Wedding Weekend

the weather was not exactly all kind today but at least it didn't rain! i almost died (as usual) in my heels - but that occurred while walking to Harmony Hub, the venue of Norfasarie & Baihakki's wedding event. thumbs down to faraway carparks!

anyhow, i really enjoyed Noriko's wedding as it was somewhat a cultural melting pot. Malays, Japanese and Americans were present for the 'Singapore Leg' of her wedding event marathon! her solemnization ceremony was held last year in Tokyo. today was the persandingan and next year a wedding dinner will be held in Portland, Oregon. 3 wedding celebrations from 2007 to 2009!

floral sphere held by a stick - for Noriko's wedding dinner


my mom and aunt with the bride while waiting for the groom to arrive


groom arrives with his entourage below




hadrah member performing the silat to the groom before meeting with the bride


my favourite part of a malay wedding! it's really funny & cheesy when a member of the bride's family request the groom and his entourage to offer some gift before he is allowed to see the bride. it's usually some money that's handed over - the bride's representative rejected USD in favour of Japanese Yen, which of course the groom had in hand!


bride and groom finally together


mat saleh fully clad in malay traditionals participating in the berinai ceremony


and finally me, mom, sister, nek gaya, nur, wak mayah and cik netti

next wedding! as promised this is Norfasarie & Baihakki's wedding invitation.

sponsors galore

my pictures are low resolution taken with my camera phone this time around so excuse the grains!

groom making an entrance


insane crowd


bride waiting at the dais


groom gets past everyone, like finally


and your view gets blocked by everyone basically!

anyhow i was waiting for the crowd to clear to snap a picture of the couple. but i got distracted with something else and you couldn't blame me. there was this faulty fan about a few metres away from our table. it started ripping through the tentage lining at first and then its blades, yes FAN BLADES started falling off in a Final Destination kind of way!!! thank God the two that spun off the fan first failed to hit anyone! the final blade was then caught by some lining and by then i was just too horrified to take pictures and finish off my chocolate dipped marshmellows.

what an eventful ending to my Saturday. tomorrow is wedding prep work day. it's 7 days to our next project - insyallah that turns out just fine ;)

Happy Weekend ya'll!

Imagini

remember that personality test we did powered by imagini? this one profiles your decor type.
click here to waste time.

:my results:

HOME-COMING QUEEN
Nothing - budgets included - stops you from putting your all into creating a dream home. Your look is quintessentially feminine: cool, pretty colours; layered patterns and textures; and flawless attention to every detail.

LIVING ROOM
You love to indulge the senses, to pamper and prettify. Just as feminine iconography ranges from the Junoesque to the gamine, from English apple blossom to vampish vixen, so can feminine interiors be expressed in myriad styles. Nonetheless, there are some constants: curvaceous sofas and generously comfortable upholstery, and an eye that misses nothing. There's no doubt who's the mistress of the house! Whether sexy, cute or simply sublime, the feminine living room is characterised by picture-postcard-perfect accessories. This is frequently a look where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, because every element has been carefully chosen and attended to. Bold splashes of colour indicate a confident sense of style, while heavy leathers add gravitas and grandeur. With a living room like yours, it's no wonder family and friends love popping round to see you.

BEDROOM
Your bedroom has that classic look that never goes out of style. Sleep is fundamentally important to our well being. In busy towns and cities, noise can often hamper a good night's sleep. Soft furnishings really do absorb sound, and touch is such an important sense in the bedroom, from crisp, linen sheets to wool or even sheepskin underfoot. Elegance and relative simplicity are keynotes in your bedroom, using the timeless approach of layering white on white to serene effect.

DINING ROOM
You're a home-lover, bringing a light, feminine touch to mealtimes. At home, your dining room may be quite formal at the same time as being light and airy, with pretty finishing touches. You're a home-maker par excellence, and mealtimes are the perfect occasion for bringing everyone together. If you like patterns ,especially floral ones, be careful about overdoing it: there's a thin line between feminine charms and the gilded lily. When it comes to entertaining, you like to pull out all the stops.

