in-laws meet in-laws

omg. the inlaws will be meeting the inlaws on march 6th 2010, 6.30pm for roast goose at chan kee in sham tseng.

our parents have never met before. seriously. never.

after over 5 and a half years together, our parents will finally meet. we've never really thought of this as weird, as we've never really seen the need for them to meet. but now, with all the wedding plans coming up, we thought it was only fair for hkmummy and hkdaddy to meet their future in-laws so they could visit shek o golf club and to try the food we will be having.

omg omg omg hkgroom and i have every intention of having lots to drink...

message cookie cutters

how totally cute would these be for cookies as part of our candy buffet? these message-in-a-cookie cutters are from williams-sonoma are fab because you can customize them yourself by sliding in words or letters to make your own messages. they come in rectangle, heart or star shapes. love love love!

wedding dash 2

every once in a while, i like to play computer games. i play silly ones like diner dash, zuma, bejeweled, super collapse and those kinds of games. i was on yahoo looking for new games and found wedding dash 2! sweeeeet... going to try it right now on our home pc (i'm a mac girl)... really wish yahoo games would make their games mac friendly.

valentine's wedding expo part 2

yay! we went! it was really fun (though hkgroom would disagree). we managed to find someone to do our wedding invitations. we were going to go with progressive press in wellington street, central, but we've never been able to go there as every time we pass by (on a weekend) they're closed! every single time! ridiculous.

i originally thought about doing some diy ones to save money and to really embrace the whole experience. but as i really need to be focusing on school stuff (papers, assignments and final dissertation) and work, we've decided it's probably best to just get someone to print them for us.

so we had a look at two different vendors who printed invitations and sifted through lots and lots of samples. we settled on this one company who did super simple ones for a good price. because we chose to go with them today, we got 20% off our final price (yay!!!) i'll post some pictures later of some of the invitations we saw, and the ones we'll probably go with.

included in our price, we get invitations, envelopes with a design, sticker seals for the envelopes, and lai see packets. i'm going to see if i can get them to do rsvp cards too. yay yay yay! super excited! gotta send our designs and stuff to the people soon though! they said it takes a month to print! we want to get our invites out in april to give our overseas guests plenty of time to plan.

we also found a super good civil celebrant deal! only $2850 for lawyer and the documentations. also includes a feather pen for the signing, and a ring pillow! hahaha will need to go on their website though and interview some of them to ensure that they can speak good english. i think that's our priority- level of english fluency... will see...

valentine's wedding expo

a valentine's wedding expo is going on right now in hong kong... its running from feb 19-21. to be honest, there are a number of wedding expos every year. this one however, is located at the hk convention and exhibition centre, so i'm assuming it will be big, with loads of vendors. hopefully there will be discounts and freebies! i'm hoping hkgroom will be up for it!

wedding scent

didn't really think about this till i was cleaning the house... but a wedding 'scent' for the big day! seriously. a smell that you and your husband will associate with your wedding day as he leans in for the first kiss. lucky for me, i was given a giant bottle of marc jacob's lola for christmas by hkgroom's auntie. extra lucky for me, it smells devine! (i checked it out when i was at sephora- yay!) i've got my wedding scent! i wonder what hkgroom will smell like on our big day...

candy buffet jars

hkgroom and i walked into franc franc to today to kill time before our princess and the frog movie time (very sweet and totally disney!) and i think we found the type of candy buffet jars we're looking for! how awesome are these?!? pretty pricey though (over $1000 hkd per jar) so we're definitely on the hunt for cheaper. at least hkgroom and i are on the same page!

happy valentine's day and year of the tiger!

happy valentine's day and happy chinese new year! hkgroom and i have mutually agreed not to get gifts this valentine's day to save up for the big day. instead, we'll have a lovely home cooked meal... we're thinking pork chops, pasta and gravy with some veg and a nice bottle of sparkly. yum yum yum.

fun fact: apparently the first day of the chinese new year is an auspicious day, but not for weddings. so there will likely be fewer weddings today than any other valentine's day!

gorgeous promise ring

just found the cutest thing ever! check out this knot promise ring from white fly. j'adore!

urgh!

need to vent. so mutual friends of hkgroom and i got engaged over christmas and we now find out that they're going to have their wedding 'sometime in september'. the friend chose september because of family reasons and when i asked why they don't just do it the year after, she simply said 'i don't want a long engagement'- ok fair enough, but there's nothing i can say to that!

the exact date hasn't been announced yet (although i do believe they have picked their venue and they've probably put down a deposit). i don't know if this is truly fair, but i'm a little upset that they're having their wedding right before ours even though we announced when ours would be and sent out our save the dates ages and ages ago. i feel a little like our thunder has been stolen! obviously, if their wedding is in early september, it would make me feel better as there is more time in between ours. but if the wedding is a week before ours or something similar, i think i may throw a fit!

i can't believe i actually told them some of our wedding details wayy wayy wayy back before they got engaged! now i'm super worried that they'll steal our ideas, and because their wedding will be before ours, people will think we stole their ideas! i seriously seriously hope i'm just over-thinking things and that this wouldn't happen at all...

more rings rings rings

i absolutely adore my own ring! love, love, love it! however, i recently saw a parent at the school wearing a 1.5carat split shank halo diamond ring... gorgeous! i couldn't help but steal glances whenever i could.

during my moments of procrastination and looking at ring porn on weddingbee or ringenvy , i'm very glad hkgroom chose an oval for me. speaking to hkmummy the other day, she basically frowned upon pear shaped diamonds as they look like tear drops. i'm not sure if it is a chinese thing, or if it is the general connotations of the pear, but i can't help but think, thank gosh hkmummy approves of my oval!

other styles i ogle over are the cushion and princess... i think i mentioned this before, but the princess is susceptible to chipping due to its corners. definitely not cool!