Our Plans - Sisters & Brothers Team~~~

Having a hard time trying to decide how many sisters and brothers in sister team and brother team... Too many people queuing to be my bridesmaid! *Ahem! Feeling proud!*

Of cos I need to filter and choose my bridesmaids... so if you are chosen, do feel proud k? haha.... *Thick Skin*

So because my Fiancé is really flexible in how many brothers he can have in his team, he leave it to me to decide how many brothers and sisters we can have... ^^

Now few things for me to put on my thinking caps (yeah... not just one but many thinking caps..)

• Is it possible for them to travel around in such big group? (Not a problem if we can have Tea Ceremony in the Hotel itself as do not have to travel here and there...)
• Is it possible to get bridesmaid dress for all of them??? (Not a problem if we just set a colour theme... and let them choose what they wanna wear through their own existing outfits.)
• Will some of the sisters / brothers be left out with nothing to do throughout the whole gatecrash? (Don't think this will be an issue as they will all be having fun! Even if it's just laughing aside ^^)

ROM Accessories - Bouquets

I always dreamt that I can really preserve and keep my bouquets that tends to wither away after some time. However, I can't unless I get a fake flower bouquet which may seems to be too dull.. Until one day, I saw this at The Chinese Wedding Shop over at Clementi Central.. and this gave me an idea that my wish can come true!!!

Sweet and Elegant isn't it? Not only I can keep it, it looks extremely elegant and nice as well! 30 to 40 years down the road I can even show this off to my grandchildren that I married their grandpa with this nice bouquet and our marriage last as long as this beautiful and special bouquet! But one disadvantage, it's too heavy.. so forget about it if you were to throw this bouquet for your fellow bridesmaids to catch ya?

This bouquet is either for sale or for rent and of course, its not as economy as what we think. Maybe because its a handmade product. Wait! Handmade? That means I can handmade one myself!!!

So I started searching online for some pictures of beautiful DIY Bouquets :)

And I realised that I have this fantasy on Shiny finishing Satin Roses! and look what I found on Youtube?

DIY Ribbon Rose

This is what I've been looking for!!!! Looks easy and I think I really have to give it a try since the time is still early I guess ^^

Website - Wedding Ideas!

For those of you who wanted to get a rough idea of what kind of wedding theme, gowns, decorations, you can check out http://for-my-wedding.com/ as they have heaps of ideas for you!

I personally hope that I can DIY almost everything... but you know... kinda impossible that I gonna make myself too busy on my wedding day... SO! I might take ideas from this site and ask my  coordinators to do the similar designs for me ^^

Our Plans - Musics in Banquet

Came across this on veryWed非常婚禮 on Facebook and I think it's kinda cool and I know I should post it here!

Some Translation for you guys:

1. Welcoming the Guests (Lively Music)
2. First March-in (Slow and Elegant Music)
3. Second March-in
4. Farewell to the Guests

Some pin points to take note when choosing musics:

• You can choose musics that are in foreign languages (e.g. Korean, Japanese), but please do check out their translated lyrics. (I am sure you don't wanna ruin your big day by playing songs which are nice in music but it turns out to be a Break-up song with sad lyrics right?)
• Better safe than sorry. (Choose the existing songs that people used instead of being UNIQUE to play safe.) 

For me ever since I met my Fiancé and decided to be his for the rest of my life, I wanted to make my March-in music as unique as possible. And since my Fiancé and I met through an arcade music game named "Jubeat", I thought of maybe we can choose music from Jubeat Album. Looks like this can be a challenge and I do really need to check out every single lyrics of Jubeat Music before we can decide on which music to use.

Anyway, just came across this song and I think its pretty cool, very lively and meaningful :)

刘佳 SARA - 爱很美 Love is Beautiful

Other nice songs fo march-ins :)

蔡依琳&陶喆 - 今天你要嫁给我
陶喆 - 愛很簡單

Enjoy the songs!

