their attendance

- lists were divided by Alphabetical format as well as by Tables seating

As the bride & groom, do be prepared to snap lots of photos with guests, as this will allow us to greet them personally and capture our joyous moment with them on film.

The new wedding couple & friends. Harrace, Fione and Mr & Mrs David Lo, (who turned from a prospect client to close friends of the bride).

It’s wise to group the wedding guests by the different industries or network. For instance, reserve tables for friends of the mother of the bride or business partners.

My mom’s friends & my aunt (4th lady from the left). Some of them, were aunties & uncles i’ve seen since i was 5 years old, so i guess they were surprised to see how much i’ve really grown.

My father (3rd from the left) & his wide range of multi-racial friends. This is probably one of the few times you’ll ever catch my dad wearing a suit.

Mr & Mrs Teng, who has been our most supportive shareholder in eOneNet.com business since 2000. They came all the way from Singapore just to attend our wedding!

Some of our most valuable internet marketing coaching participants, Norhuda & daughter, Harrace & Myriam Oliveres from France.

And of course, our valued friends. Lilian & her husband, Eric and kids took the whole family to join our wedding. Lilian and I have been close buddies since 5 years old (we were in the same kindergarden).

Not missing out, were of course friends of my brother, Kevin. Can you guess which is my brother? He’s the cute guy, 2nd from the left.

This cocktail was from 6.28pm to 7.28pm, so that guests would have time to interact & take lots of photos. What did they do while waiting at the reception? Well, we actually gave them an instruction sheet, where they had to fulfill a few “tasks” at the event, after which they can be entitled to join the Grand Lucky Draw for amazing gifts, wines, and of course, CASH too!

Check out how excited these guests were to attend the wedding.

While browsing through the photos, we realised 1 item. We did not have a chance to take a family portrait! I wished i could have taken some photos with my family while i was wearing my custom made Margaret McCallum, swarovski crystal wedding gown. Did you notice that the design of the gown looked rather familiar? Yup, it’s in the logo of @ (to represent the Internet theme). Maybe i’ll have to arrange for another timing for our family photo session!

Our wedding dinner at Mandarin Oriental Kuala Lumpur with a cocktail reception at 6.28pm and i was surprised to hear that there were guests that arrived as early as 6 itself (at that point i was still doing my bridal make up & hair in the bridal suite).

Here is a photo of us with some of our guests :-

From left : Harrace’s mom (mother of the groom), Chelsia Ng (tv personality/celebrity & Miss Malaysia World), Harrace (the groom), Fione (me as the bride), and Kid Chan (who was actually a guest, but decided to bring in his camera too).

Our master of ceremony was Chelsia Ng , where eOneNet.com was managing her website, and being a personal friend, we knew how good she was as a MC.

When the time was right, guests were ushered into the ballroom and seated onto their respective tables, which were names of popular Websites, such as QQ.com (China’s most popular instant messaging system, even more popular than MSN Messenger), Amazon.com and of course our own range of sites like eOneNet.com

After the guests were seated down the lights for the ballroom lights were dimmed in preparation for the wedding march by the couple. You need to choose between total darkness or dimmed lights, so we choose the latter, as we would at least be able to see where we were going on the red carpet walkway.

Here is an animated photo of our wedding march.

On each table, flourescent light-up sticks (like neon glow lights) were placed so that guests could welcome the new couple, and party poppers were also placed. Upon reaching the stage, the huge party poppers were launched and there were lots of colours, and actions going on at the same time. Some wedding guests told me that it seemed more like a concert than a typical wedding dinner.
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They held their respective wedding on the same date - 9 June, 2007.

Congratulations to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and Datin Seri Jeanne Abdullah who tied the knot at his official residence at Seri Perdana yesterday!

I was so busy preparing for my wedding that I didn’t notice this piece of news until I spotted this on the front page of every newspaper in Malaysia, while I was having breakfast with Fione at M.O. So it was lucky we didn’t invite media to attend our wedding yesterday, otherwise we would be disappointed in not having media showed up. Originally, we planned to do so, but because we didn’t have time to plan for this, we couldn’t send out the invitations in time. Only one of the journalists from Tatler found out our wedding a few months ago and requested to attend. But a few days ago, he confirmed he couldn’t come due to some other “special event” popping up. So we now know what this “special event” was.

So in the future, whenever we celebrate the wedding anniversary, we will think of the Malaysia Prime Minister’s wedding anniversary!

Regards,
Harrace, the Happy Groom

A few weeks back, Malaysia’s New Straits Times featured our Hong Kong wedding news in a 3/4 page article. The article as published on 23 April 2007, entitled “With this Ring, I thee Web”, and we have placed this article copy on our press room section at http://eonenet.com/press/2007nst_wedding.htm

The wedding news coverage started with this paragraph:-
eOneNet.com’s chief executive officer Fione Tan and company co-founder Harrace Lau not only preach information and communication technology (ICT), but also live it.

The couple, who tied the knot in Hong Kong last month, held what they claimed was the first internet themed wedding reception in Asia. And they are planning to hold a similar reception for family and friends in Kuala Lumpur in June.

Read more about the newspaper coverage online in the url above. We’re looking forward to more media coverage on our wedding event in June, from not only newspaper, but bridal magazines and other media too.

We were thinking of what “skills” we could show off to our guests during our wedding, and we decided to entertain them with a dance. Through recommendation from our friend, Colbert, we found out about Salsa. Jeamie, the instructor from SalsaJay.com had a blog and was termed the Hottest Salsa Community in Malaysia.

Immediately after checking out their blog, Harrace booked us up for private training sessions with the instructors. We had our first salsa class in mid May for a 1 hour session. I was sick with flu that day, but the thought of being able to lose some weight drove me to attend the class no matter what.

