Wedding makeup

Went down to KL 2 weeks ago to get tons of stuffs done (and also to watch New Moon – disappointed with the cut kissing scenes, came back to Sg and watch again), among them is the trial makeup session with Veron, as introduced by Chrissie. Well, what can I say….liked the results so far, so I’ve engaged her to do my makeup in KL next year! But it’s still early days now, so there’s still time for me to look around if there’s any makeup/hair style that i fancy, and see if it’s suitable to go with the gown that I’ll be wearing.

Some sneak peeks (the fiance got a tad bored, so he started snapping pics):

The end result! I love it...but gotta get used to seeing me with the smokey eyes look

Love this look on Ivanka Trump! Maybe the eyes effect is too intense for my small mini peepers!

Love this look on Ashley Greene, who plays my fav vampire, Alice Cullen! I'd love to have this look if it fits me

New Moon love

Thought I’d add in a non-wedding related post, coz as of now I’m absolutely beyond stoked an/or excited (if that makes any sense at all)….to be watching The Twilight Saga: New Moon this Fri when i go down to KL for the long weekend! Wheeee soo soo sooo elated, as I’ve been waiting and anticipating for this movie since I watched Twilight a year ago and fell absolutely in love with it! Yups, read all 4 books (have gone for round 2 of Twilight and doing round 2 of New Moon right now), have been stalking various Twi-fan sites and annoying the fiance with the whole process of it hahahah. Hope this movie will be good….hmmm it has to be since it’s made like $140.7M over the opening weekend alone, doing way better than the Dark Knight and Harry Potter & the half blood prince.

Yups...can't wait for some Robsten action too! Love this pose btw...might copy it for the photoshoot :p

On a more wedding-related note, will be heading to the tailor’s this Saturday to get the brocade dress and evening gown done! Yups, kinda early but I anticipate that I won’t be going down to KL that often in the months to come…so better get measured early and give ample time to get it done so that alterations and what-nots can be adjusted on time too.

Have a great weekend!

Cupcakes Galore

As we’ve decided to give out cupcakes as favours for our dinner reception in Kch (the restaurant, Banquet does not give favours for their wedding packages), and so the search for the perfect baker/vendor begins. Thanks to the helpful people from the bridal forum, I came to know of Lovey Dovey Cupcakes, a home-based business that sells cupcakes in Kuching. Ohh, theymake really lovely cupcakes too….so pretty and sounds delicious too!

So I made an enquiry with them about supplying em’ cuppies for the wedding next year and asked them to give me the best deal possible. Well, there wasn’t much that they can do to the price of the cupcakes, since it’s one of the lowest priced in Kch and so much more affordable compared to KL, but after offering a slight reduction on the cupcakes’ price, they also agreed to lend us their cupcake stand for FREE (usually they rent it out for RM50 a day) so that we don’t have to top up extra for packaging. So yeah, it sounds good, mom agrees to it…and evereyone’s happy. Also told them briefly how i want those cupcakes to be like…hmmm think I’m gonna make ribbons and cutesy flowers to tie with the pink and lilac theme. Oh, I opted for fondant cupcakes as opposed to buttercream…some there might be ppl who don’t fancy cream (like me! I swipe off the cream from cakes, everytime! loll).

Some designs that I like currently:

The stand which can fit 80+ mini cuppies

Plus, to have a ‘taste test’, I’ve ordered 24 pieces of mini cupcakes for christmas, to test the flavours and to confirm that they really taste as good as they look hahah. So yeah, just told them the flavours i wanted and left it up to them to make the cupcakes look as christmassy as possible (e.g. candy canes, snowflakes, bells, santa etc).

Ooohh…can’t wait!

Of flowers and such

It’s a good thing that the mom has got friends who are into this whole flower thingy. As of today, she’s got a friend who’ll be a freelance florist by next year when she retires, and another young lady (about my age) who’s taking flower arrangement courses. So, in order to compare quotes from them, I’ve been asked to start thinking about what sorta flowers I want – which I think it’s really important that I do so, before they start suggesting using weird flowers like orchids!! EEwww….ok not that i have anything against orchids, but it’s gotta be a suitable combination too right? Uhh, and one should know tat my mom + grandma = crazy about orchids, while I’m not really a big fan. I’m a roses kinda girl.

Oh, and did I mention that her former student owns Orchidwood, a florist shop in Kuching as well? Hahah but I doubt they’re cheap tho. Coz I’m a cheapo when it comes to flowers, trying to find the cheapest quote here with work that’s decent!

So, here’s what I’ve narrowed down so far:

This is still my fav among all....love the colour combination!

Nice colour right?! Think I'd wrapped the bottom with ribbon entirely coz the brown stalks are hideous!

Nice and simple...maybe a bit bigger, coz this one was meant for the bridesmaid.

So sweet! But not sure if it will turn out well in the photos

*love*

So, which one to choose? hahaha

Mini Drama

So I had a mini crisis last week, which I’ve found a solution to (I hope!). See, the fiance spotted a gorgeous brocade dress in one of the bridal mags that we’ve bought…and of course I loved it and fell in love with it! Decided instantly that I’ll have it made to wear during our ROM next year and also for the tea ceremony in KL. Well, silly me took for granted that the bridal place that I’ll be getting my wedding gown done would do any type of dress/gown! Turned out that they don’t do brocade dresses coz *quote* there’s simply too many patterns and designs out there and the outcome might not come out right *unquote* Offered to do the dress using duchess satin instead but then it just won’t be the same, will it?

