Saturday, July 25, 2009

Songs that we can use for our wedding!:)


While working on my common test paper :)
i decided to do something more fun~ shortlisting my wedding songs!

1) Beatles : Drive my car (of cos, we are not using this elmo version but quite cute hor)


2) Beatles : Hold your hand (this can be used for our ROM ya dear?)


3) Jason Mraz:Im yours


4) Jason Mraz: Lucky (Darling, this one is for U)


5) My fav drama serial -Full house Song 1


6) Full house Song 2

7) What great body rain has(bhahaha) this one must go in!(tribute to my RAIN)

8) David Tao

9) Canon in D

Thursday, July 23, 2009

Wedding Bands Bought

Wedding Bands
After searching high and low, east and west.., we finally bought our wedding bands from Goldheart. We will only be getting our rings at the end of the month. Cant wait to post the pics on our blog. One thing less to do on our to-do list.
Yesh yesh!and on top of that, we couldnt be sure if the one we bought was the initial ones we wanted to buy!haha but oh well, at least it is matching :) instead of us having separate ones..one step closer to man and wife :) (cant wait!)

Monday, July 20, 2009

Sunday, July 19, 2009

Dates available(to meet coordinator for Goodwood Park)

Darling, i'm free on the following days:

23th Jul (thursday)
27th Jul (monday)
31st Jul (friday)

24th and 28th (working night shift) , i 'm free in the afternoon.

hehehe

Friday, July 17, 2009

Searching For Wedding Bands

Since we were already at Orchard, and we didnt get to meet up with any wedding coordinators so we decided to look for our wedding bands instead!

OH my, i think we almost went to all the possible places already!
Lets see where did we go,

1) Tiffany and co. (Taka)
The spot lights were so bright that going near the showcase was too hot for me. you could literally feel the heat. Their collection didnt impress me much although xin kept reminding me that he had stood at some exact spot to look at my proposal ring!

Pros: Tiffany has got unique designs like the miligrain type and the fact that their bands are quite thin (fits my pui pui fingers)

Cons: So expensive. One ring already cost $1700+ (totally exceeded our budget)

2) Cartier(Taka)
Saw their signature love bands but xin wont consider them since his friend has it as his wedding band (imagine meeting up with them and all of us wearing the same wedding bands haha it would look like i married his friend instead :P)

Their other bands were either too flashy or just too plain (and if i wanted a gold band, i would rather go to a goldsmith shop.)
I didn want a band with their name on it (why should i engrave cartier on my wedding band, im not married to cartier !so silly and on top of that im paying to advertise for them)


3) Bvlgari(Taka)
There wasnt anyone in their store and their sales assistant was so secretive because he came to the showcase area through a hidden door. Ha! anyway he had served us half heartedly probably could tell from our body language that we were not serious buyers.

Anyway, too expensive and too flashy. Not worth considering at all.Period.

4) Soo Kee(Wisma)
We were served by a Chinese national trainee. I must say he was very patient and very sincere about serving us.
We looked through all their collections and spent quite some time there. I had already set my eyes on the ER one. He informed us that it would be best to get the rings before the end of the GSS.Xin was the one that couldn make up his mind tsk tsk!

5) Citigems (Wisma)
They had 3 sales assistants who were serving customers. So we took a seat and looked at the rings while waiting for someone to serve us. Unfortunately, no one approached us. One of the sales assistant was still chit chating with his client. Oh well..Thumbs down for citigems.

6) Lee Hwa (Wisma)
Next stop was Lee Hwa. We were told that citigems, goldheart, lee hwa and aspial were all from the same family. (talking abt monopoly) No wonder we saw quite a number of similar designs among these shops. The sales assistant could tell that our tastes was quite different. (very earlier on, we have decided we are going to different wedding bands already) heh. Talking abt democratic relationship :)

7) Goldheart (Wisma)
Cant remember what we saw. Nothing impressive.

8) Aspial(Wisma)
We stayed here quite some time. There was a particular pair that we both like. It had the two tone (rose gold and white gold). The prices (including discount) was definately below 2k.

My legs and eyes were aching for looking at so many rings!But we decided not to get any of it cos of wishy washy xin!

Still searching for our wedding banquet and ROM venues

We went down to orchard on wednesday to look for venues to hold our wedding banquets.

First stop was to
1) Goodwood Park Hotel

I had good impression of that place after attending Si'en's wedding in may. Showed xin the venue we could have our solemnisation ceremony and also the smaller ball room but just wondering if we have place for cocktail reception or not.

Things to take note of when discussing with the wedding coordinator:
1) Privatise the outdoor area cos when we were there we saw some guests using the pool(not something I would want on my day)

2) Marriott Hotel

I had to use the washroom heh, didnt like the lobby at all. It was way too dark,not welcoming at all. And on top of that, the brochures that was given to use was printed in such poor quality!no pride in their work~tsk tsk!and their ROM package was not cheap at all.

