sad and happy
August 14, 2007
I will leave for US in a few days and that makes me sad already. I haven’t even step on the plane but I missed my room, my home, family and friends already. Sadly, vacation time is over. However, I’ll meet Edy soon (he left the country a couple of weeks ago). I’m both happy and sad now, can’t decide which one I feel most.
Since we returned from Bali, we’ve been so busy with the wedding preparation that I didn’t have much time to do something else other than wedding-related matters. I felt so cheated on this vacation, time went by too fast. Suddenly, it’s time for me to hop on that plane and suffer another long hour flights. I want more vacation time!
We tried to found all vendors for our Indo party before we leave for US. We’d like to get to know them, know who we are dealing with so that it’s easy to communicate later on since we know each other already. Unfortunately, wedding, especially here, is not a small matter. There are countless things to do and we also felt there are countless vendors we need to meet. For example, I had to visit 3 wedding reception location before we decided to have the party held at JW Marriot. The same thing goes with the wedding organizer. I’ve interviewed 4 organizers before we chose our final decision to work with Fairy Tale organizer to help us. There are florist,stationer, photographer (even though we end up using the same one we had in Bali), and the list still goes on. Just do the math and it’s no wonder that I didn’t have much time left for myself. I’m super excited during this planning stage (You only married once in your lifetime) and I wish that I could extend my stay here. But, leaving Indo means meeting Edy soon…
Am I happy? Am I sad? Am I happy? ….I’m off to bed now before i write more non-sense here.
the first fitting
August 5, 2007
Few days ago I had the first fitting at Jakarta. Is there any synonym word for excited? I felt like that’s the word I use most on my blogs. Yes, I’m excited about everything about this wedding preparation.
We didn’t look much for bridal salon in Surabaya since shortly after we returned from Bali, I went to Jakarta for a while. So, we went around looking for a bridal salon and finally found one that we like. Chenny Han, the designer, has an office in Surabaya as well. That’s why we decided to work with her. We’d like to have all our vendors to be located in Surabaya to make communication easier. I like her design that’s simple, not overly ornamented, yet still beautiful. She’s also nice to work with. She listened to what I want and translate those to beautiful design. The gown will be in champagne instead of ivory and white since the December party is not the real wedding and my mom and my FMIL doesn’t allow me to wear those color as well. I totally agree with them; it will be a nice change since I’d like to wear ivory gown for my US wedding. Chenny knew that I’ll leave Indo in mid-August and she’s willing to work it out so that I can have my first fitting on early August.
I went to Jakarta again for this fitting since there’s not much time left, it’s easier for me to go to Jakarta and met with Chenny instead of her coming to Surabaya. The gown still in its earliest stage (does not show its beauty yet) but when I put the gown on, I was filled with a mix of emotion, like “this is the gown, wow, the day I’m wearing the real this, I’ve stepped onto the next phase of life”. Suddenly, I became very nervous -> me being silly. There’s bad news though, I’ve GAINED weight by a couple pounds since I was measured last time :(. Really need to be discipline on my diet. Ganbatte!!!