My big day: 20.11.2011 (Part 1 of 3)

Posted on March 24, 2012 by elyzabeth

Apologise for my lack of postings… after my best friend’s wedding, I was pretty busy buying my own place, settling renovation details all in the midst of preparing for my own wedding on 20.11.2011

I will be splitting my entry into 3 parts:

Morning (Gate Crash, Tea ceremony)

Noon (Solemnization)

Evening (Banquet)

The following entry is gonna be pretty image heavy. Thanks for viewing!

My AD MUA Mikie, I had a different MUA for my prewedding shots. Very lucky to have worked with both them. Christopher is very good with colors & blending. Mikie is good with clean look.

My bridal gown. The first time I went for fitting I had like 3 choices in the end I didnt pick any of the 3 and spotted this gown at my 2nd appointment. At the first try, I decided this was it! <3 I’m missing my gown.

Shoes from Steve Madden, fully encrusted with crystals. A gift from the husband. Love Love max. Oh btw, I had 3 pairs of shoes for the entire wedding day. One gold fully sparkled one for tea ceremony and my Christian Louboutins (also a present from the hubby) for the banquet.

Ah ha.. this was one of the stages which the groom and his groomsmen had to go through. Lots of keys in a water pail full of water and herbs + grass + what’s not… the key to this stage is to use their feet to retrieve the correct key to open the gate!

The different food types for the guys to eat!

My bridesmaids getting ready!! You may notice that my best friends is missing. Yes indeed you have sharp eyes. She was pregnant in the first trimester and has been discouraged by her mom not to attend due to chinese beliefs that it will not be auspicious for the both of us.

Corsages which I made by hand for the girls.

Nails done by Cindy of Miraclez Nails. Super Gorge!

My girls!

I prepared goodie bags for the all the girls and a couple of my aunts for helping me with the wedding. This lady above is my youngest aunt, she helped me with several craft items and the biggest being my awesome max angbao box! Will show you guys in part 3 of the blog entry.

Kiss of luck + love from the parents.

Nice Tiara eh? From Far East!

The guys have arrived!

First mission…. a webpage??

haha.. they need to dance to my fave song at that moment. Step by Korean girl band Kara.

That’s not Kara… more like HAHA. =P

Upon arriving upstairs… scary things await them. Which I personally thought was pretty mild….

That’s my gf feeding hubby with the most potent bitter powder in the world ever and how did it taste??

Think his expression was enough to show….

The guys were suffering too.. haha…

Chilli padi with mushmallows! Weird combi.

K looks quite happy actually… haha…

haha…. the ice water must be cold! haa… all the grass + herbs + veg makes it quite disgusting. haha.. but I think guys that went thru army must think its nothing… but I think their toes must be quite inflexible to retrieve keys right?? So should be quite tough.. ha.

Lastly, after entering the house. Hubby has to write the standard “Love contract” which my youngest aunt has done such a pretty pretty job!!

Finally the hubby got his wife…………….

Stay tuned for 3 more parts on my big day plus my bachelorette party!

X

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Pre wedding photoshoot!

Posted on March 24, 2012 by elyzabeth

My wedding package was done with DiGio, my planner was Dephenie, MUA was Christopher.

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Best Friend’s Wedding

Posted on January 21, 2011 by elyzabeth
Edited bestie’s wedding photos during myt flight to Hokkaido. ha. cos no time already! So here it is:
MY BEST FRIEND’S WEDDING
Woke up around 4.30am to get ready to head to Jieying’s home. Mich and I made this for the last gate crash game:

Board of promises.
Ok finally gotten ready and headed to jieying’s place Lots of pictures! The uploading already took me donkey years, so I will say less and let you all see more.

Zhi Qiang Jie Ying = ZQJY
The bride makingup half way.

 Bling**
me walking up and down.
Supervisor. Ha.
Finally the make up is done and group photo!

 More photos with the bride:

 The Jie Meis:

Finally the groom and brothers are here…. 1st thing they gave:
RUPIAH????!!! fail**

well ave to let the groom into the house by 7am…
We proceeded for games inside the house.
What?! There is a stripper in the house: (notice the boys at the back look high)
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BOOHOO!! What have I gotten myself into?!?!

And so teh groom has to lickylicklick the whipped cream off…… especially those on the NIPPLES! fwahahah…
Then more nego

 huh?! so little??
more nego
more games:

Reading the promises.
Sweat like siao also. haha.
sign it.
Then get your wife!!!

 ZQ’s new family. =D
The car that is driving them off…

EAting dang yuan.
pray.
serve tea.
borrow people’s baby…. hahaha

 Jieying’s new family =D
The brothers.
The seemingly more sisters. haha..

