On the 25th of July, Flo’s birthday, instead of doing the annual hire-a-stripper/take-elephant-rides, we shot for Louanna & Dennis’ wedding.



If you’re wondering why their names sound so familiar, it’s because they’re celebrities who have outdoor jacuzzis in their suite. (Yes i’m jealous, so what?) Actually, no, it’s because they were the very same people who housed, fed and did our laundry for us when we visited Australia.



When we first met Louanna, we knew for sure she was on-the-go, very efficient, she gets things done and she’s extremely meticulous and organized. But most importantly, she gets us. (Ya, like we’re so difficult to understand) A very enjoyable meeting later, we parted, agreeing that we’ll shamelessly crash at her place in Gold Coast for a week. And that’s when we met Dennis. Well, in short, Dennis loves food, wears ratty tshirts and throws his head back when he laughs. We had fantastic memories of our stay at their place, especially this: mountains of prawns which we couldn’t finish so Dennis swapped it for a haircut from his neighbor.



Dennis told us, what he loves best about Louanna is her efficiency. I’d like to add on that besides us loving your efficiency, Lou, we also love your food, your motherly-ness, the way you roll your eyes and the way you lovingly look at Dennis when he’s about to say something embarrassing or eat more food. You’re a wonderful person with a great sense of humor. The only thing we might have a little hesitancy towards would be your 20-year old pillow… (don’t ask, people, don’t ask).



And yes, since we’re on this, Dennis, we love you too. Your strange sense of humor, your mumbling incoherence and so on. But no, really, we enjoy you so much because of your willingness to share (stories, food, stories about food) and your kind easy-going openness. You and Louanna make a great pair and we can’t get enough of the energy you guys have together.



Thanks for the company, fun, and friendship. One of the many reasons why Flo and I love weddings so much — being able to create friendships, hopefully lasting ones, with the kind of people we enjoy.



And right now, I’m so overwhelmed by the fact that we won’t be seeing Louanna and Dennis for a long time, I can’t write anymore. (-sobs exaggeratedly) We’ll be putting up their Actual Day Express Highlights, and the Pre-wedding video from their photoshoot in Australia, as soon as I become less lazy. I promise! But for now, a photo of the couple from Chris Woon:




-From the cats who enjoyed 25th of July 2009.

Felicia & Ian are a lot of things — they’re lawyers, rich, smart, kind of crazy (maybe only Felicia), have i mentioned rich? oh yeah, and felicia is flo’s longest friend (they’ve known each other since secondary school). and since friends are all obligated to use our services or we’ll not attend their weddings (kidding, don’t worry), flo had been kancheong about fel’s express highlights a longggggg time ago, way before i even knew what kancheong was.



so came the end of dec & then i realised how horribly close we were to fel’s wedding date. actually, everyone was, friends came from msia, uk and godknowswhere in preparation for the big date & it was quite mad. (ask flo, nicely so you won’t get yelled at, how many times she has been to the airport for the last one week) but since we cats love mad rushes, we happily became part of it & promptly got into everyone’s way (especially fel’s bro, haohao, who trashed us at chess about 4 times but that’s another story to tell..)



the concept of this video was thought up long ago (ya we’re concept cats) & flo chose the song.. which also means that if you trust us enough, we’re actually born musicians too (kidding).



so it was great, hanging out with flo’s friends, livestudios was there so we took crazy photos, kelvin koh did the photos, and there were trees and flowers (courtesy of heaven’s gift) and all sorts of things on our tables — which means, we had absolutely no space to eat our food (st regis serves really good food by the way). so, it was grand, very emotional and everyone looked gorgeous. i bet flo felt completely out of place sitting at a table, and not the one holding a camera. but we had melvin (redhatmedia) & chris woon

covering for us that night so we could enjoy our dinner.



so i collected the tapes at church, came back & started editing but i think the pressure must have surmounted so when flo came back after shooting lunch, i burst into tears and thought that was it, i was going to be terrible.. but you have to see for yourself.

(videos removed due to bandwidth constraints. please contact carrie@meoworks.com.sg to watch the videos)



love,
carrie
pp/s: st regis has a ridiculously old dvd player. -.-
p/s: i’m sure flo will have a lot to add, so please be nice & read whatever she has to say okay?



(flo you can write your story here)
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there r currently too many thoughts swirling around in my head to make this a coherent post. especially since Fel’s the 1st of my good friends to get married in 2009.



whenever we (Shey, Ha and CL included) meet, we would always bring along our current partners. so it came as a surprise when Fel told us that she was going to marry Ian, a guy, whom we had never met b4 as he was working in London then. so needless to say, we were unable to suss out what sort of man/marriage our friend was getting herself into. but after listening to Ian’s moving speech which was made during dinner, I realised that Fel’s one lucky girl. (you’ll have to watch the completed mtv for ian’s speech as i’m not gonna paraphrase what he said.)



on the 3rd, everyone was a little out of sorts. Shey, Ha and CL seemed to be doing their darnest best to get out of Fel’s way. It was like being in the same room with Fel was a big NO-NO. (yes, I had tried getting them to talk to Fel so that I may capture more expressive shots. and yes, I’m work focused lidat.) Shey claimed that her subdue-ness was due to a serious bout of diarrhoea but i secretly suspect that she was trying her best to get a grip on her emotions. it was only when dinner ended (at 1am) did Shey and CL let their emotions go (maybe the alcohol had a part to play too). CL was sobbing on the cab home. And as for me…. -grin.



i guess, doing Fel’s video’s the best thing i had ever done for her.
i mean i had been a horrible housemate, refusing to cook and clean up, hibernating in my really messy room unless i was needed for dinner.
it’s a wonder fel managed to tolerate me.



oops, slight interruption from miss shey -
shey yin 4:07
tell you something
i watch your dvd when i got home on sunday
i was crying when i watched it



yup, we made a copy of the express highlights for all of them b4 they fly back to their respective countries.
let’s hope that when we next meet, we’re on a junk cruising around halong bay.



from pretending-not-be-emotional flo