Wedding date revised??

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim...

Just got back from induction program for 4 days and 3 nights. pheww..

I got the hospital that I applied for, Alhamdulillah..

But after I got the letter, I realised that my wedding date might clash with the duration of my tag of the 2nd posting.

FIY, for housemen working in government hospitals in Malaysia we need to undergo 2 weeks of tagging..

It's not that I can't apply for leave during that date. It will be difficult but it can be done, inshaAllah..

My main problem is that, none of my friends would be able to attend my wedding if that happens! Because they would also be doing their tagging rotation. And giving excuse such as wanting to attend a friend's wedding wouldn't be such a strong one to put in into the application form, would it?

Erghh.. I don't know what to do right now..

Have to wait until monday so that I could confirm the rotation schedule and then I would have to call to adjust the booking date of the hall..

Pray that everything would be at ease, InshaAllah..

Pakej Andaman

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim..

Hmmmm... looking for a wedding dress is not an easy task to do. Before I made my decision, I went to several boutiques to check their packages and tried on a few dresses. I wanted to wear a jubah like dress. Not too tight, but look bridal.

So, the first day I went dress-hunting, I came upon this boutique that offers a package of RM 1600 for a new pair of wedding attire for both female and male of my own desired design, a one panel dais (for a place to take photos only) and 1 session of make up. The first time, my sisters weren't very thrilled. She thought that it was too expensive. I have to pay rm1600 and do not get the dress. She persuaded me to have my wedding attire tailored.

So, I went out again, for fabric-hunting which took me several days of searching and surveying prices. The good thing about this was, I learned a hell lot of things about bridal fabric. I learned about chiffon, satin, laces, their different types, their prices and even how to match the colours.

Unfortunately, my knowledge wouldn't be put to any use because a few days ago, my mum started saying that I should take the rm 1600 package. She said that it's better to rent the dress instead of having one made because the likeliness that I would wear it again is very scanty (which is the reason i wanted to rent in the first place before my sister persuaded me otherwise)

So, there I was again, with my mum and eldest sister at the bridal shop.
Paying a first deposit of rm100 for the package...

So, the problem with My dress is settled.

Another problem is with the groom attire because he doesn't want to wear something other than baju melayu. So I told him that, the tailor will make a new groom attire if you requested for different design but if you want to wear baju melayu, she will just give the one she already have... But he still wanted to wear baju melayu.. so, what else can I say..

So, that's that. the only thing that I need to do about wedding attires after this is to pay for the rest of the payment (have to wait until I start working) and find the dress for bertandang at his side.

**sudah tidak ada mood nk rancang perkahwinan sendiri**

Wedding jitters

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim...

I know it's too early to have any wedding jitters at this point of moment. My wedding is not in another 6 months. But being the unemployed self, I don't have much things to do right now except, planning and planning and planning for my wedding, until one day I decided that I have had enough!

I'm tired of browsing for fabrics for my dress, flowers, make up, and other things that involves with wedding.

I'm tired of visiting varieties of fabric stores looking for the ultimate fabric of my desire at the most reasonable price.

So, I decided to give myself a useful thing to do to keep my mind off these wedding stuff..

And guess what I've chosen for myself to do?

DIY tissue paper flowers for my DIY photocorner..

A big, huge HAHAHAAH for me..

So, how to make a tissue paper flower..?

There's countless of blogs that quoted on this.. and you can just type into google or youtube and wallah! you will be served with thousands of links on how to do it.

These would be how the flowers will look like..

Wedding shoes

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim..

so, wedding shoes ni terjumpa masa jalan-jalan di Times Square..

Harganya, tak boleh beritahu! Tapi murah sangat2. Kurang daripada RM 100.

Memang nak pakai kasut flat sahaja kerana saya tidaklah biasa berkasut tinggi. Takut nnt ada pengantin tergolek di majlis sendiri. Lagipun lebih senang nnt nak melayan tetamu2 yang hadir kan?

Another part which is good about these shoes is that I could totally wear it again after the ceremony..

But, the only problem is the colour. I don't really think that it would suit my white dress. But I guess after a putting a little bit of white beads and pearls on them, may make the shoes look better.

