Hiring a Photographer

Last Saturday me and Mr.fiance to be had secured a photographer for the engagement.Alhamdulillah...another one cross off my list:) When i first begin planning out my engagement, everything seems so hard, everything seems so impossible,as it was planned in less than 3 months.Now everything seems to be going smoothly...and i hope the positive momentum will goes on untill the engagement ceremony took place.

I was so lucky to be introduced to this very young photographer as i have been searching for the right one from the past few months.Not only that, i was hoping that i could hire someone that not only filled with modern touch & creativity but also a photographer that was nearby my hometown.

Turn out to be that he was my junior in primary school and also in university..and he was one of my friend's of friends and my BF acquaintances as well.Hence that makes it easier for us to work together.If im not mistaken he told me that he took accounting course back in the university but end up as a full time photographer businessman now.
Wow~ he really did chase his passion and do things that he loved and enjoyed the most as his career.Im so amazed by him and it got me thinking, i didnt enjoyed what i learned in university...but i keep going and now i would become one.A LAWYER.Though it sounds very grandly and i should be proud(should i?*rolled eyes*)...doesnt mean that i took law i should end up as a lawyer right?As long as you believed in yourself insya-allah...He will give you a way and He is gracious in His giving of sustenance as long as you are sincere and the path you choose is halal.Sigh~ talking about my unreacheable dreams would take forever...

Back to the photograher that i was mentioning about,the one and only Malaccan based...here I introduced you;

--> REEZ PHOTOWORKS

by Reez Halim

The Invitation Card

Yes i made it myself:) One word: satisfaction.

Deco's, Favours & Photobooth

A month left untill our engagement:)

And i havent invited all of my closest friends yet. I gotta get it done by this week and start inviting them next week!
And there's still a lot more to go..deco's, favours & photobooth! (
I've got plenty of ideas but with such a short time i need a team!

Here's some of the ideas that i might do if i was able to, for the engagement.

FOR DECOS

Probably this is more suitable for 'makan beradab' occasion during marriage..but i like the idea of making this hanging paper flower and pom poms since i had a car parking hut that can transform into a gazebo:) As you know, i already bought the lantern..so im gonna hang the lantern instead. This both will definitely be on my solemnization occasion.

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For this one, it was very easy to make..but im gonna change the wording to just engaged!:D Maybe i will put it on the photo booth session later~

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Poppy flowers made from coloured papers!! This will definitely be on my engagement must have deco..im thinking of putting it in a tall clear glass vase.i will try to make one, and if i fail..well..u wont be seeing it at the engagement of coure.LOL!

FAVOURS

This is some of the ideas for the guests-es favours but since my mom already asked me to buy 200 goodie bags, i didnt know what to do with this ideas anymore..perhaps i have to wait for the wedding favours next time.

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PHOTO BOOTH

This is the props that im gonna make for the photobooth session:) Currently i had already make mustache and bubble talk from the black cardboard ! Hooray! :) Left is hat, ribbons, spectacles and lips:)

Currently im hunting for chalk board so that i can write Photo booth on it. And a frame without the glass for my photo booth props. Will do my shopping next week! Yay!

The Engagement Planner =)

18.09.2011, Sunday

Last Sunday i went to meet a wedding planner Kak Wiwin. Since im not getting married (yet) i appoint her as my engagement planner.Alhamdulillah...i no need to worry anymore about make-up and the engagement altar as i already handed it over to Kak Wiwin to get the job done.
I can cross off my list for the catering services as my mom had taken care of it as well through her acquaintances.

All that is left is my engagement dress. I havent custom made my engagement dress yet..and i have to go back to my hometown again this week to follow up with Kak Wiwin since she said she also accept custom made dress for wedding/engagement.

Although a few things had settled, but i can see there's still a long way to go. Door gifts and decoration for hantaran gifts is next on my list and oh there's still a few hantaran stuffs we havent bought for each other so probably we're gonna go shop again by the end of this month.

How i wish i was a man.I accompanied 'Mr.Fiance-to-be' to a tailor later that evening to custom made his engagement attire...and it can be done only in 10 days time!

Preparation begins...

10.09.2011, saturday.

It has been a busy weeks for me as i had been preparing for my engagement ceremony. I've got 2 months left to get everything ready in perfection (or not so). Hence last 2 weeks; me, 'Mr.soon to be fiance' and one of my bestie arranged for a meet up to discuss and hunt for a few stuff for my engagement.

