Seems like my blog only evolve around my wedding preparations or ideas lately. Takleh nak buat ape.Everyone I go, I would think about it. Nak tak nak, i better write it here before i forget.

I just got back from a friend’s wedding in Putrajaya.It was like a reunion from my former office. I was glad to see everyone there. Baju pengantin lawa. Color baby blue and baby pink.

That reminds me that I haven’t talked about my akad nikah theme. Rasa macam terneglect lak. Sama je ngan pengantin tadi, the theme would be white, baby blue and baby pink! Seperti biasa, hasil google:

Sweeetttt  kan?

Does anyone know where i can go get customized button pin/badge? I want to make a simple button badge to replace corsages (that bunga2 orang pin kat baju tu).  Since it is a combined wedding, I thought it would be cool to print 2 sets of button pin with a simple Typewriter font on it. One set written BRIDE on it and another one is GROOM for our families and close friends to wear it. It would be cool for us (the pengantin) for photoshoot as well kan? cam cute lak.

Found 1 shop in Jalan Brunei tapi quite pricey and they dont have a smaller size pin. Diameter yang dia ada besar gak..bigger than 50 cents coins (and that is the smallest). I just was a small like 20 cents coint or slightly bigger than that. I just went to one shop je that day pon.

I found on at etsy:

Source: From etsy.

Cuteeee kan? Let me know if you guys found a shop that sells like RM1.00 ke..RM1.50 ke for a minimun quantity of 25 of each set.

Our close friend will need to wear both Bride and Groom button pin lah kot kan since we have the same sets of friends.haha.

Better half dah buat a few mock up boxes utk letak our door gift.  It seems like it will take forever to just finish 1 box. Tak penyabar kot kitaorg ni eh. Macam a waste of time.  The ready made boxes yang ada jual on the Internet  or outside doesn’t fit with the size. We need at 11cm x 8cm x 8cm. And the cheapest we could find is RM1. I think its a bit too much just for a box.

So, we decided to go around and check the printing places. First we went to Brickfield yang kat belakang2 tu but we don’t see things that we like. Macam tak banyak kedai je or maybe we don’t know the exact place to look for it. After that we went to Jalan Brunei.
Jalan Brunei is a heaven to us! A lot of printing shops. We went to several companies and asked for quotation.  We were looking for papers as well for our invitation card. We were looking for a specific type of card tapi tatau apa nama dia. We wanted to find something like the recycle paper but yang keras sikit. Then we found a shop that sells the paper we want. Baru tau rupanya kertas tu is called Kraftboard paper. There are 3 thickness, 175g, 250g ang 300g. Size dia besar tapi diorang boleh potongkan according to our needs. Untuk A5 size wedding card (half of A4 paper)

Kertas atas untuk card, kertas bawah skali untuk kotak.

After that paper shop, kitaorg gi cari printing shop pulak. Found 1 printing shop yang amat murah. Untuk dua colors, depan belakang printing and for 1000 keping card size A5 (half of A4) is RM105. Itu untuk normal printing la. Takde hotstamp etc. Murah kan. Kalau kira sekali dengan the Kraftboard papers, our wedding card jatuh dalam RM0.20 satu. Weeee….we can definitely afford that! Oh I tak cerita lagi how would my card looks like.  We were thinking on doing postcard type invitation. google tgk macam possible je nak buat tapi untuk kena saiz besar sket.

Eh jap, bukan asalnya nak cari boxes eh tadi? Back to that. For the boxes, kitaorg nak guna Kraftboard yang tebal sikit. We found a shop that prints boxes untuk restaurants, bakeries etc.  Sampai kat kedai tu, I saw one guy tengah print kotak Cinnabon.  That guy showed us where the office is. We went to see their boss and I like him! He’s talkative, attentive and even try to find out whats the best for us.  That guy bagi quote dalam RM300 untuk print 1000 boxes with a simple printing on it (of our name and wedding date). Kalau kira balik, our kotak cost about RM0.50 satu. Okay gak kan?Ni mockup boxes yang better half buat. simple je.

We requested quotation based on this boxes lah. lepas ni letak doorgift then ikat ribbon je lah.

Last weekend selesailah sudah satu benda: KURSUS PRA PERKAHWINAN!

I saw an entry by Pinkbrolly about her kursus in TTDI. Since TTDI is sooo near to my place, I was thinking, why not? So, I texted better half whether it’s fine for him to attend the course that weekend or not. He said yes, so we call up that course centre.

It’s main office is at Pusat Bandar Damansara and another one is done at Masjid At-Taqwa TTDI.  It’s really easy. Just call them up, give them our names and contact number and come on that Saturday itself to register.

PinkBrolly mentioned that the place was packed. To our suprise, our session was not full at all. One of the ustaz did mentioned that the week before was so full, he couldn’t even move. I think our session was not packed since Monday was Public Holiday. So ramai balik kampung kot.

The course was useful indeed. I didn’t feel sleepy at all. Not much of those dirty jokes during that 2 day course.  It’s good that we were reminded of the stuffs that we learned back in high school. Topic yang diorang sentuh banyak pada Ibadah, Kesihatan, and Communication between a husband and the wifey. Banyak funny ones!! Tak larat nak gelakkkkk!

I would recommend this place (if its not packed). There were about 30 of us girls and more or less about the same with the guys.

Found an article on a peacock theme.It advises bride to not overdoing the colors or putting up the feathers everywhere but rather just take the inspiration out of it.I agree! Look below:

Source: The Perfect Palette

Drooooling over the colors.

Nevertheless, I found an online shop at Etsy that sells accessories made from feathers (peacock mostly). It’s prettyyyy!

Source:  SweetGrassMill

A couple of weeks back, better half and I were thinking on when we could do our akad nikah and reception. Better half’s sister said she could come back around 12th of December. So we decided to put 18th and 19th December as the date since we want to book the hall etc. Guess what? We forgot to tell our parents that.

Yesterday morning I called my mom and ask if its alright for her to do it on 18th of December. She was sorta excited. I forgot that  18th December  is their anniversary date.I was super excited. We could celebrate their anniversary on our akad nikah day as well.

Better half decided to call his mom as well last night. Upon discussion, his mom thinks that it’ll be a burden to his sister (she’s in UK) to rush back for the wedding. She asked if we could change it to Christmas or New year instead.

It didn’t quite sink in yet last night but today I realized that I am quite disappointed to tell you the truth. Very disappointed to be exact.

One is because of the anniversary date.

Two because fresh flowers will be super expensive since it will be christmas. I told the akak who is doing the pelamin that I dont want too many daun2 but with the same amount of money Im giving to her at the moment, I don’t think I will get full fresh flowers the way I want if we do it on Christmas. Looking at our current economy (better half and I), I guess we will have to agree for whatever we can get lah.

Three If we move the date to new year. It’ll be 2011. haaaa..too far ahead (terus tak semangat nak kawen or prepare kawen). Aku dah 29 dah on 2011. Besides it’ll be hard for the families to come over since school is opening, money dah habis beli barang sekolah,  etc. Commitments commitments.

I wish his sister could come back earlier. She could pack her stuffs early before the exam. She is not graduating yet but will come back and continue here for another year together with the rest of her friends. So it is not like goodbye you know? Besides,it’s 12 months from now not a last minute plan. I am sure she could arrange it from now. Any traveling etc could be done from now till November. Isn’t it?  Sigh.

Makin dilambatkan je. Awal lagi takleh?

I don’t know how to discuss this with better half. I’ll end up crying nya lah.

Coming back to reality. If that is what the parents want. We have to deal with it. Sekian.