Mr Koh gave me a surprise today - Christmas Present!
He bought me a Samsung Camera - PL150.
This camera has duo screen, so it is really good for self photo taking.
Happy to receive a present! Love you, dear.
I had my hair extension done today! The end result is good and I received complements from friends and colleagues. Although it is quite costly, but I think worth the $$.
I really wish I will have long hair, but I know my hair & scalp condition very well.
I have fine & thin hair, and I think I am now suffering from hair loss (although the doctor said it is Normal), so I don't think I can have long hair.
Anyway, with the help of hair extension or wig, girls can have their dream hairstyle within few hours or a night!
Enjoy the process of writing the invitation cards..
We will send out the wedding invitation card this week, finally one step forward!
Our wedding invitation card - The monogram (right top corner) is designed by JL.
Total 9 of us participated in this event!
A wonderful experience, we conquered the tallest hotel in southeast Asia.
A pair of couples wearing suite & gown to participate in love bird category! Today is their wedding day! It is so sweet and unique..
I wish to do this kind of thing, but Mr Koh strongly reject the idea! He hates the attention..
Right decision or wrong decision?
I am not a good gambler, is there any trick to make sure I will be the winner?
My current task is to tie a ribbon for all the bubble tubes, but I am facing a problem now.
I don't really know how to tie a pretty ribbon, and now I have to tie 80 ribbons..
Managed to settle around 20 tubes so far, but I am not happy with it, I find it very ugly, how??
We sent our wedding bands for engraving today.
Initially wanted to do Chinese wording + date, but it will costs $45 per ring, so total will be $90!
After few rounds of discussion, we have decided on Signature + Memo, total costs will be $60.
Message in our ring:
[Signature] [Date] [MSG]
Went down to Chinatown alone to purchase some of the items from those traditional bridal stores.
Spent more than hundreds to get few items, EXPENSIVE!
I still need to buy bowls, pajamas, slippers, a tray to hold 8 mandarin oranges..
3 more weeks to our actual day..
Mr Koh just informed me his father wants to invite 10 of his friends to our solemnization.
Now we have to reduce 10 confirmed guests from the list, luckily cards haven't send out yet.
Now we have to rearrange the tables due to unforeseen circumstances.
The request is too sudden, but partially is our fault, cause we didn't take this into consideration, but appreciate if he can preempt us earlier.
Now pray Mr Koh will pass his 2 exams, stress & tired..
Can someone tell me which one is nice? I have no idea which design to choose..
Option A is easy to tie
Option B is time consuming
This weekend Mr Koh and I received 2 wedding invitation , so hereby to wish them have a blissful marriage
We plan to go honeymoon 2 years later, so Mr Koh decided to bring me to Golden Palm Tree - Sepang to have a pre honeymoon first ( as compensation, haha )
Dubai has one also...
We choose the premier traveler villa, this villa elegantly stands on stilts with high ceiling covered with Alang-Alang roofing that offers a warm ambience of the nature. The villa comes with a romantic four-poster king size bed. An outdoor private terrace with deck chairs offers a view of the Straits of Malacca.
- Choice of daily meals served in any of our restaurants including In-Room dining
- Open bar (all day) beverages include house wines, beers and spirits.
- Return airport transfer
- Complimentary coach transfer to and from Kuala Lumpur City Center (Conditions applied)
- Complimentary usage of resort facilities and activities such as gym, swimming pool, high speed internet access, beach and water activities, biking, canoe, windsurfing, Frisbee, beach volley, cart sailing, yoga and fitness activities
Oops, I just realized this trip (accommodation & flight) is more expensive than our Bali trip, to be exact is 50-60% more!! An expensive short getaway!
Finally IdoIdo sent our photos for printing.
The photos taken by Howard are very nice & beautiful, but the skill of their designer let me down!
The album fail to show the scenery of Bali and the Balinese building we have visited.