Well, i had no prior training in dancing (i’ve got not much skills except being able to talk fast, haha) so it was rather intimidating. However, Jeamie was patient and actually a very fun salsa teacher, who was swaying, and swinging me like a “passionate lover”. I was blushing fast, (maybe i was just feeling hot from wearing too much clothes?) and wished that i too could be performing with so much confidence.

So, what is actually salsa? I did a search online and found some useful background about salsa on wikipedia. There were even instructions on the basic steps, and the turns. It seems that salsa was “spicy” in Spanish, and therefore there should be fast movements and each partner should be moving near to each other. Initially i would spin away (far far away) from my partner and then had to make BIG steps to walk back to my initial positions. I looked more like a robot and cannot seem to sway nor move my body to look as sensual or confident as the instructor.

I preferred the 1 to 1 sesssion compared to the huge class sessions as i had difficulties in catching the steps. Even in normal aerobics classes or other workout classes in the gym, i’m one of those that couldn’t seem to control both my hands & feet simultaneously. In total i only had time for 2 private one hour sessions so far, and i was fortunate that i can still remember the steps from day 1. Next week when i’m back in KL, i’ll be signing on for 2 more hours of private training which i hope after these 4 hours of intensive training, we’ll be able to graduate with flying colours.

The 2nd session had more fast moves and poses so i’m hoping that our wedding guests will be mesmerised with our salsa dance on June 9. As for losing weight from salsa, maybe i’m moving too slowly but i don’t seem to sweat during the workout so don’t expect that you will burn lots of calories off too.

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I’ve just gotten back to Malaysia and contacted my wedding venue - Mandarin Oriental Hotel KLCC to check on the wedding arrangements.

Have you got a theme for your wedding? Some of the popular wedding themes are beach themes, “colour” theme such as pink, gold, blue, garden themes, and more. I think it’s best to choose a wedding theme that matters to the bride & groom, rather than just following the wedding planners’ advice.

Therefore, you should be checking on the wedding venues beforehand, about what you need? If you want a Pool barbeque theme, but the hotel has a miserable or small swimming pool then you might consider another hotel venue.

For my wedding, we have the MAIN theme as the Internet Theme, so there would be High Tech gadgets and fun games. The other theme we liked was from the 183 Club movie “Prince turns into a Frog”, so we had cute frogs with crowns placed in different venues of the event too. For guests that attended the Hong Kong wedding earlier in March, can remember the Frog Prince banners, Frog with Computer eCards, and even our Banner Storyboard with our wedding photos, that can along with the frog images too.

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Since we will be having a Chinese menu for our Malaysia wedding dinner, we decided to opt for something different in Hong Kong. We had a spread of fusion Western & Asian food:-
* fresh oysters
* snow crab
* red shrimp
* sushi
* wild mushroom soup
* and more list of food choices

The dessert bar was absolutely divine with tiramisu, black forest, mango mousse cake, french pastries and more.

As we loved seafood, we ensured that there was a wide range of seafood dishes, and to add some Malaysian taste to it, we also had Nasi Briyani. The food of the event was prepared by the Royal Plaza Hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui.

Too be frank, as the bride & groom, we didn’t get much chance to eat, and only had 1 round of food. Wished to have eaten more!

Beverages served included fresh orange juice, red wine, white wine, and of course Moet & Chandon champagne. Here we are, with our wedding officiant, solicitor Bilan Mak.

As our guests were from all different parts of the world, including Algeria, Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong and more, we read out our marriage vows in 2 languages. The groom, Harrace read in Cantonese, while as the bride (who doesn’t read Chinese), i read mine in English.

Here we are posing with our marriage certificate

For my wedding gown, i had the bridal tiara, with the bridal veil. Pearl pieces with diamantes were the main jewelry worn with my Eric Choong bridal dress.

More photos will be coming out these couple of days, so check back soon.

Wow, i’ve just returned home from my wedding reception this evening. The past couple of days were hectic, rushing madly for last minute items. I still even had time to shop the whole day on Saturday & only came back home at 9pm, and less than 24 hours before my wedding today on Sunday.

More about the wedding event can be found on our Internet Marketing Blog - eOneNet.com

Apart from having wedding guests posting wedding wishes, live from the event (we had wireless wi-fis and 4 laptops just for this wedding dinner) via comments on the blog, guests also had a chance to sign in the event via video recordings.

I only managed to wear two gowns tonight:-
- my halterneck beaded wedding gown from Eric Choong
- gold champagne coloured A-Line evening gown from Beatrice Looi
Both of the designers are of course, among the Top 10 designers in Malaysia.

I’ll be posting more updates tomorrow and tips for planning your ultimate dream wedding after i get more beauty sleep.

During the recent HK Bridal exhibition in Wanchai, my fiancee, Harrace signed up for this bridal make up trial session, before we were to confirm the bridal make up services. Since it was near towards Chinese New Year, the roads were filled with cars, and of course we were late for the session. Originally, i booked the make up session at 7pm, but it took us nearly 45 minutes being stuck in the taxi, from Mongkok to Hunghom. The cab bill was also a huge HK$100.

Anyway, the bridal make up trial was to test whether i liked the make up and hairstyle designs of this make up artist. The price for testing the make up was HK$300 (for 2 hairstyles and 2 make up), and would be deducted from the bridal make up package if we signed up with them.

This make up artist was recommended by the other video and photography company that we had signed up at the exhibition early February. However, upon meeting the make up artist, i knew that this make up session is headed towards disaster. Here is a snapshot of the bridal make up and hair style.

From this photo shoot, it didn’t look so bad, but trust me, i know how a professional make up artist’s work should be like.
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