mike & lis story

One year on… we are still pretty much the same as though we were dating, except that we are both wearing the a ring on the finger, and I am now Lis Tan, aka Mrs Lis Chaong.

To reward ourselves for working really hard since our wedding, and to celebrate our first year anniversary, we planned for a trip to Australia. 

It was indeed a very much needed vacation. With our differences, we embarked onto a journey differently if we were to do the trip individually. 

(detailed journal of the trip can be read at my personal blog at LisChamber)

Here are some photos.. (clicking on the mosaic will bring you to my flickr photoset where you can view the entire Australia trip photos)

Australia trip covering Brisbane - Gold Coast - Byron Bay; Sunshine Coast - Cotton Tree; Mooloolaba; Glasshouse Mountain. Melbourne - Great Ocean Road - Apollo Bay; Geelong; Port Fairy; Portland.

Date: 01 Feb - 15 Feb 2008

This post is specially dedicated to the people who made our wedding a dream come true.
(we have set up a resources page in this blog, on the right panel: wedding resources; you may also find another directory of wedding resources page hosted in my webstore at saplanet wedding resources) 

Photographer - Wayne Ng from Jon Keng
In prior to engaging Wayne as our photograher, I consulted another well known photograher who also adopts jounalistic style photography. (I am not mentioning name here, as this is not meant to call out on someone) The entire correspondence was communicated over email, with the first email reply to me on my inquiry on rates and packages. Unfortunately and disppointedly, this photographer had poor business manners who didn’t reply to my further questions after I had indicated that I was working on a tight budget, and need to work on the wedding fund carefully.

Despite my several emails to him, he simply ingored them. Frankly, I was almost about to engage him for our wedding, and cut back on other expenses instead, however, he lost our business due to poor attitude.

I then started to research more on the internet for other photographer, and I chanced upon Jon Keng, and started to establish contact, and was promptly attended by Wayne. We scheduled an appointment to meet, Mike and I were greatly impressed with Wayne’s presentation, and the sincere approach when attending to us. We decided with going with Wayne for photography the following day after the meeting.

The communication with Wayne had been wondefully fantastic. Wayne came to me as a very thoughtful and attentive photographer. He took note of my concern which I breifly mention once that I was going to do my own makeup, as I didn’t like elaborated bridal makeup which I had seen a little tad too often; when he was doing a wedding photography with one of his clients, he noticed a pretty cool makeup artiste whom he thought her style of makeup suited me, he then contacted me to provide the makeup artiste’s contact. (I did not take up the recommendation eventually, as I had decided to DIY my own makeup, but Wayne’s effort was greatly appreciated)

When the big day approached Wayne initiated contact with me to discuss further on the schedule for the wedding day. I suggested communication via email/sms as I was starting to get busy with the small things days before wedding, although Wayne didn’t mind to meet up before the actual day arrived.

On the special day, Wayne was unquestionably professional in his work. Throughout the event, he was very alert on the details of the people involved in the wedding. These people were like his ‘props’ in the arts of photography, without this alertness, there would be no stories, no laughter, no emotions in our wedding pictures. From his work (Yes, we had just collected the soft copy of our wedding photo, and we are more than pleased when we viewed them, be patient though, I have yet uploaded them, but I am sure you would agree with me on his works, when you see the pictures), we knew instantly he takes great pride in the work he does.

Wayne was very dedicated to his work. The only complaint I have about him would probably his dedication to his work? We really wanted him to have a proper meal on our wedding, and didn’t require him to be working without food. He simply couldn’t sit down and finish his plate of food, but always looking out for immediate action, which he sprang away from his food, and armed with the camera and started snapping away. Sigh, Wayne, we really hope you had your fill first though.

I am thankful to the photographer who has such poor business manners, and chosen to lose my business. I could not imagine what our wedding pictures would show with a man with such poor attitude behind the lens.