Anyway, we gave up in the album designing, and requested them to send us the album by end of Nov.
The album should play the role of "telling" our love story, and now my album is not a normal photo album.
Who to blame? The planner ? The bridal studio ? ME?
Criminal 1 - ME
I am the one insisted to go Bali to have the pre-wedding photo shoot..
Criminal 2 - Planner
The bridal studio is recommended by the planner, the planner didn't do a good job..
So who is the culprit?
Mr Nice Guy
The Mr. Nice guy is Mr.Koh, cause he made my dream came true! *sweet*
I am planning to celebrate Mr Koh's birthday in Phuket, and AirAsia is having promotion now, so I decided to give him a surprise.
Due to my carelessness, we are going for 6 days and 5 nights holiday.
The initial plan is to have a romantic getaway on 18 Jul to 22 Jul, but I choose the wrong date..
I didn't put attention to the "DATE" field, I just focus on seat number, insurance, card numbers, personal information and flight time but not DATE!
I am travelling to Thailand every July of the year, so it becomes my ANNUAL trip.
Bloody hell, I made the same mistake again! I kept telling myself to be careful, but yet I fell in the hole AGAIN!
I COULDN'T BELIEVE IT!
2 years ago, I booked the wrong hotel for the Phuket trip.
Now, I booked the wrong date for the return flight to SG.
It is a curse..
Butterfly Place Card
eBay is selling it also, and the price is 50% cheaper! I should check out the website 1st heart broken
at least the place cards are my hard work.
Wedding Program
Designed 4 templates, but due to my poor skill (I dunno how to use Photoshop), so I can only design the object one by one, and then combine all of them using cut & paste.
The end result is blur & not clear, low resolution. I have to seek help from expert 1, now waiting for her advise.
Chair Decoration
Since I throw away the fake diamonds/crystals, so I have to replenish the stock before I can start my work. I also need to find card board, or something hard to support the paper.. where can I get it? May be tomorrow I need to visit Popular bookstore.
Hand Bouquet
Received all the materials, but will only start assemble them next weekends. Too early to start the project
Wedding Favor - Candy
Time to hunt for candies.. What should I buy?? chocolate bar or sweets? any idea?
Wedding Favor - Bubble Tube
80 tubes are waiting for me to dress them up, but I don't feel like doing it yet.
Ring Pillow Decoration
Just need to print out the template, as simple as that, but I haven't do the design, why? Because I don't feel like doing it.
There are so many things waiting for me to settle, I think settle the most important thing 1st.
1. Butterfly place card - DONE
2. Wedding Program - must be ready by this Sunday! (I need to send it out together with the invitation card)
3. Bubble Tube Decoration
4. Hand Bouquet
5. Candy Shopping
6. Chair Decoration
7. Ring Pillow Decoration
Initially wanted to accompany my parents to distribute the cakes on 5-Nov to 8-Nov, but mum said the auspicious day to distribute wedding cakes is 11-Nov, so I can't join in the fun!
So today they will distribute the cakes and cards to my relatives and their friends.
Luckily my parents are willingly to help.
Mr Koh and I are leaving tonight, I don't feel like going back, but I cant. Cause I have no money, I need $$..
Updated list:
- 4 gowns on photo shooting day
- 2 gowns on actual day (1 white, 1 purple)
- 1 coat on actual day (black color)
- Car decoration with bears
- Hand Bouquet (Lily)
- 12' x 18' big album - 20 pages (38 poses)
- 10' x 12' medium album - 20 pages (38 poses)
- 8' x 12' medium album - 20 pages (20 poses)
- 24' x 36' photo with frame (bed frame photo) - 1 pc
- 10' x 12' photo with frame - 2 pcs
- 4' x 6' photo with post card - 100 pcs (5 poses)
- 1 DVD - 86 poses with 2 songs
- 1 CDR - 86 poses with edited photos
- 2 CDR - 433 poses (raw copy)
- 1 4R mini album (photos from big album)
- 8' x 12' guest book
- 8R crystal frame photo - 1 pc
Total price is RM1995 + RM60 (ampule) + RM450 (actual day make up) + RM1000 (Medium Size album) + RM500 (raw copies) + RM500 (deposits) + RM60 (NuBra) + RM40 (Nails) = RM4695
Today we need to settle a lot of things, we need to choose album templates, album cover design, frame, photos, hand bouquet, car decoration, guest book design, actual day gown, evening gown and coat.
