Hens night!

Attending my own Hen's night just made me realised that my wedding is really coming soon. As of today, my wedding is less than a month away!

It's so exciting yet so scary at the same time because I  am going to spend my entire lifetime with this only person, and I wondering if we both can get used to seeing and living with each other.

Life ahead is not going to be easy but both of us want to make this marriage work, and for that I am very grateful.

So anyway, the bridesmaid arranged for a Hen's night for me on 11th October 2014 and this was going to be the first weekend in a long time, that I will not be spending it with the hubby, and secondly, to be going for a staycation with my friends.

We chose Studio M for the staycation and it was a really nice place except that the toilet may be a little too small and the walls were not sound proof, because we did get complained that we were making too much of a noise and was advised to lower down our volume!

Who goes to a staycation and don't make so much noise! Humph!

And this was what I saw when I entered our room 432, beautifully decorated by 2 of the bridesmaid, Cheryl and Dom.

Of course we (I) needed to take a lot of selfies with it so that I won't waste their effort. And it was in my favourite pink colour! :)

We tried to take a group photo with the background but failed. And the one that we were stepping on, was an additional sofa bed that we had added to accommodate all 5 for us.

After camwhoring for a while with the background, we left the hotel for the next activity of the day!

Teatime at TWG.  I have never been for tea, because I never had the time in the afternoon to do a leisure teatime with my friend, and secondly, I had never been to TWG because of its price. 

No idea what we ordered, because the menu was too wordy and was too confusing, Totally not customer-friendly! ( I meant its menu)

Only knew that there were some mini cakes, canapes, burgers, scones, macarons. We ordered another cake as well, Singapore something.. (can't remember the name).  It was the  most fulling tea anybody can have. I think that was my dinner already. The price came up to $175 for 4, but food was really good, especially the Singapore something cake that we ordered. 

This friend had queued up for close to 40 minutes just for a seat for the 4 of us. If you're going on a weekend, either go queue early or make reservations!

Can't tell but I was totally exploding from tea.

After tea, we went back to the hotel to prepare for the next activity at night. We had some time before the next activity, so we did girly stuff like manicure! 

And I was given the opportunity to be the manicurist! Wished I had brought all my stuff so I could do a better manicure for all of them. But we made use of what we had, and still had a pretty decent manicure. 

After the manicure activity, we changed out made up and was ready for our dinner and night activity.

The outfit (veil, sash and wand), was a pleasant surprise from the girls, but it was quite embarrassing to wear it everywhere we went, cos all eyes would be on you, and strangers would wished you. 

More camwhoring before we left. 

An incomplete group photo :( because another bridesmaid had arrived late as she had another event in the afternoon. 

Oh yeah, here's the last bridesmaid! 

Dinner was at a Japanese restaurant which served really good grilled food. Can't remember the name of the restaurant though, and not sure of the pricing as well because the girls didn't want to let me know. 

After dinner, it was back to the room to chill because it was too early to commence our  night activity. We needed to find almost-drunk guys who would  be willing to part with their mooh-lahs!

And we had a nerdy activity. 3 of us were helping another bridesmaid to mark her essays from her students, and the other one was reading the newspaper and excitedly tearing open the condoms!

Ambassador of the condom. 

We shared stories about infidelity and how disgusting some attached/married men can get. Too many to share on the blog, but the conclusion is, DO NOT trust guys (or maybe anyone) 100% or you risk being taken advantage of. We were making so much noise in the room that we got complained and advise to lower down our volume. 

We stayed in the room for a while more then headed for our  night activity.

No pictures of those though!

And this one was in the morning with Dominique before we checked out! :) 

And to conclude this post, here's a picture of me and the 4 beautiful bridesmaid!

Really appreciate the time and effort they have put in, in this hen's night! :) 

Wedding Talk: The invites are here!!

Before I show you my reallly realllllly reallllllllly nice invites, let me show you a really reallly reallllly nice #wefie of my new hair and the husband. 

I finally managed to book a slot with my hairsylist, John from Salon Vim for a very much needed haircut. 

Even John lamented on my very out-of-shape and limp hair when I first arrived at Salon Vim. Really embarrassed to tell him that my last hair cut was in February this year when I was in Seoul. The naive me thought that I would need to grow out my hair for the wedding. But I was proven wrong when my MUA told me that my hair was pretty unmanageable and difficult to style it into an updo because it was simply too thick and heavy. 

So, I finally went to cut it! And this is my new hair. Honestly, not much of a difference. The mother and mother in law said that there was no difference. There is okay! I spent $63 on this hair so definitely, there has to be a difference!

My hair is now layered (you can see from the beautiful curls they curled for me) and my fringe is.... still at its annoying length. John had refused to cut any shorter for me, because he said that I would need the length for the wedding. So, since hairstylist knows the best, I left it up to him. 

I can also booked an appointment with John, the day after wedding, so that I can cut it short! Can't wait for that!

Okay. End of hair talk. Now, moving on to the invites!!!

Really super super excited to receive my invites and it signified that we are one step closer to our wedding preparations! We are now ready to invite our guests to celebrate this special occasion with us! :) 

So here it is. Idea was adapted from some other invites that I managed to find online, and after like 1-2 months of ding-dong(ing) here and there, we finally decided on this and got it all printed out!