 
Jieying: hiak hiak hiak, see if u dare not buy me the things I want…..
Going back to jieying’s place now.

After serving tea, there was lunch and darling and I accompanied the couple back to their matrimonial home before we headed back to rest and prepare for the later half of the day.
——- End of Day program ——–
Reaching the hotel
waited for 700years for this wording to appear….
cos they have so many damn ballrooms and weddings today… gua gua..

Very nice bedsheet at the suite:

 Ok enough kaypohing at the suite. Time to go down and set things up.
Table 28.

 Swordbearers practising.

and practising.

Photos for the guests for keepsake.
reception all set.
wedding album.
ROM album.

 And a very nice guestbook made by estelle.
Still practising. very hardowrking people.
 busy reception
cute flower girls.
michelle: flower girls and page boy nanny. haha..

estelle and jieying.

The wedding video will commence before the first march in..

The emcees.
finally, the banquet begins.

 The dish that Zhi qiang and I protest that we had before the bride and groom go up to change. haha… I feel bad after eating that though. haha…
Following up: The things me + bride + groom missed.

Time for 2nd march in!
After champagne pouring was the yum seng and phototaking.
Cut the crap and more pictures of food!

And the Orh ni that shirley wanna eat but the last 2 bowls went to me. hahaha!! she was everyone’s target cos she said she was full but kept on looking at my orh ni! haha…. apparently the entire table loved orh ni
—– End of Night Program —-
It was a really exciting day especially for the couple. Mad tired too.
Well apologise for the really back dated entry. haha.
I took like 2 hrs to finish… phew.. enjoy!!
especially you BESTIE! =D

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The proposal (updates)

Posted on November 7, 2010 by elyzabeth
Bestie sent me some pictures she took with her pen during my photoshoot. So just to share: 
 Me doing my hair and looking at my pretty flowers!

MAkeup
My makeup artiste. Li shi, she made me look pretty natural. She is not bad..
Me in the gown…
 me + darling
me + bestie.
make up puts on age on a person. it seems at least in my case.

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The proposal

Posted on November 5, 2010 by elyzabeth
went to get my nails done at Miraclez on sat, a day prior to the photoshoot with Ilssadorent.
Supposed to do both mani and pedi under the bridal package but since my pedi were still quite decent, hence only did an express pedicure.
 Anyway here’s the result:
 
Manicure.
 
Both hands. =)
I’m pretty pleased with the end results.
 
Went to Ilssadorent at 2.30pm for my makeup.
end result.
Quite natural I think. not too bad.
 
Anyway, as I was doing my makeup, someone came and I spotted over the corner of my eye but I couldnt see it, until the person came beside me.
And it was bestie! haha…. she bought me a bouquet of champage roses.. awww. really touched and so so happy that she was there.
 The roses. Perfect.
 
During the midst of the photoshoot, darling proposed. yes and I cried. Pretty dramatic to me. ha.
Wonder how the photos will turn out. haha. whilst darling proposed, my family suddenly appeared too! omg.
and michelle bought me a bunch of pink and white heart-shaped balloons!
chio! My fave colors. well same as the color of my 2 gown.
When we were on the way home, i was tweeting non stop and jieying asked me, are u gg to stop tweeting?
then i said no but i lifted my head and there was the precious moments figurine i wanted to have when darling proposed to me. Photos below but first my ring!
 Top view
 side view.
 
my dream come true. all thanks to my darling hubby.
and now photos of the ring with the figurine.
camera is so sharp that i can see 1 strand of thread…. gua.
figurine is really pretty right??
ironically enough, my fmil wanted to lend us a heart shaped 1960s red box as prop for the shoot. -.-”’
Me + My fabulous proposal ring. =)
I’m officially engaged!
yay!

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Yes I do.

Posted on November 1, 2010 by elyzabeth

yes. darling proposed.

=)

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Another sponsored photoshoot!

Posted on October 22, 2010 by elyzabeth

BOWS Daily WINNER @ Inspiration Photography Booth
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We thought it’ll be fun to add a little spice and surprise to our booth!
There will be a 1st & @2nd winner everyday!
The Prize:-~ 1st winner gets 2hrs engagement shoot with associate photographer Hermann Wu~ 2nd winner gets 2hrs engagement shoot with our new associate photographer Samuel Kwok

And the winning couple are…. *drum rolls*

1st Winner for 15th Oct 2010 BOWS!
Congratulations to Jun wei & partner!

2nd Winner for 15th Oct 2010 BOWS!
Congratulations to Fendy & Yvette!

