Wedding countdown calendar

6 more months to go!

Wedding preparations (Getting started - Gatecrash theme)

Many researches were done on the internet and reading through all sorts of wedding magazines. Few ideas came to mind with all sorts of themes such as beach related, single color defined, funny characters but all don't seem to fit. 

After shopping around and checking out lots of websites, we've decided that since it is an happy affair, we should use happy colors that are loud! 

As we have 10 brothers and sisters and after selecting Navy blue, Red, Pink, Orange, Yellow, Green, Light Blue, Purple and Pink, we're still short of 1 color! 

Cheerful colors 

Once the theme has been decided, things are easier to move on. 

Thought of looking for another color to meet 10 colors so that each person can take 1 color but after going through our 'to-buy' list, it's too difficult to find different colors for all the items -and it's better not to make life difficult for ourselves!

Finalized the theme for sisters and brothers for the gate crash with bright colors:

- Yellow (Groom)

- Green

- Orange

- Pink

As gate crashing is a physically challenged session, didn't want the brothers and sisters to perspire with their pretty gowns and formal wear so decided to do it casual with polo-tee and bermudas for the guys, and polo-tee and 3/4 jeans for the gals.

Wedding preparations (Wedding favors)

Searched for wedding favors at the local stores and can't seem to get any of our preferences. Goggled online for the longest time and finally HTB found something that he really liked! 

So happens that the online sample is my name, ignore the surname please.

Hence, we went ahead to make the online purchase and as it's a placecard holder which not everyone will use, I've decided to mix 2 different wedding favors so that guests can pick what they preferred. 

I made another selection for a customized tins which I can put customized candies / chocolates so that kids and other adults who do not prefer a placecard holder can take this as a souvenir. Can't seem to find the right tins in Singapore shops so went ahead to buy from the website as well and customized the sticker that will be pasted on the tins.

Other stuff that were being purchased via iShopUSA includes the badges for brothers and sisters to wear in the morning gatecrash, as well as a Groom and Bride badges for fun. 

Budget has exceed from our targeted spending but what's important is that we managed to buy what is special and preferred. Hotel does provide for wedding favors but none is to our liking. So we asked the sales person to change it into cash value and get in another room with additional top up instead of taking the wedding favor for the sake of it. :)

Made our order today and can't wait for it to arrive in 2-3 weeks time! Another item down from the list!

Since I'm getting a mini tin, the whole idea is to get in customized M&Ms from US and I did a whole load of researches and email on shipping process, cost and how long can I keep etc. Played around with the online step by step customization guide and was very sure that I'm buying it, but it's very pricey! 

Spent more time on customization to something that will be more relevant to our wedding and confirmed on the following. However, the shipping cost was mad and I hesitated for a long time. Luckily, one of my GF is visiting US and I can arrange for delivery to her hotel instead! Thought that everything was fine and placed an order with her US address, feeling happy over it! 

But, who knows the image of the laughing Buddha cannot get through due to some copyright issues and was asked to change and a new photo needs to be submitted for order to be processed. Can't think of anything else as the other image was also being rejected and time was too short for processing and to be delivered to my friend on time. 

M&Ms at Candilicious looks damn good too, but it's off my budget. Definitely not worth it since it's not even customized. Hence, gave up the whole M&M's idea. 

Oh oh oh, so sad! 

Chanced upon Fulvia and she is doing a business selling biscotti! Thought that it will be interesting if she could do mini biscotti to fit into my tin as well. Gave her the measurements and locked her bakery for my wedding favors! Ta-da, it's settled! No M&Ms but I'm still happy! 

Wedding preparation (1st fitting)

With all the holidays and celebrations, it's time to put some focus on the preparations for wedding! Done my first fitting at Jazz Bridal and managed to decide on the actual day Bridal gown, evening gown and an extra gown for photo-shoot within an hour. Faster than expected, yeah!

Loved the black gown but since it's black, I can only choose it for indoor photo-shoot. Can't wear as the main bridal gown. Wearing gown can be easy, but got complicated with the can-can to give it the pom pom shape and of course, there's no way you can tie the ribbon at the back of the gown on your own.

Thank you love for being patient and giving constructive feedbacks during the fitting. At least you didn't tell me that every piece that I've tried is nice! Ha-ha.

Chinese New Year (Dragon 2012)

新年快乐！

The yearly affair to visit He-Pan at the riverside

DRAGON

Not forgetting the yearly Chinese New Year wishes for good health, wealth and happiness!

Moo-Moo me!

Tstk tsk him!

The usual practice of every CNY, is to buy lots of goodies and drinks and store them at home. Yeah!

All time favorite regardless of race and ages~

Besides having all the delicious goodies, it's also the time of the year to beautify our nails! Bling Bling Bling... it's really really really more affordable to have your manicure done in JB then SG. 

With all done, our little prince was too tired and fell asleep while we continue with our shopping. Poor little one got 'decorated' while he was in his lala-land. 

Time flies and it's already CNY!!! Time for house visiting, some friendly gamble and non-stop steamboat feast~

Baby Jonas

Brother-in-law place

Mummy place

Dragon head~

Office! 

Biggest float accumulated through hours~ 

Cookie Monster and Elmo say "GONG XI FA CAI" too :)

Here's a summary of my CNY in a short brief, I had an excellent celebration with lots of fun and laughter with a group of family and friends, hope yours was great too! 

Have a wonderful DRAGON year!