The Pre-Wedding Preparations (Part 1)

Realized that my entry on my pre-wedding preparations will be as long as the Great Wall of China punya nenek moyang if I dump everything together in one entry so I'm going to break it down into 3 parts! Kirakan ada sequel triquel ala ala Hollywood blockbuster lah gitu.  

As we all know, about 3 weeks before the wedding I still had time and breathing space to blog about preparations but bila part dah masuk second last week, hah ambik kau obat. I started getting emails and text messages from my vendors, asking me to confirm this and approve that and approve this and confirm that! Sampai naik pusing macam gasing aku dibuatnye.

And that was when I knew my wedding was definitely creeping up on me (Take note eh guys!!! Once korangnye email inbox and Whatsapp inbox start jamming and beeping non-stop, maka itulah tanda tanda hari yang berbahagia dah nak sampai). I was so busy macam bee sampai niat nak kasi one short short good good entry before I became a wife pun tak kesampaian.

2 October 2013 (Revised on 28 October 2013)

Finalized Songlist For Dinner Reception

I think I pernah cakap that I was very pleased with my mamat for preparing our dinner reception songlist all by himself! I've mentioned here before that my mamat was put in charge of the songlist for our dinner reception because he is the more musically-inclined between us two and I've also mentioned here that I loved how he took the initiative to include the duration of each song so it'll be easier for us to kira how long the whole songlist will take. So much sayang for saya punya significant other yang sorang ni! :D

Now I just want to sebok sebok posting a screenshot of the Excel spreadsheet which my mamat prepared for our songlist! *beams*

And since we've decided to share our tak seberapa songlist after the wedding is over, here it is! :D

Guest Arrival

01. Dealova - Once (Youtube)

02. For The Rest of my Life - Maher Zain (Youtube)

03. Fallen - Lauren Wood (Youtube)

04. Turn Me On - Norah Jones (Youtube)

05. Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye (Youtube)

06. Beautiful As You - All 4 One (Youtube)

07. Just You and Me - Zee Avi (Youtube)

08. Reasons to Love You - Meiko (Youtube)

09. I Won't Give Up - Jason Mraz (Youtube)

 

March In

01. Love is Endless by Mozella (Youtube)

Dinner Reception

01. Lovable - Kim Jong Kook (Youtube)

02. Near or Far - Carissa Rae (Youtube)

03. Darling It's You - David Choi & Clara C (Youtube)

04. Treasure - Bruno Mars (Youtube)

05. Love is Easy - McFly (Youtube)

06. I Think I'm in Love - Mocca (Youtube)

07. You Make Me Happy - Cathy Heller (Youtube)

08. The Best Thing - Mocca (Youtube)

09. The Way I Am - Ingrid Michaelson (Youtube)

10. We're Good Together - Cathy Heller (Youtube)

11. Quando Quando Quando - Michael Buble ft Nelly Furtado (Youtube)

12. A Thousand Years - Christina Perri (Youtube)

13. Greatest Story Ever Told - Oliver James (Youtube)

14. My Heart - Acha Septriasa & Irwansyah (Youtube)

15. Terukir Di Bintang - Yuna (Youtube)

16. I Do Adore - Mindy Gledhill (Youtube)

17. Best in Me - Blue (Youtube)

18. I'm Yours - Jason Mraz (Youtube)

19. You're Home To Me - Cathy Heller (Youtube)

20. Little Things - One Direction (Youtube)

21. I Swear - All 4 One (Youtube)

22. God Must Have Spent a Little More Time on You - N'SYNC (Youtube)

23. All My Life - K-Ci & Jojo (Youtube)

24. I Do (Cherish You) - 98 Degrees (Youtube)

25. Everyday I Love You - Boyzone (Youtube)

26. You And I - Ingrid Michealson (Youtube)

27. Lucky - Jason Mraz & Colbie Caillat (Youtube)

28. Missin' You Like Crazy - Us (Youtube)

29. Stuck on You - Meiko (Youtube)

30. I Need A Girl - Taeyang (Youtube)

31. I Do - Colbie Caillat (Youtube)

32. Two - Lenka (Youtube)

33. True Love - Pink (Youtube)

33. Sayang - Shae (Youtube)

34. Love on Top - Beyonce (Youtube)

35. Lucky - Pharrell Williams ft Daft Punk (Youtube)

36. Nothing on You - Bruno Mars ft B.O.B (Youtube)

37. Turn Up the Love - Far East Movement (Youtube)

38. Brighter than the Sun - Colbie Caillat (Youtube)

39. Something 'bout Love - David Archuleta (Youtube)

(On hindsight, I regret not remembering to include Selena Gomez's I Love You Like a Love Song and Lindsey Ray's You Make Me Happy into the list!!! Sigh pie lemon pie.)

