The wedding videos are finally complete!!!!! I could say more but it’s self-explanatory, really…

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Tomorrow is IT!

It’s finally done! For more pics and slightly more info, hop on over here.

After destroying deleting the shop’s domain, I decided to sooth myself by moving my previous wedding website to a brand new subdomain. I suppose it’s because I wanted to dump some videos and make photo viewing a little tad easier for myself.

It took a while to fix up and fine-tune; a huge part of the photo gallery and video/music library is under construction but at least it has a little history and story of its own to tell! Yes, my wedding has a journal of its own!!!

Anyway, do drop by here and if you can/want to, come again!

Note: This entry is not aimed at insulting any one particular person, neither is it intended to reinforce negative stereotypes.

This whole wedding process has definitely taught me a thing or two about RSVPs and some Malaysians. As most people would know, RSVP stands for répondez s’il-vous-plaît, French for “please respond” and appears most often on invitations to functions whereby a headcount is needed for logistically reasons. The most common of which would be weddings.

RSVP works in this manner: irrespective of whether you are attending or not, you have to inform the host of your decision and by the specified date for logistic reasons - a headcount is the most important motivation for RSVPs. Problems arising from an incomplete RSVP list can range from seating issues to lack of favours and even insufficient food quantities!

However, it would appear that a number of Malaysians still have a long way to go when it comes to learning and practicing the habit of RSVP-ing. Bear in mind that I am comparing this to the pool of cards that my husband’s side received.

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Yesterday’s sugarpaste flowers were a total disaster. Turns out that our weather is humid and thus plays havoc with the drying period of these little babies. I woke up this morning to sticky and saggy petals.

I could work on them in an air-conditioned room but I’m afraid of what will happen if I turn the air-conditioning off. I can’t exactly stick them into the fridge because the moment I remove them, it’ll start sweating (water droplets/condensation on the surface). Fondant + water = bad idea (everything will get sticky).

So the other option left is to work with royal icing instead. So far, I can churn out carnations, primroses, roses and small flowers like the apple blossom. But next week’s class will see me working on “deeper” flowers like petunias, lilies and poinsettias. Since my initial plan is to use lilies, I’m hoping to be able to still stick to it. Royal icing petunias do look mighty attractive too…

Of course I could get fresh flowers and that would solve half of my workload issues…

Here’s what I have sort of decided for the cake. I’m going to go for a combination of the elements from the two cakes below.

Colours
Gold, pale ivory, (slightly dark) ivory with a slight tinge of golden yellow

Elements
Both tiers
- Size 5 beads in pale ivory on the bottom of each tier, piped with decorators buttercream.
- Henna-like emboidery lattice piped and then painted with golden paint (safe for consumption)
- Pale ivory fondant on top of marzipan-lined cake

Top tier
- Three gumpaste lilies in ivory-golden yellow with gumpaste leaves (insides of the petals will be dusted with pearl/gold shimmer)

Bottom tier
- Two gumpaste lilies in ivory-golden yellow with gumpaste leaves (insides of the petals will be dusted with pearl/gold shimmer)

Notes
Flowers are to be done ahead of time, at least three days to one week.

What you guys think?