Catherine

Sunday, 25 May 2014

Pre wedding photos

We have took our pre wedding photographs at Taiwan. Overall experience for the photo shoot was good and fun. I was allowed to try quite a number of gowns. The only issue that I was unhappy of is they are quite limited on the gown that I can fit in. There is one gown that I try and yet they are unable to alter it.

During the makeup for the photo shoot, the makeup artist will check with me on my preferences. I wanted to have bigger eyes.

During the photo shoot, the photographer and the assistant was professional. They are humorous and they will guide us on how to pose for the shoot. We were satisfied with the result.

We have decided the layout of the albums and the printing of the albums were in progress. So excited to see the albums.

Tuesday, 20 May 2014

Wedding Gift

Few months ago, I met up with my uni friends. I was so surprised to receive a wedding gift from them. I didn't expect that to give wedding gift. They are such an amazing group of friends. I brought them over for our photo shoot in Taiwan. I will be bringing them to hotel on my wedding day too.

Friday, 14 March 2014

Flower bouquets for Bride Maids

I have also DIY flower bouquets for my bride maids. Basically I think it was quite easy to do it. Below are the basic steps:
1) Arranged the white and pink foam flowers
2) Taped them with the green tape
3) Covered up tape with ribbons

I want them to hold the flowers when they are taking the photos. Therefore, I have DIY the flower bouquets.

Flower Bouquets all my bride maids.

Materials used:
White and Pinks foam flowers from Daiso
White ribbon from Sing Ming Heng @ Chinatown
Green tape to tape the flowers together from Elsie Department Store @Ang Mo Kio
Pink ribbon from Golden Dragon Store @ Chinatown

Wrist Corsages

I have spent few weeks thinking on how to do the wrist corsages. I have finally completed the wrist corsages for my lovely bride maids.

6 wrist corsages for my lovely bride maids

The brooch can be taken out from the wrist corsages and used it separately

Materials used:

Ribbon bought from Daiso

Swarovski crystals bought from Sing Ming Heng @ Chinatown
White pearls from from Sing Ming Heng @ Chinatown
Brooch pins from Lai Guan Beads Mart @ Chinatown
Wires to tie the crystals and the brooch pin from Lai Guan Beads Mart @ Chinatown

You can also purchases the ribbon and the beads from Sing Ming Heng. They have a wide range of colours and thickness. Personally I feel that the stuffs at Sing Ming Heng is much cheaper than Lai Guan Beads Mart.

Monday, 9 September 2013

Wedding Date and Banquet

It was a relieved that we managed to confirm the date and venue to hold our wedding banquet. It is really hard to find a hotel banquet that are within our budget.

For banquet package, below are some of the important stuffs we are looking at:
1) How many tables for the ballroom?
2) How many pax per table?
3) Free flow of wine?
4) Free flow of beer?
5) Invitation card?
6) $$ per table?
7) Vegetarian food?

If you have a tight budget, it is important that you start to source for the venue more than one year in advance. I started to source for the venue in exact one year in advance. I feel that it hard to find the venue that is within my budget.

I am really happy that I managed to secure the ballroom of my desired wedding date. Other than that, my financial consultant also hold her wedding at the same ballroom as me. She has no complained at all from her guests. May all the things go well for me. Currently, the hotel it is waiting for me to collect the receipt and to sign the contract.

For wedding date, I got the date for the following websites:
1) Auspicious dates for wedding/marriage in 2014 | The 8th Voyager
http://voyager8.blogspot.sg/2013/01/auspicious-dates-for-weddingmarriage-in.html

2) Auspicious wedding dates: astrological test - Magic-Horoscope.com
http://magic-horoscope.com/wedding/

We didn't find a Fengshui Master to calculate the date. Therefore, I depend on both websites to find the date that are both auspicious in both websites. Glad that I managed to find one that is fall on the weekend.

Today, B is so sweet. He walked over to Macdonald to buy breakfast of me.

Monday, 12 August 2013

Bridal Gown

On 9 Aug 2013, I went out to meet my friends with B. I have suggested to go to far east plaza shop to look for gown. This is because my colleague told me that ZIYI is having a clearance sales. The shop is located at level 4 with unit no: 04-47.

The moment I stepped into the shop, I noticed the sale assistant was quite rude talking to another customer. I don't feel that the sale assistant was friendly. She served another customer which don't seem to be local more friendly. As there is not much of nice design and it is not pure white, my friend suggested to go to the other shop.

As I left the shop, I noticed that there is another shop selling more varieties of short gowns. The shop is Lisa Penny. It is located at level 2 with unit no: 02-63/70. The staff there is really friendly and helpful.

She introduced the range of gowns that were displayed in the shop such as for photo shoot, for ROM and for wedding day.

She has helped me to try the gown and recommended me a few pieces. I actually like one of the gown. However, it is last piece.

The price range for the short gowns are at affordable range. It is from $89.90 to $189.90.

However, there is feedback that their alteration was not good.