So we have decided to hit it off to Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman as our first stop. While waiting for my friend to arrived at the said place, i've decided to look for lanterns for decorations with Mr.E. So we went to Petaling Street and looked for a shop called 'The Basket Shop'. I cant give the exact direction to this place as i was very bad at direction. I can only said it was situated at the very end of the Petaling Street which u have to turned left to a narrow path before the McDonald's.


Though im happy to find my theme coloured lanterns as the deco, i was a bit upset in terms of their poor services. Not mentioning they were quite idiotic at the same time. Im looking for the white, pastel pink & pastel yellow coloured lanterns, however they give me the peach coloured lanterns and told us that the pastel yellow's one were out of stock. Unsatisfied, i went to the back myself where the colourful lanterns located. I found the yellow coloured lanterns before my eyes stacked there and took it out. Mr.E is quite pissed and confront the person in charge and told her off that the yellow coloured lanterns were in stock, and she said 'yes we got yellow,who said we didnt have yellow?' duh, she's the one who said it a few minutes earlier! and she can managed to lie straight to our face?! what a dumbass! (woooops! sorry for the rude word, actually im having a bridezilla symptoms in advance and easily got irritated when i cant get what i want) Thank god ive got Mr.E to scold people around for me, as im already stressed enough.

After getting the lanterns, we headed off to Jalan Tar and meet up with my friend there. Then we headed off for lunch first as its already noon at the nearest mamak restaurant and begin our hunt soon afterwards. We managed to find fabrics for our hantaran sepersalinan and fabrics for both of my besties who would become my dayang2 on my e-day.

Later on, we bid our goodbyes to my friend but the day doesnt end there. Me & Mr.E continue our hunts for hantaran gifts at One Utama shopping Center Damansara and we reached home around 11 pm. Though exhausted we managed to find half of the hantaran gifts and especially... the engagement ring:)

Bits of decorations...

Yesterday I went to SSF HOME DECO with my mom to buy bits of decorations for hantaran...I managed to captured a few pics of stuffs that we bought...

ribbonssss!

But what i heart the most is...

pink roses cushion pillows!!
<3 heart heart heart!!! <3

Ok there goes my money for deco...*poof!*
Ok buckle up for more! Bring it on!
*korek2 tabung ayam* hehehe.

The First Entourage...

Praise to god...on september 2nd 2011, the 'merisik' or 'to inquire' entourage from the men side to set the date for the engagement date went on well. I cant tell or describe how i felt that day...still shocked & surprised that this engagement ceremony will really take place, sad because im no longer a little girl anymore and have to prepare to let myself go from my family guardians and care (halfway as it'll be full way when u got married later), afraid of the test 'dugaan' that i might face as a fiance and the responsibility that i might have to carry after this, frightened whether i make the right choice to be engaged...and all kinds of mixed feelings inside. However in spite of all that feelings, there's a feeling of bliss and a thing called happiness inside of me...:) We've gone thru soo muchhh for the past 5 years of our relationship and i think its about time that we deserved to be happy.

Although the decisions to get engaged was so sudden (we also didnt expected that we're gonna get engaged this fast,trust me both of us felt surprised and stunned as well) but as i said before i just believed that 'Once He has a plan for you there's nothing that can ever stop Him from making it happen'...i guess its just that 'our time' has come...soon or later your time will come as well...and u may never know. There's no better explanation or answer that i can give if people around us starts questioning our decisions.When people ask when ur gonna get married?ur gonna said "oh lame lagi..i tak ready lagila" ("not anytime soon..im not ready yet") but when 'it' did come for you...it just will without u knowing.Sometimes u just got to have faith in God that everything we do or did in this world, is when He is willing so and according to His permission.But if u go all the way,plan everything in this whole wide world this and that, but He didnt permit u to do so...it still wont happen.

Here, i would like say my bunch of gratefulness to my BFF Izzati, Natalie and Hanim for being so supportive and delightful when i delivered the news:) They literally jump with joy and fill with spirits of excitement. They never question and far from speculating why the engagement being held so fast...they just being so purely happy for me! :') (i think they were more exited than i am!tee-hee-hee) They've been on my back and on my side through my ups and downs and through my worst and happiness. They've been a loyal friend to me while others would be contemplating to be on my back and on my side.And i think no one else is deserved to be my dayang2 on my e-day except them:) Thank You my sayangness~ :)

Before i forget, i did tell you on my 1st post that im going to tell you why i do feel happy and exited? So the date has been confirmed 20.11.2011.
20.11 marks our 6th year anniversary:) its jz so happen that it was in a year of 2011.So not only the date rhymes together (we heart it) but it also marks our 6th years of togetherness:)

Pray for us that everything would go well...Amin.

Much Love-xoxo-