Ahh, one month of married bliss, and I am still floating on cloud nine - well, not exactly, frankly. I just thought that marriage adds a little bit more feelings in me for this person I got married to as compared to before, that's all. And in many ways, marriage as I think it is, has presented me with a far better life than when I was single and living with parents (tee hee! sorry mum/dad, but it's true!). Other than that, I'm still not over my wedding yet, needless to say still ogling the wedding and honeymoon photos and videos over and over again!
And in between viewing of wedding videos and photos and getting on with life, I was also hoping that time would be on my side for me to get the loads of postwedding-clean-ups done. Ha! How sick. One of the many things Kenji and I will have to do right away soon is to get down to the Japanese Embassy and get our marriage registered, also perhaps change my name where necessary. But because we are given 3 months from the date of marriage to do so, Kenji thinks it is more appropriate for us to settle the other seemingly more urgent postwedding-clean-ups that we've got to do. And I definitely agree to it thinking going down to Nassim Road in a hurry is pretty much nothing but having to face up to some robotic political exercise such as filling up loads of paperwork and incessantly providing of identity! Well, troublesome it sounds for sure, yet we both know that we still have to do it someday soon anyways.
So time seems to draw close for the other stuff, and since I had never been married and hardly bother about the typical postwedding activities and culture, little did I know that postwedding would take up almost as much time, energy, effort and money as the wedding itself did!
So here I am still struggling with sending out thank-you notes to guests, particularly out-of-town guests all of whom paid for their own airfares and accommodation fees just to be at our wedding. Other than them, thank-you notes would be sent out to those who mailed us cards and gifts to make up for their absence, and lastly to my family members who have greatly contributed to the wedding and made it all a success.
Our postwedding clean-ups won't just end there. It is altogether a long, long list of what-to-dos and one which also includes sending all 3 costumes for laundry services - all 3 that we put on on Saturday actually belong to us, the kimono and hakama though have been brought to Japan for cleaning. We've also got to sort out wedding photos...and I still have yet to complete unpacking and storing of things that made up my 26 boxes which Joel helped flew them all from Tassie early this year.
But above all, I've got heaps of 'whys' that are playing at the back of my mind, to answer. For one, my parents would call me almost every other day [without fail #1], telling me that they're coming around [without fail #2]...with food [without fail #3]. Geez?! Why????? Perhaps just a way mum and dad cope with the idea of 'having given their daughter away to'. It's a big question on my mind though. Really. Ah, this one, just another kind of postwedding 'clean-up' to do!
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