Mocci's Wedding

Walking into ballroom

Stage - LED cherry blossom & balls of flowers decking below the stage

Orchestra

VIP section

Token of Gratitude

Boxed wedding favors came in form of enamel bird jewerly box.

Wedding Invite

The design by Watermark

Pictures from Watermark

Sanjit

Bridal Shower - Event

I had planned quite some time to throw my sister, W, a bridal shower and had went through ideas with my sister-in-law, S. We came up with a tea party event as there would be many married ladies who are either pregnant or trying to get pregnant. S suggested Breakfast at Tiffany's theme at tea time.

Breakfast at Tiffany’s? A common bridal shower theme. Yawn. Tea time? Stuffy. To make things more interesting and yet elegant at the same time, we came up with some games that even all the conservative ladies would participate and have fun.

Again, we teamed up with the old 'crew members' (missing Lina in the picture) from my own last year's bridal shower thrown by W. Instead of assigning them for designated roles, we went through details of games, food, etc.
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Theme: Breakfast at Tiffany’s

Dress code: Black with touch of gold

Invitation: Bad execution of printing (my bad) so we texted friends to come.

No. of guests: 15

Location: Hotel Mulia suite room

Photography: Journey

Games: Scrapbook contest, 10 things about the bride& groom, popping balloon contest, and cake making contest

Favors: Assorted brooch from Jewelry designer Elizabeth Wahyu
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Once guests arrive, they took picture with the W and asked to write well-wishing/ 'secret' notes for her and slip the notes into the envelope provided for each page.

We then invited them to start on the first activity - scrapbooking. We had thought that scrapbook would be quite boring and guests would not be bothered. Quite the contrary, guests took particularly a long time to finish their pages that other games were delayed.



During our light lunch, we handed out a list of 10 Things About The Groom and guests filled it out. Nobody had perfect score.

After the light starter of the first game, we proceed to balloon popping- guests were given straws cut slantwise to pop two balloons that were tied to the back of their partners. Their partners had to move a lot to avoid getting their balloons popped.

The last game we played was cake making. S came up with the scrapbook and cake making, being inspired from attending children’s birthdays and apparently, our grown-up friends love to show their part of creativity.

We supplied mini oreos, m&ms, sprinkles, sweets, whipped cream and cut chocolate sponge cake. Guests enjoyed so much of this game that it turned out very funny to see how they came about their creations. They were taking apart fruits from the desert corner to decorate.



When it comes to the judge, W herself, she chose the simplest and most appealing.

All winners receive Kate Spade goodies.
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The shower turned out very well and although we were very happy to see the guests enjoying themselves, we had to pack-up as we requested the suite room for half-day. It was late afternoon already, S and I were in our early pregnancy and we felt the tiredness, we had to end it. We tried to close the event with opening gifts and give our guests the favors.

Bridal Shower Event - Details

Since the event is to be an intimate party with close friends, I wanted my sister to have a photo album with friends' notes and pictures for keepsake.

Knowing that W likes peonies and we incorporate artificial peonies to the decor and also guests pens had peonies attached.

It took me 1 day to cut paper edges to the pretty scallop and stamped with the peony stamp.


I love the envelope inspiration seen on Brides magazine, so I bought wrapping paper and cut it into mini sizes from some envelope template.

A Good Gesture

Its is in our culture to give our relatives and friends some auspicious things to celebrate babies' one month anniversary.

The traditional presents usually consists of - a whole cooked chicken, dyed red egg, red cakes and yellow rice. To make it more modern and presentable, young parents usually give whole cakes.

However, we just received this package that breaks away from the the cake presents. I think its a very pretty gift and I will definitely remember the cool mommy who sent this!

Peony Stamp

After a long search of the peony stamp last year, I finally went ahead and made the stamp locally in Office2000 (stationery and office supplies store).

Actually, I think any places that accept to make customized stamps will do and I had made mine for $5 for 8cm peony image.

Susan, aka Mrs Ladybug, was kind enough to reply to my request of where she had made her stamp. US readers, please visit Stampworx 2000.

Image source Stampworx 2000

Before I Make This To A Baby Blog...

Before being pregnant, I always post about parties and weddings preparations. Now, I'm spending more time to renovate my new place and also preparing for our little one due in late July!

Please visit my other blog, Trifle Thoughts, for home decor and baby postings.

Image source- Poshtots

Royally Cool Water

Japanese bottled water, Filico Beverly Hills, from Osaka, makes exquisite collectible bottles. I don't know about the water but the frosted glass and crystals? I like!

The King & Queen bottles with crowned caps (Y21,000 for both) can be nice gift for couples or for newlyweds. Maybe this can even replace the wine hostess gifts...

And the bottles can also be personalized with wings and names.
Share the royal water? This may just be a great take-away favors for guests. Mini bottles with assorted crystals colors representing the 12 birthstones. Y88,200 for 12 or 7,350 ea .


Drink the water, keep the bottles!

All images source Vieluce

Dream Dress - Valentino

From my sister's post about her gown madness, I found more pictures of that lovely Valentino dress from her computer. Its not the newest collection but like for all great wedding dresses, its a design that will last through fashion ages.

On Grace Ormonde 2007 issue's cover was the 'dress' that my sister had been eyeing at. It was surpising that she told me that she found it on Ebay for few thousands! It was just too bad that the size was much too big (she's petite).