We are also thankful that we met Wayne, and his pleasant composition in his personality and his job attitude helped us froze moments of joy, happiness and laughter into lasting memories. Thank you, Wayne.

Caterer - Richie Ling of Lavish Dine
We met up with Richie the first time at the venue where our wedding event was to be hosted at. He was attentive, flexible, thoughtful, and pleasant to work with. The fact the he took an extra mile to custom-design our wedding packages, allowed us to work better and more effectively with the wedding fund planning.

The professional advices he provided helped us did just all the right things. His patience is to be greatly hightlighted here. The many changes I required along the way, was very pleasantly accomodated by Richie, with no complaints or any sense of dissatisfaction expressed on his part. He was always ready to change anything or propose alternatives to meet our ever-changing needs.

We had always been certain that Richie was the best caterer we could ever engaged, but this certainty was further affirmed when the guests started to feedback to us very positive comments on the food, service and buffet line set-up. By upholding such good quality in his service, Richie did us a great favor, by making us proud in front of our guests.

I have several relatives who are really strict connoisseurs of fine dining and food, were so pleasantly pleased with the food and service, they feedback positively to my parents. Ahh.. that really made my parents swell!

You won’t believe that Richie and his colleague actually helped me with the music, would you? He was always on the lookout to see if we would need any help. He was very sweet and attentive to offer me special service to pick some food from the buffet so that I could at least get something to eat, when he noticed that I was too busy to entertain the guests and had not chance for food.

One big plus point to Richie would be his understanding rendered to us. He knew that we were flying off right after the reception, he offered to accept a post-dated cheque as long as 10 days from our event, so that we wouldn’t need to rush to prepare for the fund.

I was so pleased with the continual compliments I received even after we returned from our honeymoon, I wrote him a compliment letter.

Thank you, Richie, our event wouldn’t be half successful as it did, without your warm assistance.

Dress Designer, Prisia from Dressing Room Media
Prisia is a personal acquiantance of Mike. When I first met her, I was greeted warmly with her warm personality and fun character. I liked her candidness, yet tactful with her words. The dress was made perfectly matched to what I had in mind.

She had been very patient and considerate towards a fussy customer like myself. I had requested to make alteration the first time to loosen the waistline to A-line cut, which I had decided to revert the change after the alteration was made. Mike preferred the first fitting, and she had no words of complaint, but gladly took the request.

What impressed me most of Prisia, would be her commitment to her work and towards the clients. I had worried unduly that I may only collect the dress on the eve of the event, given the very short time notice I provided to Prisia, however, she eased me off that worry, and rushed the sewing of diamonte strip for me within a day.

Thank you Prisia, for making me a very happy and satisfied bride. (I am sure I must have looked good too!)

Florist, Naserimah N. and Kelly Poh from Far East Flora
Although we had only met Nas once to discuss about our wedding floral needs, she gave very professional and sound advices and suggestions. She tried to work our needs within our budget and accomodated to provide alternatives which we could afford and still able to make the wedding a beautiful one.

Kelly on the other hand, corresponded with me frequently (whenever needed) to discuss on various details. When she spoke with me on the phone, you could literally hear her smiles. What a cheerful and friendly person! Thumbs up!

We were very pleased with their initiatives to contact us to remind us of the car decoration and flowers collection which was to be done the day before the event. Trust me, a couple ready to get wedded would be crazily busy with many things, anything, and everything just 2 days before the event. This reminder was a small act but very significantly important.

Thank you Nas and Kelly, for the relentless effort to make sure everything went smoothly for us.

I take this chance to thank Mike for his patience, consideration, and loving understanding throughout the planning of our wedding. I am thankful to his positive mindset, which sync well with mine, that we are able to enjoy every minute of the event.

Right after our joyous and fun wedding event, we flew straight to Bangkok for our honeymoon!

It was so exciting and thrilling to continue the festivity at Bangkok, and woke up the next morning in a foreign land.

