I have decided to custom made my actual day wedding gown!!!!

t was a very last minute decision.... I happened to come across this gown when I was surfing the net. It was really love at first sight. I simply love the design of this gown!!! It's a tube ball gown with alot of white fur and behind is tie back... looks very fairytale, v dreamy..

I approached this bridal shop to custom made the gown to my size. As I need it urgently, they mention that they can rush my order within 1 mth. At the same time, they offered me alot of free gifts: Veil/ Can Can/ Gloves/ Necklace & Earrings/ Tiara. It's almost perfect. Everything is there. I placed my order instantly. hehehe... Below is a glimpse of how my gown will look like.

Hope it will look good on me. Can't wait to see the end result.

Special Pre Wedding Photoshoot in Singapore

One day when I was surfing the brides forum, I came across this freelance photographer under Episode Photography....Since I had taken my photos only in Malaysia, I was very interested in this photoshoot package. So I decided to approach him for more details.

Episode Photography package of $650 (John Teo )
-> Photoshoot for 4 to 5hours
-> 20 full resolution/ Edited photos given back in soft copy & printed in 8R
-> Any additional photos required will be charged $40 per piece

Thinking it was quite reasonable, we decided to try it out. We have fixed the photoshoot location (The Singapore Zoo) as I wish to take photos with the horse carriage.. Checked out with the personel in the zoo and understand that I can actually just pay the admission fee and enter the zoo to take photos.

Roughly the cost will be as follow
Admission tickets (Gregory/ Catherine/ Catherine mum/ PG): $18 x 4 pax = $72
Horse carriage: $6 x 2 pax = $12
Elephant ride: $8 x 2 pax = $16
Total: $100

As for the makeover, I was looking around for a few makeup artists. Ask them for quotes on ROM makeover as I just need a simple hairstyle. The cheapest I can find is Celest and confirmed her on the spot.

http://www.facebook.com/celestlai

She's charging me $100 for the ROM makeup and it consist of makeover/hairstyling/ fake eye lashes/ampoule.

The photoshoot details had been confirmed as follow

Date: 11 September 2010
Photoshoot Venue: Singapore Zoo
Time for MUA to reach my house: 9am
Time to meet the PG at zoo entrance: 12pm
Duration for photoshoot: 12pm to 6pm
Gown: The one i bought from HK/ Bridesmaid gown from dressmeup

Hopefully everything turns out well.

Jay chou world tour concert 2010 (24th July 2010)

Woohoo.... I took a break from my wedding preparation and went for Jay Chou concert at the indoor stadium on Saturday (24th July). It took me alot of effort and time to buy the tickets as it was selling like hotcakes. The concert tickets ran out within 2 hours.

The sistic website was down early in the morning due to heavy traffic and we have to keep refreshing the screen till we reached the booking page. Was glad that we got the tickets. hehehe..... Even though we get the 2nd cheapest tickets (wanted to buy the more expensive one, but was sold out), the seating plan was not too bad... Managed to get a close up picture of Jay Chou.

The concert was really fantastic with the 3D stage effects. For almost half the concert, I was standing and swinging my LED stick to support my idol... Felt young again. hehehehe.... Was super high that night. Singing along with my idol, yelling and screaming at his name. hahaha... That was awesome!!!!!

Hope to see Jay Chou again soon. hehehe...

We have filed our ROM!!! Exactly 3 more months to go...

Early in the morning, we log into the ROM official website to file our marriage... Realised that the fee cost $26. Arhhhh.....Cute Gregory commented: Shouldn't the government absorb this cost since they are encouraging Singaporeans to get married and start a family. Sounds logical. hahaha.. but no choice lah... now still got to pay.

We were assigned a slot on 20th October 2010 between 8.30am to 9.30am to collect our cert. What a bad timing!!! My bridal studio is closed on Wed.. or else we can do everything on the same day. It's weird to collect the cert in the morning and go back to work in the afternoon... Wondering whether we should take a full day leave on that day.

Flowers....

Following the confirmation of my actual day wedding gown, I emailed the pictures to my florist, Lindt to design the wedding flower bouquet. The colour theme for my wedding is white, pink & purple.

For our church wedding, we will be using white & pink gerberas + Purple Forget-me-not as our main flowers to decorate the pews, altar flower arrangement, table reception flower arrangement etc. Gerberas represent innocence, purity & cheerfulness whereas forget-me not represent true love & memories. Great combination huh?

As for wedding flower bouquet, in order to look different from the church deco, we have confirmed using fuschia pink roses + white & purple eustomas. Isn't it nice and sweet? Below are the sample of flowers used.

Pink roses represents the glow of your smile & perfect happiness... As for Eustomas, not sure about the meaning. haha.. but it seems to complement well with my pink roses. hehehe...

A meet up with our solemniser today...

Right after work, we rushed down for our appointment with our solemniser, Father Edmund Chong at Church of St Joseph Bukit Timah which was scheduled at 7.30pm.

Father Edmund was very nice to guide us through the whole procedure. To make the whole atmosphere more lively, he cracked alot of jokes during the session. One of the joke which i can still remember was during the saying of vows, the nervous bride pronounced "fidelity" as "fertility".. it really make us laugh non stop. Hope I don't make such error on my wedding day. hahaha.. so malu...

We will be having a wedding service instead of a mass at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church because I'm a non Catholic. We have roughly done our church wedding slides, so he went through very slide with us to see whether any amendments to be made. Luckily there were not many errors. The whole session lasted for an hour or so. Cute Gregory will do the necessary amendments tonight.

As for me, I will keep the JP consent form safely in one corner as I need to produce the original copy when i go down to collect the ROM cert.

Yeah..... Another 2 more days to filing of marriage!!!!

A sneak preview of my white and pink gown....

Cute Gregory bought me a white and pink gown to match my fairytale theme... Will I look like a princess on my wedding day? I will be wearing this for my wedding banquet 1st march in.