Disappointment

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*

Bali ♥ Photos Received

Wow, I have received the edited version.

We are quite disappointed with the end result. They have removed those unwanted objects, like strangers on the beach, unwanted plants, unwanted rubbish.

But with too much lightening, the photos taken on Nikko look weird. The backgrounds are too bright, end up we were like standing in front of the white background to have the shoot.

Mr Koh's face color tone and skin color tone are totally different, he is like wearing the wrong face powder color, it is too white for him. So we will tell the designer to change the face color to match the skin color. If not he will have 2 different color tone.

We have replied the studio..

Hi Adit,

I find that the groom face, which is my face, is too white. I would prefer it to be in its original tone.

All the photos taken in Nikon Beach, is too loud. I cant really see the beach and the sky in the background. Can you soften the contrast?

Thank you.

Bali Trip ♥ Day 3: Photo Selection + Review on the Bridal Studio

The photos are so NICE! We are so loving and pretty in the photos, happy to see the nice photos.

We are satisfied with the quality of the photo, however we realized all the couples actually have the same background.

Here are some of the good points:

1. Staff are friendly and nice.

2. Make up artist will follow you the whole day, so you will look great in all the photos.

3. Lunch are provided.

And also the bad points (no one is perfect!):

1. Not honest with the location

2. Can only go to "recommended" venues.

3. Can only choose 1 gown, although they said I have 2 designer gowns, sarong is not considered gown!

4. Not flexible with the album design, we wanted to have more photos in the album, they charged us USD 20 per photo, but they are not going to add the pages in the album, they will just resize our photo (make the photo smaller) to squeeze in more photos in 10 pages! 

So before you purchase any bridal package with an oversea studio, do the negotiation yourself. 

Do not depend on your planner. When thing screw up, the planner will not be able to help you.  

Remember to have a copy of all the emails, so at least you know what you are purchasing and who you are talking to.

Always ask and try to ask for free stuffs! I failed to do this cause I have an inexperienced planner.

Bali Trip ♥ Day 2 : Our Important Day~

Finally today has come, we are so excited, wake up early in the morning to do mask, just to look perfect & good in front of the camera, but end up I still look tired without make up.

Reach the studio around 950a.m, changed the gown and start to do my make up!

Mr Koh said I look different with the bridal make up and the make up is damn thick, but it is still not able to cover my eye bags and dark cycles.

The make up artist actually applied 3 layers of fake lashes on my eyes and she took around 2 hours to finish my make up & hair do. Both of us are happy with the end result.

So we are ready to go!

The program of the day:
1. Temple (Balinese Culture) with gown
2. Private Beach (Beach, Sun) with gown
3. Seminyak Beach (Sunset) with sarong

The weather is bad, the whole evening is drizzling, so the photographer couldn't capture the nice sunset, damn sad =(

But we are actually consider very lucky, cause I have 2 personal make up artists and 2 personal photographers!

Anyway, I really miss the process and the fun..

Bali Trip ♥ Day 1 : Gown Selection

After checking in the resort, we go to the studio immediately.

It is a mistake to walk from Harris to the bridal studio, the whole journey took us more than 1.5 hours!  (The hotel receptionist gave us the wrong information, she told us the journey will ONLY take less than 20 minutes.)  I really want to cry and I lost my temper when I reach the studio.


When we finally decided to give up, we found the studio! Sat down and have a quick discussion with the wedding coordinator, then we realized we can only choose the venue from the predefined venues, we are not allow/encourage to go to places we want to visit, we are so disappointing.. we really want to go volcano to have our photo shoot.

After some discussion and bargain with the coordinator and manager, we finally settle down on the route, we will travel to 3 places to have our photo shoot. So it is time to choose my gown!

Another disappointment!!! I only have less then 5 gowns to choose! I wanted to try/choose other gowns but the sales is like not happy with me. So end up I only get to try on 4 gowns! They have given me 2 tube gowns and another 2 with straps.. 4 gowns are with long train.. Luckily I look great in the 4th gown, if not I really want to cry..

