My friend’s event will be a whole day event and don’t know if I should hire MUA. Just for the morning session. I mean I can do my own standard makeup actually but I cannot style my hair to save my life. I am thinking of doing an updo in the morning then for dinner I can just let my hair down and hopefully it will look curly.
A thinks I shouldn’t because it isn’t my event and I shouldn’t steal the thunder from the bride hmmm
What do you guys think? Also any MUA contacts to recommend? Haha
Happy CNY! Over the long weekend I decided to kepo-kepo and do some wedding research and asked my friend to list down the various cost and all. All I can say is that I am pretty thankful I don’t have to properly plan anything now and I can push all the worries (and stress) aside. It’s just crazy how much everything now cost.
On that note I kept ranting to A about it and told him about the various BTB blogs I came across, so I guess he got interested (for now) and wants to be a part of it.
So A will be a guest writer every now and then. His writing style is very diff from mine so you def can tell us apart. He complains mine is too bimbotic. With that said, it does not mean I agree with his perspective. In fact, I dare say there is a high chance that I do not agree with it. Honestly though i don’t know how we are still together lol
Ok that’s a long intro. Ciao from me.
Hey everyone, A here, with my debut article on this blog. What kind of name is Wed Works anyway hahaha? Although I admit, I wasn’t the most helpful when asked to come up with a possible name.
Anyway, in this article, I thought it’ll be nice to talk about a wedding related topic that has always got my attention; the berkat, or wedding favours. When I was a wee child, attending weddings was never about seeing the kompang troupe, or enjoying the food. It was always about what kind of berkat I would get. Granted, back in those days, most berkat consisted of a hard boiled egg wrapped in a nice little box. However, I occasionally attended weddings that broke the norm, and gave guests items like chocolates. As I grew older, my attention turned to more intricate issues, such as the culinary standards of the food served, and whether the wedding deco was passable. However, I never let go of my fascination with the wedding favours being given out.
When my own aunt got married many years ago, I remember following my mom (who was helping with the wedding arrangements) to find the nicest and lowest-quoted price hand towels/handkerchiefs, to be given out as a berkat. Even then, I thought this was a relatively novel idea, and the spare berkat after the wedding became part of my wardrobe. Those hand towels were useful and hardy, that’s for sure.
With my own potential wedding come up, the issue of the berkat has come to the forefront, amidst all the other pressing matters to be considered. Now what would I like as a wedding favour? As a huge chocolate lover (like HUGE fan of chocolates), I would love to delight my guests with the most delectable, most chocolatey, err, chocolate out there. Whether it’s a brownie, macaron, or eclair, anything with 95% chocolate will do. How can you go wrong with chocolates right? Unless the person is allergic to it. Then I’m sorry, but you don’t get the wedding favours then.
However, the pragmatist in me is also dying to give something that is functional on a longer term, beyond a single bite (or several) after the wedding. Something that guests can use for quite some time, or something that they at least find useful on some levels. Perhaps a pen, now that’s definitely useful. Or a cute keychain with many designs so that all the guests wouldn’t be getting the same, exact keychain. How about a stylish, little notebook or notepad? That could have some benefits, even in an age where many writing tasks are slowly replaced by digital tools.
This list could go on and on right? Fortunately, it’s not such a big deal, and I’ll have plenty of time to ponder over it. Pen or notepad, keychain or something else, I’m sure the right choice would be made and the guests will enjoy their berkat, as part of their overall enjoyment of the wedding reception. If you have any ideas (besides a hard-boiled egg), feel free to share them in the comments! Otherwise, I’ll KIV the hand towels.
Regards,
A
Hello and happy 2016!
May 2016 be a blessed year for all of us and good luck to those who are planning for their big day. It also means a year closer to 2017.
What’s so special about 2017? Well, so far 5/6 of my (relatively) close friends said they are planning to get hitched in 2017!! This includes Chi x3 and Malay x 2 friends.
Hence this brings me to the topic of how much should the wedding angpao be?
I am sure Malay BTBs have received or heard this comment, “You all so lucky, Malay weddings are not as expensive as Chi weddings”. This is where a big misconception lies. I have heard of chi weddings which managed to break even or heck, even profited. Guests are expected to ‘pao’ according to the table rate (or atleast close to) of the hotel and that has been the norm.
I feel that we Malays should start inculcating that mindset too. Yes your wedding should ikut your kemampuan and guests are just there to bask in your happiness and all but seriously though the angbao rate shouldn’t be so cheapskate lah k. I have heard of people giving $5 for void deck weddings. Family of four or whatever still give $10-$20. I am sorry but I really find that ridiculous.
Maybe, we should have a publicized market rate too:
For example (numbers I anyhow wack lah k)
Void deck weddings -min $15/pax
Community Centres- min $30/pax
Country Club (depending on which) – min $50-80/ pax
Hotels- follow table rate
We should also perhaps adopt the writing of names at the back of the angbao so we pao-ed a lot then the person better pao back the same amount.
Ok I need to rush to do other things so I shall end my rant here.
Feel free to let me know your views on this. Ciao!