We spent quite a fair bit of time on this, and even though we're ~pretty~ sure our guests didn't even pay attention to the music since everyone was so busy eating and chatting and conquering the photobooth lol, it was really nice to hear snippets of the music that both of us love and enjoy throughout the dinner reception. Ada satu part I even whispered to my mamat after I caught the both of us humming along to the same part of a song "Entah entah orang tak dengar pun lagu ape ni, kita dua je yang enjoy the music haha"

So aaaaanyway, our songlist is a happy mix of: 

• music that has meaning to our relationship (think True Love by Pink and Dealova by Once)

• music which is radio-friendly (like Lucky by Jason Mraz and Colbie Caillat and Little Things by One Direction)

• music which brings us back to our teenage memories (cue the legendary God Must Have Spent a Little More Time on You by N'Sync and I Do (Cherish You) by 98 Degrees), 

• cute music which we - okay, I - like and listen to (such as You Make Me Happy by Cathy Heller and Darling It's You by David Choi and Clara C); as well as 

• catchy tunes which can guarantee earworms for the next few days (that's Lucky by Pharrell Williams ft Daft Punk, Treasure by Bruno Mars and Turn Up the Love by Far East Movement for you. I decided not to include Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines into the mix in the end because of my apprehension mentioned here. Meh.)

We didn't have a specific songlist for the afternoon reception - except for a short list of must-haves which my mother-in-law provided - so we left that to the good hands of our trusty entertainment people from Medialite.

Oooh, a little cerita about our march-in song: it was initially supposed to be Everyday I Love You by Boyzone tau but it was too much of a snoozefest zzzzz and ignited groans from our orang orang kuat hahaha EH KORANG YANG TAK NAK JOGET BILA TIME MASUK APE (I've explained why we couldn't do a fun dancing entrance which is more reflective of our personalities here). Seriously itu lagu memang sappy and soothing ah but the only way to walk in to that song is to freaking sleepwalk, can?!

So we did a trial run on Mozella's Love is Endless, which is one of our favourite songs and has a faster beat, managed to get the right pace for the march-in (at 2 bloody am, one week before the wedding haha more on this in another entry) and tadaaaaa~ itulah al-kisahnye. 

Actually kita punya first choice is Treasure by Bruno Mars ah but tak boleh because the pace turned out all weird and cacat. I mean, how the hell do you just walk in selamba bomba to Bruno Mars' Treasure?!?!?! That lagu is the kind yang kena goyang punggung inul segala sak.

12 October 2013 - 13 October 2013

Printed DIY signages and table numbers

Etc Etc Etc

During the weekend before Hari Raya Aidiladha, I bought an extra pair of heels from Payless (which turned out to be maha useful because end up that extra pair lagi kena with my sanding and dinner outfits than the first pair that I bought in JB!) and printed out some of the DIY stuff, which I blogged about here. Itu time masih ada kuasa ah nak berblogging hahaha

After that there was a lot of movement during this period, which involved finalizing the necessary permission from Temasek Polytechnic for the outdoor photoshoot, booking the minibus for transportation (my usual go-to for minibus - Aunty Nancy from Million Bus!), chasing Compass for the license application approval, passing the colour samples that we bought from Princess (Arab Street) to the relevant vendors, etc etc etc x 100 etcs.

13 October 2013 (Sunday)

Confirmation of Guestbook Table and Dessert Tier Mock Up 
from Dessert Artisans

One of the emails that I was maha excited to receive was the one from Dessert Artisans, attaching the moodboards for our wedding dessert tier and the guest reception table setup for our dinner reception!!!!!

We got the complimentary guest reception table setup when we signed up with Dessert Artisans at Jentayu Gallery's wedding exhibition last year so if you thought our reception table was gor to the geous, it was all thanks to the talented hands of the amazing Dessert Artisans!

Wish I can show y'all all of their hand-drawn moodboards but I just kasi sneak peek of the dessert tier moodboard je okay, since I'm not sure if they're okay with me posting the actual moodboards wholesale:

Moodboard je dah cantik lah siakkkkk. APAKAH MAKSUD SEMUA INI?!?!?!?!?!

Needless to say, the actual day punya setup blew my mind to the moon and back. Sesangatlah terhutang budi to Nani, who is my bridesmaid and my mamat's female equivalent, because she was the one who planted this idea into my head and eventually sponsored this!!!!! I will share more about the dessert tier setup and guest reception table when I do the final review on Dessert Artisans in a separate entry. You all please sabar menanti.

