Wedding venue

Received a piece of good news yesterday. ACM is now available on our wedding day!!

Yippee!!!!

House reno

After going to some 12 renovation companies and receiving quotations from 9, we finally selected and confirmed the interior designer for our new place.

I must say this does feel like a big load off my shoulders. Felt relieved and settled. I think our new place is in good hands and I can't wait to see the furnished place by May/June!

My gown

Ok.. finally settled on the gown design... going for first fitting on 29 March. I'm so excited!!

It's probably going to look a little like this.



Silhouette: A-line
Neckline: Sweetheart with lacy shoulder straps
Waist: Basque
Train: Semi-cathedral
Fabric: Organza, satin & lace

Now I need to find a pair of 1-inch heels to go with it...

Wedding March-in Song

WHEN YOU TELL ME THAT YOU LOVE ME (Diana Ross)

I wanna call the stars
Down from the sky
I wanna live a day
That never dies
I wanna change the world
Only for you
All the impossible
I wanna do

I wanna hold you close
Under the rain
I wanna kiss your smile
And feel the pain
I know what's beautiful
Looking at you
In a world of lies
You are the truth

And baby
Everytime you touch me
I become a hero
I'll make you safe
No matter where you are
And bring you
Everything you ask for
Nothing is above me
I'm shining like a candle in the dark
When you tell me that you love me

I wanna make you see
Just what I was
Show you the loneliness
And what it does
You walked into my life
To stop my tears
Everything's easy now
I have you here

And baby
Everytime you touch me
I become a hero
I'll make you safe
No matter where you are
And bring you
Everything you ask for
Nothing is above me
I'm shining like a candle in the dark
When you tell me that you love me

In a world without you
I would always hunger
All I need is your love to make me stronger

And baby
Everytime you touch me
I become a hero
I'll make you safe
No matter where you are
And bring you
Everything you ask for
Nothing is above me
I'm shining like a candle in the dark
When you tell me that you love me

You love me
When you tell me that you love me

Dreaming up the perfect dress

Ok, this is what I've dreamt up.

Now keeping my fingers crossed that it'll be something I'll look good in.

Resort Anchorvale

We've come up with a new theme for our house - RESORT.

Both of us love to go on a carefree, relaxed holiday at a beach resort, so we want to include that into our new house. The purpose is to create a tranquil, relaxed, comfortable environment, where we will want to run back to each day. A tranquil retreat that exudes charm and serenity. A place where guests will feel the desire to "check in".

Hmm.. now it's in our hands as well as the ID's hands to create that atmosphere.

Opened

Haven't got the chance to upload the photos we took at our new house.

Anyway, we did a simple ceremony for our chateau's opening. Grandma and Mum were around to guide us through the simple process of throwing rice mixed with salt and tea leaves and G shouting "Huat ah". Quite orbiang, but funny.

Yesterday, we went back again to check defects. 2 window handles were broken and our main door has dents on it. Other than that, everything looks quite in place.

Now the problem is... I'm not very sure now if the designer's proposed plan layout is going to work for us....

Official "Opening"

We've selected 13 Jan as the day for our Chateau Anchorvale's official "opening", guests-of-honour would be Granny and Mum. =D

Will be holding a simple ritual of splashing rice, salt and tea leaves around the house... hehe.. but somehow, I'm feeling pretty excited about this!

Perfect 10

我们似乎和数字10很有缘。

4月10号开始拍拖。

1月10号领取新屋钥匙。

hmmm...　可惜婚期不是在10号、房子也不在10楼。

不过还是希望婚礼和新屋样样十全十美，而我们的未来更是十分完美、甜蜜。

We got our keys!!!

Finally.

It felt like a rather long ordeal. After a lot of signing and signing, we were handed a bunch of keys, but still short of 4.

Don't ask me why. It baffled us as well. How can HDB get us to go and collect keys to our house when the keys are not with them? At least not ALL the keys were with them? And it scares me a little thinking that my house keys were floating around, probably changing from hand to hand?

Venues

hmm.. running through the possible wedding venues in my head right now...

1. ACM
2. SAM
3. CHIJMES
4. Raffles Hotel
5. Oriental Hotel
6. Fullerton Hotel
7. Goodwood Park Hotel
8. The Legends @Fort Canning Park
...

Wedding

hmm... I think maybe the wedding preparation journal should go into this blog as well rather than creating another different blog for it.. dun think I've time to maintain 3 blogs.

Anyway, not much have been done. We visited 3 bridal shops in JB on 2 Jan. Think so far only Elegance seem to make the mark. We've also walked into Double Up at IMM. The auntie who served us was so tickled by G.

I already have a good idea what is required.

Outdoor/Indoor Photo Shoot:
- Venue: Desaru / Kota Tinggi / Pulau Besar
- 1 X 15R Album (at least 30 poses)
- 1 X 8R Album (exact same photos as above)
- 1 X 10R table top photo
- 1 X 8R table top photo
- 100 4R photos (10 poses)
- 3 Wedding Gowns & 4 Evening Gowns
- Bridal bouquet
- Accessories
- Hair & make-up

Actual Day:
- 1 WG
- 1 EG
- 2 Men's Suit
- Hair & make-up
- Bridal bouquet
- 6 corsages
- Bridal car decor
- Ribbons for accompanying cars

Was thinking of a modular system, meaning, doing photo shoot with a JB shop and rent AD gown from Singapore bridal shop and look for MUA myself.

Guests wise, we are looking at around 200+ people. Need to source for venues now.

Knowing what we want

IDs have commented that it is good that we know what we want. Actually we do have a good idea as to what materials we want for our house, but when it comes to the exact theme/design/colour scheme, we are abit lost. But I'm sure we'll get it figured out along the way.

We have almost decided on the following:
- Homogeneous tiles for Living & Dining plus Store
- Laminated flooring for new Reading area and 3 bedrooms
- Homogeneous tiles for Kitchen
- Pebble wash for balcony and main entrance foyer
- Hack away Study walls and make into a cozy reading area
- Cement base for cabinet, fridge and washing machine
- Main entrance foyer shoe cabinet, mirror panel and divider
- Simple wall feature for plasma/LCD TV
- Feature wall at Store with door to Kitchen
- Kitchen cabinet with solid surface top
- Reading area book shelves
- Wardrobe at all bedrooms
- Revamp master toilet
- Shower screens with kerb for 2 toilets
- Master toilet vanity cabinets with mirror
- Painting & false ceiling works
- Piping
- Casement windows at Service Balcony
- 2 toilet doors
- 3 bedroom doors

Hopefully that's about all.

Think we'll go for earthy tones, clean lines and a contemporary, modern touch.

Proposed layout

This is one of the proposed layouts.

ID Search Part 1

I have not set foot inside IMM for the longest time ever.

But now it is fast becoming a regular hang-out because it is where a lot of IDs congregate.

To date, we have received quotations from
1) Future Home Innovation
2) Decormark
3) GPlan
4) Despirit
5) Jin Soon (a neighbourhood contractor at AMK)

We have also visited Space Vision Planners and were quite impressed with the ID we met.

We are now waiting for quotations from
1) Spacious Planners
2) Edgeline Planners
3) Intradesign
4) Wideangle
5) Rezt n Relax

Hopefully, we will be able to make a decision and go with any one of these IDs.