ROM Accessories - Bridal Shoes

I am a very clumsy person, even wearing sport shoes I will still trip and fall like nobody's business, so am planning to get a nice flats to be my bridal shoes and guess what I found?

A nice pair of silver glittering shoes for only SGD$26.90!!!*Hiak hiak hiak*

 

I've seen brides online bought extremely expensive shoes with bling blings all over the shoes that could cost them $50+++++.... What designers brand la, handmade la.... which contributes to the bombs that you gonna pay for.... Just imagine, will you ever wear it again after your wedding???? Plus that kind of price was kinda scary for a budget bride like ME! So this pair of shoes is definitely a good, great, or best deal I guess? Hehe.....

 

I am just one and a half head shorter than my boy boy... so I do not necessary need to wear that high heels to match his height and putting myself at risks of falling badly during my BIG day right?

 

Its abit plain, but am sure I can do some simple touchup to make it gorgeous looking! Just stay tuned ya? ^^

Hiccups - ROM Gown

By right I should be very happy received my dress within 2 weeks. But it seems like I over estimated my size that the dress is too big for me and that in order to fit in perfectly, I need to gain at least 10 - 20kg. Are you kidding me??? I still wanna loss weight and not gain weight! =.=""

Am lucky that I did not plan my ROM super last minute... Now I got several choices:

• Tailor it either by my mum who is a ex-worker of tailor factory (for free but will get scolding by ordering it online).
• Going out to ask people to tailor it for me (don't know whether will it cost alot).
• Sell this dress to someone else and buy a new one (suggested by my fiancé but I really love this dress).

Talked to my fiancé, and he suggested that push all the blame to him saying that he bought online and cannot fit me very well then ask my mum for help. So I will neither get scolding nor pay money for tailor it. Feel bad... But guess that's the only choice then...

Our plans - ROM

Planning of a grand but thrifty marriage is not an easy task... So we decided to start planning early so we do not have too much hiccups along the way to our official marriage. Plus , who wants to get married without having your man proposed to you?

Our initial plan is to get ROM done on 7th May 2014, But due to the time constraint + the Registry of Marriage is full on this day and that we need to find our own location to have our ROM, we decided to have it on 7th May 2015. And why so special about this date? Its our official date of being together in the year 2009 and we want this special date to be on our ROM Certificate! ^^

We decided that we should have a simple ROM ceremony in Registry of Marriage itself to save money, so we can invest more money on banquet. According to my research, most of the couples would choose to have a "simple" celebration by spending a few thousands of dollars on mainly venue + catering of food + décor etc..

So in order to save that trouble of planning, we decided to take my mum's advice of having it in Registry of Marriage itself instead of spending that "extra" money which most couple thought that it is a "necessity". And you might be surprised that Registry of Marriage itself is very well decorated with floral statues which makes a good background for photography. :) More over... it only cost you $26 for the entire event!

Initially I thought of going to Kelly's Bridal as they provide Custom Made Gowns and they never expect you to buy it, they rent your Custom Made gown to you!!! You know with the figure that I have, its not easy to get a Plus size dress with a cheaper price (Most Plus size gown/tea dress for ROM cost ranging from $80 - $200++). But I was like thinking, do we really need to spend so much money on ROM? Plus I really wanted to make my ROM gown my own so I decided to go my usual shopping website Qoo10.sg to have a look and guess what I found?

Pretty Plus size white tea dress for only $44.50 including shipping fees!

Isn't it gorgeous and that we need only less than $50 just to get a ROM dress that I can call it my own? ^^ So I decided that I will approach Kelly's Bridal for my banquet gown instead :) Because they provide bridal packages that can be custom made according to your needs and charge accordingly, whatever you need or you don need they can add in or remove for you... Isn't it a great deal?

Then for my fiancé, we decided that he will wear his usual formal wear, then will get a new tie with a colour that will match my accessories, another way of saving $$$$$$.

Hope everything will go well... *Fingers Crossed*