I don't know how I'm going to sew the beads on. Maybe if I found the beads, have the mood and time to do it I might do it. But if I don't, this would be how it would look like on my wedding day.. =p

Wedding dress

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim...

So, today I went out with my best friends. They had initially gathered at my home because we had a "happy circle" with our beloved Prof Harlina. Their stay at my home ended today and before they went back to their hometown, they wanted to go shopping at Jalan TAR.

So, we headed early in the morning to Jalan TAR and as they wanted to look at blouses, my maid-of-honour and I, decided that we would look at different things. My friend wanted to find some fabrics to make herself a shawl and I was just looking around, browsing and taking notes of fabrics that could be useful for my wedding dress.

For wedding dress's fabric, first we went to a shop which was having a 'Sale'. Well, though they are having a sale, the price are not so cheap, mind you. The lace that I was looking at was priced at RM 60/m and the satin was RM 19/m. Hmm... not so cheap, I would say. The chiffon in that shop was not in the quality as I would have expected so we looked in other shops. the price for a meter of plain white chiffon was RM 24.50! I don't know about you guys, but my jaw literally dropped at the price..

We did a rough calculation based on the design of my wedding dress and the amount of fabric needed as told by the tailor

4 1/2 m of satin is around RM 90
1 1/2 m of lace is around RM 120
8 m of chiffon is around RM 200

Total cost of the fabric is RM 410, plus tailoring cost which is RM 280 making the total would-be-expense of my wedding dress is RM 690!!

Oh my, oh my.. so much of wanting to have a low-budget wedding..

Hm.. i guess i may need to keep on looking for fabrics that are much cheaper, or I might need to forget my dream of wearing the wedding dress I wanted.

I wanted to wear a dress that is kinda like a 'jubah' but with a more modern look and suitable for a bride, but still keeping the modesty of the wearer.

I first met my wedding dress, at a boutique just near my neighbouring area. The boutique offers a package of RM 1600 for a new, made-for-me wedding attire for man and woman plus all the accessories (for rent of course), a dais, and make-up. At first I thought that it was a pretty good offer, but my sisters weren't so thrilled. So I decided to have a tailor-made wedding dress. The cost to sew it is RM 280.

I wanted a dress that is sort of like this one..please imagine it with beadings and lace over the arms and lower part of the dress.. =)

Of pre-marriage course

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim..


So, today's post is about pre-marriage course. For all Muslims couples living in Malaysia who wish to get married, it is compulsory by law to attend a two-day course organised by the state's religious departments.

For me, this is the 2nd time I've attended the course. My first time was when I was still young, innocent and immature and attending a pre-marriage course would not be a very tempting idea. My first time in the course was not very interesting and needless to say, I was quite skeptical about attending the 2nd time. If it wasn't due to having lost the certificate, I wouldn't have needed to enroll into this course again. So, frankly speaking I registered myself with the sole purpose of getting the certificate and has it done with.

How I enjoyed myself during the 2-day course!

The topics that were discussed in the seminars were very good and important topics and almost all speakers were very fascinating. I particularly like this one speaker and here i wanted to share with you what she said to us. I think, as a bride-to-be (and also groom-to-be) it is a very valuable piece of advice.

Her advise was,

Pray to Allah! pray to Allah?

Yes! Pray to Allah to help you in making wise decisions for your wedding preparations!

Why? What should I pray for?

1) for muslims, it is very important that you take halal food only. Sometimes, we are not sure whether the catering service that we hire, uses halal produces or not, whether they practice business according to the syariah or not. Whether the owner or the people cooking your dishes perform their prayers or not. So we need to pray to Allah to guide us in choosing the best catering service according to His syari'ah. Well, we wouldn't want to serve our guests with un-halal food, right?

2) pray to Allah, to protect you and your fiance from any temptations of the syaitan to do bad things throughout the time you are engaged. It is well known that this period is the most trying period and we need to ask for His guidance and His protection.

3) pray to Allah, to protect you from spending extravagantly in preparing for your wedding. We don't want to be friends with the syaitan. Modesty is the key to receive the blessings from Allah. It is understandable to want to have an exclusive wedding. But spending thousands of ringgit for a one-day ceremony cannot guarantee your happiness for the rest of your marriage. What can guarantee your happiness, inshaAllah is blessing from Him the Almighty. And modesty is the sunnah of the prophet Muhammad s.a.w.