Here’re some pictures taken in Bangkok!

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5.30am - my anxious dad called me on my cell phone from the land line outside and said ‘Ooi, leow, wakey wakey’ (I actually set my alarm at 6am!!!)

5.30am - I dragged myself out of the bed, dilly-dally, took a warm shower, made myself a nice cuppa coffee, took breakfast, went into the room, on the PC, played 12 girls’ band music, checked email, MSN with Cynthia, post messages at brides forum (what was I thinking about???)

6.40am - Started my DIY makeup

7.00am - Wayne the photographer arrived at the door, the first thing he said was ‘Hey, your place is very difficult to locate eh’

I continued with my makeup while Wayne started snapping away on the camera, amused with the fact that I had only a small mirror to work on, and sat on a Ikea small stool. I sent a text messgae to Mike to request for delayed arrival at 8.30am instead.

Then I sat on the floor at the living room blow-drying my hair, while dad spoke with the new found football Kaki (Wayne) on the football matches. Wayne being all alert, took some pictures while I was blowing my hair, and tried to speak with dad at the same time. Dad was also speaking to me, seriously, I couldn’t exactly hear him well with the hair dyer by my ear!

Then I started to style my hair, and clipped on the DIY veil. Wayne questioned, ‘This is the first time I am seeing a bride putting on her own veil!’. (I simply shrugged off with a sheepish smile)

I then changed into the bridal dress (Mistake! It was difficult to change with my veil already on!!!) Packed in some stuffs into our luggage.

8.10am - I was all ready! Sent another sms to Mike, who was having coffee with his brother team at the coffee shop downstairs. Meanwhile, Wayne snapped some family photos, I’m not sure, but my parents were very camera shy, Wayne had a hard time getting them to smile.

I tried on the wedding shoes, oh gosh, 2.5″ was a little too high on heels to walk the day! I turned to Wayne and said, ‘How arh, I can’t sit with my ‘breath-taking dress’ and now I can’t stand with my feet hurting shoes!’

8.20am - Mike arrived, the door was already opened (hahaha)

Mum came to us and with a really serious tone.. ‘This is very important… Take 4-D numbers first’ (everyone laughed)

Shortly, we proceed to leave my home, and while downstairs, we started to doll up the contour-age cars. Oh, did I mentioned that Mike was the driver of the bridal car?

While on the way to Mike’s place, Mike suddenly remembered, ‘Oh my, I forgot to bring the ‘guo da li’ items to your home just now!’ We then laughed very loudly. It was funny how this slipped by unnoticed by anyone at home!

Wayne called me on my cell phone to ask if anyone was opening the bridal car for me when we reached Mike’s place, I said ‘No lah, I will open the door myself’ ‘Errr, then can you let me reach there first, so that I can take some pictures of your arrival’ So we slowed down and stopped over the roadside, for the entourage car to pass, there I snapped 2 pics from my phone camera.

9am - Reached Mike’s place, had tea ceremony, with a little chaos. Mike did not call back before turning up, so everyone at home was caught off-guard with the couple’s arrival. Some were not changed, some were out for breakfast. Alas, everything fell into places nicely.

10.10am - Left Mike’s place back to my place. The rare scene was that the bride, groom, photographer were carrying the guo da li items up to my place.

In the lift, Mike received a call from his client who wanted to purchase travel insurance! The first thing we did when we reached home was to switch on the PC, and Mike started to work on the premium. Wayne remarked, ‘Never seen couple getting married and yet still working!’

11.10am - Reached venue, pleased with the nice set up at the venue by the florist and caterer. My relatives were all smiley faces when they saw me, who soon turned into frowning faces when I waved hi to them. ‘Bride, try to behave more demurely, stop pulling up your dress, and don’t wave your hands so frantically in the air’, one of my aunts said.

11.30am - Tea ceremony for my relatives started.

