Patience, my precious

Searching for the "ideal" wedding venue has been rather nuts!

For one, the only places you can easily find and use for a wedding are hotels. And both Jason & I hate hate hate hate hate the hotel banquet look. Because try as you may, even with the tons of flowers and exquisite table settings, it still looks like an event space - we hate that.

The first venue we targeted was the peony jade restaurant at Keppel Club because the decor in the place looks so nice! (well, on the website that is)

Picture from Peony Jade - Keppel Club

Alas, it was not to be.

The club itself looked very dodgy and run-down, and the restaurant itself was simply way too small to accommodate our estimated 250 guests (which, by the way, is already a very small number for a Singaporean wedding).

Then came our next target, the glass atrium of the National Museum of Singapore.

It looked lovely. It was a unique and classy location. And it boasts numerous visual art displays - a la the "dancing chandeliers" as shown in the picture below.

Picture from The National Museum of Singapore

However, we had to kick that plan aside for now because the decorations and set-up costs for this venue is ASTRONOMICAL! And that is before throwing in the costs of finding a suitable caterer who can provide good food, service and tables + chairs!!

Hence, we had to put it as a Plan B of Plan B, because the amount of preparation and the costs which will go into holding a wedding at this location would potentially drive both of us mad.

Now, we wouldn't want that would we?

That was why I went a mad search for another venue. Well, not totally mad, but mad enough. And by God's grace, after I told Jason that we would find the best location in faith and in the shortest time possible, I came across this......

Picture from Tung Lok

Lo and behold, the hugest Chinese restaurant I have EVER seen!

The Noble House by Tung Lok, which is tucked in the heart of Shenton Way.

How is it that I have never ever even heard about this place before?!

1) It's huge.
2) It's by Tung Lok - so I'm gonna make the assumption that the food is good.
3) It's decor is so pretty & simple.
4) We could easily pull off a vintage themed wedding in this venue.
5) IT'S HUGE!

So yes, I've emailed them about my grand desires to have a long table setting and buffet styled wedding dinner.

Call me a dreamer, but I believe a blessed life is what dreams and faith are made of!

I shall wait and see.....
oh please oh please oh please be able to do it!

Am so in love with these!

Picture from Style Me Pretty

Doesn't this just makes you wanna run out to the nearest wet market place to buy a bunch of cheap wellingtons and spray paint them with awesome pastel hues?!

OMG! What an ingenious idea!

Instead of expensive glass or porcelain vases, just using "gum-boots" adds a cute vintagey feel to the entire table setting.

Fur me good

Just did some last minute blog-hopping before heading out to a smashing New Year's Eve party at the Mister's place.. and i came across this piece of awesomeness:

Picture from 100layercake

I so want a vintage fur wrap. Bet it'll look totally awesome on my wedding dress! (as and when I do find it)

OMG.. iwantitsobad!

but, where in heaven's holy name would I be able to find something like that?!

A sweet tooth, have i

Now what would be the best thing for a bride who has the major-est sweet tooth in the whole wide world??


That's right... a dessert bar! Yums!

I've personally not been to any local weddings which had a dessert bar. At most an ice-cream bar and a few plates of sweet cakes, but nothing more.

Now wouldn't it be wicked to have one of these?

Pictures from Amy Atlas

According to whatever your theme is, be it rock & roll; orange surprise; red fantasy.. you can pick and choose your own collection of sweet delights!

Candies, popcorn, cakes, cupcakes, chocolates, jelly beans... the list goes on. And so does my imagination.

I'm Engaged!

Picture from W. Scott Chester

I've been looking and thinking of what we could possibly do for our engagement photo shoot.

While most people only have a pre-wedding photo shoot, Jason's awesome friend Matthew Lim a.k.a Lee Matai, has offered to do an engagement shoot for us... FOR FREE! *gasps*

And what I mean by an engagement shoot is that it'll just be a shoot of the 2 of us together. No wedding gowns, no tuxedos, no bouquets.. just US.

It sounds really fun.
But here comes the UH-OH factor, we can't seem to decide what theme or even where we're gonna shoot this!

Picture from W. Scott Chester

And sure, outdoorsy kinda photo shoots look somewhat awesome, but just thinking about the sun and the oh-so-hot weather of Singapore.. really puts us both off.

So, it's a "No." to an outdoor shoot.

Then comes the next question:
Would it be wiser to decide on a theme first, then the venue? Or would it be better the other way around.

Answer:
Guess a good place to start would be to ask ourselves what and where do we spend most of our time doing.

But as to coming up with a grand idea about how the shoot would be like, well, that's another question to be tackled on another day, cause I'm just too sleepy right now :)

Picture from W. Scott Chester
(i know it's not an engagement shoot, but it's too cute to not be posted!)