Hmm yeah, so that’s where I started panicking a little…till I calmed down and told myself that it’s not the end of the world coz there’s always tailors who could make the dress for me! At a fraction of the cost too hahah. So, after searching and frantically reading various topics from the bridal forums, finally found a tailor in KL that’s fairly near the fiance’s house that’s highly recommended by all! This lady has been making dresses and cheongsams for 30 years so her work should be up to standard. Plus, her charges are very reasonable too, judging from the comments, which ranges from RM60 onwards for short dresses and RM90 for long ones.

So, we hope to see her when we go back in 2 weeks’ time to talk abt the dress with her.

The dress!

Nice right? I plan to make a short one in white with the red sash…hrmm but is the sash too big? Maybe will get her to make it slightly smaller.

Oh, the other thing’s that AirAsia is being an annoying pain in the ass again! My flight from Kch-Sg has been shifted from the evening to early morning! Wth….it’s a good thing that I stay very near the airport in Kch or else I’ll be screaming up and down till the cows come home. So, because of that I had to shift the meeting with the photographer. It’s a good thing that he’s available on Christmas eve to chat for a while, so that’s all good hahah. Like me, he has to be back in the afternoon to prepare for the Christmas Eve dinner! Mmmm turkey…lasagna…potato salad….yummm! Urgh have to control what I eat or will be in trouble

 

Save the Date cards

Yayy to me for finally getting around to doing the save the date cards! Not sure what form are we sending it in yet…will probably ask the mom on this. Probably send some through email and some printed in photo form (thanks for the great idea, Chrissie!), for those older folks who don do email LOLLL

Anyway, here are the templates that I’ve done…

So, which one to choose?

Just noticed that the alignment of the calendar is a bit off….but what the heck…I’m not a designer or art director by profession so I won’t give a damn HAHAHAH. Been ages since I touched photoshop, not since I graduated from uni anyway :p

Checklist

So we’ll be going back to KL tonight for the weekend. Not planning to do any major wedding stuff, except probably settle the things with the restaurant for our reception dinner. In the meantime, I’ve kinda been procastinating on getting started or thinking of ideas for a few things:

Save the Date e-cards
Since we have relatives who are scattered all over the world from Mom’s side (From the US, Canada and Australia), she’s asked me to get ready the Save the Date e-cards so she can send them via email prior to posting the invitation cards next year. I think this is practiced mostly for western weddings, whereby the bride & groom send a simple card that tells the recipients that they’ll be getting married on which date and at what place, and that a formal invitation will be sent later on. So I told her that I’ll just do up a simple JPEG file so that it’s easier to send. Hrmm haven’t thought much abt it yet, just downloaded some hi-res swirl designs that I know I wanna use for it. I wonder if I should keep it simple or include a photo of us in it? Hrmmm

Engagement Photoshoot with the Cousin
The cousin in KL has offered to take our engagement photos as a gift to us, and I’ve told him that we could do it next month. So yeah….yayy for more pics loll. Haven’t thought much about this either..and he’s currently traveling at the moment anyway and probably busy with the twins and a new baby lately (yups, another new niece for me hahah). Maybe something easy and natural should be fine…posey-posey pics are a no-no for us!

On the other hand, I really need to look for dresses to wear to work….Hmmm shopping time? LOLL

THE dress: Found!

After flipping through all the bridal mags and stalking bridal websites, I’ve finally found THE dress that I absolutely love….only that I can’t seem to choose between these 2!

The Romantic Dress

Olivia by Maggie Sottero

The first one’s nice and romantic, but a bit too much like any other wedding gowns today…while the second’s a bit more modern and chic, no? Got the quotees from the bridal house and it’s quite alright…just a small difference in price between the two (the 2nd one’s higheree coz of the lace at the bottom).

So, which one to go for? Hahaha

Which pillow?

I’ve been looking at ring pillow designs lately to find one that’s not quite so common but still suitable for our pink and lilac theme. Initially we were thinking of something really really different, and I like Chriszie’s idea of a ring pillow nest..but it’ll look a bit off with the theme. Saw some bird cage ones, but am not reeally keen to use it to hold the rings. Plus, it’s gonna be quite a trouble for my niece to carry the cage down the aisle!

Started looking around for pics and here’s what I’ve found so far:

I like the idea of a two-tiered pillow

With cute little roses sewn

Mom found a lady who does ring pillows in Kuching for about RM25. Not sure if she’ll do it nice and up to standard tho…saw the one that she did whereby the rings are placed in a slot rather than tied with ribbons – umm the slot looks a bit obscene…hahaha.

Found this other KL based website that sells wedding stuffs at affordable prices:

http://ss2u.blogspot.com/

On another note, I think my gym workouts are working after all, tho I don’t seem to be losing any weight! But hey, now my mini skirt fits just fine hahah. Was dissapointed when i couldn’t zip or button it after putting on weight since joining this co. So yayyy for that!

I’m taking a breather…

…from obsessing over the wedding and shifting it to other things instead! Haha plus, now that all my fav TV shows (and some new ones) are back on air, how can I resist not keeping up with them all – 90210, Gossip Girl, Grey’s Anatomy, Desperate Housewives…and some new ones that I’m currently into: The Vampire Diaries (read all the books, but must say that I like the TV series better – at least it’s not too preppy (plus the actor playing Stefan is kinda hot in a tormented Edward Cullen way)! Hmm can’t stand typical catty high school teenager issues like in the book blurghh), Eastwick (a bit like Bewitched…yea a story abt witches) and filling in the empty space with The Secret Life of the American Teenager (don’t really like this one, but am just watching it to humour myself heheh. It looks like a rip-off of Juno!). Eagerly waiting for Ugly Betty to come back on…she really cracks me up!

Anyway, found some patterns that I like for the evening gown….will be going for the 1-shoulder thing (I love those!). Will probably choose either a midnight blue or plum colour for the gown.