So I thought I’d post a few photos of my gorgeous wedding venue. I first attended the venue at a law school ball and I was blown away by how gorgeous it was. I had remarked to my friend Cecilia at that time that if I ever got married, I’d want to get married at the Roof Gardens. I didnt even know that the venue organised weddings because it is used as a club. So when I got engaged and made queries, I was tingling with excitement. I was over …

I had three main flowers at the wedding: my bridal bonquet, the flower arrangements on the table, and the bridesmaids bonquet. I decided to get the bridal bonquet made professionally because I’ve heard it is the most important flower arrangement. I wanted to save costs on the rest of the flower arrangements because I heard that flowers can be misleadingly expensive. The average American bride spends $1600 on flowers alone!
Anyways, back to the bridal bonquet, I went down to Chez Michelle (sounds like a restaurant doesnt it?) at Borough Market. …

So some more photos of our place cards:

These were actually just from Tescos store, in sets of 20. They are in their dinner party range. I lost a few of them and had to make a mad dash to the super market the night before the wedding. Thank god for Tesco’s 24 hour shopping and a very kind friend who drove my bridesmaid and me there.
The table name cards, the Peony table:

Lotus table:

The whole table look:

So finally I have some photos of my tables at my recent wedding. All the wedding details came together like a dream, in fact, it came together even better than I could have ever dreamt of. I know that Im biased but Im so pleased with how all the table runners, flowers, and other table decorations fit.
So I have my table runners that I made myself in different shades of green:

and close up…

I chose these olive green sashes to go with our green theme. Against a white chair cover, …

Last week, I was drooling over the photos of money/card boxes from the US. But I almost fell off my chair when I realised that they were going for upwards of $120 !!!!!!!!
I realise this is an important item that brides forget and I certainly dont get my cards stolen at the wedding reception. At our engagement party, I lost track of the presents and cards that I am sure some may have even dropped on the way.

So I decided to make the boxes myself. I enlisted the help …

Since our trip to the New Covent Garden Market, I’ve been thinking of making the flowers for the wedding myself considering how cheap they are. The average UK bride spends £600 for flowers. I saw an American TV show called “Bridezillas” where the bride paid the florist $ 6,000 in CASH. A bit dodgy I would think! Anyways, I dont intend to spend a ridiculous amount of money on my flowers. I was thinking of the lovely yellow roses and putting them in a square vase. I saw a vase …

Upon the suggestion of another bridezilla, my fiance and I visited the New Covent Garden Market near Vauxhall yesterday. Its only one stop after Vauxhall train and underground station on the 344 Bus. Its open awfully early so that the trade florists can get their shops open. I wanted to write a post and share the prices as I couldnt find any information online. I recently went on a wedding forum on You and Your Wedding and some other brides kindly shared their prices with me. I still wanted to …

I went to the two bookstores in my neighbourhood to buy some thank you cards for my bridesmaids and the groomsmen. A month more to go for my wedding but I just have the feeling I will forget small items like this so I best get them now than forget about it.
I really couldnt find any card that actually said “Thank you for being our bridesmaid”, all the cards were just Thank you or a photo. So I decided to make my own cards. One of my sisters in …

Ever since I spied these hanging lamp shades in the “love butterfly” themed wedding look at Confetti, I’ve been thinking about using hanging lamp shades. They need not be lighted as my wedding is a day long affair. In addition, if you painted or sprayed them different colours, that would suffice.

I then saw that my friend attended a wedding where another bride had used similar lamp shades:

I think the effect is lovely but could look even more stylish if there were hanging lamp shades of various sizes and …

This past weekend, my bridesmaids and I spent making our table name place cards. After much thought about a way to incorporate my fiance’s Chinese heritage, we have decided to use Chinese flowers and a brief description of what the flowers symbolise. These would then match our favours which are Chinese themed. A big THANK YOU to my hard working sisters in law who worked so hard to find the characters online and cut such perfect lines. One of my bridesmaids was so funny, she said “I am a Legend” …