Wedding Checklist

Organizing a wedding can be a daunting task and sometimes make you feel stressed rather than elated that you're a bride-to-be. So after going through some books and website for guidance, i've create a simple breakdown of the different areas for us to tackle.

1. Decide on the wedding date.
2. Set a budget.
3. Decide on the number of guests and make a list.
4. Book the church ceremony and reception venue.
5. Research and book photographer and videographer.
6. Choose the best man, bridesmaids, ushers, pageboys and flower girls.
7. Research and book entertainment for the reception.
8. Create the invitation cards and send them out 3 months in advance (home based) and 5-6 months in advance to family abroad.
9. Start looking for wedding dress ( 1 day dress and 2 night dress) and shoes.
10. Start looking for suits for the groom and ushers.
11. Start looking for bridesmaids dresses.
12. Decide on colour palette.
13. Decide on wedding flowers.
14. Choose a toastmaster/emcee.
15. Arrange wedding favours for reception.
16. Start wedding hair and make up trials.
17. Decide on reception floor plan and guest sitting arrangement.
18. Decide on table stationary and table place card design.
19. Prepare Order of Service booklet for Church ceremony.
20. Order wedding cake
21. Go for a full body massage and Spa, and hope it all fall into place :)

Bride to be xoxo

The Engagement Dinner Party (Family & Friends)

Thank you everyone for the endless love and support.

The Engagement Dinner Party (Decorations & Setting)

Big Thank you to Hyatt Regency Kinabalu for the wonderful decorations, amazing food and top class services. Here is some detail photos. Enjoy :)

Menu Of The Night

* Starters *

Vegetable Stick with Island Dressing

Assorted Finger Sandwiches

Nagisa’s Fotomaki Sushi

* Entrée *

Roasted Rosemary Chicken

Rosemary Sauce

Mashed Potatoes

Roasted Mix Vegetable & Roots

Deep Fried Prawn Dumpling

Beef Satay with Condiment

* So Sweet Like Love *

Cheese Cake

Chocolate Brownies

Crème Brulee

Fruit Skewer

* Fountain of Love Thirst Quencher *

Pink Lime Soda Drinks

* Made in Heaven *

The Engagement Cakes & Cupcakes

Red Wine

White Wine

A Little Update on Engagement

Ok, we are doing it just right. The Engagement Party by tradition is to be held 2 months after the guy proposed to the girl. So, that 2 months is almost up! So counting down 14 days from now. Super excited!

Picture taken in Koh Samui in April 2012 where he proposed to me by the sea underneath the moonlight and the stars. Yup, just like in the movies. Haha!

Official venue for the engagement will be Hyatt Regency Kinabalu Hotel. Offering us their finest food selection with generous add-on of our favourite Balinese theme decorations. I can never ask for more. Trust me. I can't thank you enough to Hyatt for doing this for me.

For cakes and cupcakes, I trust Sunny Koh is preparing well on his side. Hope his moving back to KK from Sydney Australia isn't taking too much of his time so he can start working on the designs.

For the Engagement favours, it's going to be a very last minute one. Think we can only start preparing it when I'm in Kota Kinabalu. I really want to hands on for this section of the planning because I want to add a little personal touch to thank everyone that make their time to celebrate this special occasion with us.

The dress. Yup. The engagement dress. Unfortunately, I can't afford Justin Yap to design my engagement dress, it is way beyond my budget as there is only one of us that is currently working now and James was pretty unlucky as he did not received his salary with previous company for 1 month and half forcing him to resigned and moving back to UK soon (pretty dissapointed with that to be honest) So in terms of finance, we are pretty tight with it. Wait, VERY tight! Hahaha.

Therefore, I have been joining some contest to win a dress and even scouting some of my friend's dress, many of my friends so kind to lend me their dress. Thanks babes! I'm also lucky enough as there are some high fashion boutique actually offered to sponsor me a dress for my engagement party too! But, I have yet to decide on anything for now. I need more time to decide.

My guest list is actually more than I have expected. I was pretty stressed about it at the beginning because I can't afford to pay for it.... but glad that my parents agreed to help me out on the additional expenses after I told them my situation. So it's all good now. Thank you :)

I just want all my family and friends to be there even though many still could not make it as they are UK based and some in Canada and somewhere in the world. I shall cheers for them on that night tho. Haha. More reasons to drink ;)

I'm so nervous actually. But hey, it's going to be an awesome night!

By the way, today is my dad's birthday. So Happy Birthday daddy! Love you loads and can't wait to see you soon!

For more information about Hyatt Regency Kinabalu Hotel, do check them out at their official website. Here is the link http://kinabalu.regency.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels-kinabalu-regency/index.jsp?null

Love,

Bride to be.

Engagement Inspiration Colour

So apart from the two photos that are for real (the engagement card and Hyatt Regency Kinabalu Hotel's poolside photo) the rest are just something I found over the Internet to get some inspiration and colour coordination. Not expecting all of this to turn out 100% but it's worth a try to throw this colour theme party!

We have also bought our balloons in advance from Balloon Buzz, some love theme decorations from Typo and at the moment we are in the process of preparing a small Thank You gift to all our beloved guests. It's not a big gift, just a little Thank You for showing your love :)

Cupcakes will be provided by Sunny Koh, my sister's best friend. He's a very experience chef based in Sydney Australia and moving back to Kota Kinabalu so he decided to help design our engagement cupcakes! Yay!

*excited*

From the bride to be :)

Lingerie for Wedding?

why not? :)