1st Winner for 16th Oct 2010 BOWS!
Congratulations to Adrian & Elyzabeth!

2nd Winner for 16th Oct 2010 BOWS!
Congratulations to Seth & Joanna!

1st Winner for 17th Oct 2010 BOWS!
Congratulations to Li Simin & Lovino!

2nd Winner for 17th Oct 2010 BOWS!
Congratulations to Ricson & Yvnn!

Congratulations to all our winners! Our photographers will contact you all soon!

Quite excited about it. Will be meeting the photographers early Nov to confirm all the details. Yet another pleasant addition to our wedding. Many thanks to Inspiration Photography!

Do visit their website, they take really pretty picts like the following:-

Love this.

Black & White = Perfect

Nice!

This one is uber dreamy… awww..

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Weekend out!

Posted on October 18, 2010 by elyzabeth

went to bestie’s place on friday night to help her sort out what are the wedding plans left to settle and also look at the AD programs. They made dinner for me. =) Got lovely sambal kangkong, cajun chicken, fried egg with taiwan sausages! =) Felt so loved. heee!!

Presenting my precious moments collection: TADAH!

Middle figurine is a new addition =D

 From bestie J!! So so pretty! Love Love max. Thanks darling! =) you are 1 of the few people whom I know are really appreciative of people who help you and is willing to show it. Love you max!
On Sat, darling and I went to BOWS. To see the different organizers there. M Hotel’s booth was there too! I met Eugene so I tested him. Do you remember me. Straightway he said elyzabeth! Stunned! his memory is really good. haha.. And I also met Nicole’s sister! So surprised. heh…. Anyway got some free photos during the show:

First one is from iCleeq, its basically like a neo print machine, except that it prints in photo paper and has 4 shots. Not bad a choice for wedding guests. 2nd one is just a ramdom shot given by iforgotwhichphotographyfirm. haha. It’s just to see if we are lucky enough to win a pre wedding photography package. *crossfingers* hope I’m still as lucky as ever when it comes to this kind of japalang contest. haha.

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Till death do us part…

Posted on October 7, 2010 by elyzabeth


IN THE end, there was just a man who loved his wife till the end.
He walked to her casket and placed a single stalk of red rose, green leaves still on its stem, on her body.
He raised his 87-year-old body and walked half a step towards the head of the casket, supporting himself on the frame.
Then, he bent towards her and reached for her face with his right hand. He brought his hand back to his lips and planted a kiss on her forehead.
As though he could not bear to part, he did that again. And then he walked away, composed and unaided.
Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew gave his wife two final kisses as she lay peaceful in her casket at the Mandai Crematorium. Madam Kwa Geok Choo – his beloved Choo – had died on Saturday, aged 89, after being bedridden for over two years as a result of a series of strokes.
His kiss was a private gesture of love, but will linger in the memories of those who witnessed it, as a public affirmation of the abiding love they shared.
Earlier, in his eulogy, he spoke of their years together, as starry-eyed lovers at Raffles College and Cambridge University. He spoke too of her support as he fought for independence, and through his many years as prime minister as he and his colleagues built a new nation.
He spoke of their public life together, reminding his audience of her role in helping to draft legal documents at pivotal moments in Singapore’s history, and of her role as his confidante and adviser.
Of his private feelings at losing his wife, he would only say he would have been a different man without her, with a completely different life, adding at the end, with his head bowed: ‘I should find solace in her 89 years of her life well lived. But at this moment of the final parting, my heart is heavy with sorrow and grief.’
 
extracted from straitstimes.com
it feels damn sad. looking at it I don’t see this person as MM Lee. I see it as an ordinary man who has so much love for his wife and as much as he is unable to let go he has to in the end.

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Weddingy Sunday

Posted on October 6, 2010 by elyzabeth

Well by this I do not mean that I will be attending weddings. Rather I will be doing a few small things for my wedding.

I’ll be heading to Ilssadorent at Tanjong Pagar to pick the gown that I will be wearing for the sponsored shoot where I will be getting 10 photos. I’m entitled to 2 gowns but I’ll just go for 1 and then exchange the other for a suit for darling. This should take me what 1hour? since i’m only picking 1 gown.

After which I will be meeting a potential AD photographer (yay!). Finally the photography has made some progress. Like a reader was asking about photography, I have done my own set of ratings for different photographers and videographers. After I have confirmed my photographer, I will then post the different assessments on this blog for all the readers. =)

On a worrying note, I have customed designed a carplate which I wanted to use for the shoot on 31st oct. The plate is still in draft discussion and I’m worried that it will not turn out on time. Needed it so that it could form part of my save-the-date cards for my guests. Well cross fingers**

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