Oh ya, forgot to add on!For both hotels, all their coordinators were not free to meet us instead they were all in a meeting such a coincidence. Me and xin felt that all coordinators had prearranged a tea break together!heh

Maybe i might consider looking at other venues as well...OH well..SO MA FAN!

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Guest List (ROM)

Marie's Side

1) Papa+Mummy
3) Gege & Priscilla
5) Ah ma
6) Ji Jiek and Auntie
8) Wenxiong Papa and Mummy
10) Tua Kor and Uncle Ben
12) Ji Kor and Jeremy
14) Suai Kor and Uncle
16) PoPo
17) Big Ah Gu + Ah Kim + Eden and Edwin
21) Ah E and Uncle
23)Small Ah Gu

Yongxin's Side
1) Mummy
2) Big Sister & husband
4) Second Sister
5) Jeremy & Zhiling
7) hengkang & apple
9) disheng & huijun
11) fanyu & joyce
13) liyang and carol
15) ah pong

Extensive Research I

Photographer

1) O Studio (The one which went overseas-New Zealand)
2) 1950 Photography (this studio has 3 photographers- a little different style for each photographer)
3)melvin.ho photography(looks good)
4) 36 fames
5)lightedpixels
6) freelance photographer greymatter
7) Little Red Dot
8) Tiny dot photographer
9) Andrew Choi
10)vivid shots photography
11) 36 east images
12)avenue 8
13) vocaremedia
14)a photostory
15)wayne ng photography
16)lightboxproductions so far thats abt it :)


To my dearest darling!

I have been slacking my day away instead i was prowling the streets (haha e-streets) looking at the forum..my goodness so much information. To summarize what I have found:

ROM Venue

1) Peony Jade

2) Goodwood Park Hotel

3) Mandarin Oriental

4) Carlton (The banquet seems relatively affordable and they do have ROM reception whereby you can choose from courtyard and casabana ~bali like pavillion) Maybe out cos my daddy don't have good impression of them

Saturday, July 11, 2009

Our To Do List

Since i do not have ms office on my netbook, we decided to record our happenings on our blog (or rather me..) so that xin will not nag at me for not updating

ROM
1) ROM Venue + Food for guests (including bride and bridegroom)
2) Wedding bands
3) ROM dress + ROM shoes + accessories (that means need to squeeze out a good deal from the bridal studio)
4) Photographer (hopefully a good one so we can use him for the customary wedding and banquet, we wont have to go and find another one)
5) New pair of shoes for the groom
6) book the justice of peace
Approximate Cost:
ROM Venue-$2000
Wedding Bands-$2000
Photography-($1000)
Miscellaneous:$500
Total:$$5500
Bridal Studio (Photo shoot)
Photo shoot
1) Candid shoots
2) Classy (from xin but donnoe what tats means...)
3) they must be good at photoshop!!(slimmer arms, legs hopefully whole body)
4) Must we have in studio shoot?
5) Overseas shoot or local?
Bridal Studio
1) I don want to have dance hostess night gowns (maroon, navy blue,champagne gold) no, no!
2) Good make up artist else i will source for my own
3) Suit for the groom-white (he wants a different from others...singlet and slippers~ welcome to bangkok T-shirt)
Max: $7000
Wedding Banquet
1) Venue
2) Price range
3) Invitation Cards and Guest List
4) GOOD and EFFICIENT wedding coordinate who replies to email(i converse better through email- no time to pick up calls)
5) hopefully can tie in together with the ROM venue (so that we can strike a better deal!) :)
6) Wedding favours
7) Live band and wedding singer
8) March in song
9) Wedding speech
10) Emcee
(to be update in future~tentatively november 2010)
Approximate number of tables: 30 tables ($36000-Worst case scenario: $12,ooo)
Our Love Nest
1) Location (near my mummy house haha! will consider masionette if they are blk 941 and 942 else probably looking at 4 room flats)
2) Price range: $320k for 4 room and 10k cash
3) 4 floor and above
4) Monthly payment via CPF
5) Renovation (amount to be set aside)
6) Theme: Easy to clean up and white floor!(no black marble flooring)
7) Bigger bed and vanity table
8) Nice toilet
Our search will come after ROM.
Cash over valuation:$10,000
Renovation:$30,000
Electrical Appliances and Furnishing:($15,000)
Time Line:
Wedding Banquet-November 2010
Shifting Things and Stuffs- October 2010
Renovation-July 2010-October 2010 (approximately 3 mths)
Confirmation of House- April 2010
Searching of House- Jan 2010 (CNY in Feb 2010)
GRAND TOTAL:$ 79,500!!!(aRGH.......)