mega love for malaysian magic

I super love, mega love, ultra love this.

 

 

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By Wedding Planner: Hello Deer By Dear Has | Photography: Hafizudin Hamdan

Sigh. I can only wish, I guess.

magic from across the causeway (part #4)

You know how Singaporean Malay weddings should start looking like?

They should bloody hell start looking like this:

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(Source: Ratio Design)

I NAK KAHWIN KAT MALAYSIA, NAK KAHWIN KAT MALAYSIA JUGAK.

*stamps feet sampai lantai ada sinkhole*

Thanks to my dear friend Nurul from across the Causeway for the heads up! (Is it just me or is it almost your first wedding anniversary in two months plus already???) Told my mat to take a look at Ratio Design over the phone earlier and we couldn't stop gawking over the dais and decor designs!!! SOOO CANTIK I WANT TO PENGSAN!!! AND MERAUNG NAK KAHWING AT MALAYSIA!!! WAAAAARGHHH!!!

Haiz. Aaaaanyway. This awesome vendor from across the Causeway also does candy buffet tables, dulang gubahan and bridal bouquets which are as awesome as their decor works so please click click click on their Facebook link to enjoy their awesomeness okkkkk. Tapi I warning dulu yang you all will geram sendiri just like what happened to me - I saw their promo quote for 1 mini dais + 7 dulang gubahan + 1 hand bouquet + 200pieces of favours for RM2200. RM2200!!!!! That's, like, SGD900?!?!?! Mother bloody of cow lah seriously. SGD900 you bayar untuk taik hidung jelah kat sini.

While browsing through Ratio Design's FB, my mat actually pointed out one thing which I do agree with: One of the possible reasons why Malaysian decor always looks so much more gorgeous and fresh than ours might be because their dais seats are always sooooo nice and exquisite and oh so dreamy and their items are always very clean and well-maintained (as opposed to Singapore punya - even the good decorators punya items kadang kadang ada nampak macam berlapuk or tua, at least from what we've seen firsthand at other weddings, so we're actually quite resigned to that fact.) 

Some people might think we're gila but my mat and I actually fret over the kerusi pelamin that we're going to choose for our wedding okay hahaha what WHAT. We saaaaayang our chosen decorators sangat sangat with our jantung and limpa all but we really cannot decide which one of their kerusi pelamin we'll eventually choose because we're not too excited about any of them :/

Tapi takpe lah eh, yang penting, as long as ada kerusi untuk duduk kat pelamin tu dah cukup bagus. Nak dreamy dreamy sangat nanti our decorators campak katil kat pelamin baru tau. Ambik kau dream. Daaaaaaahhh jadi pelamin untuk baring instead of pelamin untuk duduk eh! Macam that time I nampak pelamin terbaring kat Simei! I know it's not funny when pelamin roboh but my first thought when I saw that unfortunate incident was not "Eh! Pelamin roboh!" but "Eh! Pelamin baring!" 

Pandai pandai je panggil pelamin orang pelamin baring eh.

[Note: I've blogged about Malaysian wedding and their vendors here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here before.]

magic from across the causeway (part #3)

I seriously cannot emphasize enough how freaking amazing Malaysian weddings are (Here we go again.)

In case you missed the boat because you suka hegeh megeh macam my chronic latecomer mamat, I've blogged about Malaysian weddings here, here and here before. Pergi tengok ok, I janji you tak rugi ape ape pun. Unless you memang allergic to weddings and tak suka tengok benda kahwing kahwing yang cantik ah. (In which case you really shouldn't be reading this wedding blog ah. FREAK!)

I don't even want to fawn or fuss or shriek over Malaysian weddings that I stumble across on the world wide web anymore. I penat. Penat hyperventilate bila tengok benda benda kahwin yang cantik cantik nak mampos from across the Causeway. You go see the pictures yourself, ok? Ok. Ready get set go.

(Source: Chenta Weddings)

KENAPA SOOOOO CUTE GILA NAK MAMPOS NI???!!!???!!!???!!! Aku suka tau!!!!!

Hahaha oops sorry hor, I know I'm not supposed to shriek tapi how to help it!!! I love their decor!!!!!

Credits to BeatitudineSG who recently sent me a follow request on Instagram!

Actually I was quite ready to click the X button when I received their follow request - I try not to follow companies or allow them to follow me on Instagram to avoid clutter on my Instagram feed unless I really do want their updates - but I saw that the bulk of their photos are of pretty gila weddings so I decided to approve their follow request and followed them back about two hours ago. No bleeding regrets because I saw a few of Chenta Weddings creations featured on their Instagram and have been trying not to hyperventilate ever since. Haha! They've also featured another Malaysian wedding decor company Merisik Gallery who does pretty wedding dais and decor as well and you can clickety click their link to check them out for inspiration.

Ahhhhh ok now that I dah warm up and am in my kahwing kahwing mood, I hope my mat and I can get some ideas and inspiration during our kahwing kahwing discussion later! And yes, we spend our weekends watching Running Man episodes and discussing benda kahwing now, gone are the days of partying and lepaking until the wee hours of the morning because we are already tua and zaman dah habis like that.

Will sure as hell miss this once it's over... (but I guess married life should be better than this, right? :D)

updates from the long weekend

Oooh! Saw pictures of Liyana Jasmay's pretty wedding reception over the weekend!

