1st meet up with my Jie Meis

Time flies! Its a month to our big day!

Had met up with my Jie Meis this evening. My jie meis are Lena, Karin, Xiao Yun and Pei Ru. They are my good friends who I'm closer to and had kept in contact.

This is my 1st official gathering at Rocky Master at Marina Square. I chose this place because it is not crowded (in fact, empty).

We had a little warming up session to get to know each other and a some discussion on what to do on early morning that day. I also passed them a list about their roles for the daytime segment.

Its a fruitful meet up and I will most probably arrange another meetup to brief them the details of the wedding day.

Guo Da Li's cakes ordered

I ordered cakes on the behalf of William's family for our coming Guo Da Li (bethroal). They had empowered us to order cakes we like and will be using ang pow to represent cake.

I surfed through a few websites. Shortlisted KYO cake house, sweetest moments and Chocz confectionery. All three have delivery service. I decided on Sweetest moments in the end because of the price, personalised card and presentation of the food.

A pair of champagne glasses

Lena, who is my buddy aka my "pa" had recently came back from Germany after 9 months of training by her company. I met her up for shopping last weekend.

She passed me this lovely gift which she had bought online in Germany. This gift is for William and myself. I like it very much because the picture of the couple looks very cute. Thank you pa! I have not shown this to William yet. My pa hopes that we could use it during our wedding banquet. I hope that I can use them too! If cannot, we could use them during other special occasions like pator anniversary, rom anniversary, wedding anniversary, valentine's day and our birthdays!

As William and I are not don't drink alcoholic stuff much, most probably it will be sparkling grape juices and soft drinks!

Our food tasting

Its our food tasting session today! We had its as our lunch at the Square restauant in Furama Riverfront. Both sides of our family members participated in this session.

The food tasting session is just like sitting together and eating banquet food. The restaurant would provide the menu with a remarks section at the end of each dish which we had selected. We can put our feedback in the remarks section.

Overall is food is very good. We are satisfied with most of the dishes we had eaten. Only, some slight changes with the cold dish and feedback on noodles and dessert.

The photoshoot photos uploaded!

Jus uploaded the photos. Its one the main page of my blog. Enjoy!

Reviewing edited wedding photoshoot photos

We went to Yvonne Creative in the evening to review our selected edited photos today. We spent about 2 hrs there.

The photo editor uncle showed us our edited photo and make the necessary amendments after we reviewed them. We also chose our big portait and table top photos.

After which, he cropped the photos in front of us to fit our 15R and 5R photo albums. Selected our front cover material too. Our album will be those simple album with no special layout.

He gave us a soft copy of the edited photos and I will upload the photos in the blog soon! Stay tune!

Wedding customs and wedding shop information

On and off, I would visit Sg brides forum to read my favourite thread regarding wedding related topics.

One of the thread was discussing about chinese customs stuff like guo da li and dowry. They were sharing where to get the stuff from.

I find this website which they shared useful, so I decided to put the link here.
http://www.worldoffortune.com/WOF/FY/index.php

There also this wedding shop which they recommend.
Chop Kwong Mee Blk 4 Sago Lane #01-127

We have not do much for the guo da li, an chuan and dowry yet. This will definitely come useful if we need them.

Email invitations

As our big day comes nearer, I have to think about doing an email invitations for my friends and colleagues.

How should I go about doing a nice e-invite? I think I have to do a few drafts 1st.

Our website URL also in Chinese Metaphysics Gobal Consulting URL

Last weekend, I received an email from Master Tong, a fengshui master (Chinese Metaphysics global consulting) who calculated our wedding date.

He told me that he saw and complimented our wedding website. I was very surprised and happy. As I only give my web address to the people I know, I was curious how he got to know and I asked him. He shared with me how he got to my website. He also wanted to included my web address in his website too and I'm very happy to share with others our wedding preparations!

Proposed songs for the wedding

I have been trying to look for nice songs for my wedding. Here are some of the songs which I'm considering to use.

1. All my life - KC and JoJo
2. Fly me to the moon - Jazzamor
3. Sway - Michael Buble
4. Dream a little dream of me - Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald
5. Can't smile without you - Barry Manillow
6. Sometimes when we touch - Rod Steward
7. Stand by me - Ben E. king
8. What a wonderful world - Louis Armstrong
9. First Love - Utada Hikaru
10. L-O-V-E - Nat King Cole
11. Unforgettable - Nat King & Natalie Cole
12. Lover's Concerto - Kelly Chen
13. Happy together - Simple Plan
14. Brown Eyes - Destiny's Child
15. Always - Alantic Starr
16. What makes you different - Backstreet Boys
17. I promise you (With everything I am) - Backstreet Boys
18. I lay my love on you - Westlife
19. One in this world - Haylie Duff
20. Amor - Ricky Martin
21. For you I will - Monica

Our wedding 90 day plan

The 90 day plan idea is adopted from my company (As shown below). As our wedding is coming close to 90 days, I have decided to use it as a planning tool to work on the tasks required to do to work towards the wedding. Hopefully my hubby finds it useful too.