12.30pm - JP Chan arrived, and began the solemnisation soon. He was one great JP, very thoughtful and also cracked a few great jokes. Mike was made to say ‘Yes I do’ thrice, and we were made to kiss twice, as we parted too quickly, JP Chan said ‘Hey, don’t part so quickly, the photographer needs to snap a pic, do it again’.

Another awkward and panicky moment would be when we heard JP Chan mentioned about ‘ring exchange’. I turned to look at Wayne who already knew that we were already wearing the rings! Therefore we would not have rings to exchange!!! Without anyone looking or knowing, we took off the rings quietly, and handed to each other the rings and held the rings. Oh well, Wayne had caught the aftermath in the picture though. We also had problem holding hands, it turned out that I was holding Mike’s hand instead of him holding my hands. Know what I mean?

12.45pm - Party time!

We were both so busy entertaining our own guests, Wayne asked, ‘errr, how come the couple is always separately walking around? The pictures are either bride with friends; or groom with friends’

(That didn’t change anything, we were still entertaining guests separately! hahaha)

3.00pm - by this time, most of the guests had left the venue. Stayed behind were few friends and some relatives. My brother-in-law’s sister was so happy for me, she said with almost hysterical tone, ‘Aiyo, you are finally married leow’. We left for airport after bidding goodbye to my parents and friends at venue.

Lek and Jess together with Mike and I took one car; while Wayne and Rex took another. We waited up for Rex at the Airport carpark, as they stopped over at petro kiosk to pump up fuel. 

Shortly they arrived to join us and we started to take some ending footage at the airport. Wayne seemed more excited than Mike and I, as he thought it was rare to have wedded couple leaving for honeymoon right after the wedding event.

After the photoshoot, I went on to change down the dress to a really casual dress code. Sleeveless top with cropped pants, and slipped into slippers, and removed the veil.

Mike did not change his attire, he simply took off his coat. That made us looked like the characters from a movie; a businessman with a runaway kampong girl!

The event ended really nicely and funnily, and we took off to Bangkok!!!!!

8pm - Checked-in to our hotel in Bangkok, and was pleasantly surprised with the complimentary fruits platter and cake specially provided for honeymooner.

We ordered room service and enjoyed the yummy dinner in the comfort of our room. It was a fun and thrilling day, and we were tired, so we decided to unpack the luggage the next day. Just when I  was falling asleep, Mike remembered, ‘Dear, know what? I did not give the wedding speech today!’. Our wedding night ended with laughters!

Almost throughout the wedding preparation, I had really quite many slots of relaxing time.

This had been so until yesterday! Today has been super duper busy. Oops, why then am I still blogging away here? hahaha

So luggage is almost packed up, I did a trial makeup and hairstyling earlier. The dress is really ‘breath-taking’ as in.. suffocatingly tight!!! Ok.. I didn’t keep a strict diet.

Most things are set, YEAH!!!! going to quickly finish up some other things and packing, then I can start my nail painting. (can only do this last, so that my hands are still free to work on stuffs)

The length of the veil is perfect! 

Can you sense that I was really keeping my breath still? 

Tomorrow is my last day holding to the marital status as ’single’. I guess at the point when I was preparing for the wedding, I had decided to enjoy and have fun planning this event. True enough, I have fun and still having fun!

It’s an easy decision, but some people may require more mind strength to follow through this decision.

Yesterday, I received another order from Etsy store, from a local buyer, and I really hoped to send out the order before I leave for my honeymoon. My personality type makes me someone who takes things upon myself, and make sure I follow through what I started. If I send out the order today, she will receive it tomorrow or latest the day after tomorrow, and I would feel alot at ease that the transaction is completed.

I was so tired yesterday, woke up at 7am, as we had appointment at ROM to collect the solemnisation documents. Then the whole day through we went to quite a few places, and collected the dress in the evening. Yet, when I reached home, despite my watery tired eyes nagging me to rest, I insisted to work on the order first.

