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.

Food tasting for our wedding lunch

Sorry yet again for the lack of posts. As you can see by my countdown timer, we're 49 days to the big day so things are getting pretty mad around here!!

We have been spring-cleaning, painting, assembling invites, making table numbers, having our first parents meeting, food tasting, giving out invites, planning seating arrangements, buying supplies for my breakfast table etc. As I'd said, madness!

I'll put up the photos of the other activities later. But I'll do a post now and put up the photos we took from the food tasting, sort of a reference for any existing and future Fullerton Hotel brides!

We had our food tasting on 19 May.

zen place setting

condiments and my pu-er tea

the menu

Starters: Drunken Chicken Roll, Sauteed Prawn with Chili Vinegar Sauce in a Taro Ring, Crispy Vegetarian Spring Roll, Diced Pork Ribs with Spicy Barbecue Sauce, Pan-fried 'Pi Pa' Tofu with Garlic Soya Sauce

Soup: Golden Braised Dried Seafood Broth with Fish Maw, Dried Scallops, Sliced Abalone, Crabmeat and Enoki Mushroom

Fish: Steamed Marble Goby in Garlic Sauce

the feedback form

Dried Seafood and Vegetable: Braised Sea Shell with Mushroom and Baby Pak Choy in Oyster Sauce

Chicken and Duck: Double-boiled Chicken with Ginseng, wrapped in Lotus Leaf

Fresh Strawberry Pudding

There are actually 2 more dishes but we were so busy eating I forgot to take photos haha. One was Deep Fried Wasabi Mayonnaise Prawns served with Mango Salsa and the other was Fried Ee-Fu Noodles with Yellow Chives and Bean Sprouts. My favourite was the fish and the pudding. Super nice!

After the food tasting, the chef came out to chat with us and to find out our feedback. Chef Leung was very nice and very receptive to our opinions and requests. We asked to move the chicken up the menu so as to better enjoy it and he had no problems. All in all it was a good experience. Hope my guests will enjoy the food on that day!

Love : The Fullerton Hotel

Met up with our florist, Cecilia, for our big day and we went over many details and sketched out a rough look for the day. Glee!

Also took the chance to take some photos of the hotel which I didn't manage to the previous times I was there.

Other bride-to-bes who are considering hotels can try out this grand old dame.

The front facade

The courtyard facing rooms

Courtyard and the rooms above

The lovely grand sweeping staircase to the ballroom

The outer foyer

The lift lobby

The inner foyer

The staircase down into the ballroom

An event just ended when we were there so the setup is more of a lecture style. This is part is the middle section of the ballroom which can seat 200 pax. The whole ballroom if used can seat 400 pax.

I love the history of this place, the ambience and the decor of this hotel. So happy we're holding our wedding here.

The one where the '$kaching$' starts

Venue is finally secured! This is it now, no turning back! I can now start to look for bridal studios and confirm my photographer. Oh ya and not to freak out over the huge bill that's looming over us. Stress.

The one where weekends start to be not long enough

Haven't been diligent in updating my blog here. It has been an exhausting 2 weeks, helping weiling with her own wedding DIYs, sourcing for our hotel venue, working out a guest list, planning & researching, work etc...

There were times where I took half day or full day leave just to catch my breath and my senses. Weekends are simply too short!

We went to Fullerton hotel last Tuesday to suss it out as a potential location. It started with weiling suggesting their Straits Room as an alternative as we couldn't figure out how to hold our wedding in Raffles. We either had to pare down our guest list by a great deal or use the less gorgeous ballroom. It was a real headache.

Anywayz, we met up with Priscilia from Fullerton and she took us of a tour of their rooms. We went to the Straits Room first as I wanted to see if it would be suitable for my needs. It was a gorgeous room with high ceilings and chandeliers and long windows that stretched the length of the room. We went there at night but it's easy to see that it would be beautiful in the day. It could seat a min of 80 ppl and a max of 120 thus again alas too small for my needs. Why are all beautiful rooms with character and style sooo tiny??

We then went down to their ballroom which happened to be partioned that day for a corporate function. It's full size could seat 400 ppl and can be sectioned off into 3 parts to fit 100 ppl for the side sections and 200 ppl for the central section. Normally their standard package for the ballroom would include the use of the entire ballroom and a min of 25 tables (ie 250 ppl). This was way beyond the amount of ppl I'm planning to invite.

I was wondering if I'll ever find some place suitable, one where the room doesn't look stereotypically boring and won't burst my budget. Looking at the central section of the ballroom where the corporate event wad held earlier in the day, I tried my luck and asked Priscilia if she can come up with a package for 150 ppl and the use of just that section. She replied that she could do up something specially for me. The first glimmer of hope!

We then sat down for a proper discussion where she presented details of their packages. I must say they have a better package than Raffles and I loved most of their little extras that they provided. I went home feeling all upbeat that finally this all could be done! What followed next was an entire day of nail biting waiting for her email with the proposal I wanted. I was very worried that it might be very costly as I'm restricting their ballroom and asking for a better and bigger room for the night.

You cannot imagine my relief when I open that PDF file and saw the details and price. It's a little more expensive than the Raffles one but I was very pleased with the menu and the things she included in my package. Finally!

Hopefully we'll be able to make a booking this week and step one of the wedding is finally started!

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