Promotion: Resort at Langkawi
August 26, 2008
I thought this is a pretty good deal, especially for couples who are planning to head over to Langkawi for a weekend getaway or for pre-wedding photography. Offer is only valid for stay within these two months though. Click on image for clearer details.
Short & Sweet - When Those Few Words Mean Everything
August 23, 2008
Episode #322:
Haley: “Nathan, it’s been said that there is one word that will free us from the weight and pain of life. And that word is love, and I believe that. It doesn’t mean that it hasn’t been hard or that it won’t be. It just means that I found a stillness and bravery in myself with you. You make me brave and I will love you until the end of time. This I vow today.”Nathan: “Last year we stood on a beach and I told you how much I loved you and how I would always, always protect you. And that day nobody believed that this would work. But, I don’t think anybody understood the love that I had for you because, if they did they would have never doubted us. So I wanted to marry you all over again in front of most of our world. Because today, when I look into your eyes my love for you only grows. It’s even stronger now and that love will never waver. This I vow to you today and always, forever.”
Photos from One Tree Hill Fan Site
Cute Little Wedding Badges
August 15, 2008
Check out these cute little badges which you can use in replace of corsages for your bridal party or simply hand them out as a thank you gesture to these favourite ladies in your life. 
At only RM30 for a set of five, you can purchase these online from One Tree.
Beijing Olympics - Arts, Sculptures & Architecture
August 8, 2008
If there is a prize to be won, it should be given to the people of China for all the hard labour, intrinsic details, leadership and master planning leading up to the Beijing Olympic Games. With an estimated running cost of US$2.1 billion and a total staggering cost of US$43 billion, the enormity of the entire affair coupled with all the external conundrums that plagued the country would make even the most experienced event planners cringe with anxiety. But that is an entirely different story. Today’s post is all about the inspiring beautifully engineered designs, architecture and arts for the Beijing Olympic Games. The Beijing Olympic Games was conceptualised as a Green Olympics, Hi-tech Olympics and People’s Olympics.
Official Graphics & Designs for the Games
Designers: 20 odd young designers from the China Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) - a special team under the Art Research Centre for the Olympic Games (ARCOG) lead by Dean Wang Min.
The graphics were designed based on ‘jingwen’, the script found on 2,000 bronze carvings to represent 35 types of olympic sports and 20 paralympic sports. This is also the team that designed the wave pattern on the olympic banners, posters, billboards, certificates and the rest of the comm materials which was inspired by traditional themes found on jade sculptures and silk fabrics. Graphic designers were required to create a look that represented China but also modernise the images to give it a global attraction. Read more about the story behind the Beijing Olympics emblem here.
Beijing National Olympic Stadium
Designer: Herzog and De Meuron Architekten AG, Switzerland and China Architecture Design Institute.
Conceptualised to bring about a contemporary building, the stadium represents modern Chinese with close links to its culture. It is shaped like a bowl with red stand and steels constructed to look like a nest structure. Bird’s Nest is also a delicacy in Chinese cuisine and word has it that the locals regard this new landmark as being on par as the historial Summer Palace. Simply magnificent!
Picture by Spiegel
National Swimming Centre - “Water Cube”
Designer: Consortium of China State COnstruction Engineering Corporationm China State Construction Int (Shenzhen) Design Co Ltd, PTW Architects (Aus) and Ove Arup (Aus).
50,000 sqm semi transparent cube shaped similarly to the structure of H2O. I think it looks like a bubble wrap in daytime. Other high tech features of the centre include multiple angle, 3-dimensional screening system to help spectators enjoy the competition and optical devices to define positions of athletes. With the exterior made from ETFE (ethylene tetrafluoroethylene/teflon), solar energy is used to heat the pools while rainwater will be stored in tanks to fill the pools.
Tianjin Olympics Stadium - “Water Drop”
The exterior is designed to resemble water drops. This stadium will be used to host football matches which can accommodate up to 60,000 spectators.
Olympic Games Village
I soo love the interior design of the village especially the tea room. More details can be found here.
Really really large oil-painting scroll
Artist: Liu Ningyi and daughter, Liu Haomei.
Measuring 112 meters in height to represent the number of years in modern history of the olympics and five meters in width to represent the number of olympic rings, the artwork showcases the olympic motto of “swifter, higher, stronger” and “peace, friendship, progress”.