Since most of my customers are from USA, it takes longer for the package to reach them, so that is what I am more concerned with. I made an order tracking list which I would check with them when the estimated shipping time is met.

Today was a really fantastic day! All my outstanding orders sent out to USA, were received by buyers, and they gave wonderfully nice feedback in my store. That really made my day!

I completed the direction signboards which we will place at the carparks to the venue, so that guests will find their way. Prisia, our dress designer made the veil as per my requirement, and gave me the balance strip of diamonte. I only need to secure it on the barrette (for easy clip on) and sewn the diamonte strip on the veil. Quite satisfied with the finished piece though. 

As I was still riding on the joy of the positive things that happened today, I heard over the radio that BKK had 2 small blasts, though no one was hurt. Hmm. I am not sure if I should be really worried about that.

I am still in the wave of thrill, excitement, and anticipation for wedding and trip, coupled with the positive feelings I have today from my business. It’s hard to drive these positive emotions out and get the negative news in. I guess it could be a subconscious decision too, to be aware of the situation of the destination we are about to visit, yet not be overly affected by it.

Oh, one more thing.. My dress turned out to be a little tad too ‘body hugging’, I may run short of breath on my wedding, anyone wants to bring the oxygen tank for me? Hahaha. Guess most brides are likely to be very affected if their gowns are to be not as ideally made for the big day. I am really not so concerned. I must have put on weight over the last few days, as I ate quite freely. Pris has been really nice (most of the vendors I engaged to do up my wedding have been amazingly wonderful, or was it my imagination??), so I am not going to point an accusing finger at her about the tightness of the dress for my undisciplined eating.

I made 3 lovely magnets with the butterflies print and presented to her instead. She has been really attentive and thoughtful and I just wanted to show my appreciation for her effort.

What I am going to try to do, is to go on high fibre and oats diet over these 2 days, and not missign out on the nutrition I need. If I don’t look like a happy white dumpling bride on Thursday, I probably managed to shrink my bodymass enough to look fine. If I act cute the entire event, you know that I am trying to match my behavior with my super chubby image. LOL.

End of the day, all I could wish for is not a perfectly smooth sailing event, but a fun and joyous one. So to speak, whether or not, I can look my best or beautiful bride, I know I am going to have fun!!!

Just 4 more days to go before my big day, looking back on the preparation, I realised I am probably the laziest bride-to-be (on the part of making myself look best for the wedding).

I spent a great deal of time researching for venue, florist, dress, solemnizer, photographer, and made quick (but never hasty!) decision to finalise with the respective service providers. I then spent another large portion of time designing and creating the artwork for my invitation card, favors, thank you note, direction slips, envelope addressing, guestbook, ang pow box etc etc.

The other routine is to login to the bridal forum to meet many brides-to-be. Nice experiences and resources sharing. There are really useful information available there, with real people experiences. I made quite a handful of friends there, whom I would love to continue to progress friendship from there.

Instead of spending time to make sure I start on my exercise regime, the hellish type (Mike’s got me the gym ball, stretching band (what do you call that??), and a nice pair of sports shoes) or the most relaxing one (I’ve got a good collection of OTO and Osim exercise equipments at home, need not do much, just stand on it, or put the belt on), I spent that time thinking about some nagging nitty gritty matter that nudged me a long while.

Moving on, I have not done any facial or even attempted to in making myself look better for the big day. I am trying to deligently put on the facial masks (only started last night.. oops) and hoping that helps.

I didn’t even visit my hair designer to color and treat my hair. I DIY! Really quite resistant to spend several hours in the salon. What did I do with the time? I took up a wholesale assignment with Alaska shop and mailed out the order so that it could reach them before their shop opens in mid February. I continued to visit Pandora’s box to touch up the space I rented, I continued to sell in Etsy and mailing the orders.

If time were to turn back all over again, I am certain I am going to do just the same things over again.. hahaha..

