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!

Dream: The Royal Wedding - Kate Middleton's Wedding Dress

Who was not bowled over by Kate Middleton's wedding dress?
If you weren't, go back to your cave Grinch!

I literally let out a gasp when she alighted from the Rolls Royce.

images from Vogue via Grey Likes Weddings

The dress is sooooo perfect!! It is honestly worthy of a princess. I love the Grace Kelly influence, the classic lines which makes it so timeless. You can look back on this photo decades later and find her so beautiful. Sarah Burton, creative director for Alexander McQueen did a fantastic job.

I think every little girl in the world (including me) just had her fairytale wedding dream ignited.

Dream: Vera Wang Spring 2012 Collection

How does the great Vera Wang do it every time?? Just when you think her latest collection is the dreamiest you've ever seen, she comes out with an unbelievably stunning new collection.

Soft romantic hues, floating tulle, dainty flowers. There's nothing to not like about this collection!

All images from The Wedding Chicks gallery. Check out the entire collection here.


Photography: Kevin Sturman

love the soft shade of green

dainty lace bodice

unusual shade for a dare-to-be-different bride

gorgeous! gorgeous! gorgeous! my favourite.

Visit Vera Wang's blog for more details.

Love: Bridal Heels from Studio Tangs

I bought my bridal heels!!

Shoes are one of the most important elements of any wedding day, if not the most. You can have the perfect dress and gorgeous makeup and jewelry but if your feet hurt, all everyone could see would be the grimace on your face. As one who has had her fair share of horrible feet-killing shoes, I tell you there's no way you can be the blissful bride when all the 'bliss' you have comes from 'blisters'.

So it's very important you get yourself a pair of beautiful and comfortable pair of heels for your big day. It'll make all the difference in the world.

In my perfect world, I would be wearing either this pair from Badgely Mishka

or this pair from Fendi

or this pair from Alexander McQueen

Aren't they all dreamy?

But I could only dream, time to return back to earth.

So I thought I better get started on my search for my heels, thinking I'll probably need to trawl through numerous shops in order to find the heels I wanted. Actually I have been keeping an eye out for potentials while out shopping and ruled out places like Nine West and Aldo. I was slowly going down my list and was about to hit the departmental stores like Takashimaya and Tangs next.

Then while out with my bestie, we chanced upon Studio Tangs in Raffles City. And tadah there were my heels!!

I bought 2 pairs, both ivory peep-toes, one with a gorgeous ruffly flower and the other a simple bow.

(Heehee, my first attempt at styling. I used my favourite pink sash and pearls)

The pair with the flower has a steeper arch and thus a little cramp-inducing so I'll need all the practice I can get. It's been a while since I wore heels on a regular basis, preferring flats over heels for work.

The pair with the bow is a lot more comfortable and I call them my backup pair. I can totally wear them with my second gown or if my first pair gives me grief, I can switch pairs and still look great!

Perfect plan haha!

Details!

Love the pretty flower!

This is definitely a pair I can wear in future.

I'm very happy with my purchases. Bride-to-bes in Singapore can definitely check out Studio Tangs for their wide range of bridal shoes. And the prices are very reasonable too!

Glee! 

Love: Easter Pastels

Best thing about Easter? The pretty pretty pastel palette!

Here are some of my favourites from around the web.

Pastel Colored Flowers with Elastic Headband and Rhinestone from cacababy on Etsy

Pastel Ribbon Sticky Tape from VioletGiftShop on Etsy

Dandi Entertaining Set found via the happy home

Pink Cherry Sugar Bomb Soaps from FairyBubbles on Etsy

Pottery Dishes Set of 4 Unmatchy Spring from vesselsandwares on Etsy

Easter place setting ideas from One Charming Party

I'm falling in love with pastel.

Love: Free Book Themed Baby Shower from Martha Stewart

This gorgeous baby shower invite from Martha Stewart was featured on Creature Comforts and How About Orange and it was absolutely adorable!!

This whimsical collection was designed by Anna Bond from Rifle Paper Co and photographed by Tara Donne. You can get the free printables here. I especially love the bookplate and the bookmark. You can totally use them on a non-baby shower occasion.

I love the colour theme!

Perfectly adorable!

This baby shower feature also teaches you how to make miniature booklets and a nursery story themed menu!

Check out Anna's beautiful blog and Tara's works too!

Many thanks to Ez from Creature Comforts and Jessica from How About Orange for featuring this lovely set of printables.

Furniture Love: Nesting Tables

Now why didn't I think of this sooner??

Jay Desk and Hutch from West Elm via Design*Sponge

Takes up minimal space but the smaller desk can be easily pulled out when you need the extra space.
I need this.

Or, this GUSTAV laptop table from IKEA is great as well.

GUSTAV Laptop table