Wedding card inserts printer

It was our 1st visit to Focal Ad whom we engaged them to print our wedding cards inserts. We selected our insert and wording colour (ivory and matt gold respectively). Stephen who was the in-charge also guided us on the approriate contents to put inside the inserts. He would give us a draft in three days time and would be ready in 1 week after confirming the draft.

Just selected our photos!

Together with my sis and Xiao Yun, we went to select my photoshoot photos yesterday. As my hubby had something on, he did not come along but picked us up when we left.

I heard about many horror stories from friends and colleagues about bridal studios pushing and pressing couples to top up photos and even became hostile to couples if they did not top up. I was quite worried about this. My friends suggested to bring friends along to select photos because they would be more rational which photos looks good.

We took less than an hour to shortlist and selected the photos. We selected 30 photos and 1 of which was converted from 1 of my items in my wedding package. (I was entitled to 29 photos in my package) Although my coordinator did recommend me select top up to 45 photos to do those pretty magazine style layout kind of photo album, we felt that it was not neccessary. My coordinator did not push me further; she was busy with another client (no time to entertian me which was good for me). :)

Conclusion: If you want to do your photo selection, choose a day like a weekend which bridal studios are usually busy. The staff would not have to entertian you and you can choose your photos in peace. They would also won't have to persude you to top up photos. Do bring friends along, they can help you to decide on which photos are good.

Last of all, I want to thank Xiao Yun and my sis for giving me frank opinions and help me to select and decide on photos so quickly.

Its our photoshoot today!

Its an exciting day for us today! Our photoshoot day. Our make up artist is May and photographer is Chris. Here are some of photos taken before our each segment of our indoor photoshoot.

As for our outdoor photoshoot, we went to a few places like Ben & Jerrys @ Dempsy Hill, Hort Park Entrance, field at Wincester Road and Henderson Waves. It was a smooth and fun photoshooting time. We can even eat ice cream at Ben & Jerrys!

A short gown for outdoor photoshoot

I had another round of gown selection today. My mom and bro accompanied me.









I selected 1 more gown for our outdoor photoshoot. I had chosen this short gown. I think it look very cute and princessy!

Thanks to my little bro who had help me to give his opinions on gowns I tried and selected them very quickly. Also thanks to Denise and Yvonne for helping me to try on the gowns.

Racky photoshoot locations

My hubby and myself went to racky a few photoshooting location for our wedding. They are labrador park, HortPark and a swing at Hyderbad Road.

It was a hot and sunny day today, even though it drizzled a little while as we left the HortPark.

I dun really like Labrador Park because there are a lot of ants! As I will be wearing a bridal gown for our photoshoot, there will definitely them climbing up my gown! No way!

I like the HortPark the best; it has many beautiful garden landscaping. My hubby likes it too. We feel that we will spend a lot of time there if we are to do a photoshoot there. Below are a few pic taken at the HortPark. There is a pedestrian bridge called Alexander Arch nearby and we could take some photos there too.

Nearby the HortPark, there used to be a swing at Hyberabad Road. It only left a sting now with a old tire now.

Selection of groom's attire

Sorry, no pics of groom's suit for now. My hubby make to measured his trousers at YC yesterday. As YC will be providing us 2 coats (white and black), he made a pair of white trousers. He will be wearing his own black pants.

We will be getting a simple white coat with collar and a half mandarin collar for the black coat.

I will take a few pics of my hubby when he does his fitting in a few weeks time.

Things to bring for photoshoot.

Although our photoshoot will be in a month's time. I have started thinking what to bring for the activity. I also looked through some references from my friends and forum friends.

This is the list:

1. mini fan
2. umbrella
3. sunblock
4. tissue and towel
5. water and snacks
6. blotters
7. panadol and ointment
8. lipstick, blusher and loose powder
9. slippers or track shoes

Kindly advice if I had left out anything else. :)

Our wedding car reserved

My hubby suggested a spacious car such as Toyota Estima for our wedding car initally. I don't mind having this car being our wedding car.

Then he came across this Audi A6 through his friend and found it very suitable to be a wedding car. He consult his other buddies which car he should use and all replied him "Audi!" . They reminded him that a wedding is once a life time occasion and should use a more luxury car for this occasion.

He noted their point and I found it ok, hence, he went ahead to book this Audi A6 as our wedding car.

Our Honeymoon flight booked!

By Edna:

I'm very happy today because I'm have booked our honeymoon flight with permission from my hubby! Although our honeymoon will be early next year, it is better to book the air tickets early especially I can get the tickets at a special price and also other charges like the fuel might increase if I book later.

This is also the first time that I can book my seats in advance, so I had booked window seats for our return trips. So fun and I'm looking forward to our trip!