Now that my wedding date is drawing near, it’s time to get busy with the outstanding tasks.

I went for wedding shopping yesterday. Bought quite many things, mainly for the Ang Pow box and favors basket decorations. I am not any different from any girls, when we shop for some particular stuffs, we would probably ‘remember’ to pick up some other items that were not in the shopping list.

I went to Plaza Singapura in the noon, and spent almost 2.5hrs in Spotlight. I’d gotten the necessary crafts and decorative materials, as well as what’re outside the shopping list. I bought some fabric materials to make some ponytail holders, and some really cool and nice printed papers.

I felt being stalked in my 2.5hrs shopping in Spotlight. There was this guy who seemed to appear too often beside me wherever I went! I thought he was looking out for me, when he lost sight of me when I bent down to look at the textile materials on the lower deck of the display. When I stood up and looked at him, he would looked a little ’shocked’ and ‘panic’, and pretended to look at the items around him.

Perhaps he though I had great quality sense, and following me around to see what else I was picking up? That, I was not so sure, but I was certain of was that it was kind of creepy when everywhere you went, you could see someone at the corner of your eye!

An episode in my shopping experience to make this shopping trip an interesting one eh?

I bought many more things in Watson. Some travel size groceries for my upcoming trip. I am going to DIY hair color today, with the new hair color I’d got from Watson, errr. Purplish Red! LOL…

Got the nail polish from Sally Hansen too, shall apply it 2 days before wedding.

I’d decorated the handles of the favors basket with some fake flowers which I found at Daiso, pretty nice finds there. Got the fake rose buds from Spotlight crafts section to decorate the ang pow box. It’s pretty fun doing up stuffs like that. The balance flowers, leaves and ribbons are used in making the handmade plate which we hang above the bed. I like that very much though.

These are the finished works, from DIY Lis….

I had my first dress fitting today, pretty satisfied with the outcome, except some minor alterations to be made.

I brought along the shoes that I bought at Tangs Studio, it’s a steal, and since Christmas is round the corner, all the shiny sparkling shoes are in! It’s a task to get shoes for me, I have these super elongated second toes that are so attention seeking, they protruded out so badly, it’s hard not to pay attention to them. I rarely wear shoes with heels that high (this is 2.5″, I think, that’s high for my standards!!!)

I would prefer a more A-line dress from the waistline, although I must agree that the tappered waistline does flatter my figure to show some curves, which otherwise has nothing much to flaunt.

The sides of the bustline were a little tad too tight too, so we are going to loosen just a slight bit of it, so that the bride wouldn’t risk fainting out of breath on the wedding day. The straps will have to shorten a little too.

(look carefully at the mirror reflection, there, sat a standard husband-to-be, all relaxed and not exactly helping with the dress! he was really taking a relaxing mode and chatting away with one of the owners who is also his client.)

After the alterations, the designer would then sew 2-liner of diamonte on the emphire cut line, to add a little glitter to the otherwise very simply cut dress. Although it’s simple, it’s perfectly what I would love to have. I am sure it would look more ‘bridal’ with the diamonte sewn, and when the veil is put up on the head. Meanwhile, I will continue to sit back and relax.

I am not sure if I have missed out any details, but I seem to be not as busy or even stressed out like many brides (I know I am not stressed enough, as I am not losing weight at all!!!!) Perhaps this is indeed a wonderful blessing I am having, that I can continue with my orders for overseas orders, enjoy my days, day-dream about the upcoming trip that follows immediately after the wedding reception.

1. Wedding Venue - Our first choice was Singapore Arts Museum, The Glass Hall, unfortunately, the venue was already taken for our big day, so we checked with all other museums in Singapore, and was suprised that ALL museums were booked for that day!!! That worried me for a while, then I sought help in the wedding forum (oh yes, I am one of those who would visit forum and seek advice), and we were recommended with Fort Canning Centre, The Gallery. We were pretty quick with the decision, and booked the venue and placed deposit for the reservation.
    
