Saturday, December 1, 2007

Preparing for THE DAY...

Shopping for our Wedding Ring
Started scouting around since early 2007 & also waiting for Thy Great Singapore Sale! Ha... However, the only LOVE that we found does not participate in Sales! #@$%



The making of my ROM gown
Did quite abit of shopping around for off-the-rack gown for our ROM but just couldn’t find anything simple yet elegant. “ROM Dresses” are either short dresses or in Pink / Baby Blue etc! Yucks!

In the end, I found 1 designer studio @ Tanjong Pagar who can tailor make for me the design that I wanted… close maybe. 
http://www.emanuelbcouture.com


The Making of Our Invitation Card...
After weeks of waiting excitedly for our "ES" brass steel to arrive from Canada, I managed to master the skill of stamping real wax! Got our seal from www.waxseals.com & in their website they teach you how to do your seal the right way. 

I found this font "Fraktur" from the fonts library & fell in love with it! Simply ancient & classic... 
First of all, I bought the A4 sized paper "Icy White" from paper supplier at Tuas. Got a big roll of green satin ribbon from Arab St.. 

Printed all our invitation cards at Linda's office with the help of her designer staff who laid my concept onto Indesign software.  The font I'd selected here is Zapfino, love the extended 'F"!
Used a pen knife to score & fold all the cards myself at home, before I laid all my "equipment" on my desk... ice-pack, candle, lotsa of tissue, toothpick, oil. I didn't take any pictures of the process because it was such a big mess!! Haha... Good thing I did all those while Eythan was asleep.
Our invitation card turned out to be soooo special & meaningful. Every detail was DIY-ed at home, from the selection of special artcard/ribbon to printing to score-folding to wax sealing. 

Every guest gets to break the wax seal to read our card and many of them can't bear to do so!. Haha... Happy to know most of them appreciated my effort. Many of them thought I bought them

The Making of Our Paper Fan...
Quite a last minute item as everyone seemed to think that this is unnecessary. I went ahead nevertheless. Ha! Bought some ice-cream sticks & glue from Art House. Did a few samples but effect were horrible! The glue made the papers wavy & out of shape. Ended up I simply tried with double-sided tapes & it works!



Our Thank-You note on paper fans
On the other side of our Thank-You text, I printed 6 different love poems from Shakespeare. 







The Making of Candle Holders...
Bought some aromatic candle-in-a-cup from Ikea for our 3 cocktail tables & I simple printed on A4 papers. Then I rolled and taped them around each candle cup.  Easy...

Had to do this cos worried about the breeze up on the hill. 

Effect was not bad! See... Cheap & good!











The Making of Crystal Hanging Ornament...
Lydia brought me to this bead shop at Pearl Centre & they have like millions of beads in their small shop! I felt like I was on a candle shop, so many colours so many variety! They charge based on weight. Lydia & I each took a pail & started "shopping" for beads of our theme colours Green, Yellow & Clear. 

I insisted in getting one special RED love to be hung at the middle. Haha... Well, the Bride has the final say!

And yes, I made them all too! It took me many nights to complete all of them. 


And if you realised, Eythan didn't take part in any of these craft works!  >:(

The Journey from Friends to Lovers

HISTORY 
In 20 Dec year 2000, HE the "Hunter" met HER the "Hunted" in SOS Disco (he's going to kill me for saying this! Haha). 

Ok ok, we met through a cheongster friend that night. I happened to be there after my company's Retro-themed christmas party. Well, it was DARK at that kind of place & I was wearing my hippy retro shades in disco. Geez... We were both single, just! 

Anyhow, we ended up chatted the rest of the night & exchanged numbers. I remember he sarcastically commented that I was insincere as he couldn't find it in his hp after the exchange. Smart Aleck! I did enter my number, probably didn't save correctly (must be the shades la! :p). Anyway thank God he checked & that's when we started keeping in touch... 

By the way, he didn't find me chio anymore the next time we met, under Mdm Wong's pool table lights. Haha!!

Our "romantic" dinner at Que Pasa (Emerald Hill) on my birthday, Feb 2004. Until... 


A whole bunch of buddies appeared as a surprise!! Haha... (and Eugene [rightmost] was still with us then).

Year 2004 August, at Coastes (Sentosa) for Nicholas's birthday.

Year 2004 April, went diving with a group of friends at Pulau Aur.


CURRENT AFFAIR
After years of teh Terik + beach tanning + night partying + commenting that "Serene cannot make it la" statement + attended *POP course, he finally saw the LIGHT! He finally realised that Serene is THE ONE!! Haha...
* Psychology of Potential - http://www.popworkshop.com.sg

Our 1st musical together...

Follow by this...

1st party as Lovers!...

1st Lantern Festival together...


Went for our Lasik together...

Extracted wisdom teeth at the same time...

1st trip (to Korea) together...

Our similarities...

Our differences...

Then FINALLY!!!...
The proposal came... 


THE END... (for now) 
It's 4am in the morning and I am too stoned to continue... Look our for next episode!