In a few weeks, I will be meeting up with my hair make up artist - Anita, to to do my bridal makeup trial.
Now I have to do some research on what kinda hair style I want for my wedding. I am not a big fan of fancy hair style that makes me look like a princess in the castle. Yet all the wedding hair style I find so far are just a bit overwhelming for me. I am a either pony-tail or down hair style person.
So I will post up couple images that I found online for inspiration first
Hair front view
I found this photo on Flicker
I love the hair bang. I guess I want one on mine 
Up-do hair
I really like those up-do hair that is natural, a bit of weaving, and leaves a bit of hair bang
Hair Down
I am not sure if hair down would be great for summer ..but I guess I should give it a try.
And even Angelina’s look from the movie “Wanted”. I find it sexy.
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25.Apr.08 
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Thanks to Alex, our invitations are actually email-invitation!!! We didn’t really send to a heck a lot of people due to lower budget in our hands, but this e-invite really save us a lot of money for making an actual paper invite.
However, we still have people who don’t use computer. Grandparents, parents and some people who don’t work next to computer day by day..
So I actually spent some time to look up paper made wedding invitations. I found this place online called “Indian wedding cards“. Don’t get me wrong. It’s not just Indian weddings!!! They are actually hand made paper and they look very nice!! Here’s few samples.
I found this cute scroll invitation. The size is : Box : 6.5″ x 1.6″ x 1″; Scroll : 3.75″ x 8.5″; and it comes with an envelope : 9.25″ x 4.25. And if you buy in bulk, it cost $1.5US each. or click the links here for more details : Orange scroll - White scroll - Brown scroll
The only thing that I am not quite sure is that the paper box is not as solid, the cardboard can be easily crushed if there’s heavy object on top of it.
Here’s another look of it.. they are actually quite small!!
Here’s another scroll invitation, it’s a bit bigger . The size is : Scroll: 5″ x 9.25″; Box: 7.0″ x 2.5″ x 1.0″; Envelope: 9.25″ x 4.25″. If you buy in bulk, it’s $1.5 US each. The box and the scroll paper is all handmade. Pretty nice stuff. See more details here.
Now here’s another scroll invitation,but this one is ENORMOUS. It’s size: Scroll: 11″×8.5″, Box: 12.25″×4.75″×0.65″+ Mailing Envelop. It’s kinda cool that you can even print the event info inside the fold of the box.. but it’s just too big!! See more details here.
another view of the package.. it’s almost as long as Maki!! yikes!
This one is a bit reasonable for the size. It’s 5.5″X 5.5″. The card itself holds another two cards that you can print your stuff on. If you buy in bulk..it’s $1 US each card! sweet! see more info about this card here.
See the texture on the card cover..
This one has a semi transparent handmade paper as cover.
And the cards inside, you can print whatever you want on them. See more detail about this card here.
Here’s another similar card but different texture. Click here to see more detail
This one has a transparent paper letter envelope, but the size of the card is on the big side as well (size: 7.75″ x 7.75″).
See more detail about this card here.
I am choosing all the cards around the color orange or white because my main color scheme for my wedding is yellow/orange/white.
I really like this one in particular because it’s not as big, and the unique letter cover. pretty nice.
See more details about this card here.
I guess right now my main concern is.. I don’t think I need to send out more than 5 paper invitations!!! Grr!!
If I have enough orders of the cards, then I can use those samples that I paid for at the indian wedding cards against the full purchase. Now I guess I’ll just have to go to a store and buy some cards…. chinatown here I come~~
Stay tuned!!
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23.Apr.08 wedding Comments (6)
Okay, I have to admit it. I am NOT a makeup person nor manisure person nor pedicure person. I barely put on moisturizer on my face or my hands. I really let things go “natural”. Me and Alex went to visit Mike and Claire in St Catherine just this past weekend. Mike is Alex’s best friend from highschool and will be his best man at the wedding. His wife - Claire is a beautician who works in a Salon in St Catherine. She asked me if I would like to do “French Nails”. I was like “huh? what is that?”. She said it’s basically nail polishing with white tips. People these days do the fake nail more than having a hand painted french nails.