Mr Koh looks prefect and smart in his white outfit! They only offered him 1 set of outfit to try! SAD

I can't stop laughing when he appeared in front of me! SHOCK! This is the 1st time he is presented in this formal & handsome look, he usually dress in sports & jeans wear..

We settle on 1st outfit, so time to choose our 2nd outfit..Previously I though we can have 2 wedding gowns, but the 2nd outfit actually is a sarong - a beach wear.. SAD SAD SAD

Mr Koh's 2nd outfit also not from designer selection, just a simple white t-shirt & vest.

We do not have the breathe to argue with them again, so decided to save the breathe and take it on what they have suggested and offered! (Some people might think we are not firm, but the whole package is liaise by the planner, so we don't have much information.. the tot of shouldn't engage planner show up in our mind again!)


Our 1st experience with the studio ended in "good" shape, now we just have to go back to hotel and get ready for the day 2 photo shoot..

Bali Trip ♥ Journey to the East

I always want to go Bali, so I insist to go Bali to take my wedding photo shoot.

Sad to say, Bali is not as pretty as I thought, not as clean as I imagined, anyway it is not a wonderful experience..

Some of the taxi drivers and service crews are forcing us to give tips, disappointing..

The road condition are in bad shape, roads are silent/hidden killers, holes are everywhere.. even the locals are upset with the condition..

Luckily we are not affected by the external bad factors, we went to 2 high end restaurants to have our dinner during the trip - Hard Rock Cafe & an Italian restaurant.

We also visited the spa services in Harris, we took the King & Queen pkg and it is Rph425000 per person. It is a 2 hrs massage with Foot bath, aromatherapy massage, lulur kuning (body scrub), milk bath with rose petals and exotic oil massage. It is fantastic!

If I want to go back to Bali, I will stay in those resort with private beach. I will try not to stay in Kuta anymore, Kuta beach is too commercialize.

Anyway, Bali has a very clean and nice beach!

Preparation for the Photo Shoot

I wanted to rebond (straightening) and color my hair one week before the photo shooting, but after asking the makeup artist, I decided to postpone the idea of "making" my messy hair to mid of Oct.

According to the makeup artist, it will be very difficult for her to style my hair and all the set up (e.g.: curl) will not last more than an hour.

So beside advise on hair,  here are the things she suggested me to do:
1. Remove unwanted hair
2. Clean my nails (so, should I get a pedicure and manicure?)
3. Wear a strapless and skin color bra, or Nu-Bra (Bought 2 bras from Triumph)
4. No make up on photo shooting day
5. Wash and blow dry your hair and do not apply any hair cream/oil/products to your hair.
6.  Do not drink too much water the night before to avoid panda eyes.
7. Sleep early to avoid dark circles (So, I want to get sleeping bills from doctor!)
8. Bring makeup remover and slipper.
9. Bring tissue and wet-tissues.
10. Bring 2 water bottle and straw (easy to drink)
11. Umbrella
12. Camera
13. Wear a button top, so easy to take off.

I have a heart attack!

Mr Koh and I met up with Karen, and I shared our pre-wedding photo package with her. She is very disappointed with the package we have purchased!

She analyst the whole situation with us.

1. we do not know how many shots are they going to take?

2. besides the 20 photos in album and CD, what other items do we have? example: postcard? 8R photos? or 12 photos? 

3. How many gowns can we choose? 

4. Because of the tight schedule, they have to alter the gown in a day. So how are they going to do it?

I feel stress and angry, the planner didn't ask all that questions for us!

We should engage an experience planner! 

Bali Prewedding Photo Trip

Yeah, the trip is confirmed, we are flying to Bali to take our wedding photo on October.

Our planner engaged a studio in Bali to do the pre-wedding photo trip, the studio has more than 18 years experiences in Taiwan. The name of the studio is Ido Ido Bali.

The studio is near Kuta beach, so we decided to stay in Harris Kuta Resort.

I am so excited and happy.

Finally we have taken one step forward.

Yeah~