14 October 2013 (Monday)

Received Actual Bridal Bouquet from Woodleigh Park

I was also very excited when I received an email from Woodleigh Park a day before Hari Raya Aidiladha, asking me to approve the colours, materials and accessories collected together to make my bridal bouquet!!!!!!! There was no freaking way I could have not given my approval lah seriously - all the pieces are so gorgeous and so exquisite and SO ARGH aku tak tau ape lagi nak cakap because seriously boleh membawaku ke tangisan kegembiraan *sandiwara*

Here's a picture of the materials and accessories which Woodleigh Park emailed to me for my approval... cut by a third so as not to reveal everything hehehe:

Fast forward a few days later, guess what arrived at my doorstep that very same weekend?????

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Mehehehehe! You cannot really see it here in the picture but baru pegang kotak my tangan dah terketar ketar kegembiraan seh. Nasib baik my tangan cannot nangis kegembiraan okay. Kalau my tangan boleh nangis kegembiraan..........

... okay lah, tak lah, seram lah pulak eh kalau tangan boleh nangis kegembiraan?! Hur hur hur.

A picture of my favourite piece out of the whole bouquet and the super cute detail at the handle! MEGA LOVE!

Oh, and can you see that little bit of white fabric with gold embellishment? I was prancing around my middle sister's bedroom and excitedly showing her the bouquet when she, being the selamba bomba person that she is, actually said in her ~usual~ selamba bomba manner: "Eh bouquet kakak macam pakai baju kurung." WTF INI ANAK HAHAHAHAHA NI TREND BARU LAH MANA KAU TAU

Bouquet aku pun pandai tertib lah okay, pakai baju kurung pergi majlis orang kahwin. Takkan nak pakai translucent kebaya top and tight leggings ketat tersendat kat bontot pergi majlis orang kahwin kan. Kan tak manis, my friend.

Alright, just sneak peeks for now but suspect kuat I'll spam pictures of my bridal bouquet in its front angle, back angle, side angle, top angle, bottom angle, right angle, left angle, cross section angle, acute angle and obtuse angle segala once I do a proper final review!!! Don't say I never say ah.

Oh, one of the good things about opting for a corsage bouquet (since I'm not a fan of fresh flowers, so sakit hati when they layu okay D:) - is the fact that I get to receive the bouquet wayyyyy before my wedding day and I get to keep the bouquet for keepsake thereafter! Even if tak nak or tak boleh keep in bouquet form, at least boleh simpan the accessories and brooches as kenang kenangan, you know???

And yes, if you also want to have a super gorgeous customized bridal bouquet to compliment your outfit colours on your wedding day but not yet convinced (WHY???), you can take a look at Woodleigh Parks' other works on their Facebook here and their Instagram here. Kalau dah convinced maha convinced then ape lagi, terus email them lah!!!!!

[Note: Woodleigh Park is a design brand by Facelift Design.]

Tapi tau ape yang lagi best tak??? 

Woodleigh Park is currently running a promotion that runs until 23rd November 2013, y'all!!!!! All you need to do is ask them about the promotion brochure via email before 23rd November 2013 to get the details tau. So must cepat cepat!

Okay lah, akak rasa that's all for now, yang lain akak sambung another day.

[Edit: Part 2 is out! To read more, click here.]

if you're looking for favours...

Splash Cart is organizing an open house for future brides and grooms to check out their wedding favour offers during the Deevapali PH weekend!!! Which is 2nd and 3rd November lah.

(Source: Splash Cart)

I've dealt with the good people of Splash Cart once when I bought a Happy Call pan for my mum and they were reliable and prompt with my order! So if you're looking for wedding favours, and they have something you're looking for then you might want to give their open house a shot :D

lelong lelong! promo promo!

Having a no frills solemnization and wedding reception in 1 day for only 10 hours and only want to spend $1000 for good quality videography?

No problemo! Ada Rolling Frames promo!

 (Source: Rolling Frames)

Meh I share satu sample of their videography for a recent wedding event eh:

Dzul Fazly & Marsita _ Wedding Reception from Rolling Frames on Vimeo.

Quite good right the quality?!?!?! Akak approve okay!

Cuma I don't really like the music from the first portion but well, that's just a personal preference lah kan. And eh I super love the gorgeous wedding that's inside the video above lor!!!

I first mentioned it here and to see the whole lawa setup in video is lagi best lah seh. From the decor to the outfits to the food (this one I'm just being biased lah, because food is from my own caterer hahahahaha), everything is mad love. MAD LOVE, I TELL YA.

