Dress-trying

A BIG Thanks to all my gal frens who brought me their white dresses to try! I think I tried 8 white dresses this weekend! =) More coming up...

Fun Process

Edmund has been reminding me that the marriage is more than just the wedding ceremony. He feels we should be putting in more time into preparing for the marriage than preparing for the wedding.

I agree.

But I still care about the wedding preparations and I'm having loads of fun planning for the wedding. I love talking with fellow gal friends who are also preparing for their wedding next year. In fact, I've started talking more to some girls in church I seldom had the chance to talk to. I love catching up with long-time friends about their experience when they planned for their wedding.

I so appreciate friends who have offered their opinions, ideas and help eventhough they are miles and miles away.



To me, the wedding preparation is not stressful or troublesome! It's super fun in a girly way! =)

Photographer

We met up with Dominic for lunch today. He's a friend from university. Glad Edmund and Dominic got a chance to meet!

So we're in the midst of fixing a date for the pre-wedding shoot. Dominic feels that the earlier we do the pre-wedding shoot the better. His reason? Couples are generally more lovey-dovey nearer the proposal date whereas they tend to be more stressed nearer the wedding date. So that kinda affects the photos.

In the mean time, since I'm not wearing my actual gown for the pre-wedding shoot, Edmund needs to get his suit done sooner than expected and I'm going around borrowing white short dresses from gal friends!


Here's Dominic's website: www.whatisthesight.com

Shift

I finally decided to shift the blog from:

www.mywedding.com/edmundandsue


The layout is slightly more user/reader-friendly here!

Flowers

I spoke to the florist attached to the bridal studio today and learnt some stuff:-

* You get the best variety of flowers to choose from in Apr or May cos it's spring time! You can get peonies and ranunculus said the florist! (I had to surf the net to find out what these flowers look like!)

Peonies


* Try not to have your photoshoot on a Monday if you want special flowers from eg. Holland. Flowers only come in on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. So if you need your flowers for the photoshoot on a Monday, you'd be using Friday's batch of flowers.


Ranunculus


Will I ever need to use these information? Probably not!

I am so not a flowers person. Edmund's terribly pleased that I don't fancy flowers. I'd rather have ice cream any day! ;p

Love is the little things

Edmund's mum got us this box of cards that suggests little things you can do for/with your spouse. It's actually an effort of MCYS!


It's got some suggestions like:-

* have a midnight picnic in bed
* surprise your spouse with tickets to a special event or the movies
* shop for something for the house together

It'll probably come in handy for us cos we're not the most exciting couple around! ;p haha!

Settling the smaller stuff

Wedding planners always suggest that you should get the guest list done up and then book the appropriate venue for the wedding. However, quite a few of my friends getting married next year have been settling the smaller stuff 1st!

I have a friend who already bought her bridal shoes - 7 months before her wedding.



Another friend has already gotten her wedding bands - 12 months before her wedding.



Guess if you can't settle the big stuff just yet, might as well settle the little stuff 1st!

The 1st thing I actually settled was my wedding photographer!

He gets things done

I love the way Edmund gets things done. I never really have to bug him or remind him about things. (More like the other way round actually!) He's always on the ball!

Last night he suggested we try to finalise whatever wedding prep stuff we can finalise before the year ends and that made me happy. Once in awhile, it's nice to not have to remind/chase people for stuff. (cos I find myself doing that quite a bit in other situations with other people!)

Taken at Bentendo at Great World City on 11 Feb 08

Gals at work

Jasmine invited us girls to her house for a home-cooked meal. We had salad with caesar dressing & pine nuts, spaghetti carbonara, beef stew and an absolutely yummy yoghurt dessert!


After dinner, we proceeded to the living area to watch 'Made of Honor'. Loved the movie! It's always fun gushing with the gals!


If I had a hen's night party as simple and cosy as tonight's gathering, I'd be absolutely satisfied! A dessert pot-luck and a good chick-flick with my gal friends.

Cupcake drawing

My wacky, fun, creative and wonderful colleague-friend Jasmine drew cupcakes for everyone who was in office one day during her creative break. But because I wasn't around, I didn't get a cupcake drawing.

