Friday, May 14, 2010

Wedding Studio Photos

We went to Amour yesterday to take wedding indoor studio photos.
I went there at noon.
Joanne @ Amour did my makeup and hair style...
Wen arrived at 2pm...
He had to put on some makeup too...  hee hee...  ;-)   

We had 3 sets of clothes:
1) Ada in Wedding Dress (different from the wedding day one)
    Wen in White Suit
2) Ada in Purple Evening Dress
    Wen in Black Suit
3) Both Ada and Wen in red Traditional Chinese clothes... We looked like people signing Chinese Operas... hahahaha.... :P

We had different backgrounds for different clothes...  had to do different moves according to the photographer...
My hair style was slightly changed and my makeup changed a little bit in between clothes...

Some behind the scene footages... Things that you won't see in photos... 
  • I wasn't wearing any shoes except for the Traditional Chinese Dress.
  • The red mid-heel shoes that I was wearing with Traditional Chinese Dress was probably a size 9 or 11... It was huge...
  • Wen's white pants was too long....  need to use 扣針 (dress pin) to make it shorter...
  • The sleeves of Wen's white jacket were too long...  The photographer hided it in photo
  • My purple night dress is actually too big... Multiple 扣針 were used to make it fit...  Double sided tapes were used in the front but it didn't stick... 
  • The back of Wen's black vest was held in place using 扣針...
  • Wen was actually wearing black shoes with the white suit...


It was fun!!  Since we only had to smile when the photographer said "1-2-3", it wasn't tiring.

I hope the photos will turn out good!  :D

Our outdoor photos date is end of June...  going downtown...
Please pray that we'll have good weather that day! :)






Saturday, May 8, 2010

Rose Wines

I've always been a red wine drinker.  Since I need to provide red wine and white wine choices at wedding dinner, I've been trying some white wines.  For some reasons, white wine is just not really my taste.
LCBO has been promoting rose wine, so I've decided to give it a try.

Gallo Family Vineyards
White Zinfandel
California
2009















Beringer California Collection
White Zinfandel
California
2008
















Both are good wines with a fruity strawberry taste.
I like dry red wines, but for white & rose wines, I prefer sweet wines.
Beringer has a sugar content = 4 while Gallo has sugar contect = 3.
Comparing the 2 rose wines, I prefer the Beringer one.

I am still debating whether to provide rose wine instead of white wine at my wedding or not.
Generally, people treats rose wine more like cocktail than wine.
That's why you normally will not find any rose wines in high end restaurants. 
Since it's my wedding, I should provide something that I like...
Should I provide rose wines or white wines?
I guess there is still time to decide.  ;-)

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Wedding Invitation English Wording

The Chinese wedding invitation wording is basically done...
Now, we are trying to decide on the English wording...
Basically, we want both of us and both of our parents to be the host...
There are lots of wording samples on the internet and many different versions...
With many choices, it's so hard to decide on one...


Some sites with english wording samples:
Invitation Consultants
Brides.com
VerseIt.com

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Wedding website

Wen has finally purchased the website service for our wedding website.
The site is up, but there is no information yet.
It's a flash site...  so hopefully all visitors will know how to install flash...  
Well... I guess I worried too much... Any active web surfer would have flash already installed... ;-)