Majlis Aqiqah & Cukur Jambul Khaisah Hashley :)

Sorry this came in late - well, every update is not really an "up to date" post so to speak. Guess by now, you've accustomed yourselves to that, yes?

Anyhoos.

Khaisah's aqiqah and cukur jambul was held on the 25th Sept, 2011 at Masjid Saidina Umar Al-Khattab, Bukit Damansara. We had it over at a "neutral" ground being that Khaisah is "super special" ie. first grandchild for both sides. It was only fair, perhaps easier to have it there. Plus, having huge families and large group of friends add up to that factor too.

Moving along.

I engaged Aizat from Bliss Candid Photography to be in charge of the photos that day and here are the results.

Khaisah was 2.5 months at this time.

The "buaian" or cradle deco was done by My Baby Pimpom, as recommended by a blogger friend. The theme was colourful pastel and I had Pretty Little Things to do the dessert table. Qzara was my vendor for the favours, it was a personalized notebook by the way and other decorations in the picture below was done by yours truly (with the help of my girlfriends) via Bungaa :) Catering for the day was none other than CT Catering (seriously delish!) and oh, the marhaban group was from my mom's single mothers and orphanage charity organization (if you'd like to have them, do email me).

Decors and details.

Event started at 11 and guests came in tad early which was relatively good but urm ... we weren't done setting up the place yet! Centerpieces were still being arranged, dessert table was quarterly done and catering people were not there yet. Phew. Fyi, we were given a night before the do to arrange everything and by the time I finished doing the center pieces was close to 4 a.m! No one to be blamed but yours truly for wanting it to be a combination of paper and fresh flowers. Thanks Didi, Mel, Mom and Yayi for helping!

Guests coming and settling down.

Marhaban begins.

By the time all was a go-go, it was half past 11. Thanks to Chor (Hashley's aunty who happens to be the Mak Andam Di-Raja for Johore Royalty) for all the cukur jambul majiggy.

The first step to do was to tahnik Khaisah which involves feeding her with a tea spoon (or less) of honey, assam, air zam zam and salt. Then the ladies, including paternal and maternal grandparents as well as marhaban ladies will put Khaisah's feet to touch the sand, symbolizing "pijak tanah", snip her hair and those strands of hair were put into the water for keeps sake. Each person who did this received a small token as an appreciation for being a part of this holy ceremony and in this case, it was a small diamante brooch. Thanks Mommy (MIL) for this.

Was wearing Schanaz Satin Silk Scarf :)

I'm sure Khaisah was confused of what was really happening haha.

Bottom right. She looked like she really wanted this to be over, kan?

But everything that goes into my mouth tastes nice, mommy hehe!

Finally...

Relieved and happy to  be in the cradle. She really enjoyed herself being swung!

There was a surprise bday cake for September babies in the family. Left.

Some of our family and friends that came.

Alhamdulillah, all went well. It was fun albeit a little chaotic and noisy. Thanks to all that have helped, contributed and came all the way down. We three really appreciate it from the bottom of our hearts.

Khaisah is now baldy baldy :D