so far…
April 24, 2008
So far … so good! We are happy, in love, on-track with our wed prep, and enjoy every little bit of our (before-married) life. Thanks God for Your blessings and always being there for us. Life is so wonderful.
What’s next? I’ve just bought favors and ribbons, finally found makeup artist and hairstylist, DJ’s checked. I think that’s all for now. Oh, no, I have to start listening to a lot of songs. Really need to choose good songs
especially those special songs such as the entrance song, first dance song, etc. This is the most stressful part of all the wedding prep I think. We don’t know a lot of songs except the classic and really famous ones. Often, we’d just turn on the radio and listen to whatever it plays so we might recognize the tunes but have no idea what the title is. I feel grateful that I grow up in the internet era that there is a streaming site called imeem(dot)com where I can just type the song I’d like to hear (the DJ company gave a very long list of songs for us to choose). The website has an extensive collections from users who post their songs there. It’s a very good site, like, right now, I’m listening to True Worshippers newest album “All Things New”.
Furthermore, we have to choose the songs for our Indo wedding. This music things is just a real headache. My mom wants me to choose 70’s and 80’s oldies songs and while I admit that some of the songs are nice, but too much of those will make my wedding feels ‘old’ (like those ‘tembang kenangan’ show. FYI, it’s an old Indo TV show that they no longer have now). I just hope that by the time we have to make the final song list, we can reach an agreement where everyone will feel happy :). Happy all the time, yeah!
random thoughts
February 19, 2008
Suddenly, I remembered that I should have received my pre-wedding picture album by now. I’ve emailed my photographer at Indo but they said that they are overload and it’s not ready yet. I felt a little bit dissapointed since they promised that the album will be done in 6 months after the pictures taken. But, well, I’d rather wait than rushing them off which might reflect in the quality of work. I’m really excited to see how the final album will look like.
Speaking about the video clip, it’s also not done yet. I think the thousand miles distance between us do make a difference. Update is progressing slower and eventhough my EO gladly help me out, communication delay is inevitable. I kinda expect that this will happen so what I can do now is just being patient and not getting frustrated easily.
Here are some other update about the Indo party. About the cake, I’ve met someone last year while I’m at Indo but just decided to switch vendor. My mom showed me this vendor and after I looked at some of their works at weddingku.com, I felt that although both vendors have beautiful works, this new vendor’s works represent my style better than the other one. Invitation is another big headache, I can’t find an agreement on design between me and those in Indo. Need to be more patient. On the positive side, I just bought a magazine and found some new ideas for Indo party’s decoration. Pretty happy :).
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!!!