(Source: Mukhriz Latif Photography)

(Source: Ryaniez Moments Photography)

Super cute couple, prefer her nikah reception punya decor over her dinner reception's, thought her wedding dress for the dinner reception is pretty adorable! Love the ribbon detail in her hair as well, might want to have something like that for my dinner reception tee hee :D

Loved the sleekness of her bridesmaids' outfits and hair for the dinner reception...

... but seriously not digging their outfits during the nikah reception:

(Source: Ryaniez Moments Photography)

I don't know - the outfits macam inspired by baju Gregorian and seems really weird to me :/

But again - orang punya majlis, orang punya citarasa, yes?

(Post note: Ok, seems like she really likes this Gregorian style...)

Anyway, taaaaalking about bridesmaids' outfits - meeting my bridesmaids at the end of this month to get our cupcake fix, I'll be passing them their gifts (Very excited about this! Been keeping their gifts under wraps for close to a month now) aaaaand discuss about their outfits. Yay yay! Already prompted the girls to start looking for ideas and inspiration so we can hopefully decide on their outfit design on that day itself then we can terus head down to Arab Street to get the kain. Chop chop, settle the kettle, no need to wait for buah to jatuh.

I was actually planning on settling the bridesmaids' outfits only in April/May 2013 (before Ramadhan/Hari Raya period sets in) but as with all other things in this #kahwinkhronicles journey, someway somehow semua kena brought forward ha ha ha. I figured there's no harm in starting now anyway, because sekarang memang period kita tengah takde anything much to settle or decide so might as well use the free time, betul tak! Plus, this whole buy kain thingamajig is actually triggered by our parents' recent borong-memborong session of kain!

What happened was: I went for lunch with my family last Saturday, and since we didn't have any plans after that, I asked my mum whether she wanted to go recce for kain for our relatives. She's been talking about buying kain to give to our relatives so everyone can buat baju sepasang to pakai during my wedding, and I thought it was a good opportunity for kita sekeluarga to do something related to my wedding together.

The intention was really to just recce for fabrics after our lunch but once kita masuk the kedai kain at Arab Street, my mum said not to waste time (I think I take after her in this aspect heh heh heh) and terus proceeded to borong the prada lace that she wanted to buy for our relatives!!!

I called my mamat (who was out with his mum) to ask how much his mum paid for the prada lace she bought few weeks earlier to act as a gauge as to whether the price that the shop assistant was quoting us boleh considered reasonable and the price she paid earlier turned out to be higher! $9 per metre higher ok! Told her we were getting the kain at a much better discounted price and she immediately told my mamat that they'll make a trip down to the kedai at that moment jugak - she was planning to buy kain for their relatives anyway (sama lah macam my mum, nak semua orang pakai boriah), so it was a golden opportunity because she pun get to buy the kain at the same discounted price. Ala ala strike while the iron is still hot, y'know? 

Told my mum about it, and she told me (away from the store assistant's earshot) that the reason why she was keen to buy itu jam jugak was because the price that the store assistant initially quoted us was already considered cheaper than those quoted by other shops that she's been to. What made it even better was my supermother managed to bargain the price down to $7 less per metre than the initial quote!!!!!

Wah, seriously tabik all our mak-mak for their bargaining skillz, man. They all ada pergi some kind of sekolah mak-mak to learn such skillz is it?!?!?! Once I kahwin and have anak, can I enrol in this sekolah to belajar the skillz jugak?!?!?! Hur hur hur.

I think it also helped that the store assistant who attended to us was super duper nice and friendly and patient nak mampos!!! If you're interested, you can look for Nabilah (She calls herself "Ilah") from Princess Fabrics located at 96 Arab Street (sebelah Royal Fabrics). We eventually left with 10 bags in hand, even bumped into my mamat and his mum (who proceeded to borong kain for their relatives as well!) on our way out heh heh

But that was not the end of it - went back to the shop the next day with my mamat and my future in-laws to buy prada lace to letak on his dulang to me, and kain samping to letak on my dulang to him. We were too distracted by the borong memborong kekecohan the day before sampai kain for dulang sendiri pun lupa!

Really super glad for the Chinese New Year long weekend because it was a very fruitful period for us, wedding-related wise - besides finally buying the kain for our dulangs and for our relatives, my mamat and I managed to spend some time catching up on our favourite show together (SAYANG RUNNING MAN!), checked our wedding budget (we're on track!) and brainstormed ideas for our Save the Date, invitation cards and seating chart for dinner reception :D

Since we've firmed up the design that we want for the said three items, I went on to prepare the instructions and mock-up for my sister and emailed them over so she can start work on them:

After all, what are little (visual communications graduate) sisters for, right? :P

Really can't wait to see how they turn out!!!!! If my sister can get them done by next month, then the next thing we need to do is source for printing quotes... although I'll probably go down the malas route and just ask my cousin (the genius behind Dekor Geeks) whether she can pass us her printing contacts heh heh heh

Oh, also decided to scrape the Save the Date video idea because now I'm too malas to carry out the idea hahahahaha so we'll just do a simple e-card to send out to our friends nearer to our wedding date. Still trying to decide when we want to send our Save the Dates out though - 3 months before? 4 months before? Can't release it too early because our guests might forget, can't release it too late because it'll beat the purpose of Save the Dates then, which is for our guests to block their schedules and plan their holiday trips around our date.

Ok lah that's all for now! Off to research for ideas and inspiration for my bridesmaids' outfits!

Besok suspect kuat ambik MC because I'm doing this while nursing a fever and a bad sorethroat. Sakit sakit pun masih nak research pasal wedding eh. Ni lah my mother panggil, perangai bersemangat tak bertempat.