Today, I demanded for one and got this...


I got a "Sue-O-I'm-getting-married cupcake"!

Bridal Studio

After going to so many bridal studios to try on gowns with Carol and Audrey, I finally made up my mind and went down to pay the 1st deposit today.

The ironic thing is that I didn't see or try on a single dress from this studio.

It's quite strange how I stumbled into making this decision from a very casual question I asked an acquaintance over Facebook.

I've decided to have both gowns made-to-measure cos I'm a fussy-pot!

I scare myself sometimes. I hope I made the right decision!

Playing roles

I've attended countless weddings and the weddings I remember most fondly are those I helped out at. Just being involved made it so much more memorable!

I'm grateful for all my friends who have willingly said 'yes', some even volunteering to help out at the wedding without my asking! There are a few who have given me blank cheques cos I've ridiculously asked them to help even though I have not decided what help I wanted from them yet. Am I K.S. or what?!

I hope it'll be a fun and memorable time for them, although sometimes I feel paiseh for troubling them! Grateful and paiseh all at the same time!

Top-notch wedding photographer

The other day, 1 of the 10 brides-to-be's next year in church popped by the office. She's picking up photography and she showed us the website of 1 of the top 10 (2008) wedding photographers in America.

Check this out: http://www.jessicaclaire.net/index.cfm?postID=273

WOW!

I was quite kaepoh, so I went to look at the portfolios of some of the other 10 top wedding photographers. I'm absolutely not an expert in photography, so sometimes, I wonder...

If you can fork out about US$15K for a wedding photographer, you probably spent A LOT more on your wedding venue, cake, flowers, decoration... which all add to the WOW factor to the photos because of the WOW everything, no?

I'm not discrediting the photographers, but I'm thinking that the environment/surroundings really play a big role in having extraordinary photos...

Bridal photo viewing party

My ex-colleauge from DC, Cyntia, invited a small group of us to her house for her bridal photo viewing over dinner. She related to us the whole process of how she chose which bridal studio to go with, the promises they made, the help they didn't give, the photography process indoor and outdoors, as well as her feelings towards the final product.

We talked excitedly about how we loved the gowns from a particular bridal studio that is known for it's really beautiful but expensive gowns. At the end of the day, we all had to come down back to earth to meet our pre-set budgets.

To the bride-to-be who has gone gown-hunting, there is a difference between an expensive and less expensive gown. It is seen in the materials used, the feel of the gown and the service provided by the bridal studio. BUT this difference is often very minimal when you look at the large scale of things.

And after all this has been said, I'm going to qualify that the gown is still very important to me now. I'm willing to make some compromises but am still hanging on to some of my "must-have's".

Bridal Fashion Show

Mei Wan, my MGS classmate, invited me to the Bridal Veil (by Michelle HuiMin) fashion show tonight. Edmund wasn't free so I got Zin Ee to come along!

It was held at Amara Sanctuary Resort Sentosa. There was free-flow champagne, wine, canapes and cakes. I saw quite a few gowns I liked!

It was my 1st time:-
* at Amara Sanctuary Resort Sentosa
* at a fashion show
* getting complimentary valet services at a hotel (so nice! I'd already pulled out $20 just in case!)

I had a wonderful time... a big 'thank you' to Mei Wan! I'm glad we've kept in touched all these years!

Bridezilla

Bridezilla is a generic term used to describe a difficult, unpleasant, perfectionist bride who leaves aggravated family, friends and bridal vendors in her wake. A bridezilla is obsessed with her wedding as her perfect day and will disregard the feelings of the family, bridesmaids and even her groom in her quest for the perfect wedding.

(definition from Wikipedia)

I was first introduced to this term by my cousin Grace when she was preparing for her wedding several years back. (no, she was NOT a bridezilla)

If I morph into or have already become a bridezilla, can someone PLEASE tell me? I really don't want to leave a trail of destruction behind me.

I'm a perfectionist, I'm fussy and I'm wondering if I'm becoming a bit too obsessed about my wedding.