4) pray that your wedding ceremony would not be filled with the types of entertainments that are against the syariah and other types of activities, traditions or acts that are not according to the sunnah and syariah.


Before I attended the seminar, I've never thought about needing to pray to prepare for my wedding. Alhamdulillah, there's a reason I've lost my certificate and had to attend the course again. And one of the reasons is this valuable advice

Alhamdulillah, all praises belong to Allah s.w.t.

My inspiration

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim.. In the name of Allah, The Most Gracious, The Most Merciful



It has been a looong time since I've been blogging. I thought I've made a vow not to blog anymore but I was inspired to create this blog as to share my experience in creating a wedding that follows the sunnah of my beloved Prophet, Muhammad s.a.w.


Well, to all fellow muslimah bride-to-be, it's not easy to have a wedding that is modest and according to the sunnah. Not with the goings of trends of weddings nowadays..You have to fight a lot of temptations; from within yourself, and from those around you. As a girl, and as many other girls out there, I dreamed of having a lovely wedding, filled with fresh carnations, daisies, gerberas and maybe some roses. I'm not very fond of roses. =). I also dreamed about wearing a beautiful dress, having a professional photographer snapping pictures of my big day. But to have that kind of dream, you need to have a lot of money to spend as well. And I don't have a lot of money, having just graduated from university and currently not working, yet. And I wanted my big day to follow the sunnah of ar-Rasul.


Preparing for my own wedding brought myself to countless hours of searching the internet for ideas. I've read countless bride-to-be's blogs on how they prepare for their own weddings. I had to fight the temptation of having glamorous wedding and it was very difficult for me to find a blog, a bride that tells her story of how she has a very un-traditional, but sunnah-following wedding ceremony. And this has become my inspiration to write this blog, inshaAllah..


My first post for today, is inspired by this picture:

Well, it may looks like a bit too simplified. In preparing for a wedding, there's a lot of things that need to be considered, especially the feelings of your parents and your future parents-in-law. There's a lot of feelings, opinions and wishes to be respected and not only your own. However, I believe that communication is vital in solving a lot of problems in this kind of situations. For those brides, or grooms who wishes to have a modest ceremony but are fought against by your own parents, you can express your wishes to your parents but first you need to be equipped. Equipped with knowledge. Do what my friend did; she bought and read a book entitled "Walimah yang Sunnah" and equipped herself with knowledge to make her case to her parents.


A marriage is something sacred. A tie, a bond that is cherished by Allah s.w.t. There's a lot of rewards being promised by Him through marriage. But if the first footstep that you've taken to enter it has been tarnished with wrongdoings, how could you guarantee that Allah will help your marriage afterwards. As Mufti Menk put it (as taken from his facebook status);

Lavish weddings where much money is splashed, extravagance is clear, religious rules are blatantly disregarded, the poor are not invited and people forget that it is meant to be a sacred union and a gift of the Almighty, cannot bear much blessings and can even return to haunt the families later on.

The most blessed of all weddings are those full of simplicity where religious rules are given prime importance and the whole function considered a spiritually filled celebration of a sacred gift of the Almighty.

The type of seed sown is determined by the type of wedding we have. How can we expect to reap beneficial fruit when we chose to sow the seeds of cactus?

The sad reality is that people incur debts to hire lavish venues in order to live up to the Jones. They then suffer paying back whilst the food has long been digested, the function outdone by another and at times the divorce already taken place.

Remember, you can never achieve pleasure through the displeasure of the Owner of eternal Pleasure.

The Almighty, who gave us this day of happiness will indeed be unhappy if we choose to express our happiness through sin.

Let us seriously take heed for the future and repent for what has passed by.

We need to remember, that although we respect and love our parents, our love and respect for them should never outweigh our love, respect and loyalty towards Allah s.w.t. My creator and your creator. So, we should bid by His laws first before we decide to follow the ceremonial traditions that are against the Syari'ah.

Pray that my future journey will still follow the Prophet's way, InshaAllah..