Please Find Your Seat Here

August 05, 2009

An important role of decoration is to bring together the theme, colors and wedding elements from the invitation card, to the table settings, to the reception.

We used the same Patina paper from our invitation for the table numbers and the guests escort cards. Simple, chic and it has beautifully unify our wedding elements. Guests' name will be printed on glossy photo paper and cut to perfection by mua.

You may think the table numbers are created as a after-fact. You are misguided.

The actual truth is ... back when we were still clueless about our invitation design and colors, we laid eyes on this Patina silver-moss green handmade paper from Paper Source and I could not resist buying a couple despite Ryan's objection.

Since then it was slowly integrated into our wedding deco and green became one of our colors. How did that happen? Nonetheless, I am proud to have made that decision then.

Todate, we have used up 10 sheets of this lovely paper for our stationary.

Scapebooking your blessings

August 03, 2009

I can easily spend hours and hours in Michaels browsing and lottering around the scapebook collection, admiring the glitter and beautifully printed papers, wondering where and how I can use them in our wedding.

By the 2nd hour ... I suddenly ask about our guest book, what are we doing about it? what type of guest book is most suited for us? I remembered Becky was indifferent on the eve of her wedding becoz she was not able to pick a guest book, basically they ended up with notepad where guests can scribble their blessings, and they can use for scrape-booking later.

I have a better idea, how about our guests do our scapebook with their blessings during the cocktail hour?

that will be our guestbook to keep forever :-D I think our guests can be occupied and be creative, while we have wonderful memories. Perfect!

I was so proud of myself that I spend the next 2 hours, looking for beautiful scape papers, tons of stickers, labels, tags and embellishments. Of coz this is with Ryan's thumbs up. And I happily headed home to put together the guestbook.

This is the final product ... 2 of them.

The papers are beautiful, and I have our Save The Date card in the first page to encourage our guests to start scapebooking their blessings for us. there will be a photo booth and printer for guests to take their pictures and paste in here.

Guests, you better come prepared to be creative.

Gown Anxiety

August 09, 2009

Today is Singapore National Day, I missed the celebration, parade and fireworks. Of coz I have been busy ... making cranes. I am proud that I made slightly more than 100 cranes so far, and still going.
It might have derail my blogging progress a little heehee ... i need to get back on track.

Good news and not so good news ... my evening gown is ready, 4 weeks ahead of schedule, thats awesome. Maybe that also explained the not so good news, my sister don't think Val's workmanship is up to par, and she has been scrutinizing the gown with an eagle eye. While I, was really pleased to find my younger sister stepped up to her role and bargain with Val for her to fix several unsatisfactory areas.

Also today I received my evening gown, I am filled with curosity and nervousness, I want to see the gown but I am very worried about the fit and the unsatisafctory areas my sister mentioned.

With much anxiety, I tried it on .....

Phew!! the overall fit very nicely, not too tight, but the top is not done per my M Lhuillier's version. It keeps falling forward, somehow there needs to be a better way to secure the piece of lace. I listed 10 improvements and will be sending it back to Singapore. This is a costly and time-consuming process ... this time it will be until Sept before I can see the gown again. At least Yvette agrees it looks nice, money while worth.