HOME OFFICE
Your home office is formal and sober. Gone are the days when the home PC was the preserve of nerdy geeks. These days, most of us need a home office: a simple table and chair in one corner of the room with adjustable task lighting and adequate filing is all it takes (and may be all the space you can afford). Clean, simple lines and an absence of clutter suit the home office very well - but don't neglect to introduce an element of your own personality to the space, even if it's nothing more than a favourite photograph in an elegant frame.

Colours & Palettes

if you're a big fan of The Sartorialist (like who isn't?), you should check out this blog. it belongs to a suisse graphic design student who creates color palettes based on sartorialist content. smart!

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Blooming Day

its thursday today and thus we make a trip down to the florist. thursdays are flower days, remember that. before making our way to thomson, we dropped by joo chiat to look for this missing furniture shop. we failed to locate it but bumped into my japanese relative whose wedding is this weekend. my mom's doing the bridal flowers by the way. noriko looks so pretty as usual - hopefully i'll get some pics of her at the wedding and then later norfasarie & baihakki's perhaps? haha i'm still thoroughly amused with their wedding invitation card! i'll show you in the next post though i recall someone telling me it came out in the newspapers before.

after lunch and off to far east flora! armed with my camera, i snapped away at all the beautiful blooms in the freezing cold room. enjoy!



perennial favourite: pink peonies. they didnt have a good selection today though



yellow cynbidiums. the extra large white ones are perfect for any wedding. they had ones in russet too! very very nice



russet chrysanthenum - so rich



white dahlias, another wedding must have for me



beautiful ranunculus - like all beautiful things, it comes with a price!



a smaller dahlia, i love the pinkish hues



alliums - i think!



chrysanthenum pingpongs in white, they are truly scrumptious!



not fond of this shade of blue but can't deny its beauty aight!



prefer these pink ones of course

beautiful flowers come with a price unfortunately, but chrysanthenum pompoms are cheap though! haha ;) i have yet to decide my attire for the 2 weddings this weekend! hope the weather will be kind to us all.

Let there be Light

rain all day robbed me of some good light and inspiration to shoot my old batch of wedding stationery. what a bummer! and worst, it was so tempting to sleep instead. i don't know when my website will be up with the updates but i know i better get the new batch of invitations and favours up before my 2nd 'industrial attachment' begins.

anyhow, i was looking at my bedroom wall/wallpaper. it's been up there for 10 yrs and even though its sides are terribly peeling, i am super reluctant to take it off. many designs do not look better as they age but this one does! it's laura ashley's summer palace wallpaper. they don't have the exact colours my room is covered in but other combis like white+blue (below) or a similar duck egg blue based one like mine but with details in pink, yellow and green.

while it's still not literally falling off the walls, i shall remain happy! but i still have to think of a post-summer palace plan. my mom said i have 3 excess rolls. i was thinking of using those to cover up whichever side of the room (in memory of the old wall) while i paint the rest of the walls. but i'd have to re-structure the current layout to suit that plan. once i graduate, i'm thinking of getting rid of my study table and split my room into 2 areas. one for sleeping and the other a reading area with a nice couch or loveseat. hope that's possible. afterall i can't live in the same room layout for 12 years!

while i save for that room makeover, i just have to dream that one day, i'll wrap my homewalls with Gracie Handpainted wallpapers! i'm smitten with their largely chinois inspired prints. so, when that day happens ahem i'll have something in common with Al Fayed, Vera Wang and the Lauders...haha! (in my muse image aerin lauder uses gracie's to line her closet...probably bigger than any of our rooms).

Night Festival

kicking off a host of events to be held at the national museum this july was the night festival! it's happening over 2 weekends and the next one will be co hosted with Zouk (The Beatnik Picnic). last night's performance was by the internationally acclaimed Studio Festi from Italy. the stage spanned from the stamford green to smu's campus green. classical european music blasted aloud as the audience were treated to dances involving various elements - fire, water & air.

love these floating spheres

campus green on fire!

the tall & sweaty crowd crammed within these 2 areas forced me up to SMU's SIS building 2nd floor. although our view was slightly blocked by a pillar and trees afterwards, at least - i could breathe ; )

alright so other interesting exhibitions which i am super keen to attend are...