Even the couple are good lookers and look so lovely with each other!!! I usually don't fancy pengantins wearing cermin mata on their wedding day but this pengantin lelaki made it work so well, man. Maybe because cermin mata dia memang cool in the first place ah haha. 

(Check out aspiring aunty and uncle bob at 4:27 and 7:51!!! Come I clap for you all nak tak? Haha. In case you're not sure siapa ni uncle bob that I'm talking about, I pernah ceritakan here.)

To watch more of the awesome work from Rolling Frames, you can click here to go to their Vimeo page, read up more about them on their website here or check out their Facebook here. $1000 is cheap cheap good good hor!

Tetapi kan, kalau even that is not cheap cheap good good enough for you and you want yang lagi value for money... how does $1188 for both photography and videography sounds???

Sounds like your kocek is not going to koyak besar after all, right????? Hahahahaha.

Sample video!!!

Huzaini+Hanani | Wedding Highlights from Diziq Vidz motion pictures on Vimeo.

More of their videos here and Diziq Vidz Motion Pictures are stalkable and contactable here.

Tapi this one you must move sepantas kilat, petir bercampur taufan because their promo sekejap, from 3rd to 6th October aje!!! Ni kirakan macam flash sale lah gitu. 

Okay, going to start finishing up and pushing out all my entries now, aku asyik tunda tunda sampai ada draft entries and emails backlog. Sorry lah geng, tengah busy period kan ni, what with this month being the last month before our wedding month hits (!!!!!) and lagi lagi the year-end madness in office dah start its full force. Akak pun got a full-time office job to do okay, must earn money to fund the wedding and life thereafter ma. Takkan nak bayar wedding vendors, bayar HDB and bayar renovation contractors dengan kertas and rumput kan.

this one's for you, 2015!

Wahhhhh very excited to see what NuruddynAF Photography has to offer 2015 BTBs!!!

 

Click images to enlarge.

(Source: NuruddynAF Photography)

I've been following NuruddynAF Photography for awhile now but it was only in recent times that I took notice of his work because makin lama macam makin dahsyat, can?! Especially their pre/post-wedding photoshoots. I suka! Very stylo milo ovaltine.

2014 BTBs yang belum book any photographers might want to try and book his services if you like what you see in his Facebook account too but sorry eh for you all you all yang akan kahwing in November 2014 or December 2014 - dorang dah fully booked da...

You all macam tak biasa pulak. Part part book vendors for local Malay weddings kan memang macam gini. Siapa cepat, dia dapat!

oh embun, oh two, oh lola!

For those who were asking for pictures of Versari Ade's bridal outfits presented at Jentayu Gallery's Wedding Exhibition a few weeks ago, make sure you hop hop hopping over to Versari Ade's Facebook because they've posted some on Facebook already! Hehe.

Some pictures from their Embun collection:

(Source: Versari Ade)

Wahlauweh. Cannot wait to go through the racks of Versari Ade now lor. 

Three more months (to our outfit selection) ok guys!!! :O :O :O

(Jentayu Gallery has also posted official pictures of the wedding exhibition on their Facebook so remember to go check them out.)

And since I'm here, can I just express my heartiest congratulations to my chosen invitation card designer 'From Fran With Love' for hitting her first thousand 'likes' on Facebook?!!! Just in time for anniversary lagi ok! You all boleh dapat 10% off promo sempena FFWL's anniversary ok!

(Source: From Fran With Love)

Wheeeee!!! (I wheeeee untuk you all ok, because I dah tak boleh wheeeee for myself sebab dah book From Fran With Love in April gitu so tak dapat lah this promo. Hur hur.)

Anyway, anyway.

Finally bought the last maha last barang dulang last weekend and we finally got down to business - took measurements and pictures of our barang barang dulang and compiled them together with information on our chosen colours and theme into one Microsoft Word document before sending it over to Ola Lola. 

Here is a picture of my mat tengah semangat ambik gambar one of the barang dulang, siap dengan lampu spotlight segala hahahahahaha:

YAY, SETTLE! Really glad we eventually decided on the same (awesome) service provider for both our dulang gubahan because it makes things sooooo much more easier lor.

Oh, we also took the time to watch videos of all the tok tok kadi doing their thing for akad nikah in the videos listed in one of my previous entries and he has already listed down his Top 5 tok kadi choices - will only know our luck and fate in the next two days so I'll be back with news! Sit tight, guys.

where is the love?

Ooh, such a classy and gorgeous affair captured by the good old CST Singapore!

Wedding Highlights of Azlan+Eriyana from CST SINGAPORE on Vimeo.

Mad love the bridal outfits by Fatimah Mohsin the Wedding Gallery, by the way!!!

Oh, and if you love the video as much as I diddddd.....