Amidst all the excitement and googoogaagaaing over the designing of the invite, I left out a very important detail while vetting the draft of the invite; the space for me to insert the name of my guests. *facepalms*

So the very brilliant me, decided to go get envelopes for the invites so that we could write the guests' name on the envelope instead of on the invite itself. 

And I did not want the whole envelope to cover the invite, so we had to cut the envelopes into half, and then slot the invite into the half-envelope. 

And this was the hubby and I on a Saturday night at 1am, painstakingly cutting all 100 envelopes into half and slotting the invites into the envelope.

And this is how the end product looked like! I can't wait for my friends' comments about the invite. and I hope they loved it as much as I do!

Our printer was from Papypress and they are really good, even though I felt that the service and time taken to reply the mails were a little.... too long. But they were really nice, as they took the initiative to help us tie up the invite card to the photo strip and that helped to save us a lot of time!

Can't wait to distribute them out now! :)

Wedding Talk: Digio photoshoot

Our original day of photoshoot was supposed to be on a Sunday, but we changed it to a Thursday after we realised that everywhere would be pretty crowded on a weekend which would result in strangers photo bombing our pictures. 

On hindsight, we felt that we were less prepared and less nonchalant about this photo-shoot because it was our 3rd wedding photo-shoot. We became complacent and we had definitely regretted it thereafter :( 

The suits and gowns were so much better looking and we should have put in more effort into this photo-shoot. But nevertheless, we enjoyed the photo-shoot all the same, even though we were really really dead beat by the time the photo-shoot had ended at 8pm!! That meant that we had a 12 hour photo-shoot (including the makeup etc.)

This time, my MUA was Cleo Chang. You can see her works at her facebook or her website. I've hyperlinked her website and you can see it from here! :) 

Honestly, her services are pretty expensive, much more expensive than other MUA around, but I really like her works. Very natural, yet glam enough for photoshoot/actual day wedding. 

What attracted me to her was the use of airbrush instead of using sponges during makeup application. I was quite turned off by one of the MUA (you can read it from previous posts) and she was so unhygienic, reusing the makeup sponges. God knows how many faces the sponge that she used had come into contact with. Definitely don't want to risk my face having outbreaks right before the wedding! The use of airbrush also made foundation application a breeze and very natural. Not cakey at all!

But if you want to engage her, make sure you book her early enough, as she's quite well-raved and her schedule is pretty tight!

So this was my first look of the day and I absolutely LOVE it. I totally felt like a Korean princess with the hairdo and hair accessory, even though the husband did not agree with me. It's okay. He probably didn't know how a Korean princess should look like. 

My hairdo and the hair accessory. She said she got it from Korea I think. This hairband is definitely something different from the over-used tiara. 

I requested for an updo bun. And I love the way it turned out. So clean and classy. And sweet too! 

Okay, I sound a little thick skin praising myself! But I'm not! I am praising the skills of Cleo!

My gown in full view. Do you like it? I do!

And my handsome husband :) 

It was a pity I didn't take pictures of my second gown, the blue one which I said I look like Miss Hong Kong in. We were too hungry and tired from the indoor shoot and couldn't wait to change out and have our Nasi Lemak lunch, so we forgot about taking pictures.

But my makeup and hairdo was the same, except for my hair accessory. I think Cleo changed it into a tiara. 

And this, was the my outdoor gown. And the hairdo for the gown. It looked quite similar to the one I had for Z'wedding photoshoot. 

And the back of the hair. 

Busy selfie-ing while the poor husband was........ 

Driving us from location to location.... Really appreciate the husband for doing this, because I knew he was tired as well. We didn't sleep very early the previous night, and woke up very early for the shoot. Thank you dear :) 

Oh, by the way, our photographer was Eric. We felt that the poses he offered us was quite limited, but I guess we were at fault as well. As I said earlier, we did not really prepare for this photoshoot and hence did not prepare any props. Thus I guess, there was just sooo much Eric could asked us to do. *sigh, stabs knife into my heart*

What I liked about Eric was he was a very hardworking photographer. We all know how tiring being a photographer was and Eric did not skive at all and wanted to make full use of the time that we had. We were previously asked to choose 2 outdoor locations only, which we did. But we realised that we still had a lot of time left before our evening photoshoot. So we told him we wanted to do another location, but did not have any idea where. So while we were on our way to our second location, Eric had googled and suggested for us to either go to Lorong Halus or Marina Barrage. Really appreciative of his efforts and initiative which made us less stressed up about the third location!

And this was our outfit for our Marina Barrage casual shoot. 

And finally it was our evening shoot. We had to pay extra for the evening shoot but I wanted to go ahead with it because we have done so many day shoots, but not a single night shoot before! And I'm really glad the husband agreed to it, even though a little unwillingly. Hehe, I hope he will not regret when he sees the photos. *crossing my fingers*

Cleo did a change of my hairdo and touch-up of my makeup for my evening shoot. There was supposed to be a crystal hair accessory on my hair but can't be seen from this angle. 

And this was the gown I was wearing. I'm not so dark okay! It was the effects and lighting! :( 

And yup, so this concludes our digio photoshoot, and any photoshoots in the near near future. At least not until our 1st wedding anniversary. I told the husband that I would like to have a photoshoot every year in the future to document our lives together. I hope we can fulfil this!