Its been public knowledge for a while, but for some reason I neglected to blog about it ... IM GETTING MARRIED ... yay!!!
Tuu and I will be having a Thai engagement ceremony in September, the week after my bro gets married in Chiang Rai. At that time I will present half the dowry and all the gold to her parents / grandparents.
After spending a bit of time with her family and organising wedding plans, we will both come back to Australia, so that I can work for a while longer and attempt to save money for the rest of the dowry... saving that much money in a short time doesn't seem possible, so we'll just have to trust God for the impossible.
That will be Tuu's first time to Australia, and I think I'm look forward to it more than her .. hehe. She's a little nervous about the strong Australian accents she will encounter, but I know she will be fine. She can just do what I did when I went to meet her parents and didnt have a clue what they were saying... I just smiled =)
Then after two months Tuu will go back to Thailand, and I will follow shortly after so we can make the final preparations for our wedding which will take place in Korat, Thailand on January 11th 2008. The amount of things that we have to do before that day seem a little bit scary, things get a little more complicated when half the ideas I had about weddings are thrown out the window because of the difference in cultures. Thats ok though it means the wedding be even better, and it is our earnest hope that our wedding will be a reflection of God's goodness to us, and the diversity of the wonderful cultures He has created will shine through. Please pray that God will give us wisdom and favor with Tuu's family as we discuss with them issues such as not participating in the Bhuddist rituals normally associated with Thai weddings. We wish not to offend them, but neither do we want to compromise our beliefs. Praise God He has the answers =)
7 comments:
nice blog design bro!
oh and congrats on securing the dowry ;)
funny i had a dream about you and your soon-to-be-wife recently.
YHWH comfort and grow ya bro,
::; Eli
hey man thats awesome ... there might be a good reason why (I'll tell you in an email) =)
so suprised to get this msg from you ... I wasn't sure you even knew where my blog was.
email me bro!! nearlyasian at the dreaded hotmail.com
Tom! Congrats!! That's so exciting and I hope you truly enjoy your engagement and don't get stressed by all the plans that have to be made. Marriage is wonderful - I highly recommend it! May the Lord bless you both as you soon become one!
you are in my prayers..
oh tom, just got me a blog account: http://elumina.blogspot.com/
i like this far better than livejournal.... =)
::;Eli
Congratulations!!
inspired as usual from ur unswerving commitment to Him and for not compromising the Gospel. bless u brother and i'll be rememering u on jan. 11th.
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