“The historical outline depicted in the painting begins with the Greek mythological figure Prometheus, who purportedly gave fire to man. Philosophers Confucius, Laozi, Quyuan and Socrates are then depicted watching the Olympics, while terra cotta warriors and early Greek athletes are competing in various sports. The painting then jumps to the 1896 revival of the Olympics in Athens by Pierre de Coubertin and follows the Summer Olympics and Winter Olympics, to the present-day 2008 Beijing Olympics, which are represented with an Olympic flame. Also in the painting are 2,000 star athletes who have achieved notable fame and recognition in their respective sports. Connecting all of these events is the Olympic flame, which weaves its way throughout the picture.” - Media Operations, Official Beijing Olympics Website.
I’m just totally marvelled at the thorough conceptualisation of this entire scroll. Just imagine the amount of handwork that goes into this painting!
Olympic-themed Embossment
Designer: Fan Xiulong, a farmer of Miaocheng Village of Huairou District, creates the embossment to express his good wishes for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
Hair Decoration
Volunteers wearing the five pin hair decoration. Cute.
Picture from xinhuanet.com
Watching the live coverage now.
Unless otherwise acknowledged, all pictures are taken from the official Beijing Olympics website.
Free Wedding Website
August 8, 2008
I came across this website and I think it’s wonderful that the service is free of charge. I really dig their designer templates that are super chic, modern and come in really pretty colours with a wide variety of designs. It also has a personal wedding blog corner that allows you to share your stories, allow your guests to post wedding song suggestions, let’s you send out group e-mails and more.
These few are really pretty.
Friday Finds & Inspiration - An Intro
August 6, 2008
Fridays are fabulous. It’s the day where most of us take longer breaks, get off early from work, splurge a lil more on dinner and cocktails and then some more. It’s also a day before the weekend, where some of us laze around till noon while some take leisurely stroll at the parks or malls. For the enthusiast brides-to-be, weekends are the only time they have to meet their planners, visit the vendors, do fittings, catch up with their bridal party, etc. Friday Finds & Inspiration serves to highlight some of the fabulous finds out there and feature some pretty posts for a more fruitful weekend for bridal WIP. This is something new, so feel free to feedback so that I can further improve on the type of materials to be featured here. Enjoy reading!
XOXO
Masquerade Dance
August 6, 2008
Masquerade dance inspired from the Phantom of the Opera. The elaborate costumes add grandeur to your function especially for Masquerade-themed functions. We only had 6 dancers for this, since the stage was small, but it would have been a lot more interesting and theatric if we had a larger stage with 12 - 16 dancers.
Photography by Exes-Studio
Beautiful Budget-Friendly Wedding
August 3, 2008
Both Elaine & Patrick are Malaysians residing in Australia. They wanted an understated yet elegant wedding with a down-to-earth ambience of a rustic garden but within the setting of a ballroom.
The main key point that was drilled into my head throughout the whole planning process was to be conscious of the tight budget. To host a wedding, no matter whichever way you look at it or how much you try to pinch, is still an expensive affair. In Asia, we’re blessed for the simple reason that everything comes in packaged deals. So even for weddings, most F&B outlets provide all-inclusive wedding packages of which the basic necessities are already provided. The challenge lies intranslating visions into reality without breaking the bank by maximising whatever existing resources we have.
These were the moodboards we worked on together based on their favourite examples of wedding pictures.
…. and this was how their wedding turned out.
The cufflinks were custom-made with embroidered initials by the groom for his groomsmen as a gift. That is just so thoughtful, isnt’t it? And the fonts are in the exact font-type as the couple’s monogram. Patrick is such a DIY groom. The interesting thing about this wedding was that I liaised with the groom via e-mail throughout the entire time and the bride was kept out of the planning process. The moment of she walked down the aisle was the first time that she saw the entire setup.
Most modern couples these days try to steer away from tradition, but I like the idea of sublty retaining some tradition by keeping the Chinese gold-embossed double happiness menu booklet provided by the hotel, but adding the printed monogram into the inlay of the card.
A three-tiered chocolate flavoured wedding cake was served for the more intimate wedding ceremony at the church. For the reception, we retained the six-tiered dummy cake but we purchased our own ribbon in the same colour theme for the cake and fresh flowers.
Photography by Alvin Leong.
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