Time for some wedding tickers!

Wow, it’s February already? Time’s ticking faster than I thought it would! Haha anyway, just thought I’d play up with some wedding tickers to start the countdown

Reception deco

I’m currently digging this look for the stage area for our Kuching reception. Wonder if that can be done….shouldn’t be too hard, I think. Fairy lights with some organza cover, probably with our names on the cloth as well. Urgh…hope they don’t put those chinese characters thingy

The Wedding Party

I guess it’s high time i sat down to do a post and introduce a few of the most important people that will be helping us out during the wedding! So, let’s roll, shall we?

Bestman #1

Brother of the groom, also known as William (or Willy among a host of other names the fiance gives him!).  Hrmm…let’s see….loves movies, clubbing and gadgety computer stuffs (altho not as much as  the fiance, i tink hahah). Still available now as far as we know, so any hot takers out there?

Bestman #2

Eric, best friend and childhood friend of the groom who seems to love making weird poses when taking pictures (as can be seen slightly here). A chef (was it sous chef or smth like that?) working in Macau..so he cooks really yummy food and enjoys good food too (altho a bit too insanely sometimes)!

Bestman #3

Cousin of the bride who lives in Sydney and gets along pretty well with the groom with their sick talk! Just graduated from Uni last year and is currently at a Muay Thai camp in Pattaya, Thailand for about 5-6 months, much to the horror of his parents. Still very much available, so go get em’! Oh, he says he only date Asian girls…tho I think it a really hot Aussie girl hits on him, that can be changed.

Bridesmaid #1

Nicole, friend of the bride since the crazy college days in KL. Was actually the roomate of a good friend who introduced us, and Nic was so friendly and bubbly that we clicked instantly! When we were both bridesmaids at a good friend’s wedding 2 years ago, she told me that she’ll definitely wanna be one at mine too. So, when the fiance proposed…I immediately asked her if she was still up to it…and so the rest was history. Can’t wait to see her in Sept as she makes her way from Perth to Kuching!

Bridesmaid #2

Emily (also known as ‘Sze’), friend of the bride since they were both 14. The youngest and craziest among us in our group of 6, she’ll never fail to make you laugh with her weird random comments sometimes. She’s really adventurous and fun-loving…and oh, still available!

Flower Girls

Manda and Melia, nieces of the bride and currently favourite of the groom who enjoys playing with them, especially the younger one! Can get really hyper and energetic, especially after eating ice-cream. Hrmm loves fighting with each other sometimes too. Gosh, they’re both growing up so fast…seems like it was just yesterday that they were cute babies who loves to be carried!

Wedding Bands

Maybe we’re a wee bit early for this….but I don care, at least it’s done now hahah. Went to collect our wedding bands at Goldheart over the weekend – as we’ve bought it 2 weeks ago after the sales person at VivoCity offered us an additional discount for Citibank card members (usually they don’t as they are kinda rigid on additional discounts, but since she mentioned it….might as well! We’ve checked at all the different outlets and always got the same “nopes…no further discount for citibank!”). So yeah, had to wait for abt 2 weeks for them to size it right for our fingers.

Yayy for more sparklies for me!

On another note, am so grateful to my dear friend, Adeline for helping me layout and pages for the church booklet! That’s like a huge burden lifted off my shoulders…like you’ll never believe it hahah.

Anyway…will be back in Kch for CNY in 2 weeks….arghh can’t wait! Hrmm now if only there’ll be nice changes in terms of the career…..no harm wishing right? Grrrrr mid-life crisis alert

Can you say Marchesa?

Just a lil something that I have been putting off for a while. Yeah, the dress for the dinner reception in KL. As the tailor told me she can’t make the cross-shoulder design that I have selected last year, I’d decided to find a simpler one….simple but still look nice.

Anyway, was browsing through for some Golden Globes news earlier today and saw that Bryce Dallas Howard (she plays Victoria in Eclipse, replacing Rachelle Lefevre) had on a Marchesa gown. Hit on the website and saw a nice red dress that was close to what I had in mind….like, finally!

So, what d’ya think? Maybe will get her to make a sweetheart line instead for the top….that thing they have going on there looks a bit weird!

Ties & more cuteness

Wow, I think we’re both going a bit wedding crazy lately! Bought more stuffs for the wedding/wedding party over the weekend…figured we’d better get the little things done first, so we can move on to the bigger ones (*ahem* like the church booklet, which I am procrastinating on still).

Introducing the ties for the men!

Pink for the best man & groomsmen, royal blue for my dad and bro (exactly the same colour as my evening gown).

Cute decor thingy....maybe will hang it by the front door or smth

Koala Love

Say hi to our new furry friends….the wedding koala bears who will be tied to the bridal car in sept! So,  we decided that we didn’t want the usual Forever Friends or Me To You bears that has been used to death by almost every couple, the fiance opted for koala bears (ya know, a touch of Aussie) instead.

