the little white dress

Sunday, February 2, 2014

D.I.Y Projects

Wedding Favors - Burlap Tea Bags

Materials/items required:

- Burlap

- Twine

- Paper

- Sewing machine, thread, sewing chalk, needles and scissor

- Printer, paper cutter and hole puncher

We spent months brainstorming on the wedding favors as the hotel wouldn't provide for the lunch buffet. We searched high and low online and in-stores but couldn't find a wedding favor that we both liked and within our budget. We thought it would be nice to hand made something for our guests and so, we decided to sew our own burlap pouch with tea bags. The burlap was bought during Spotlight sale and we chose white burlap over the typical brown burlap. It was cheaper by around $2+/yard during the sale.

During our trip in TW, I chanced upon a bookstore and bought a lot of fanciful papers. At that point of time, I bought without knowing what to do with it. It came in handy when we couldn't decide on the tags for wedding favors. We printed the tags using the printer we bought just before our big day.

Other ideas:

Lunch Menu - Kraft Paper

Materials/items required:

- Kraft paper

- Printer and scissor

We bought the kraft papers from a wholesale supplier in MacPherson. The supplier was selling it at a lower price and the staffs were very helpful.

The supplier had wooden boards lying around and I requested to bring one home. One of my sisters painted this directional board for me! She surprised us with her hidden talent.

Materials/items required:

- Wooden board

- Chalk paint

- Chalk marker

Directional Boards

For my youngest pageboy

For my oldest pageboy

Name cards of the suppliers that our friend recommended.

Burlap Flags

Materials/items required:

- Burlap

- Lace

- Kraft paper

- Twine

- Printer, double sided tape and scissor

These burlap flags were very easy to make and they didn't demand for expensive materials. I've made 4 burlap flags i.e. LOVE, JOY, MR & MRS and HAH. Making these burlap flags was one of the easiest DIY project we tried. Simply have to cut the burlap into 9" by 6.5" for each alphabet. Then, fold and sew 0.5" on one side. Lay the twine into the fold while sewing it. This will save you the trouble of threading the twine after that. As for the alphabets, print them onto 6.6" by 4.6" kraft paper for each alphabet. Lastly, use double sided tape to stick the lace and kraft paper onto the burlap flag.

Date Board

Materials/items required:

- Wooden board

- Nails

- Thread

We bought the wooden board from Daiso at $2 and the boy did the nailing while I twined the thread from nail to nail in a random manner. It was done for our TW photoshoot and we decided to keep it for actual day wedding too.

Seal for Invitation

Materials/items required:
- Wax bits
- Seal
- Wax fuel (those used for BBQ or camping)

If you're planning to use wax seal, consider getting wax that comes in the form of individual piece. Each piece of wax is for one seal. It is more convenient than wax stick. Also, do get the wax fuel (can) for a steady flame over a period of time.

Burlap Ring Pillow

Materials/items required:

- Burlap

- Cloth in light colour

- Ribbon

- Sewing machine, needle, thread, sewing chalk, scissor, fabric glue, printer and paper

Flower Paper Pom Pom

Guestbook

Floral Posy for Aisle and Flowergirls

Materials/items required:

- Burlap

- Plastic sewing mesh for support

- Satin trimming

- Baby's breath, daisy and hygendra

The day before our wedding, my hands got itchy and decided to hands-on! We dropped the JM Florist in the afternoon. It was cheaper in JM Florist.

Floral Posy Flowergirls

Floral Posy for Aisle

Other favourites!

Invites and Program Fans

Save the Date

Holy Matrimony Invites

Banquet Invites

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Trial Makeup

As I bought my gowns from Danny L, I had to "ala carte" for my makeup, floral deco for bridal car, groom's suit, etc. For makeup, I went through the MUA's portfolio before asking for quotation. I came across a few MUA that I really loved but they were out of my budget. After sending out several emails, I decided on Ice Lee as her actual day package was within my budget. Through our initial email correspondence, I had a very good impression of her. Last weekend was my trial makeup and I was happy with the hairdo she did for me. I prefer natural looking makeup and clean hairdo.

This is going to be my first hairdo with floral crown to go along with my white gown.

My second hairdo with curls for the white gown in the evening.

Love the braid though it was not obvious on my black hair. I guess this was the fourth time a MUA advised me to dye my hair for wedding. I looked to my boy for a response and I felt relieved when he objected. He knows me well. =) Somehow I don't like to dye my hair.

Tie up bun to go with my princess evening gown.

MUA: Ice Lee
Website: http://icey-makeup.blogspot.sg/
Contact no.: 8199 6880
Email: icey.makeup@gmail.com

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Hang onto the Date 1.3.14

My very first attempt to use photoshop. Took me several hours to explore around with the icons to come out with this. I'm so proud of it. Of course, thanks to my boy whom came out with the preliminary design. We worked together to improve on the design and the tiffany green suited our theme colour. Now, we're waiting for the printouts before customising the cards.

We started to distribute the cards 4 months before the wedding day. Most of the cards were distributed by hand and so, we had the opportunities to catch up with our friends. It was tiring having meetups every other day after work but the joy I had from catching up with them was great. We realised the concept of "Save the Date" card was relatively new to most people.

For the cards, we spent a few weekends to DIY the envelope. Just when I was thinking of the material to use for the envelope, my office was disposing rolls of tracing paper. I grabbed a few rolls back and started cutting and folding the envelopes. While I was doing the sewing, my boy was punching holes and tying the green twine which we bought in Taipei. We cut off the edge and did a final trimming before the cards were ready to be distributed.

Saturday, July 6, 2013

Penang Pre-wedding

A few weeks before the trip, Dave asked if we would like to join him in Penang and at the same time, we could have a pre-wedding photoshoot. Our air tickets weren't very cheap because bought at the last minute and it was during the June school holidays. In the recent years, I heard people talking about Penang. I went there once when I was barely 10 years old. I couldn't hardly recall anything about Penang. On friday after work, we flew to Penang and Dave picked us from the airport. His young and pretty mum even prepared supper for us! How thoughtful of her. The next morning we took the ferry to George Town as Dave was staying in Butterworth. Dave brought us around for food hunting. The food was great!!! Penang came as a surprise for me! Such an arty farty place filled with a taste of peranakan. There were so many nice cafes!

The next morning I woke up at about 4am for make up. My MUA, Venisses, was late because she wasn't familiar with Butterworth area. I had a great time chatting with her on our lifestyles. Furthermore, she wasn't the kind of MUA who required top up for this and that. Highly recommended! After more than 2 hours of make up, we headed to Peranakan Museum. We were supposed to catch the sunrise but the make up took too long. Guess we were probably too engrossed in our chatting which slowed down the process. The museum was empty when we arrived and managed to capture many beautiful photos before the crowd appeared. I loved the red short grown and qipao but gonna sell the red short gown since I wouldn't have the opportunity to wear it again. Selling HERE!

After the museum, we changed to our causal wear. I wore a yellow nautical dress while my boy wore a light blue top and red berms from Pull & Bear. We took photos along the road, colonial houses and an abandoned factory. I loved the rustic feel from the abandoned factory! Exactly what I was looking for. Then Dave brought us to a private beach. Such a lovely place which was not crowded. We had fun running up and down the beach before heading to the paddy field opposite Dave's house.