What are the perfect door gifts to prepare for your guests during your wedding dinner?

You can grab some ideas from these sites such as Instagram, Pinterest and so on, and apply them on this situation!

Well, door gift selection is very subjective and some people chose to match their door gifts with their wedding theme.

For instance, you might want to have a cute or personalized hand fan as a door gift for your garden wedding.

I always wanted to have Ferrero Roche as our door gift because:

1. My guests (especially children) will love it? (Those chocolate lovers do)

2. That is my favourite chocolate !!!!

Initially, we wanted something memorable, but I believe most of our guests will not keep the door gifts. Most of the door gifts would be within the range of a nice pair of chopsticks, cute pepper shakers, cute fan, bookmarks, candles and so on.

1. Tea leaf in a beautiful bag


2. Biscuits / macaroons


3. Sweets?


There are a lot of ideas in Pinterest and I am sorry to admit that I am a lazy bride. Therefore, I opt for the easiest way XD

And of course, it has to be something that both of you can afford. Door gifts are not necessary for a wedding reception. But for me, this is something I can do for my guests (they can have a bite on the chocolate before the dishes is being served XD)

Until then. ^__^

Of Wedding Gowns and Pre Wedding Photo-shooting!

Oh, wedding gowns selection is a very important process for a bride (to be). I am a little picky on my actual gown because I wanted a sleeve gown for my wedding day! It is my dream gown XD Moreover, I didn't get to wear sleeve wedding gowns for my photo shooting!! *遗憾*

Hmm...




I hope that even after 20 years I will still enjoy reading the process of my wedding preparations in this blog (hopefully, blogger won't close down =x finger crossed)

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After we got our "auspicious date" (which WL is kinda reluctant to follow), we immediately booked our wedding venue. One of the Asian characteristics is that when it comes to wedding reception/venue, they tend to book high reputation restaurant immediately after the date selection in order to avoid being disappointed. Hence, a lot of restaurants/ hotels starts mushrooming in Kuching.

Things that you should consider before choosing your dream wedding venue :-

a. The type of wedding you would want to have. For instance, I wanted a classy and elegant wedding  hall, hence I will narrow down my choices to posh hotels because one does not need to fully decorate a ballroom to have the same effect of a extravagantly decorated restaurant.

b. Food selection.. 

c. Budget. (I guess this is one of the major concern for most couples... )

Items that are negotiable with your Wedding Venue Vendor : -

1. Food Testing (When & how you would like your dishes to be served. And probably additional charges for changing some dishes from the package)

2. Corkage fee 

3. Wedding Invitation Cards (For eg: how much do they charge for the printing)

4. Tables arrangement 

5. Package discount that can be given (Normally nett price for hotels..)

6. Room rates for our guests.

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These are the wedding venues available in Kuching,

1. Imperial Hotel (Our Wedding Venue ^ ^)
2. Century Kuching Hotel (Formally known as Four Point Hotel)
3. Pullman Hotel
4. Grand Magherita Hotel
5. Riverside Majestic Hotel
6. The WaterFront Hotel (Newly establish)
7. Hilton Hotel
8. Lok Thian Restaurant
9. The Banquet Restaurant
10. Thian Court Crown Square Restaurant
11. Chef's Delicious Restaurant 新天厨酒楼
12. Sarawak Club
13. Cove 55 Santubong (more for Garden/Beach Wedding)
14. KTS Garden
15. Borneo Convention Centre Kuching (BCCK)
16. Merdeka Palace
17. Kuching Old Court House (Garden Wedding)

In order to have 100% 80% guest confirmation, reservation is very important.

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I wanted my wedding to be as simple as possible where my guests can enjoy themselves too. In order to achieve that, I've decided on certain nice songs/ background music to enhance the ambiance.

Thanks to my husband (who always have high requirement in music) downloaded high quality instrumental songs as the background music.

Our background music are all instrumental pieces and those are all my favourite!!!

1. Canon In D Major (Instrumental) 
2. A Thousand Years (Violin- Cello Version) 
3. Forever In Love (Kenny G)
4. Sentimental (Kenny G)
5. The Moment (Kenny G) 
6. The Moon Represents My Heart (Kenny G)
7. Love Story (Piano Version)
8. 爱你 (By Kimberly Chen)
9. 最重要的决定 (Piano Version) 范瑋琪
10. 我願意 (Piano Version) 王菲 
11. 我只在乎你 (Piano Version) 鄧麗君
12. 有你真好 (Piano Version) 范瑋琪-楊丞琳 
13. 今天妳要嫁給我 (Piano Version) 陶喆-蔡依林
14. 我只在乎你(Piano Version) 鄧麗君 

Recalling those instrumental pieces, it gives a sentimental feeling of returning to the night at the wedding ballroom.
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Meanwhile, we decided to use " Lucky - by Jason Mraz" as our wedding video song, and I insist to include "My Love - by Lee Seung Chul" as our childhood video's background music! It created the Omphm/ feel for that video XD




Besides, we had a special guest which is WL's friend - Wilson as our singer on that night.
Love the way he sang and too bad I didn't manage to record down that moment!
We requested these songs on that night ( my fav! XD)

1. Close To You
2. Can't Take My Eyes Of You
3. Nothing Gonna Change My Love For You
4. Photography (by Ed Shereen)
5. 爱很简单
6.我只在乎你

Wilson also took the initiative to add in some songs by himself and I must say the songs he added in are superb.

Hopefully all of my guests enjoy themselves during our wedding night.
Ciao~ XX

Since I have listed this down in my diary, I thought of sharing some information on the above mentioned.

Choosing a pre wedding photographer/ studio is actually quite tedious.

I've wanted to document down all my wedding process in this blog, but ... unfortunately due to my laziness, all those wedding posts are still in the overdue draft XD.

Anyway, I was proposed on January 2015 but we only manage to set our wedding date on the end of September 2015 due to the late publishing of the calendar of the Chinese's auspicious date. Meaning that I have one full year to prepare for my wedding. However, if I take in account of acquiring the date for the wedding, I have only 6 months to prepare everything!

Thus, during this period, I've been constantly researching on my wedding stuff. xD hahahha
So, here are some of the guidelines for the bride-to-be:

1. Cari Forum (This is a chinese forum where some of the brides-to-be will share out their ideas and experiences.)
2. VeryWed from Taiwan (This is the Taiwanese version of Cari Forum XD)
3. Pinterest  (This website is super useful for wedding decorations, door gift and of cause the type of photos that you wanted to have!) 
4. Instagram =P (For eg: Bride to Bride ; merrylovewedding ; wedding.diaries ; Weddingideas_Brides etc..)
5. Facebook Page XD ( For eg: Wedding Day)

That's all for today, Ciao~ xx

Finally we are done with our wedding ceremony & dinner on 1st of March 2016!