1st Gown Fitting

Yay!

Had my first gown fitting today and, no surprises here, no pictures to post for obvious reasons.

My "fairy-dress", as my dear supervisor/friend Darryn refers to it as, has turned out better than i'd expected. I'm glad i went for the thai silk instead of the usual satin.

Danny, the gown designer, is going to sew some beads onto the lace for the next fitting. This is to give me some idea as to what it might look like with these embellishments. Jane, who accompanied me to the fitting, and I think it may be better as it is. Simple, and more my style.

More suspense. More to look forward to. And, this post is more likely to interest me, rather than my avid audience, as I read it again in the future to reminisce about the wedding.

We've been C-Cupped!

We've been waiting for this for quite some time. We only managed to meet Melvin of C Cup last Saturday and he'd arranged for samples (free!!!! But they did surprise us with a bill for delivery! Oh well...) to be sent to us on Thursday! I waited, and waited, David came home, and we waited some more....Finally, just as we were about to give up hope, the doorbell rang and woohoo, the delivery man had arrived with our lovely lovely PINK box!

The delight I felt when I opened the box of cupcakes!!! David remains the sole witness to that mad dance and hop around the kitchen. I sound childish, girlish, and quite frankly, out of character BUT it's so pretty!!! I am sure the girls who view this blog will agree and, honestly, do that mad hop too.

We had 6 cupcakes delivered. 4 Tempt Me Nots, described as "an almost sinful dark chocolate cake filled with bursts of maraschino cherries, milk chocolate chunks and finished with pretty butter creme posies", and 2 Black Tie Events - "the perfect combination of smooth white chocolate and slivered almosts in a rich chocolate fudge base with a cream cheese frosting". They did the toppings in two different shades of pink, it looks a lil odd on the Black Tie Event but it tasted gorgeous.

C Cup, with their creative packaging, which incidently matches our colour theme (yes, we have a colour theme, despite my attempt at a laissez faire attitude), and wonderfully moist and scrumptious cupcakes are at the top of our list, but we're still waiting to hear from the Raffles pastry chef to see what he can do for us. More waiting...but i think we're nearly there.

Tea Ceremony Luncheon

One other final task that I've just completed for the wedding is booking the lunch buffet for after the tea ceremony at my place.

We decided to go with a Peranakan themed afternoon, as I am Peranakan on my mom's side, so we wanted to have Peranakan food. Purple Sage provided a good selection of Peranakan menus but, unfortunately, the entire menu was made up of rather spicy food which might be a little too unsuitable for David's family so we decided to go with another company. Rasel Food Fusion's menu allowed us to pick and choose from a list of options, and whilst it is not as authentically Peranakan it still maintains a spicy flavour that is reflective of this cultural group.

We've to wait for them to call back to confirm this booking but David called them earlier today and it seems that they are still available for this date. More finger crossing, but it looks like we've pretty much got things under control.

4 more months to d day.

Glitz and Glamour for the Girls

Another tick on the to-do list.

We've sourced and booked two teams of makeup artists for both David and my family for the wedding dinner. After speaking to a few different companies, we've found one who's really professional and, better yet, giving us a super deal. Sherry Lew and her team of makeup artists will be swooping down to the Far East Serviced Apartments and my place in the afternoon to make over our mothers, grandmothers, aunts, sisters-in-laws, friends, and all other women folk who would like some fussing. I am sure the men can get in on some of the action if they'll like to as well.

This is all sounding rather glamourous and exciting.

Wedding Shoes!

After weeks of hunting, in both the UK and Singapore, we've finally found my wedding shoes. Yay! It's slightly bling as you can see, and I do feel a little shallow blogging about this, but I am consoling myself by saying that I just want to show Carol & Jim what the shoes look like as they are paying for them (my 2006 Christmas present). More savings from the wedding budget! Oh, and of course, a dear friend (Cirong - the person responsible for the super neat writing on the invitation envelopes) stuck in Queensland is definately interested in these nitty gritty bits of the process...yeah...right...