Thursday, March 22, 2012

Her World Brides Fabulous Weddings 2012

This March, head to Resorts World Singapore for the Her World Brides wedding show

Looking for inspiring wedding ideas for your big day?

Get set for an exciting line-up at Her World Brides Fabulous Weddings 2012; a huge wedding show that will get you psyched to start planning for your wedding.

Held on March 24 to 25 at Resorts World Sentosa's Equarius Hotel, the highlights of this bridal show include wedding fashion shows, great bridal deals, a high tea reception and lucky draws.

Keen on holding your wedding outdoors? You'll be able to tour the lush wedding set-ups at Equarius Hotel's Lawn and Glass Pavilion as well.

Trust us, the little details do count. At this activity-packed event, you'll find fancy cake displays, fun ideas for food presentations, geomancer services (check for the most auspicious dates and more!) and plenty of fringe activities too.

So wait no longer and start signing up for the event.

Click Here to Register Now

Her World Brides Fabulous Weddings 2012 is held on March 24 to 25, at Resorts World Sentosa, Equarius Hotel, level 2, from 11am to 6pm.

Admission is priced at $29 per couple; Citibank cardmembers will get to enjoy discounted tickets at $25 per couple. For further enquiries, email maghwbrides_promo@sph.com.sg.

Sunday, March 18, 2012

Beach Wedding

Planning for a Beach Wedding?

My friend had her most stunning, romantic and memorable beach wedding in United States. Too bad that it was too far for me to travel there with my toddler. I can see how happy she was on her wedding day from some of the photos that she shared with me. At last, she found her Mr Right and best of all she had her dream wedding.

When her Mr Right agreed to have Beach Wedding, she quickly google on the internet finding beach wedding guide and instantly she purchased the e-book
Beach Wedding Planning Guide

She mentioned that luckily she managed to find the book and read it. Else, her dream wedding won't be as perfect as she thought. The checklists at the end of each section are so useful for her in planning her beach wedding.

Bridal photos

Want to have the perfect bridal photos that you want?

Theme
First, you will need to decide on the ALBUM THEME. Something simple? cool? elegant? fairy style? etc.

You can refer to some wedding magazines or surf through some bridal houses websites to see the photo styles and determine what you actually want to be on your bridal album.

Milan Bridal House
Ideal Wedding
Crystal Brides
Desantia Bridal House
My Dream Wedding House
Bridal House

Location
Once the theme is set, you will need to determine on the locations that you want to shoot your bridal photos - beach, garden, heritage building, jetty, clock tower, waterfall, hotel etc.

Photographer
Once the above are decided, we will need to inform the photographer so that the photographer can help in taking photo shots to prepare the album later on. In fact, I would say PHOTOGRAPHER is the key factor in deciding on the bridal studio that we want to sign our bridal package with. If we can't communicate well with the photographer, the photos effect will not come out well and the album will not be something that we want/like.

Hence, before you sign up any package during bridal fair, do spend some times talking to the photographer to see if you can 'click' with him/ her.

My experience
What I did previously was I folded many pages from the magazines and passed to my photographer to let him know of the style and shot that I want to be in my album. I actually spent time looking through the magazines and surfing the internet on others' bridal photos. Afterall, it's once in a lifetime precious album with my hubby.

Besides, we had some photos taken in Europe (pre-honeymoon trip) as the bridal photos background. We talked to the photographer prior to our trip to find out if this is doable. And to our delight, it can be done. Those photos need to be taken at high resolution on a DSLR.

My Wedding Preparation Experience (Chinese Wedding held in Penang)

After Mr Right proposed to me, his family visited my parents (提亲) to discuss about dowry and any customary that my parents want to follow. Thanks God that my mum has become a modern mum despite being a full time housewife for 30 years! Glad that the meet up session went on smoothly.

First thing to do after the meet up was to go to Kim Tiao Tang (金吊桶 +604-2271655) at Penang Burmah Road to ask for the good date to have the customary pick up bride and tea ceremony. The consultation charge is RM50 which the uncle will provide the list of good wedding dates and dates and times for some customary procedures e.g. delivering dowry to the bride’s family, setting up the bridal room, pray to the Sky God etc. Once the RM50 is paid, we can call the uncle as many times as you want to ask whatever questions you have, be it to change the wedding date or anything about the custom procedures. I also tried to get the Sang Ke Erm from Kim Tiao Tang but she had been booked.

We started to list down the guest list as we need to find the venues that can cater the number of tables we require. For the venue, we did not choose a specific theme like beach or garden wedding but just opt to hold the wedding dinner at the hotel as it’s more modern looking as compared to Chinese restaurant. It’s really a headache for us to match the good dates with the venue we wanted. We even called up the uncle at Kim Tiao Tang a few times to recheck on the good date for us. Advice is to book the hotel as early as possible.