Stage 1: Actual Day Attires Selection
First thing to do is to confirm on my actual day gown. Elaine show me a gown with butterfly design. The gown and the butterfly place card looks like a set. So, I decide to have this as my actual day gown.
As for the evening gown, initially the red color evening gown will be my actual day evening gown, but Shelby suggested me to try the purple color evening gown and actually it looks great on me..
So my actual day gowns will be different from photos one, wonder how will I look like with make up & hair styling..
Stage 1 clear!
Stage 2: Album Cover Design
We already have some design in mind, so we just tell them what we want. We manage to clear this stage in less than 20 minutes! We are efficient!
Stage 3: Hand Bouquet
Previously I wanted to have lily as my hand bouquet, but the planner told me it will costs me more than SGD200. Reason is lily has to import from oversea. So I have no choice to give up my Lily and use artificial roses as my hand bouquet (SG).
KG surprised me with the wide range of hand bouquets. They actually provide lily! I fulfilled my dream of having lily as my wedding bouquet.
Stage 4: Album/Photo Design Template
To save designer's effort & time, KG actually provided 100 templates for client to choose, so the designer will design the album based on client's taste. This is a very smart trick! So if the design is not nice, they can push the ball back to client. If the client want to change the work, you have to pay additional RM300.. expensive!
So after browsing through the whole stack of templates, we manage to choose 20 out of 100++
They said the designer will try to design the album based on our selection, so lets cross our finger, everything will look perfect~!
Stage 5: Stress........ Photo Selection
In total, Shelby took 433 photos yesterday. 50/433 = 1/8! OMG... how to choose?
1st round: We selected 230+ photo.. but still alot.. So we went for lunch to catch a breathe.. how how how??
2nd round: After few rounds of discussion, 86/230+ are our cup of tea. but 86 photos still alot.. Our package only can choose 50 photos, so I need to pay additional RM360 for 36 photos.
3rd round: Due to the additional 36 photos, Elaine recommended us to get a new medium size album, and it is cheaper than adding pages to existing albums. I do agree with her.. So in total we pay RM1000 for a new album, here is the breakdown: RM360 (36 photos) + RM150 (Designer's work) + RM700 (20 pages) = RM1010 - RM10 discount = RM1000
Now, my package become RM1995 + RM1000 = RM2995, still cheaper than Bali one..
4th round: I requested to have the raw copies of all selected photos, but Elaine misunderstood my intention and called her boss for quotation of all the photos. The boss charge me RM600 for 433 photos! We are shocked but still reasonable (if compare with SG). So.. we just keep quiet..
Stage 5: Bed frame photo, photo for parents, post card and guest book..
Another headache again, but the pain is lesser than previous one. So clear it easily.
Final Stage: Should we purchase all the raw photos?
We really like the photos! So I told myself if I manage to bargain the price from RM600 to RM500, I will get it. To try my luck, I asked Elaine again and she is ok with the deal. Mr Koh and I are damn shocked, we couldn't believe it. It is such a good deal, 1 photo = RM1.50, damn cheap! So my another RM500 gone... *cry*
Stages all cleared! Time to go home~
Oh No! Another 30 days I will become Mrs, stress.. Wonder what is the feeling?
Today is the day to transform me from a little ugly duck to an elegant swan!
We need to reach the studio by 10a.m, so I woke up around 6a.m to help my parents but due to time constraint, I couldn't accompany my mother for breakfast. I need to apply whitening masks and also pack our bags.
