Love: Our Wedding Photos

Hi all,

Sharing some photos from our wedding.
All photos from tinydotphotography, our wedding photographer.
Photo templates are from the amazing pugly pixel which could be found here. (free!)

My two favourite looks for our big day. For morning fetching of the bride and second march in.

It was a wonderful day and the Loft Suite at The Fullerton where we stayed for our wedding night was simply amazing.


























Can't wait to receive our photo album! Will definitely put up photos of that too.

Love : Our handmade invites

It's the final countdown! (I know...cheesy)
As you can imagine, I'm super busy now. So when I have the time for posting it's gonna be photo laden posts for now. Perhaps after the whole hullabaloo is over I'll put up details and tutorials for my DIY.

For now please just admire the photos haha.

So presenting...our handmade invites!!

close ups. printed on natural paper with feathers in it.

pretty!! i spent a lot of time designing it

the card backing and envelopes. love the bark texture cardstock

all ready to be assembled!

finished product

close ups again

my pretty cherry blossom stamps on the envelopes. green envelopes are for relatives and the kraft ones are for friends

the gorgeous ribbon i got from etsy!

I'll share where I got my materials after the wedding. I have a few good tips and sources for making invites on a budget!

Blog Love : How to make an Inspiration Board from The Crafty DiY Bride

I chanced upon this great post on The Crafty DiY Bride today, which is dead useful for any bride to be.

How to make an Inspiration Board

Inspiration boards are an important tool when you need to visualise and plan the look for your wedding. You've probably started saving images from websites, bookmarking links or cutting pages from magazines. What you need next is an area to organise all your material. This helps you to see your ideas in a cohesive manner and it will also be helpful when you need to show your planners or gown designers.

I've always held off showing my inspiration boards here mainly because it is too tiring to do them in Photoshop or other design software. Thanks to Mel from The Crafty DiY Bride, now there's a selection of various websites and tools we can easily create boards with!!

I tried the one from Dessy and it's really handy!
Here's a sample board I did.

It's a little last minute so it's not very good ;p.
You can use your own images or their own library of resources.

What I love best is that it's tied up with PANTONE colour swatches so no more 'light, soft pink' but 'PANTONE Rose Water' and instead of trying to describe the green as 'mossy', it's 'PANTONE Pistachio'. No one will ever get your colours wrong again!

Only flaw is that I couldn't save it as an image and had to print screen in order to post it here.

There's also a ton of other resources like bridesmaid dresses and invites and men's accessories.

Check out Dessy now and not forgetting the other recommendations by Mel.

Gambatte Nihonjin

by Neil Creek

Cherry blossoms or Sakuras are dainty little flowers most commonly associated with Japan. It is their national flower and can be found on many of their traditional items like clothing, housewares and even food.

This delicate flower usually blooms from January to late April depending on the location and heralds the arrival of spring. It is the perfect symbol for the Buddhist belief that life is transient and fragile. It is also a symbol of all things simple and pure, of new beginnings and of strength. It is also why I chose cherry blossoms as my wedding theme.

And it is this strength that is more prevalent now than ever. As Japan is wrecked by a devastating earthquake and tsunami, their indomitable spirit shines through. Wreckage after wreckage is shown all over the news; houses crushed, ships and vehicles washed away, entire cities ruined. And yet, you do not see images of panic or chaos. You just see their stoic calm. The earthquake may break them but they won't be defeated.

Gambatte. 

Bridesmaid Invite Reveal!!

I am most excited to reveal the photos for my bridesmaids' invites! Actually I gave them out in Dec but only got round to posting the photos now ;p

Most brides in Singapore or perhaps even Asia have a brood of 'sisters' or 'Jie Mei-s (姐妹）to help out with the nitty-gritties of the actual day. Similarly the groom will also have a bunch of 'brothers' or 'Xiong Di-s' (兄弟）as support.

