bittersweet solitude of a fireflower

.. Bridal Veil!!!!!!!!!

After going to and fro with the Hubs-to-be, talking to ourselves a million times, we decided that BV will be more 划算 in certain ways compared to other places, considering the fact that we could keep the made-to-measure evening gown and the suit and the dress shirt, and the price difference between the packages without photography is not that much.

Yes, we’re thinking of getting external photography (instead of those cliche in-house photography)! We might just go with my colleague’s recommendation after all, ’cause he’s really not bad.

Having attended a colleague’s wedding just yesterday, we saw that perhaps it was more important some form of recording of our wedding for us to look back and rejoice the celebration of our love, and so we’re thinking of having actual day videography as well

The best part? BV has a package including great videography by Moo Media! So… we shall wait for MM to reply us on how their package works out with BV, then we’ll see how it goes

I have a few more ideas regarding THE DRESS, so… read under the cut

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We went for The Aisle’s wedding show today and it was quite fun!

Although the near one-and-a-half hour wait wasn’t.

I tried on gowns (with makeup and hairdo!), he tried on his suit, and we took photos In a week’s time we will be able to collect our very first tabletop photo!

Which brings me to the dilemma of choosing the RIGHT bridal boutique: Bridal Veil or The Aisle?

We previously went to Bridal Veil and we loved Cedric. We loved the dresses there. The photographers they will be collaborating with are top notch. But so is the price la.

The Aisle is quite a nice friendly place with not bad gowns, very personal service and of course, much cheaper.

So…

It’s time to go back to Bridal Veil to get the facts straight, but I think we might just go with them because… we like it better.

Even though it’s more expensive.

So… we shall see…

We went our food tasting yesterday, and it was quite scary at first but I’m glad that it all went well.

Both our parents hadn’t met (until yesterday that is), and so Bethany suggested having our first food tasting as a meet-the-parents (or rather, parents-meet-each-other) session so that we can cut cost! We had our 8 course meal in a lovely little room in this setup:

This is called “Love”, as I had mentioned before. My mom didn’t think that this looked grand enough; we actually went to another room where another couple would be having their food tasting as well, and they had the black and red theme that we wanted to try. Turns out that it looked really nice as one table, but with many many tables of the same settings, everyone agreed that the entire room would look quite dark.

So oh well.

The dinner went well, I guess. Everyone was quite cordial to each other and my nephew and his niece seemed to get along

Had a few comments for each dish and the chef was really nice and receptive to all feedback

Can’t wait for tomorrow’s wedding show!

Hubs-to-be wanted to make use the weekend to check out more bridal stuff, and so we went to check out La Belle Couture, one of the listed places I had mentioned before.

I wasn’t very impressed. She couldn’t choose the right type of dress for me!

The thing is, I told her I wanted a halter dress. I know that I have horrible hips to hide and I’ve got broad shoulders to show off. But she kept giving me tubey ones until the last two, of which only the last one looked better than the rest.

And still, there was so much lace, so much embroidery… or should I say, too much.

So…

La Belle Couture

Then, we decided to go back to La Vie because Hubs-to-be was very enamoured with Jeff’s gowns, which, in my opinion, are really quite exquisite. We checked out sample albums and done-up photos, and decided that La Vie seems like a very plausible option because the gowns are nice, the photography is not bad…

So we’ve got some time to consider which bridal shop to go to, since we’re really in no big hurry.

After all, we still have a bridal show at The Aisle to attend on 15 November.

However, after looking at this website, who did hers at Bridal Veil at a relatively reasonable price, we’ve decided to go check it out too!

So 2 more places to go… and we will be done with the dress

Since I had the time to nua at home today, I decided to find out more about the various bridal boutiques around…

… and I was so overwhelmed I started to stress out.

Then he was like, hello? The wedding is in November next year?

But… I like getting things done. Or at least finding out what I need to get done.

So I’ve decided to list down what I need to do… or rather, what we need to do:

I have come up with… The List.

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