excuse me. excuse me.: My Wedding [11.11.11

Uhh, where do i begin.

This is why i shouldn't be lazy updating the blog. Lucky this is a blog, if it's the old Mr Diary, the diary wouldve been thinner(byk kenak bisak sbb salah tulis) or dirty (mala kensel2 salah tulis).

Anywho, this is a diary entry, and if you are reading this, you can skip directly to the pictures, but i am telling the short stories of my preparation before the pictures.

Ok, so lets divide this thing into categories:

The Place:

We chose Kuching Park Hotel as the place for both of our receptions; as it will be easier, it was a full package - tables,chairs,PA system,food,door gift,cake,and the waiters. The only downside was that max tables to be fit in is 50. Now there goes the hardest part, to shortlist the invitations. But as we expected, 80% of the guests came, and i was worried that there wont be many guests as there were lotsa peeps getting married on the same day as i did. But I was very happy to see those who came. Thank you!

The Guests

As 90% of my planning time was spent in Japan, I thought I need to make a platform for me, sayang, my family and sayang's family to communicate, to finalized our to do lists. So i made a simple management system for us to manage all the guests, thus producing how many cards should we print, and to do lists, and also discussion board. It proved to be useful, i was surprised. :D guess it was because they actually USE something that i developed.

The Dais a.k.a Pelamin

This was an easy choice, as i was looking for a fresh designer, with very reasonable price, and knows what i wanted. Azreen was the right choice. Sarah introduced her facebook page to me, and without thinking any further, I contacted her, requested for her portfolio and quotation, and the next thing I was there at her house, booking our dates, and discussing minor details. While in Japan, i basically told her the look that i wanted, and the color palette that she could use for color choices.

So basically for my reception day, I gave her a purple palette, and sayang's side reception they chose an aqua-ish color. I've had to play around with the colors in photoshop, so i could match these colors with our wedding dresses. At the end, i found the right purple and the right aqua... then only we decided on the color for my dresses. What i knew, I didnt want to be drowned in the pelamins. We need to ...how can i say it, pop.

The Makeup Artist
The biggest fear of a bride to be is to look oogleh (ugly disebut secara baku) on her wedding day. I was lucky I picked the right makeup artist, and boy he is an artist. What he did took only 15-20mins, but I didnt look too different, yet i thought i look good, considering I never put even foundation on, whenever I go out of the house, and office, or anywhere I go. The only thing that is usually on my face is moisturizer. So, agak 'tebah' la kata urg. Only downside was he couldnt make a slot for me on 11/11. so i had other people made me up.

The Photographer
This was also considered as my one lucky factor, as sayang is the cousin of one of the most talented photographer in Kuching, piccherita. So we managed to have him & his team on day 1 till day 3. As it turned out, just before our wedding, NTV7 contacted piccherita and wanted to do coverage on their work, so, we agreed to have NT7 in one of our receptions. I think it was out few weeks ago in NTV7. Their work are so, so exceptional.

The Videographer & Live Feed
I am also blessed with a talented brother and he was assigned the videographer task to cover before and during the wedding. He has not come up with a final edit yet, but his same-day-edit video was also really really nice, as he edited that himself, and have a friend helped him to shoot for the wedding. The same-day-edit including solemnisation ceremony was played during the reception, because the solemnisation was attended by close friends and family members only. Another lucky thing (hehe) was I managed to get hold of an ex-student and a friend of mine, who wanted to test his MCP (multicamera production) equipments, and offered a very good price for me. My ceremonies were their first job, and they did very well on those days, no glitches (that i know of). When i found out the ballroom was a narrow rectangle, the live feed service was a last minute item in my list, that is why i said i was lucky to have RoomBulak to cover this for me.

and lastly..

The Dresses
Ah, my dresses.The most expensive purchase of them all. why? because they were made 18 days before the wedding. I couldnt take any risk to send it to a Japanese tailor, plus i dont speak Japanese really well, but i already had The Tailor in mind, Mandy. If you are curvy like me, you will find the need to make your own dress, and because it is for The Day, you want everything to fit well. I didnt want to risk making my dresses at a bridal either for this fear of fitting me good enough in 18 days. This is the only item on my list i want to have 150% control of. It will determine how Ill look in my pictures. So i asked sayang to book Mandy 4 months in advanced, and she agreed to settle 3 dresses in 18 days. Plus i dont think any other tailors sanggup nak ngambik in this duration.

Well, both of my dresses are simple ones, ones that i know will flatter my shape, ones that i know will make my legs look longer. When it was fitting time, they were perfect, i remembered smiling in the fitting room and feeling grateful. The fitting was 3 days before the wedding, finished on time, perfect detailing, just like i wanted, and wearing them makes me feel very beautiful (this is important, cuz i am not the most beautiful girl on earth, but on that day, i was and still am the most beautiful lady in front of sayang's eyes :D). The reception dresses are much inspired by Princess Grace Kelly's dress, esp on the buttons and the pleated waist.

I bought all the fabrics and laces myself in Tokyo. God they were expensive, but compared to marked up price in Malaysia, i think theyre still cheaper. We finally agreed on champagne for day 1 and silver for day 2.. the champagne lace was a princess lace, and i forgot the name/kind of the silver lace but they are equally pretty. For solemnisation, i wore a white dress, with a red keringkam.

As i mentioned before, i wont wear any tiaras on my head, so i made up my scarfs, by buying plain cotton scarfs, and sewing the laces on them. they looked great.

Friends might have seen all the pictures in my facebook, but to those who havent, here goes: