The story of Darling’s gown

Darling’s gown wasn’t like what u see in the photos at the start… …

We had a free ROM “package”, so to say when we signed up with our bridal studio, so initially, we thought of going down to find a suitable gown for our ROM. The bridal studio has limited selection for ROM gowns and the excuse they gave was they specialise in actual day wedding gowns and evening gowns, and that ROM gowns are usually kept as FOC items, so they do not place much emphasis. Hmm….how true is that! We looked up and down and only managed to find 1 presentable one…
This is darling’s gown No. 1 –

version 1 of darling's gown

I chose this black suit with mandarin collar, which is also the most presentable of all. I only had 3 to choose from, white, black or grey….

Darling and I are not satisfied at the gowns…we both felt that there must be nicer ones out there! With this motivation in mind, darling started to scout the internet, looking for home based boutiques which can offer more selections at competitive prices! Yup, she did find 1 located at SengKang. It is a lady from China who does import from China, Taiwan, Malaysia etc…
And now we have version No. 2 –

darling as a mermaid bride

Darling says this makes her look fat fat, esp at the waist but I don’t think so leh…Hmm…girls definitely look at things differently from guys.
Anyway, she has bought the gown and is deciding whether to wear this or to look for another one. All girls want to look extraordinary on that special day mah, so yup, off we go to look for another gown. What better place to look than through the Net? Through recommendations from bridal forums, Darling came across this freelance designer who makes wedding gowns at reasonable prices. So darling made contact. It’s Quinn. U all can google it. The lucky one who will get a chance to tailor make darling’s gown will be Quinn!
The best way to get a perfect gown is to customize it and darling did just that. She looked through the Net, scouting for designs which she liked and saved them up. She then told Quinn what are the details she would like to have and the kind of feel she wants to create. We wanted something that is Non-white, since we are going to wear white anyway on our actual day wedding. Darling liked green and coincidentally, it’s the old SGH uniform colour, when I first met darling. So it shall be a green gown with a togo!
This is the final ROM gown, version 3!

The fial version

The gown still has a bit too much of a “pong pong” feel at the front, so we got Quinn to make some ammendments, and the final one is the one darling wore on the actual ROM day!
After darling’s gown is settled and sent for making, it is dar dar’s turn to source for new wedding shoes, needles.
Darling has a nice tall shoes, so I figured I should need something to prop me up…the answer?
“It’s walking tall” shoes!
Then we went to the Oscar tailor in Peninsular plaza, as recommended by Quinn. Lucky there is a wide selection of colours I can choose for my shirt and we found 1 matching colour! We decided on grey for my suit as it will be special and it also complements the minty green gown =)
My suit set –

me with my suit

All set, we are ready for our ROM.
SO this is the story of how darling’s gown came about =)

Us doing the march in

We are married!!

31 Jan 2010, we are finally married! After such a long preparation, wah, really a big big stone off our shoulders.
The ROM was great! We even got time to prepare our personalized vows! Lolz, really sweet!
Shangri-la is really a great place for marriage ceremonies. The service is excellent and we were never disappointed with their service from start till end. Thank you Melanie for all your help!
Shangri-la provided us with a nice upgrade of room to the garden wing where we have a nice balcony overlooking the swimming pool, with the waterfall outside out hotel door and the waterfall terrace directly beneath our room.
Here, darling can do her make up while listening to the sound of the cascading waterfall. The room is spacious and clean and it has a nice big mirror for the make up too =)
I was ecstatic when I saw our flower deco! They are huge! The flowers are of big blooms and fresh and nice colours of pink. Our solemnisation table is beautifully decorated with a huge flower centerpiece and it compliments our feather pen too!
Next comes darling’s huge flower bouquet consisting of pretty pink roses with huge orchids! The stalks are nicely laced up and lined with pearls too. The even provided some loose flowers for darling’s hair deco.
We did a good long march in down the waterfall terrace walkway, lined with rose petals and petal confetti before sitting down at the solemnisation table. There is a minor hiccup though, Lolz, the ring bearer forgot to place the rings on our table! Haha, Lucky got the ever cute Claire who quickly zoomed in, placed the ring pillow, zoomed out before anyone notices.
Just to share the vows we made to each other
Mine —
“Darling, I will love you for who you areand I will accompany you for the rest of our lives.
I will try my best to complement you for we are always a team.
I will always make time for you, because without you, nothing else matters.
I will continue to give you surprises because you are my first love and my only darling.
I will lend you my ears when you need to complain and be your punching bag is needed.
I will give you my warmth if you ever feel cold and make sure you don’t shiver.
I give you this ring, as a token.
I now marry you… …”
Darling’s —
“on this special day, I give to you my promise to be by your side,
in good and bad times, in sickness and in health.
No matter what trials and tribulations may come,
I promise to always love you, comfort you and cherish you without reservation.
Now I give you this ring as a symbol of my love and faithfulness to you”

I tell you, I nearly cried when I was reading our my vows! Haha. Thank you darling for your vows too!
A pity Darling is too shy to kiss me after the ring exchange…makes it look like I am forcing my kiss on her!

We commenced to the waterfall terrace for our lunch reception and darling is in for 3 surprises!

No. 1: I sang her a song by 品冠 – 无可救药. but I got Dong ting to help me make the MTV while I sing to Darling. Haha, I managed to get her to shed a few tears too! Shiok!

No. 2: I got darling to unveil a 50 x 75 cm jigsaw puzzle of us in Japan Nara with the wordings as below
” My most brilliant achievement in life is to have you as my wife”

No. 3: I blindfolded darling and presented a huge bouquet of 99 roses to her! Lolz, You can catch a glimpse of how it looks like on this website: “http://enchantedfloral.blogspot.com/”
The Giselle is the one I got the florist to create for my darling!

Darling finally kissed me!! Yeah! All these efforts to get a kiss from darling…but all worth it!

Take a look at our photo MTV done up by our PG friend Rick Lee =) He’s good.
Thanks Rick for your help! I am helping you advertise here too!
check this out! It’s beautiful! “http://slideshow.rickleephoto.net/cheeweiweixian/”

I will post more photos when I get them =)

I will slowly take you through all our scrapbook in the following entries!

2 weeks OMG 2 weeks!

Well, the countdown begins. 2 weeks… …
Dar Dar will have a wife and Darling will have a hubby in 2 weeks time!
Busy Busy…with work, with preparations, with being stressed. Haha. Weddings are stressful events, no wonder there must be a honeymoon after the wedding! The process of planning has been fun and fruitful, now we are at the final stage liao, tying up loose ends, waiting for the execution of the plan!
We are going to collect Darling’s gown today, after several rounds of fitting and trimming, this shall be the most wonderful gown ever!
Sylvia has kindly volunteered a love cake…heehee, thanks Ah Via!
Now eagerly waiting… ….
Lolz, wedding vows are still in the process of writing, our scrapbook is left with guest signing pages.
We are collecting our album with Venus on 24th…
Can’t wait to piece everything together.
This shall be the most wonderful wedding solemnisation ever! Hahaha.
I’m Lov’in it, We are Lov’in it

stress = good?

Feel really stressed lah, it’s like ? less than 3 weeks away to our big day?!
I have to really buck up liao! My task is to come up with photos and songs for our montage! If only I can stay awake the whole night! Oh my piggy head!! I wanna have some medicine to stop my pigginess! Hahaha, red bull maybe?
We have finished 10 pages of our scrapbook and met our initial target! *applause* *clap clap* Now I can’t wait for saturday to come, so I can go to buy our clear acrylic album! Hahaha, fell in love when we first saw it in Laine’s papertierie, hope it’s still in stock! I am really proud of all our pages! I think they all look fantastic and creative for amateurs like us! Heehee, we will definitely post them up page by page when we done our ROM and finished our honeymoon…promise k!
We have finalized our photoshoot album design, picture to use for our big portrait, as well as the 8R photos for the display on our tables!
A lot of appointments to attend for us…haha, like suddenly we became the VIPs, with our busy schedule!
This sunday we are going to collect Darling’s ROM gown! Then we will have to fix a date to meet Melanie at Shangri-la from the 16 Jan onwards. We have fixed to go on 24th Jan to collect our photo album and photos from JB, and we have to go ROM building on 26th Jan to collect our ROM documents. Whoa, that’s the celebrity life for u!
We are even planning to go around to have photoshoots of the places that matter during our whole ROM preparations, such as Fairies Inc, somerset shop where Darling bought her wedding shoe, picture of my tailor’s shop, JB starbucks, just to name a few.
Everything is so exciting yet very stressed. Hope darling is not too stressed by it all and decide to give it all up! NO DON”T DARLING! DAR DAR is here to shoulder the burden!
I have to start the montage liao, my next week’s resolution, shall go week by week planning. Lucky we have our honeymoon in Bali all planned before hand…at least we can look forward to the plunge pool under the starry night sky next to the natural valley and river at our backyard. We can laze around in the pool or lie on our chairs, listening to the insects, wind and river gushing, smelling the natural scent of the valley and forest..AHHH life is meant to be enjoyed!
Pardon me for not updating as much, but be rest assured… … after our ROM, we will have tonnes of posts! Haha stay tuned!