Once the date and venue is firmed, we decided on the best man, maid of honor, heng tais, ji muis and helpers at the reception. Luckily this was very easy for us.

Next we sourced for vendors – photographer, videographer, bridal houses, card printing company, wedding gift, florist and gown for ROM.

We highly recommend Albert Video (+6012-4220881) that charge at reasonable price for photographer and videographer. Besides, no upfront deposit is required ;) No restriction on the number of photo shots as well.

We took our photos at Milan Bridal House (+604-2288918). Sad to say that the photographer has left the bridal house to venture into other industry. Else, he is also highly recommended for his patience and in shooting the bridal photos and came out with the album.

As for card printing company, I’d recommend Link Two Enterprise which is located at 3A-470, Bukit Jambul Complex (+60124280820/+6 0123810820; link2_ent@yahoo.com). Have a variety of cards at reasonable price. Good service too.

We chose The Starz Band to perform on our wedding dinner in Penang. Again, reasonable price with nice singers and songs. We are allowed to choose from the list of songs that they have. We can also request them to sing the songs that are not in their list. They just know to play the right song at the right stage of the wedding dinner. In Alor Setar, my dad invited a few Astro oldies singers to perform by paying RM5K of which only the older people will enjoy.

Eventually, we didn’t go for any special wedding gift like chopstick, candle, mini mug etc. We just got the bookmark with our bridal photos from the bridal house.

Some trivia things required will be signature booklet, parker pens for the guests to sign, box at reception to keep angpow.

Seating arrangement was the other thing to do once we received attendance confirmation from the invited guests.

Saturday, March 17, 2012

Wedding Speeches


Feeling loss not sure of what to talk about on your wedding day?

Feeling stress when being asked by your friend to give speech on his/ her wedding day as best man or maid of honor?

To learn more about wedding speeches, either you are the bride, groom, best man, maid of honor, father or the bride, mother of the bride, please visit Wedding Speeches And Toasts

Father of The Bride Speech

Best man and Bridegroom Speeches

Friday, March 16, 2012

Wedding Flowers


In most wedding, flower is a must to have item. Be it a simple corsage, arm bouquet, arch decor with flower etc. Normally all these can cost a few hundred/thousand dollar. If you have the time, why not learn the technique yourself to save the money? You can learn all the techniques and create your own unique bridal bouquet via The Wedding Flower

Wedding Savings Tips

Most people spend thousands of dollar for Wedding Day - spending on wedding venue, wedding decor, wedding cake, wedding gown, makeup artist, wedding gift etc.

If you are on tight budget constraint, check out The Wedding Savings Tips which may save you a lot of money and turn the savings into paying a free honeymoon trip!

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Wedding Cupcake


Bored with wedding cake? Wanna try baking your very own wedding cupcake?

Here you can learn the secret in baking wedding cupcakes via videos & with recipes provided - Wedding Cupcakes

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Wedding Planning

Most couples spend a lot of effort in preparing for the wedding day. You may have just been proposed by your Mr Right. Excited, happy and at the same time you must be starting to worry what should you do next. Wedding is a once in a lifetime event. Everyone has their own dream wedding day.
Below is my checklist on the items to consider in your planning:
- Wedding theme
- Wedding venue
- Bridesmaid and Best man
- Wedding gown
- Bridesmaid gown
- Wedding guest list
- Wedding invitation card
- Wedding cakes
- Wedding MC
- Singing Band
- Photographer
- Videographer
- Helpers at the Reception
- Gifts for the guests

The list can go on and you may be thinking of hiring a Wedding Planner to plan everything for you. But, normally the consultation charge is not cheap, it can go up to a few thousand and sometimes it may not turn out to be something you like. Instead of paying a few thousand to the Wedding Planner, why not just get a copy of Wedding Planning Guide to plan for your BIG DAY? ;)

And who know, one day you may become a Wedding Planner yourself after reading through the guide and planning for your own BIG DAY!;)

Sunday, March 11, 2012

Wedding MC

I attended one of my best friends’ wedding dinner over the weekend. As always, I will think this is another boring wedding dinner apart from celebrating my best friend's Big Day. A wedding dinner that will take place at the same old styles - boring singing band performing, boring MC etc..

However, to my surprise, the MC on the night has made everyone enjoyed themselves very much on the night with his entertaining speeches. Everyone has good time laughing, enjoying the food & the restaurant ambient. He is really the best ever MC I have ever seen & heard on a wedding dinner. The way he talked really opens my eyes. Even my other friends that attended the wedding dinner also have the same thoughts. He said it all thanks to the eGuide that he found online recently Be A Fun & Memorable MC