(Source: CST Singapore)

POW WOW WOW SO LUCKY, CAN. 

When we engaged CST Singapore at MegaXpress' wedding exhibition last year, we had a verrry good discount off their usual charges but this promo, my friends, is sooo much better than the one we got ok! So if you're still looking for videography for your wedding and you're interested in CST Singapore, you tunggu ape lagi ni?! HARI RAYA HAJI?!

jom kita innovate!

New promo from Innovazione Gubahans for this lovely month of May! 

If y'all nak tau, Innovazione Gubahans was actually one of our top choices for gubahan when we first set out on this wedding preparation journey! Seriously think their gubahan work became prettier and more up to date since we last considered their gubahan services. Dari dulu memang dah pretty lah - if not why would we even consider them in the first place kan hur hur - tapi sekarang makin better and prettier and I, for one, am always fond of vendors yang ikut peredaran zaman, y'know! Come you tengok sendiri:

Very cantik! I've always preferred gubahans that are simple and "clean" and I think Innovazione Gubahans fits that bill swee swee, so if you share the same sentiments as me then Innovazione Gubahan are the ones you need to seriously consider ok. Super reasonable price + Complementary gubahan colours = Akak give two thumbs up! If akak ada tiga thumbs macam Hrithik Roshan, akak dah kasi tiga thumbs up dah.

(My mat and I are still trying to figure out what to do for the uniformity of our barang dulangs, by the way. We agreed that all our items must be in black - with the exception of our rings, my duit hantaran and one gadget that we reaaally wanted but only comes in silver (the packaging's black, though) - the problem now is two or three of our items comes in red and blue packaging so tak kena dengan our colour scheme!!! Must remember to ask Ola Lola (our dulang gubahan people) for their expert advice.)

Ok patah balek to the main story - as you can see from their May promotion, they also do photography for wedding events and outdoor photoshoots. Sample works lai la lai la~

(Source: Innovazione Gubahans)

Kalau you're the kind yang suka kill two birds with one stone then this May promotion package from Innovazione Gubahans might just be the one for you hor! 

Anyway, just thought I'd mention this sementara tengah ada mood nak berblogging - remember I previously mentioned about lack of local vendors who provide DIY photobooth props punya service? Right after I published that entry, tiba tiba macam one after another lah seh that kind of vendor keluar at my Facebook newsfeed. Haha! 

So now to add to Nina from Tweexis Little Booth, there's also Fabuloustix Moments, Whimsi Whisk (only pre-orders + not customized), Pretty White Veil (only pre-orders + not customized) and of course the faaabulous Le Papier Project launched by one of our darling bride-to-be, Chase The Bride! So bagus right bride-to-be sekarang, so many choices for so many categories of wedding-related items to choose from! Cuma kalau you're the kind yang fickle-minded then maybe not so good lah kan nanti berbuih mulut sebab tak tau mana satu nak choose hahaha

Oh oh oh! Can I also mention how happy I am that Zudyra Creation has started providing backdrops for their print-and-snap photo services??? Again, super love vendors who do not practise perangai katak bawah tempurung and are always improving or adding value to their services from time to time. Just last two months I mentioned choosing a snap-and-print service because they offered a backdrop (I know there are photobooths who offer backdrops but this is different from snap-and-print services) and now Zudrya Creation pun dah ada! Yay to more options for fellow bakal pengantins! Hehe.

(Source: Zudrya Creation)

You know, I think there is a high possibility I won't delete several wedding vendors off my Facebook list for this exact reason - it's always lovely and heartening to see our local Malay wedding vendors increase their standards, offer better services and prettier styles of work. I've to admit I can't run away from starting to prep up for the next stage of lives now though, so I have started deleting so-so wedding-related vendors off my Facebook the past few months to make space for interior decor and design-related ones. 

It's about time, really - my mat and I met Ashik and Fisz when we went out with our primary school friends for dinner and karaoke last Friday and we started talking about our upcoming BTO flats. FYI, we've scored flats within the same development and will be staying a few blocks away from each other! Ashik and I currently live sebelah block so when we found we'll be block neighbours again at our new houses, I mockingly accused Ashik of stalking me into my new life hahahahaha. 

Anyway, conversation steered towards the possibility of getting our flats earlier than the projected Q3 of 2014 because of super cepat nak mampos construction (sampai you'd think HDB dah employ The Flash to build our flats instead of bangla construction workers sia) so if God be willing, we might just get our flat before Ramadhan next year. Which means... time to start working on our #konstructionkhronicles, y'all!

Apek kontractor, LU TUNGGU. This time next year gua datang cari lu ok.