3 years 8 months and counting… …

Time flies… … It’s Happie Anniversary again! Kekeke. 18 Nov 09 was our 3 years 8 months anniversary and we spent it in luxury! =)
We went to meet Melanie regarding our estimated guest numbers and we have to make a number of decisions! Oh my, we increased our original plan of 30 pax to 50-60 pax! Our friends rulez!~
What we had to do… …
1) chose our invitation cards designs;
2) the inlays colour;
3) fonts for our wordings in the cards;
4) table linen;
5) seat cover;
6) lunch tables setup;
7) flowers and colours;
8) KIV wedding favours
That was quite a handful…but making those decisions makes it all the more exciting coz the date is drawing near! We want a march in as well…hmm…still undecided between marching in from the Koi pond/man made garden before our ROM proper, or walking into waterfall terrace after ROM proper… ..most likely going to choose the former. =p
We had a most scrumptious buffet dinner at The Line, kindly sponsored by my darling… heehee…will tell you why at the end of the post…

Outstanding issues to settle within these 2 months before our ROM!
1) scrapbook (have not started working on it yet, but I am sure with Dar Dar and Darling powers combined, we are Captain Scrapbook!)
2) wedding montage (heeheehee, I have been lazy I admit)
3) wedding song list
4) Darling’s ROM gown (going to look at the 99% finished product this sunday, will request minor alterations)
5) Darling’s shoes (soon-to-be ready for collection)
6) Dar Dar’s suit, shirt, pants (ready on 25 Dec 09)
7) choosing our pre-ROM shots from Venus, JB (going JB on 21 Nov to choose our photos! Can’t wait to see how beautiful my darling looks!)
8) wedding bands (they will be ready on 7 Dec 09, so exciting!!)
9) Honeymoon (going to email the Bali Villa the credit card details soon)
10) Meeting Mr Jude Yeo AKA Uncle Jude, as Darling will address him (mid December)
11) confirmation of guests, sending of wedding invites, choosing of Emcees at a later date in Dec/Jan

Now…why did Darling have to sponsor our anniversary dinner? Because she forgot my handphone number! Hahaha. =p

PS: Message me more, my dear, so you will never forget!
PPS: I still love you my dear =x

PPPS: Darling was playing with the sliding glass door sensors and making the glass doors open and close when nobody is walking through! Hahaha, and she truly enjoyed it…and I will enjoy it too coz I caught it all on video!

PPPPS: I love my darling! She’s so cute!

I am walking TALL

Yeap! U read it right! I am going for a growing tall campaign!
Xian is going to buy a 3 inch heel for our ROM and already at 165+cm, she will definitely overshoot me when she wears them!
So, for the sake of our pictures and my ego, I shall grow TALL! Neh…not going for ortho referral to lengthen my tibia, me scared of pain =p I shall go the “gu-niang” way… ..Kekekeke, the answer lies with “walking tall”.
It’s my first time buying a “high heels”! Now I understand how women feel when they “grow” taller…the pride, the joy, the ego boost! The air is fresher up there!!
I bought myself a pair of black shiny leather shoes, which will boost me by a whooping 7cm! So don’t be surprised when U stand beside me to take a picture and U see yourself in the shadow! Hahaha….

I also tailor-made my suit with Oscar tailor over at peninsular shopping center a few days back. Going for a grey suit with a bit of shine (Not too shiny till like “ge tai star”..Duh…And I am going to tailor-make my shirt to be light green with stripes =) Total set of suit, pants, shirt costs S$500…I think everywhere about this price lah. Xian and I think the colour combi should make me look more light and joyful =) It’s going to be happy event mah, must not look dull! It must look bright! Hahaha…

Just an update… …
Xian’s minty green gown is ready for collection! Yeah…but the next few days Xian will be on night shift, so probably will go together to collect next week during her rest days…Have to make some minor adjustments still but I think it will look fabulous!

