Wedding Outsourcing

Back in June during my trip to the motherland, I was able to find vendors for some wedding things. Here they are and their status:

• wedding dress - currently being made
• wedding invitations - currently being designed
• wedding rings - sort of done... here's the screen shot I received:

During our Japan+Taiwan trip, D and I managed to get some more wedding things done with the help of his family :)

Engagement Photos

There are a lot of photography companies in Taiwan that does wedding and engagement photos for a fraction of the cost it would be to get them done here. The day after we arrived in Taiwan, we met with our photographer, Lee of Roman Rolan, to prepare for the photoshoot that was to take place the following day - Sept 17. It took some time to choose the 6 outfits that I'll be wearing for the shoot; I couldn't have done it without the help of D's sister (who, by the way, arrived earlier that day on a 5am flight!).

The photoshoot itself started at 9am and ended around 7pm. It was a day of getting dressed, hair+make up, and running off to a hot and humid outdoor venue / cool and colourful indoor venue. The shoot started out slow, but as D and I got comfortable, it became a lot of fun :) Here's the link to our photos. At the moment, we have received most of the things in our photography package:

• 100 photo cards x 3 poses = 300 photo cards
• 10 invitation cards x 3 poses = 30 invitation cards
• 24 inch framed photo
• smaller framed photo
• signature scroll

We should be getting our big photo album and smaller photo album by April and in time to be displayed at the wedding.

Chinese Dress / Qi Pao

While we were in Taiwan, we also tried to look for my Chinese dress or qi pao. D's family and I went to a well known store called Londee in search for the dress. Luckily, with just a couple of days left in our trip, we found a dress! The dress is mostly white with large red flowers. It's a bit more modern looking compared to traditional qi pao's, which is why I liked it. I also got a pair of red shoes during the trip, which I'm looking forward to pairing with the dress on the big day. Admittedly, while trying the qi pao on, it wasn't fitting too well thanks to the vacation weight gain :( I really have to hit the gym more so I can also be in shape for my other wedding dress fitting in December!

Groom Suit Up!

No, D didn't become Caucasian. During the trip, D bought a suit from G2000. I told him he has to look like this model :P The suit D purchased is cut similar to this one. So come May 29, let's see if can rock the suit like this model does :)

But wait, there's more updates... soon!