After breakfast, Mr Koh and I went down to the studio directly, we reached there around 940a.m but the studio is not open yet! I couldn't believe it. If they have appointment @ 10a.m, they should come in early to open the doors for their customer. End up, Mr Koh and I waited more than 20 minutes..
The schedule of the day:
1. Casual - Jerseys, Venue - Indoor Studio
2. Sweet & young - Gown with pearls & lace, Venue - Indoor Studio
3. Elegant - Cream color "cheong sum" gown, Venue - Red Bridge
4. Elegant - White gown with red color ribbons, Venue - Clock Tower & Kelly Castle
5. Elegant - Red color evening gown, Venue - Kelly Castle & Indoor Studio
Initially the weather is sunny & good, blue sky with white clouds. The make up artist and photographer even joke with us, we are very lucky to have such a wonderful weather.
However after we came back from red bridge, the weather changed 180 degree. Dark clouds, windy and drizzling. So we need to rush thing up and quickly move on to next venue - Kelly Castle.
On our way to Kelly Castle, it is raining heavily. Everyone is praying to god. When we reach Kelly Castle, it is just drizzling.. But weather is really unpredictable, suddenly heavy downpours. Mr Koh and the rest were drenched, I have special privilege to use umbrella (cause I am wearing gown)!
On our way back to studio, it is heavy downpour! I couldn't see at all!
Just imagined you are wearing fake lashes, wig, hair accessories, nail art and gown and you are driving, there are 4 persons in the car, and this is the 1st time you visit the place.. do you know how stress it can be? I was telling myself to concentrate, drive slowly and calm.. Pray to god nothing will happen..
Luckily we reached the studio safe & sound.
We ended the day with indoor shoot!
I find that this trip is more fun & less tiring. The style of this photographer is very different from Bali one!
Mr Koh agreed with me, at least they bother to help Mr Koh to style his hair, apply ampules for him, make up, touch up and let him try on different style of coat.
Tomorrow is another tiring day, we need to choose the actual day gown, evening gown, suite, hand bouquet, car decoration, corsage, album covers, album frames, album design template, photos. I guess I can camp there more than 6-8 hours.
I want to see the photos!
Mr Koh and I went down to Parade Mall to collect our wedding cards, the card is cute, but the end result looks different from the computer image.
Eric added few wrinkles for Mr Koh, he wants to make him look older & mature than me. (thanks Eric)!
This is a very unique and personalized cards! We like it..
Mr Koh and I went down to Keep Gallery to choose my gowns for tomorrow shooting. Although I have chosen 4 gowns during the last visit, but I do not like the "Orange" color evening gown. It makes me look tanned!
After trying more than 5-7 gowns, I have decided on the cheong sum.
Beside gown fitting & selection, we need to decide on the venue. Initially I want to go Ipoh Railway Station, Sunway Lagoon, Kelly Castle and a place with lake. After the assistant showed the "ready made" photos to Mr Koh, he rejected the idea of going to Railway Station.
So after few rounds of discussion, we decided on the route: Indoor -> Red Bridge -> Clock Tower -> Kelly Castle.
Now is time to go shopping (need to buy a pair of Man-U jerseys) and collect our wedding invitation cards =)
Time to enjoy~
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I have finished the 1st DIY project finally..
In total I have prepared 108 butterflies in 6 different colors, 1 table 1 color 1 design.
Time to start the 2nd project.. I will only do it after my Ipoh trip
Jia you, babe =)
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This is my secret garden and my secret is no longer a secret, cause this is a public blog.
I shouldn't share my secret with anyone even Mr Koh, cause secret is meant to be kept!
So I wrote a little program to encrypt the content to protect myself and you!
My secret is safe now, no one has the password except me! Hacker can decrypt the content easily, but this is not my concern, cause I am not keeping any important data, e.g. bank number & password..
This is my secret garden, respect it!