busy busy busy

Ok, been really busy recently both me and Xian. Xian has an assignment due end of the month and we are both working hard to get it done, so not been updating this…Sorry Blog!
Well, shall update a bit on what’s happening so far.
Xian has confirmed her wedding gown, size fits well and now is left for Quinn, our designer, to sew in the lacy flowers and the blings blings to complete the whole look! We have decided to let our gown be a secret =) Will definitely show it after 31 Jan 2010…heehee
As for me, I am thinking of making a suit as well, to complement Xian’s gown. I have a black suit lah, last time bought for use during convocation one, but hor, a bit out of place when I wear it and stand beside Darling who is wearing dreamy green leh. Quinn has sourced some tailor friend of hers, called Oscar tailor in Coleman street…so shall pay him a visit after we complete Xian’s assignment.
We have also confirmed our air tickets to Bali! Yay!!! We bought a pair of return tickets on AirAsia for SG338, quite a steal lah with good timings, so I am not complaining. We have also shortlisted 1 villa resort for our honeymoon villa and I am now “negotiating” the package via email.
Show u all the pictures of this gorgeous villa k… …

spa for 2 anyone?

inclusive of hill top picnic

interior of one of the villa

interior of another villa

our private pool overlooking the valley and Ayung river

the inclusive redlight romantic dinner by our own pool

This place is Komaneka at Tanggayuda, ubud, the quoted package costs about USD1300 lah, still negotiating =)
Can’t wait to get married, can’t wait for our honeymoon… …

Happy anniversary!

Today marks the 1 month aniversary of this blog! Yay! I am quite amazed at how many posts we can put up within this short 1 month… …I must say Good Job Darling and Dar Dar! Heehee…no red eggs today… …
Today is also the 3 years, 7 months anniversary of me and darling!
And what better way to commenmerate this day by going for Xian’s ROM gown fitting! Yup, the gown is almost ready! I think the main dress is up, just left with the lace flowers and details on decorations. Can’t wait to see Xian in the dreamy minty dress!
Later shall post up the nice nice pics of Xian’s gowns!
Hmmm….where shall we go for jiak jiak 吃 吃 today?

Date drawing nearer.. …

Suddenly feel like I am out of time! Haha…

We just went for the final fitting for our rings at Fairy’s inc last week and decided on what to engrave on the inside of our rings! Yay!

Mine will read “180306 My First ♥ My Only Darling 310110”

Hers will read “180306 My First ♥ My Only Dar Dar 310110”

It’s like I am wearing her on me and she’s wearing me on her.

The meaning of the engravings…I think is quite obvious lah! Kekeke….I can’t wait to see our rings! They must be so gorgeous! I can’t wait to put it on darling’s left ring finger too!

We are also having our photoshoot soon in Nov! Ok, it’s a makeover shoot, so I can’t wait to see how they can transform us….from plain Jack n Jane into ….hmm…. Jackopapa and Janomama….whatever, U know what I mean. Yes, I will definitely share them with the world!

Heee…we still have not enbarked on our Project Scrapbook leh…and I still have not got onto the montage project, I am now trying to think of ideas for the montage. With a more definite idea and theme, I think the montage will come out very fast…or so I hope. And of course, if I don’t fall asleep too often when doing the montage! (I am a sleepy head and always lose to the Zzz monster when doing work =p)

Oh yah, Xian is going for her wedding gown fitting very very soon! I can finally see her in her gorgeous gown! I think it will look beautiful even though the details and flowers are not sewn on yet…will show u all the pics here too!

It’s time to start consolidating our guest list soon…hoping to do by end of Oct, so that when we meet up with Shangri-la again in Nov/Dec, we can have a more definite number of guests.

So many things to do, so little time! Starting to feel the stress liao, but very enjoyable =) Coz I have my darling who is working hard too with me!

Stay tuned… …

Exciting times ahead!

Gown updates

After the meetup with Quinn, darling and me are both very happy! Coz darling decided on a very special design with an outstanding colour! It’s organsa with silk in a minty green colour. The base colour is very light pink, and it creates the perfect dreamy look!

a look at the fabric of darling's ROM gown with light pink base

The colour complements darling’s complexion very well too! We can roughly imagine how it’s going to look like already! Flowers, lace, nice flare skirt… good good! Yes we decided to go with a single strap, as it looks more chic and “more daring” as described by Quinn.

Just give u an example…of course it’ll look nicer than this lah!

example of single strap with heart shape bust line

She will send to the tailor today and darling can have her first fitting in 3-4 weeks time! TCU 3-4/52 Quinn’s place. Yup, we will not miss it!