Thursday, March 3, 2011

Wedding Theme - Singapore

Yours sincerely, being type A is a very perfectionist species when it comes to my own thing. Call me selfish, but I don't appreciate criticism about my stuff very well. I just love to have my own thing look good in my own eyes. Therefore, when it came to planning my own wedding, I naturally turned into a friendly bridezilla. My wedding coordinator at Mandarin Oriental, Bethany, actually had a big nightmare because she had to meet me for 4 times just to discuss about the details in my wedding. No beating around the bush, I just showed her this inspiration board that I created to make things visually same page for everybody involved

Theme: Romantic Peach Garden
After four meetings, lots of discussions, plenty of compromises, we came to a conclusion and tasks for everybody. Mandarin Oriental, in turn, promised to deliver a beautiful garden stage (instead of their standard "sad" board).
Being an indonesian, wedding party is closely related to glamour and beautiful venue. Therefore, I approached Dream & Design wedding planner duo to discuss the possibility in using their service. They are great in my opinion, but it's a steep price tag to my budget that stopped me in signing the contract.

Me and my very nice & talented friends (Ling, Yuni, Mery, Suganda, My lovely younger sister) decided to do DIY for our venue decoration. I started to contact major florist in Singapore, flipping the magazines  for ideas. My mom & aunt were very sweet to agree to purchase white plastic fences and artificial flowers all the way from China. So, with all the hardwork, teamwork, and bits of money, we managed to make the wedding evening as lovely as I always dream of.
Beautiful wedding cake
Cake Toppers was ordered from Amazon.com
Beautiful fences and baby's breath.
My mom brought this fences back and
friends painfully arranged flowers one stalk at a time
The garden stage I love.
The flower stretch cost me $500
DIY Table number done by Ling.
Add a very peachy garden feeling
Personalised Guest Card (seat numbers) sitting on the bed of grass
By: Ling
Beautiful Corner for my Picture galleries.

Special canvas photo frame from Ling


Now, some behind the scenes photos.





And it turned out to be one of my most beautiful night so far.

Hand Bouquet : $150, Flower Matters, Millenia Walk 
Venue Florist : $400, Far East Flora, Thomson Road
Dress: Sponsored by Isabela Irene
Stationeries : Sponsored by Ling
Stage Decoration: $500, Mandarin Oriental
Stage fences & flower: $100


It's still much lesser than engaging third party to decorate it for you. :) DIY if you can.