So I guess I’d give it a try. (It’s free anywayz, why not?) So Claire took her time trimming and polishing my nails and then put the white coating at the tip. Later put two coat of nail polish and finished with a top coat.
Pretty Neat eh? It made my sausage finger looks pretty elegant and smooth. (Believe me, I DO NOT save any nails, I trim them as soon I see them!!)
Another detailed look. Believe me, those white tips on my finger nails are hand drawn. Pretty nice eh?
Me flashes my nails!! (Look! you can see the trail of white tips…)
Oh yes, I am definitely getting those again for my wedding day. It looks good with my ring!
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14.Apr.08 wedding Comments (2)
Today we finally took sometime during lunch to take a look of the Wedding Chamber at CityHall.
Yep, our famous Toronto CityHall. The Wedding Chamber is at the East Tower 3rd Floor.
Yep, this is the door of the Wedding Chamber. It looks like an office door!!! LOL
The ceremony room is fairly small. It sits 15 people and stands another 15-20 people. So people, if you are coming to my ceremony, be here 10 min early to grab a seat!!
Yep, be here early, this is all the seats you get!!
I guess this is where we’ll sign the contract of “Wife/Husband Club”
CD Player and a tissue box. I guess when you get married, you would need music right? CD player always come in handy. And when you know you actually got married, you will be too excited and cry, so I guess they prepared the tissue paper for ya.
One good thing about getting married at City Hall is that the room comes with flower already. You don’t need to spend another money to get fresh flowers except bringing your own bouquet. And it’s around 190 bucks to get married here. (Compare to $500 if you are going to hire an Officiant to marry you outside of City Hall.)
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11.Apr.08 wedding Comments (0)
I only picked three places to get the quote for my flower arrangements.
1. Poppies
http://www.poppiesplantofjoy.com/
1094 Queen Street West
Toronto, ON M6J 1H9
(416) 538-2497
-I got the name from Ourfaves.com, and I went there, the lady is fairly nice and seems very easy to work with.
here’s the quote from Poppies
2. Wilbe Blooming
http://www.wilbebloomin.ca/
9-160 Baldwin Street, Unit #9, Toronto, ON, M5T3K7
416-597-6222
-I found them while walking around Kengsington Market. They are quite nice.. but the price quote is not what I am looking for..
here’s the quote from Wilbe bloomin
3. Paris Florist
975 College Street, Toronto, ON, M6H1A6
416-531-2211
-I found her through my work. My boss’ florist that she used last year for her wedding. Very nice lady, and made the sample right on the spot. I got her quote, (around 1200). It’s pretty similar to Poppies. But she’s very sincere and definitely knows what I want. So I am going for her for sure.
04.Apr.08 wedding Comments (0)
Yeah, I know this might sound crazy, but I actually bought my wedding shoe on Ebay.
I guess I am either too cheap and too lazy to even go out to shop for a pair of shoe, so I took a risk and actually bought it online. lol
Surprisingly that the shoe fits perfectly and it very comfortable. I guess because it’s fairly low pump (2″), so I will be fine walking the whole day with this pair of shoe.
The brand of the shoe is NINA dyeable shoes. Apparently I can actually dye those shoes later if I want.
Here’s the pictures of my shoes!! I am soo excited! The shoes are brand new, and they even come with a cotton bag to store them And how much I spent on this pair of shoes? $43 bucks.
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The Wedding Cake Shoppe!!!
The cake lady- Cindy bought us over with her cake samples. And two books full of her wedding cake portfolio.
So i guess I can finally rest my case on the wedding cake hunt. And now working on the detail for what I want in the cake and the look of it.
01.Apr.08 wedding Comments (0)
