10 January 2013

Our early steps towards each other…

I have butterflies in my stomach… And I think I am getting more butterflies as the day inch closer to our agreed date.


We are now at the stage where lots of things need to be prepared to commemorate the conjoining of our lives together. This is also the time I had fear the most and despise. I have to remind myself that you will not be able to taste your harvest if you do not plant it first.

This is also the time where you get to see the ugly side of the people around you. I had just heard of stories how some people would not go to a wedding just because the name of their invitation cards was spelt incorrectly. How could they forsake the ties of relationship over the petty things? I guess, if that happen to me, I will know the people around me better. Those who choose to create a big fuss over small matter rather than securing the love and good will to each others. I make doa that I too will not be these sort of people…

I always wonder, ever since I was involved in weddings, why o why people always want their ways in someone wedding. I do not mind suggestions but to push your ideas so much so that it meant we have to do it really bugs me. If that suggestions or ideas give me benefits in the hereafter as well as making my wedding to be blessed further by Allah, I do not mind. But, it surprises me how much we care about what others think instead. We do things just so we make people around us happy. Yet, nobody had ever asked us how we want our wedding to be. I had not heard people asking that question in the wedding planning meetings or when being told you are getting married. Nobody care about the bride and groom happiness…

I guess that is the start of the chain of unhappiness. The previous generation always burdens us with their wants and wishes.  We, the current generation who is getting married HAVE to carry it out, mostly out of respect and to make our elders happy. Carrying their dreamt wedding with them since the day they got married until the day their own children will marry, they now entrust their own wishes to their children so that they can see the wedding that they wanted so much materialize… This is very sad but please, as long as our wants and wishes do not go against Islam, can you please let us have our own wedding? Tied with our wishes, dreamt and wants that will make our wedding OURS? We should learn to let go and stop thinking of what people will say… Please watch this interesting video regarding on what will the people say. Click here.

Truly if we stop being selfish and open to changes, we can break this sad chain… I promised insyaallah that I will not do the same thing to my children. Let them have the wedding that they wanted as long as we satisfy Allah needs and requirements and does not burden the bride and groom financially.

I mean, people around us want so many things in the wedding but nobody check the cost to produce or get the things. IT IS EASIER to say it than to PAY IT. Some people just say it for the sake of saying it. Truly, we need to learn to ignore these people as they will only ruin us by burdening us unnecessarily. If they are willing to shell out and cover the cost for whatever suggestion they brought up, by all means, no problem provided it is not against Islam.

As it had been mentioned, you will always being tested especially when you want to do something good. I just doa that I have the strength to endure all these, that my wife to be understand and willing to compromise and work together and the people around us easier to cooperate with whatever needs and wishes we have…


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