Wedding Programs - Ribbon Inspirations

Was chatting with my friend, S, who is also getting married next year about wedding ideas.. Both S & his fiancee have already started to DIY their Holy Mat program sheet when their wedding is in May next year! Since I'm also a DIY bride.. must start to look for ideas & inspirations for my program sheet as well.. Can't really start on them yet as I have not decided on my wedding colours..

Things that are to be printed/included in the program sheet:

- Program lineup for Holy Mat (procession, praise & worship, prayers by pastor, reciting wedding vows, exchange of rings, solemnization, holy communion, lighting of unity candle, prayer blessings by pastor & recession)

- Lyrics of praise & worship songs

- Acknowledgments

Anyway here are a few using ribbons & multiple pages..

Each card explains each part of the ceremony, lyrics can be included inside too.. 

love the scallop edges and teal colour

Looks quite simple to make.. just that I need to get the design & theme that I want for my AD.. 

Some good wedding inspiration websites to share: 

- Martha Stewart Weddings

- TheKnot

Will try to look for more inspiration websites! Stay tuned :)

Holy Matrimony Briefing

The church arranged a briefing on the preparations and process of Holy Matrimony yesterday afternoon.. The 45 mins briefing was really an eye-opener for us.. Didn't realise that there's so much to prepare for the Holy Matrimony!

The church will be providing the basics consisting the worship team (singer & keyboardist), table & elements for Holy Communion, matrimony candles stand..

On our end the things that we need to prepare/do are:
- Print Holy Matrimony program sheet (including song lyrics inside)
- Memorise our wedding vows..
- Get the matrimony candles
- Rehearsal with all our helpers 1-2 weeks prior to AD
- Prepare prelude, procession & recession musics (I'm just gonna pick the songs from OH's song lists.. avoid all the copyright issue stuff)
- All other legal issues regarding to ROM.. (details can be found on the ROM website)

Since AH is in the music ministry, I've entrusted him with the task to ask one of his fella choir mates to be our worship singers.. Recently the worship singers are relatively new & I don't really like their style of singing.. I, on the other hand, will begin to source for some nice & meaningful worship songs..

Time to gear up for wedding preparations! been not doing anything since we came back from our PS..

我们爱让世界不一样

歌词：


你和我是天父愛的創造
每個人有最美的夢想
一路上彼此照亮
扶持擁抱
我們的愛讓世界不一樣

﹝副歌﹞
我們愛 因神先愛我們
雖你我不一樣 我們一路唱
走往祝福的方向

我們愛 因神先愛我們
心再堅強也不要獨自飛翔
只要微笑 只要原諒
有你愛的地方就是天堂

English Translation:


You and I were made to love each other
Every dream will complete His plan
We will carry each other
When hopes are gone
So we can make a difference in this world

(Chorus)
We will love, because He loved us first
God made us not the same, but we’re together
To sing a song of love

We will love, because He loved us first
No matter what we’ll choose to stay together
So we will smile, and we’ll forgive
For Your love will bring us heaven on earth

Found this song while browsing through some VG's work.. I'm so touched by the lyrics of this song.. It just remind me once again the reason why we love each.. and the union of both of us is part of God's plan.. Definitely gonna be one of my wedding songs!

PS Wedding Gown

I love my PS WG!!!!

althou it deviates abit from that "dream" gown.. I initially wanted a princessy tulle gown with a huge train for my wedding PS & AD.. but thinking of the logistic of bringing a tulle gown overseas is kinda impractical for me (tulle gowns are really heavy!!).. Moreover, tulle gowns tends to get dirty and tear more easily.. may need to pay more to repair & clean it..

So decided to go and have a look at other WG that are lighter in material & doesn't get damaged easily.. Popped by Allure Charix on Sat afternoon, without even booking an appointment.. It was about closing time then, so no customer.. Allure Charix sells OTR (off-the-rack) wedding gowns, evening gowns, cheongsam & cocktail dresses.. Each design only comes in 3 different sizes, each piece per size.. so it can consider to be quite exclusive.. Prices for each gown is about $700-900 depending on the design.. Their design is more of A-line & mermaid cut.. Not many choices of tulle gowns..

Browse through their rack & found a piece I like.. Satin A-line tube gown with white lace flowers.. I had always wanted my gowns to have something black in them.. who says wedding gowns needs to be always white or ivory in colour?!

So I asked the designer if I can tweaked her design abit.. and she gladly said "YES".. I just need to pay a small sum to top up for her to get extra black laces to sew on top on the current white laces and add on more lace flowers along the train..

Here's the final product.. Super uber pleased.. AH loves it to the bits.. and we find that we matched each other's attire.. His is classic black suit with white tuxedo shirt..

p.s: couldn't find the original photo of me wearing the gown before it was tweaked.. so can't make any comparison..

Allure Charix:

92 Amoy Street

#01-01

Tel: 6323 7868

At My Wedding Twitterring and Facebooking at the Altar

this is so cool!

PS Photos

Our PS photos are finally ready!!

Check out more on Junshien's website!

Time Flies...

I was looking through my friend list in FB.. and browsing through some ex secondary school & poly mates account.. was surprised to find out that a number of them are planning to get married, already married and some are even parents now!

Looking back at yester-years back in sec sch, we just grew up from that young kid to a teenager.. the rebellion years of a teenager, mugging for prelims & O levels.. having crushes on our seniors and/or boys from other schools.. Most of us had either that geek, ah-lian or tomboyish look..

As we progressed to JC/poly, mentality is still about playing/studying.. BGR are usually just transient.. thou a few of us are still attached to the 1 we knew years ago..

Now 8-14 years on, all of us have grown up & preparing or started a new phase in life.. I looked thru their wedding photos.. They all looked so gorgeous.. no more that geek, ah-lian, tomboy or playful look.. Its really heartwarming to see how blissful they looked.. Some of them I didn't think that they will marry so young!

Time flies isn't it.. soon we will be bringing our kids for gatherings... HAHA!