Then as I was searching online on where to find these (they seem to be hardly any in Sg or Msia), I stumbled upon a post on a forum where this girl’s selling her wedding stuffs after here big day…and one of them is these koalas. Emailed her straightaway to ask for the pics and the condition of the bears. She sent them over (i fell in love with them instantly!) and told me that she used them to put on the reception table only (she had another set of forever friends bears for the wedding car, which has been sold off aldy), so they’re still quite clean. Apparently, she went over to Perth specially to buy these guys.

Then came the price nego….the price that she was asking for was way too high for an item that’s not exactly brand new, so i told her no. 2 days later, she emailed again telling me that she and her hubby agreed to lower the price….and the fiance was ok with it…so that was it! Fiance went to collect the bears last night as they stay near where he works.

Anyway…that’s the story behind these bears. Aren’t they cuteeeee

Right…now that that’s settled….the next thing is to figure out how to do the church booklet! Urghh one would have thought that working in this industry, these things come naturally….but not in my case, coz i’ve got the luxury of asking the art director to settle those stuffs while i just write…hahahha. Anyway….hope to figure things out soon :p

Surprise(s)!

One will be unveiled in about 2 weeks…..

So, stay tuned yeah….:)

As for the other one….this one’s a work in progress (as soon as I get started on the script!), and won’t be ready so soon. Keyword here: C-O-M-I-C.

Many thanks to my ex-colleague, Bong for agreeing to do this for us at such a good rate!

More Christmas/New Year updates

First things first….we sorta tweaked our theme for the wedding a bit. Changed it to pink-purple-baby blue as opposed to the original pink & lilac idea. Reason? Coz Pink and Lilac are both very soft and light colours…so could be a prob, esp with the flowers  – they won’t stand out well in the pictures! So, pink-purple-baby blue it is…..there…settled!

Favours

Was initially thinking of giving cupcakes as wedding favours (they’re just sooo pretty!), and managed to find a baker in Kuching that looks quite good. Ordered a box of 24 cuppies for Christmas to taste test them first.

Well, they’re really very pretty to look at…my aunt says they’re too pretty till she didn’t have the heart to eat em’ up! But taste wise, they seem quite normal, i mean nothing extraordinary or anything like that! Also, I’m beginning to have doubts about giving them as favours. First, it doesn’t seem so worthwhile to pay that amount for something that people’s gonna gobble up just like that (yes, my silly cousin actually did that hahah). Second, the older folks find it a bit on the sweet side…including the fiance! Ehem he even tried to scrap off the fondant design and just eat the cake till i stopped him….hoiii throwing away money okk. Oohh…does this mean he can be grouped together with the old folks? Bwahahahha

So, now we’re thinking of scrapping the cupcakes idea…and find other alternatives to the favours….450 pieces to be exact.

I love the idea of sugar almonds! They’re like bigger versions of M&M’s! But it’s very hard to source for them in Msia or even in Sg….most of the ones I found are either based on Aus or UK. Price is still ok (i guesstimated that we’d need at least 14kg!), only prob is the shipping cost. That’ll cost a bomb for sure!

Then, I had the idea of giving some sort of Aussie Souvenirs (e.g. plush koalas/wombats keychains)…since we both met in Aus. My dear bridesmaid, Nicole who’s in Perth is gonna help me ask around for quotes. So we’ll see about that later.

The fiance is still keen in having those cute favour boxes:

Question now is, what to put in the box? hahah M&M’s maybe? Anyway, we’ll take time to think on that one.

Shoes

Was out shopping over the New Year long weekend, and spotted some nice shoes for the wedding. Oh well, since they’re new arrivals and on sale…why not grab it now? Then I don’t have to stress over them later. Funny, you always thought that you’d get something in mind…turns out to be the opposite. Coz I had my mind set on shoes from Lewre, but as I walked around Robinsons Raffles City, these caught my eyes!

Nice blinged shoes that would go well with the wedding gown! Excuse the dodgy photo…bad lighting and took this pic with the iPhone.

Got this last nite….supposed to be darkish blue – again, blame the iPhone and lighting lolll. Looks comfortable enough and goes nicely with my royal blue one-shoulder evening gown that’s in the making.

Tailor Contact

For all who are asking for the tailor which I went to make my evening gown, here ya go:

Her name’s Mrs. Gan, and if you go to see her on weekdays 9.30am – 4pm, you can drop by her shop at:

Tays Ladies Dress Making
No.16 Jln 21/11B
46300 Sea Park PJ
Tel: 03 78776726

She works from home on weekdays after 4pm and on Saturdays, which is at:

No.10, Jln 21/1
46300 Sea Park, PJ
Tel: 78746434

Sundays are her rest days! Happy planning to all bride-to-bes…..she’s a pleasure to work with and will give lots of advice on the designs and such