Went to check the site a few weeks ago. Cant wait to get the house but ermm no idea how to afford the renovation 😦
In another news, we FINALLY settled the bridesmaids dresses. Yay!!
S was kinda just nice actually so can see the whatever little result of gymming HAHAHA but I decided to get M instead and alter just in case i gain weight. Hmmm not sure if that’s the right decision but I guess M does give more room to move around?
The ones we ordered from poplook were unfortunately too dark as compared to the pictures. The sucky part is they dont give cash refund?!! So now my BTB friend has so much store credits -__-
I thought we would get the BMs dresses damn quickly but it actually took some time. I guess I can learn from this though 😉
So my friend is getting married next year and after much deliberation, she has decided to let us choose our own designs (but same colour lah!) from Poplook.
I dunno which design to choose. I have never ordered from them before so i dunno how their cutting is etc.Baru bridesmaid dress dah stress LOLOL. The BTB suggested dusty pink/fog blue (?) at first but another bridesmaid (BM) and myself are not too fond of dull colours. Actually i want red lah haha but of coz BTB has the final say.
I have no idea what i want my bridesmaids to wear but i kinda think i want them to wear the same design? Hmm nvm i can slowly think.
N
Lol totally doing things in reverse here! Have repeatedly told A that i still expect a proposal and that the BTO does not count as one.
Decided to log into the hdb page for fun and voila!! Our grant has been approved yayyy. Very happy with the amount alhamdulilah. Thats the actual amount right? Dont cheat my feelings arh HDB?!
So does that mean we can probably move in by Q4 of 2018 since most ppl said its usually earlier?
We should be signing the loan agreement soon? Cross fingers we dont break up lol
Ever since I saw Kim K’s wedding, I know that I want a flowerwall at my wedding. It will serve as backdrop for the ootd/group picture whatever. By the time i get married photobooth might be passe and moreover where do you keep all your photobooth printouts? After you instagram it and then what? Anyway….Cant seem to find the vendors/rated online. Hopefully its not so ex? I dont wanna be like that woman who spent an exorbitant amount on her flower arc. I was like errr thats so not impt. haha later ppl say the same thing about me but seriously look at the pictures, arent they gorgeous?!
So last weekend we went to our very first wedding showcase. It was a ticketed event. Not much wedding review/info about this place on the internet aye?
Lets just say since its our first ever showcase and we know nuts we felt pretty awkward and damn noob.
So the showcase was suppose to start at 2pm and we were kinda late so we cabbed there from Yishun mrt. Lets just say as expected Janji Melayu most of the other couples came later than us.
Seletar country club is mad ulu lah wth. Definitely need to up the shuttle bus frequency if we do end up holding our wedding here.
Forgot to take photo of the stairs and some fixture before the ‘registration’ table but this was the entrance to Seletar Room.
Main organiser/decor/bridal/food: Anggun by Mastura
Loved the dais. It was simple and elegant even though I am most definitely not going for a white on white/pale pink theme.
They finally started the fashion show at around 245 i think? Cant rmb. Some of the models are suria actresses and they were all very pretty lor.
Started with their main muse, Nabilah and her bf. I quite like this outfit. Thought it looked familiar and figured out later it was Taufik’s wedding outfit
Another dress that I quite liked. Mr A (the bf) definitely liked it coz he kept talking about this dress during the show. Not the colour I have in mind though?
The other outfits featured werent my style so no pictures of them hehe
After that it was MAKAN TIME!! My favourite but forgot to take pics haha
The food was nice and I particularly like the live roast beef station. Only malay desserts though which is not our thing. Not sure if can change? Drinks wasnt the buffet dispenser kind which is good. It was already poured in glasses.
Dont recall seeing ice water but we DEFINITELY want that over fruit punch or wadeva. Better still lemon/strawberry infused ice water.
Performance by Akrab Kompang. Really impressed with their performance so erm maybe we will just engage them.
$600
Approached the videography vendor ONCE UPON IMAGES.
Around $2k+ for the following
Mr A was more interested in thr drone more than anything else but yea the guy mentioned that there will be additional cinematographer involved if we wanna use the drone aka more $
Spent most of our time talking to Kak Roslinda from Wedding & Romance. She was very nice and made us feel very comfortable!!
Types of packages:
3. Towards the end ($1k+)
Really hope we can afford them as i forsee us being very busy and erm we do need someone experienced who can understand us.
For those interested the Seletar Country Club-Anggun by Mastura wedding package is priced at $68nett for min 300 pax
Didnt had time to visit the photography and cake vendor though coz we spent A LOT of time at the wedding planner booth lol
After reading so many BTB blogs, I am inspired to start one in the hopes that I can help fellow BTBs who stumble across my blog. More importantly, it is to document the woes (haha) and progress of planning THE BIG DAY. The bf may be contributing a few posts here and there. Just maybe.
So when is THE BIG DAY? NO IDEA! But we BTO-ed so I shall assume that its safe to slowly start the planning now?
Our identity will have to be kept a secret for now because pretty much no one knows we are planning to get hitched. Not even the parents so yup. I did drop hints and oh boy lets just say i for see tons of argument and whatnot. Sighs. More on that next time:)
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