Wedding invitations: Meowvin and I stayed up till 2am almost everyday during the past week printing out wedding invitations. I thought it was an easy task, until Mdm Poh showed us her list...and told us we have to use the Chinese formal way of addressing the relatives! e.g. To invite Meowvin's aunt who is his father's elder sister, we have to write it as so-and-so 胞姐阖府统请台升instead of a simple so-and-so 夫妇! Biang... we had a hard time figuring out how to write and worse... we didn't have their names and had to waste more time sourcing. Then Mdm Yik (my mum), who initially wanted to write in the "normal and simple" way, decided to "standardise" and wanted to do it the same way! *faint* The funny thing was... she also didn't know how and ended up I had to edit some of them for her, wahahhahahaa! Imagine... elder brother became 胞哥 instead of 胞兄 wahahahhahaa! Luckily Regent provided us with more cards than we needed, cos there was a lot of wastage and we had to reprint many times! Thankfully, our poor printer was good... it dutifully completed its task of printing out the names and addresses even though the black ink cartridge was near empty! Heng ar! We finally managed to mail out our cards last Friday.
Surprisingly, some of my friends received their cards on Saturday, so fast! Pleasantly surprised when they told me the card was very nice (haha, free one somemore) and unique. And... they noticed the customised stamp, wahahahha! Maybe this design is more eye catching? Last year for our ROM invitation we used a slightly darker photo for the stamps, so maybe that's why not as many people feedback about it? Regent supplied us with one whole stack of "How to get to Regent Hotel" maps to include with our invitations but we ended up re-designing the map by adding in more details and surrounding landmarks as the existing one was not as detailed, lol.
Items for AD: We went shopping with Mdm Yik last Saturday. Finally got around to buying those "traditional items". We went to Far East Plaza and I showed her the set of BLACK bedside lamps that we liked. Luckily she also agreed it is very modern, unlike those typical red colour plastic battery operated lamps like the one below.
The one we eyed has a black wooden rectangle frame with the word "喜", which is part of the black frame. It has a pink curvy small plate at the top of the black frame (it is removeable) which you can put little dried flowers, haha. Very nice piece of oriental yet modern display ornament! You have to connect it to power and it lights up when you touch the black frame. 1st touch, small brightness. 2nd touch, medium brightness. 3rd touch, brightest, and the 4th touch switches it off. Cool right?? It costed more than $40 compared to the red ugly ones above which costs about $8. Sounds silly, but Mdm Yik also said that instead of buying the ugly old fashioned lamp only to keep and collect dust after the wedding, might as well get something that looks modern and can be used after that. True, cos the black "喜" isn't obvious since it is part of the wooden black frame, whahahahhahaa! And we have found the perfect place to place it, on our dresser table, since its got the "woody" look as well and is dark brown, wahahhhaa!
Saw a very cute tea set where the shape of the tea pot is those curvy kind instead of the usual straight standing pots. The tea pot and the 4 cups that came along are red, without those traditional dragon and phoenix image on them, with the "喜" on each in black, very modern. Unfortunately, the cover of the tea pot is quite loose and prone to drop out. Mdm Yik was afraid that Meowvin's family (can be quite pandang) may say it is bad luck if sweh sweh it really drops out and so we had to choose another design.
Thankfully there was another design that looked traditional yet quite modern (looks good in photos too haha). it is white and red without the dragon and phoenix images as well, haha! Hard to explain and I don't have a pic. Quite cute cos the shape of the tea pot is quite fat, haha. So she got us that set, and the matching bowl set too! I really like the bowl set, very cute sia! The matching soup spoon has a hole at the top, and the shop assistant helped us to hook a red ribbon through it and created a flower-like design with it instead of the typical ribbon knot. Really beautifully done!
Bought some "喜" stickers as well and that settled our "AD to-buy" items! Went shopping with Mdm Yik for her accessories to match her outfit for that night. Sad to say, till now I still can't guess how her dress looks like, so mysterious, die die don't want to tell us. Even my dad also don't know! The only information I managed to squeeze out of her - 1) more than $400, branded 2) a lil bit of sleeve and quite possibly... korean style???? I don't know, but she did mention she doesn't want the MUA to doll her up until very red, she prefer korean style... so who knows perhaps her dress is also korean style?? Liew... she sure is good at keeping us in suspense!
Haiz sianz... this weekend we got to tag along with Mdm Poh to hand deliver the cards to their relatives... cannot post... :(
- Phebe
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