• Weapons of Mass Desire: Design & Consumption in the Aftermath of WWII. 28 Aug-16 Nov, The Canyon, Basement (Free Admission)


• Life & Living [Food and Culture Series Workshops!]: Democratisation of Tea and Understanding Chocolate: Your Deepest, Darkest Desire. 16 Aug & 29 Aug, SGD15 & SGD40 respectively.


• National Museum Cinémathéque - various films like Hairspray (yes diana), Mel Stuart's Willy Wonka - not Tim Burton's and West Side Story (!!!).

Let's go =)

Museum Merchandise

i came across small collections of wedgewood museum and V&A cards at borders. SGD7 & 6 respectively per piece. i really love the wedgewood museum cards!!! kinda itching to get them and thinking of a reason to do so. i couldn't find them online sadly and the official wedgewood museum site sucks by the way so don't bother going there.

V&A offers an online museum shop lucky for us. the overseas shipping rate for shopping to up to GBP100 will cost GBP14.95. i'm planning to get a few stuff and you would too once you've seen what they have - so wanna share the shipping costs??? hehe.

diana's museum worthy parisian flea market souvenir (totally adore it - i know said this many times!) and a british museum gift i bought 10 years ago? almost unused except for that missing pencil.

speaking of museums, i get quarterly updates of national museum activity. perks of being affliated to one of the most beautiful buildings in singapore =). they've got a few must-go exhibitions and screenings running from july to september. will let you know soon or if you must see it now, i've added a link on the sidebar.

Nouveau

a healthy dose of retail therapy plus the arrival of my sony made me one excited girl last night! after the camera delivery, i made my way to syed alwi road for some econo-shopping. i'm proud to declare that i shall not be ripped off by candy empire anymore because i have found 20pc lindt lindors for SGD9.90! previously i have been paying SGD24 for 12pcs! hah!

i got these prettttty bangles too! there were other color combis so i may be going back to get more. it's 3 for SGD10. a steal right?

then at zara's sale, prices for pants were down to SGD39.90, orp at SGD89.90 =) awesome. so i got these salmon pink ones and a black/white pin stripe.

next stop: arab st + kino.

Portfolio Page

early this year i launched the new t.w.c website but because people like to see updates, i can't afford to create a no-maintenance required site! i worked to improve the menu page and added 1 new page, the page most people have requested for - the 'photo gallery'. i hate that term so it's gonna be called 'our portfolio' instead.

however i've been told today that there's gonna be a delay because the webmaker is running on a tight schedule =(. anyhow, that leaves me more time to include the other set of pictures i have yet to take then.

New Toy

back in my super old first post, i declared that this blog would be up and running once i got my camera. thank goodness (and finally - for any of you who knew how long i've been considering to replace my history museum worthy cybershot w1) that became reality. i'm so happy my camera finally reached singapore shores. decided to purchase mine from dubai as it's way cheaper saving me about SGD170. i have yet to collect it though. and after that, i'd take a few days fiddling about all its functions =)

thank you.

You're Invited

During the process of producing this, we were endlessly subjected to the forces of Murphy's Law! Browsing through most western wedding magazines you will notice that wedding invitations or stationery are done in Letterpress. It's the oldest kind of printing technique and if you're looking for a classic invitation, anything letterpress will provide that touch of class ;)

And finally, our client from France was familiar with this unlike most people in this part of the world (strangely) and requested for a letterpress-ed invitation. We were over the moon! Like finally a Letterpress Request!

Limited resources in Singapore however brought us through hell before we managed to produce our first 'letterpress' invite. Mind you, there is no printer in Singapore which uses the traditional Letterpress printing technique anymore but we found an updated technique that creates a similar printing effect.

SGD4.50/pc for minimum order quantity.

Martha's Wedding Planning Tool

this looks exciting - a pretty much comprehensive tool for planning your wedding.

but if you're still too busy or too meticulous, wedding planners exist and charge a consultancy/planning fee starting from SGD800 to as high as SGD6000 depending on the size of your event. the services rendered for this fee usually include:

• developing an event time line
• budgeting
• guest management
• event day coordination
• vendor liaison

Check out The Wedding Chateau's Wedding Planning service here.