| My last two blogs was about my dad and my engagment with Benny. By now, I'm actually Mrs. Liew...LOL..but truly being Mrs. Liew is indeed one of the happiest event in my life and I am going to testify how God made it happen. God promise that He will never forsake me, nor leave, nor will He shortchange me. Till today, God has never cease to care about me even to the smallest details. 22 June 2008 marked the most significant event of my life. It is the day when Benny and I stand before the Lord to take our marraige vow. His presence and gentle touches on the way how the wedding went is indeed timely, flawless, wonderful, so full of love and sweetness. Without Him, I don't think both Benny & I will be able to pull with overflowing joy, peace and excitement. As a matter of fact, even after all the wedding dinner adjourned, both Benny and I were still full of joy and excitement. We did not feel any form of tiredness and had a great time of sharing with our our bestman and bridesmaid. Truly, I really owned God this blog to testify to how AWESOME this GOD is!!! Ok. Let's begin the first and foremost concern. Financial anxiety did top out the rest of the worries/concern prior to our wedding. Well, let's not dwell into that but all that needs to be pointed out was that God is so good that He really opened up the floodgates of heaven outpouring His overflowing blessing. Literally, He really did! Believe it or not, He really did provide for the house reno, the contractor, the wedding ceremony, the wedding dinner, the florist, the wedding theme, the wedding hall, the photographer, the helpers, the honeymoon arrangement, the kitchen top, the wedding gown, the wedding shoes, the wedding photo package, makeup artist, wedding card, printers, wedding door gifts, red wine and everything else falls into the right place at the right time. We both were anxious, rather, I was really really stress in the whole wedding planning. Since the beginning, we tried so hard trying to do the whole wedding all by ourselves. Causing so much unnessary argument and stress between the relationship. There were countless of disagreement that we both of us were exhausted and overwhelmed by the whole wedding planning thing. Mind me to say this, I was a wedding planner for some of my friends and I thought wedding planning should be simple enough in my own wedding..well I am wrong. Finally, we both gave up trying too hard and surrender to God. (well, still struggling to surrender to the Lord sometimes during the process but God assures again and again and again, isn't Jesus amazing?  ). And guess what, things start to move, in His timing, everything is perfect in fact much better than my own planning. What a snub I am, foolish to be exact. I have a God who is can make impossible things possible and I am trying to do things my way (what was I thinking)? It is only when I started to surrender to Him, that I am able to see things His way. And His way is definitely better and no doubt works perfectly. After the house reno, our bank account can be said depleted to almost zero. Even that too, I have to thank God, cause His provision is sufficient and He helped us managed it. The next steps will be the wedding planning. Originally our wedding theme is green and white..LOL..God changed it to red wine and snow white. Somehow, His invisible gentle hands brought us to Keith Kee boutique during the August sale and guess what, He provides us a beautiful wedding gown off knocked down half the price that matches His theme. I was mesmerized by another gown but somehow, God teached me to submit to Benny. I took the one that Benny like eventually to my suprise I like the gown too. LoL..God is good... Next, He lead us to the restaurant. Good ambience, close to DC, great menu, great food and at a very affordable price. God helped us saved a lot. He even gave us additional money through work bonuses and other savings that help covers other things. Even this too have a great testimony. I remember both of us together with one of our parents went for the food tasting and too our horror, the food did not taste quite nice. We were concern what if the food turn out bad in which that'll be the worse nightmare for the guests which didn't quite match our criteria of the wedding dinner. Well, being a food lover, food is definitely something we would love to have our guests enjoyed it. Well, it's really too late to change anything by then (one or two weeks before the wedding) We decided to surrender to God (er...even though with much heaviness, God did not disappoint us). Thanks be to God, on that day, everything turn out fine, He even multiply our wine for the guests. We only have 75 botlles to go around 50 tables, there were tables where guys were having 5-6 bottles. How did that happen? Awesome God! :) Guests were commenting that the food were great! In our little heart, we knew all these can only happen through Jesus. Well it's a miracle, God's presence is indeed in the restaurant that night just as how Jesus first miracle is in a wedding at Canaan. His joy is illuminated throughout the whole wedding banquet. God is good. Who am I to receive all this...but the fact that God grace the whole wedding, brought me countless joy and praise to Him whom my life comes from. Even one of the major hiccups we had were the angpows. One week before the wedding, we found out that we are suppose to pass nine tables angpow money to my mum and dad (mostly my side of family member). Due to miscommunication, we thought customary things like this will not happen and hence we did not costed in additional finances for this part of the hiccups. It worries us so much that we prayed to the Lord to provide. We surrender to God our needs and ask God to intervene. I remember that night itself were one of the Nights of Fire revival meeting at DC. In my heart, I was worried that many of our church friends could not attend our wedding dinner. But God consoled my heart and asked me to trust in His provision. I surrendered everything to Him. God really provides! Not only the wedding dinner were packed with guests, He brought in so much that we managed to settle the whole wedding..yes the whole wedding inclusive of the wedding gown (plus the dinner dress), the honeymoon spending, the photographer's and videographer's cost, the wedding package, the wedding banquet, the flowers, the wedding halls cost...everything! Only more and not anything less. GOD IS GOOD ALL THE TIME and ALL THE TIME GOD IS GOOD! Hallelujah! Another hiccups will be the honeymoon. Less than one week prior to our wedding, our travel agent called and apologized that our tour to Korea has been cancelled due to insufficient people signing up for the tour. We were left with very little choice to make do with the remaining travel spot. None caught our eyes and the pressure is mounting. We were very upset and angry at the agent but then again, we have to forgive as a Christian. This is tough. Finally, with just few days left, we both decided to pray to God and asked for His provision again. Each time we look towards Him, He did not turn away. God is good! We were praying, I felt peace about going to Taiwan even though it would mean that we need to go with Benny's family members for our honeymoon. There were a lot of opinion posted in by our friends and relatives in regards to the idea of going honeymoon with family members. However, I felt that God's hand is upon us and trust that God has His plan. Benny was sceptical at first, when he heard me saying "let's go to Taiwan" then just after the prayer, Anne (Benny's sister) smsed to tell us that if we want to go to Taiwan, she will help us arrange). LoL, God even give us sign. We are truly bless from the tip of our hair to the tip of our socks. His grace is wonderful. And guess what, I enjoyed the whole honeymoon. It was one of the great vacation I ever had. Talking about killing two birds with one stone, not only the honeymoon brought me closer to God and Benny, it even brought me closer to family bonding with Mummy, Anne, Anna and Rebecca. Hallelujah! I'm speechless. There were a lot of miracles during the whole wedding process...in which some I will write in if time permits...bottomline is we can never outgive God. Throughout the whole journey, God has given us double portion of blessing for everything. From our wedding counselors to our officiating pastors, we are truly blessed by the whole event God has provided. We hope our wedding and marriage will also be a blessing to others. God reigns...He who died on the cross for us showed us that He loves us so much. All glory to God and thanks be to God who watches us, guarding us and loving us. Amen! |