They are normally siblings or best friends and can go from 3 to even a dozen of them. They form an integral part of the celebrations and are a great help to any bride and groom, helping them from dressing up to handling guests at the reception.

Usually the bride and groom will ask their friends and siblings to be their 'sisters' and 'brothers' either by just asking, through SMSes or emails or even by just involving them in the wedding discussions.

My 'sisters' comprise of my very own sister, cousin and best galfriends from various stages of my life. They are my dearest gals and it means a lot to me to have them by my side on my biggest day, thus I thought I couldn't ask them any old way. Plus it's a good chance for me to try out some of the many DIY projects I've found on the wedding blogs I've been following!

Ready?
Here we go!

I made them using the fabric envelope how-to and recipe card template at Wedding Chicks.

For the recipe cards, I used Halo Handletter font and edited the template using Photoscape. If only I had started using Photoshop earlier, then my bridesmaid invites would have followed the same theme as the wedding invites I'm now designing.

For the labels, I printed their names using Carbon Type font and cut them out. I punched out the sakura shape using a paper punch. I used ordinary pink envelopes bought from Popular and the fabric is my favourite candy stripe from Spotlight. I bought the bubblegum bakers twine from Made with Love at Plaza Singapura.

There you go! My recipe for a perfect wedding day, having my 8 lovely, gorgeous, adorable sisters by my side!

They were loads of fun to do and I loved the reactions I got out of giving them. They ranged from the usual "Oh so sweet and pretty" to an incredulous "Are you serious??" (which I wasn't sure whether it was because I did an actual invite or that I'm asking her as my bridesmaid haha) to my favourite "OMG YES! YES! YES!" One would think I had just proposed to her if they didn't know better LOL.

If you are also interested to do your own invites, there's a plethora of free editable templates by kind-hearted very talented people online. Places like Wedding Chicks, Martha Stewart Weddings and Project Wedding Blog are good places to start.

The One where I wanna go to Japan now!!

my sis came back from work oday with a package of chocolates her colleague brought back from Japan and made me wanna fly to Japan immediately!!!

look look!

cherry blossom shaped chocolates from japan!

sooooooooooooooo pretty!!!!!

if only i can have these as my wedding favours!!it so fits with my wedding theme. anyone going to japan end this year or before july next year?? can help me buy like a huge box of them? i'll be eternally grateful!!

The One with a nice date on a Saturday

ha one of the rare saturdays where i did not rot in front of the lappie for the whole day

also one of the rare weekends where hubby-to-be(HTB)[heehee] did not have to work, so i proposed going down to bras brasah complex to shop the art stores there and also take a walk walk around the area

we also took a walk around our future wedding spot!so in love with the place, it's gonna be perfect!
took a video of the place =)



went to art friend and got some ideas, inspirations and possibilities for our wedding favours
found these lovely cherry blossom ribbons!

i'm so glad to see HTB being so open to my ideas and it was fun exploring and brainstorming with him
walked and shopped a bit, had some yummy Jap food at The Cathay, wanted to catch 'Alice in Wonderland' but not much tickets left
all in all a nice date =)

The One before Step One

butterflies in my stomach!!!

i'm so nervous i don't think i can sleep or eat til 6.30pm tomorrow!

gosh this is nerve-wrecking

anyway i stopped blogging a long while ago, blame facebook haha. it was all too easy to keep friends updated on the going-ons over there, thus my poor blog got neglected and i kinda dismissed blooger as boring.

talk about re-discovery!i didn't know the new layouts blogger has could be so fun and customisable!so now i'm starting a new one to blog about preparing for my wedding and home, it'll be filled with news and updates, inspirations and plans, and loads of photos =)(i promise not to be too bimbotic and gushy...i'll really try)

like the background and colours?they are the theme for my wedding!i'm planning a pink and green cherry blossom theme for my shingding and i'm sooo excited!!i've been researching for ages online and have got loads of inspiration, i wish i can use everything but budget budget budget...

one of the inspiration boards i found online but i forgot where

gorgeous!!