2. Caterer - Before we confirmed the venue, I had sourced around for good and reliable caterer to host our event. Shortlisting was quick, and we met up with the caterer on the same day we went to view the venue. The caterer was wonderful! (Here, I referred to the service and attitude of the Manager, Richie Ling who attended to us, although I heard the food provided by this caterer was fantastic, I wouldn’t comment now since we have not gone for food sampling).
   
   
3. Photographer - We met up with the photographer from Jon Keng on the same day, and found the jounalistic photography style suits our preference, and we confirmed the reservation of the photographer the next day, a deposit was transferred via IBT to the photographer. One thing to compliment on the photographer, his presentation was sincere, and that was one of the main factors of decision making for us.
   
   
4. Florist - We met up with our very pleasant and professional florist a week after we had confirmed the venue. We arranged to meet at site so that we could have a more efficient discussion on the venue decoration. We are very pleased with good attitude.
   
   
5. Bridal Dress - After meeting with florist, we went shopping at Centerpoint, and managed to grab a pair of pretty Swarovski crytal studded scandals standing on 2.5″ heels. It must had been a less than 10 mins decision. After which, we went to meet our dressmaker and discussed on the dress. Measurements were taken, design finalised, veil style confirmed. 1st fitting should be early January.
   
   
6. Solemnizer - Confirmed with a Justice of Peace, Mr Chan, to conduct the solemnization ceremony for us at Fort Canning Centre. He sounded like a really sweet elderly over the phone though. E-filing for the solemnization had been done too. The next step is to arrange for a meeting with Mr Chan to get the consent letter from him. Then, we will need to submit the letter together with other documents for verfication on the first appointment to ROM, before the actual solemnization can take place.
   
   
7. Makeup - After much consideration, I have decided to do my own makeup. I am ready to risk the possible ‘washed out’ effect on the photos, after all, that could be what I really am. I went for a Bobbi Brown makeover and get some products from them. They have wonderful colors of good quality products. The bonus was that with my small spending, I won the daily lucky draw, which I collected the products hamper worth S$300 the day after.
   
   
8. Air ticket - Air tickets are booked online for our honeymoon. Although we are not going somewhere really far, but I am looking forward for the trip - Bangkok. Bangkok is also the first trip Mike and I took in our relationship. Ok, at the same time, I need to source for some exotic fabric material too. Oops

With the above listing achieved, we are left with some time to do up the nitty gritty things, and wait to follow-up with the people (above) when the wedding date nears.

I needed the time to prepare for my small scale business in Pandora’s Box, which was finally launched on 18 Nov 2006. On the same day, the official website (online store) for my business www.simpleartsplanet.com, was lauched too.

Once that has been taken care of, I proceed to prepare for the wedding invitation card, deciding on the wedding favors, ordering the parts from States etc.

So, these are the images to be used on our wedding cards. The wordings are not shown here, but they are already in place. To view the entire card layout, click the image and you will be brought to our wedding site.

Wedding favors

This is the sample of the wedding favor, I am making some amendment to the ‘heart’ and probably change the font too. Guess everthing needs to be finalized by next week as I would send the artwork for print by then.

I have also started the website for our wedding. This site consists of Event info, Our Story, Our Family, Wedding Stationery, Photo Album, RSVP and also a guestbook. I am having a lot of fun creating this site.
(which is now moved to this blog, so some pages no longer exists, such as RSVP) 

I have already received a RSVP from Cynthia, who is unable to attend my wedding as she is only returning to Singapore in April next year. I am excited to have her back home though, we can always make up for meals when she returns.

Following the cards printing, would be finalizing the mailing list, and start to prepare for the sending of the cards. Since the favors are handmade, I am spreading it across a month to make all of them (it’s tough to make 200 favors in one day!!!!!!)

For now, I will continue to have fun!!!!!!