Here's the link for the Ebay seller - Your Dream Dress



image source: Bridal TV and Your Dream Dress

My Glamorous Bachelorette Party

My sister, threw me the most wonderful and refreshing bachelorette party. I wouldn't say it was a bridal shower, with all the 'poison' they made me drink even though I won some games? C'mon.

She concoted the theme with the inspiration from the jigsaw puzzle she saw in my room, which I had made and framed. The same one I believe she gave me as a brithday gift years ago...

Our family works best when we do things last minute, so my sister organize the crew, consisting my sister-in-laws and bridesmaids to be teamed in pairs and they all have their roles and responsibilities.

They had to do the games, catering, organize the event, invitations, contact and host guests, rent hats, etc.

The crew rented and brought an assortment of hats for the guests. For the bride-to-be, I was honored with the biggest hat, the traditional chinese opera head gear.

To my utter glee, my bridesmaids weren't spared; they had to wear Qing Dynasty-styled ladies headwear. So they were called my concubines for the night.
We were also given aprons that were embroidered to distinguish the bride, crew members and the plain ones were the guests.
Games- Dress players in toilet-paper to make into costume; Passing the pole; Smell and determine the ingredients in the shot glasses.

As much as I had so much fun, it was also the night I sworn that I would not drink to that drunken state.

Photography - Journey
Puzzle Image source - Tom Du Bois from Amazon

Mad Hatter's Bridal Shower

Theme: Mad Hatter's

PartyVenue: The Balcony, Jakarta

The Bride: Lingz

The Crew: Linaz, Agnez, Mocci, Ellenz, Amelz, Sherly.

# of crazy hatters: 40 people

Thank you all for making this a happening one ^^ !!!

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Invitation: Watermark

Photographer: Journey

Edibles: Catering from Mahakam Hotel

Poisons: Courtesy of The Balcony

Mementos: A bottle of champange

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All Alice images are courtesy of Lenny's Alice in the Wonderland

I wanted to throw an unforgettable party for the then bride to be, Lingz. Knowing her personality, she doesn't want anything that is too wild or too preppy, in other words a hybrid of bridal shower and bachelorette party. So I decided on a theme party instead~ Mad Hatter's Party from Alice in the Wonderland.

To make the party, we wanted to involve something from Alice and the lalaland. So a few things came up, the apron that Alice wore, the red roses from the garden, the hats from the mad hatter party, the hookah from the caterpillar, potion bottle with attached message and of course the unforgettable rabbit and the Cheshire cat.

We wanted to send a surprise in an invitation for all the close girlfriends of the bride. We sent out aprons with message slip detailing the event tucked inside the apron's pocket. All aprons were embroidered with the guests name and we made a special red apron just for the bride. Of course, I also had a set of aprons for the people behind this event with "The Crew" embroidered on them. The aprons were folded inside a beautiful box packaging designed and printed by the talented designer from Watermark.

The venue was perfect! We picked The Balcony because it is a beautifully decorated chic hangout place that didn't require us to spend much decor on the place, except accenting the place with red roses. The place comes with a private bar that allows us to have our own bartender and a personal house DJ. How cool is that?? Beverages were in house and foods were catered from Mahakam Hotel. Highlight of the day, dessert (at least that’s for me) we had beautiful cupcakes from Mulia Hotel bakery. They are just heavenly...nyammmm.

As for the rest of Alice in the Wonderland’s touches. I had a few images that I downloaded from Alice's site to create and print: the memento tags, the invitation slips that I tucked inside all aprons, and message cards for guests to write their best wishes for the bride. And I had a huge cut out image board of the rabbit! I can't leave out the rabbit...

For the hookah, I was recommended through a friend to a turkish restaurant, Anatolia, that rent and sell hookah and shishas. I ended up buying 2 pair of hookahs, because they are pretty and I wanted to give them to the bride to be for keepsake. The owner of the restaurant even gave free flavored shisha tobaccos. Ahh things were going so smoothly.

Next, we found this wonderful place that rent all sorts of hats. I rented a few hats for the guests who would 'forget' to bring theirs. For the bride, I found a traditional chinese bride hat piece that matches the red apron. Perfect!!!

Finally, the games and entertainment. Music were playing endlessly by the cute DJ throughout the night. And the bachelorette games plus endless flow of drinks, kept the girls entertained. The guests were having a blast and the bride... lets just say the bride to be got really happy that night. Before the guests leave, we gave each of them a bottle of dessert wine with attached message tag of hang over cure on it.

Hiatus

Hi agian~! After for few months of hiatus, I hope all bloggers who have visited enjoyed the previous postings.

I haven't been back as I've been busy with so many things! Pregnancy, piled up work, decorating new apartment, and the slow internet in this country is not very encouraging for me to load up pictures. Plus, I've 'misplaced' the camera my husband bought for me just for my blogging.

Soon I'll be putting up pics from my sister's bridal shower and her very beautiful wedding.

Gown madness

I love love love evening gowns. The fact that wedding dress is worn ONLY once in a lifetime, and that wear once in a lifetime gown would be immortalized in pictures that would be viewed by my kids and grandkids, does put a lot of pressure and stress.

I did say before that I went through sleepless nights because of this, its a bit crazy but true. I had initially wanted an international designer gown, but I realized that in the midst of choosing the gown, I got more stresses because I couldn't find the one and time is running out. In the end I decided to have a friend designer custom design one for me. Stress #1 gone and I'm happy.

Valentino for Pronovias Wedding gown