The band

He reminded me to put up a post on my wedding ring. Thanks, yoU! Well, the reason why it's 'my' wedding ring, and not 'ours', simply because he doesn't wear rings and doesn't feel like having 1. So, respecting his decision, I'm luring the diamonds and gold all to myself. Ngeee.

So we were having our normal outing last month. While at our favourite shopping mall, there's a huge booth at the centre court so we thought we might check it out. Well, who knew, it was our (or was it my?) lucky day! The Habib Jewel Diamond Fest exhibition had 2 days left before it ends and like I've mentioned in the previous post, we were not looking for wedding rings anytime soon because we're gonna wait for the Raya Promotion. But hey, there's a beautiful ring in front of us, with marvellous discount, who can resist that? So my darling bought me that one piece jewellery which was on sale, 70% discount, and he also bought me a pair of pearl ear ring, to complete my pearl jewellery set. Weee~

The price of the ring? Erm, let me just tell you that the original price was very close to a 5 figure amount, and 70% off was totally worth it. Plus, his mother wanted so much for the ring to be standout and 'big'. Yes, she did mention the word 'besar'. So, not to disappoint her (chewah, padahal memang nak), we took that 1 out of the last 3 pieces left, and I went back with a huge smile, while he went back with sweaty forehead and a long sigh.

So to all of you out there who's getting married, do remember to wait for Habib's mega sale to buy rings/jewelleries before your big day. It's also a great idea to buy gold during this season, and when you're going to buy a real gift, simply trade in the gold you've bought during the sale. A dear friend did that and I think it's simply brilliant. Play around with the idea, yeah? Start budgeting now!

Hehe.

That's why I lev yuh. :*

Bali favours~

Oh, forgot to update about my received package from Bali, Indonesia. Weee.

Last week, a dear friend went for a holiday trip with her friends to Bali. I knew about the plan few months ago, while I was thinking how to ship my orders from Bali to here. And when she announced on her trip to Bali, it was like a light just *tingggg* in my head, so I asked for her kindness to help me bring back my orders from Bali. Soon when she said yes, I quickly made arrangement with the PIC in Bali and chose the items I wanted. And after months of waiting anxiously (in case, something bad happen, item not as shown in the picha,etc), I kept silent to myself until last Thursday, when my darling friend texted me early in the morning, "Dah selamat sampai. Bila nak datang ni?" Weeee. I quickly grabbed my carkeys and dashed to LCCT to pick up the items. The wait has not ended yet, because I was driving alone, and I could not open up the boxes till I reach home. Soon as I went in the house, I brought all the 4 boxes in and snatched open one by one. After checking all of them, only I smiled weeeeeee-ily (?) and showed to LadyBoss about my Bali-catch. Huuu.

You want to know what is it?

The 4 boxes (with 4 small boxes in each)

Box #1 : Big and small round soaps

Box #2 : Small square soaps

The rest of them : Many variants of fragrances

FYI, these are all the favours for my reception. As for the packaging? I'm still considering few ideas but think I'm gonna stick with a simple package which can be done myself, and no need to burden other people. Will get the raw materials soon and once it's done, I'll surely upload the final product!

If you're interested with these cute soaps as favours too, just go to BaliSoap, the PIC (in my case, I dealt with Ms Yuli) will be very helpful and assist you through out your order. Have fun!

:)

3-in-1

My family and I attended the food tasting at SACC today. I was quite disappointed as Niwa forgotten my add-on menu, which was Buttered Prawn. The original menu was :

Nasi Minyak

Daging Rendang Tok

Ikan Masam Manis

Ayam Masak Merah

Dalca Sayur/Pajeri Nanas

Sirap Selasih

Kuih Melayu

Buah-buahan

Kopi/Teh Tarik

So before the food tasting, I've requested to swap 'Daging Rendang Tok' with 'Daging Dendeng' and add-on 'Buttered Prawn' to the menu. And to have Dalca Sayur, not Pajeri Nanas. Unfortunately, Niwa only swapped the Daging, and she promised to conduct another food tasting for the Prawn. Oh, well. We'll see. But fortunate for me, she said that Dalca Sayur and Pajeri Nanas will both be in the menu. Weee. Well, luckily I brought some 'good' food tasters as I am not expert myself. But personally, I did not like the Daging Dendeng, which like K.Maz said, "Daging Dendeng should be dark and red..", which it wasn't. So I'm hoping the 2nd attempt of food tasting will not frustrate me again. And LadyBoss suggested to change the Dalca Sayur to Mix Vege. Hmm. But we absolutely love the presentation, especially the cutleries (I know, just wait and see, than you'll know what I'm talking about) and the dessert. :)

Right after that, I met the wedding planner, assisted by Niwa & Yahdina, to discuss about my pelamin. I explained to Mr Dinzuiz about my dress colour (light turqoise-greenish) and my idea to have the decorations in peach. He paused, and gave his honest opinion about it, and I absorbed it nicely. As I know I,myself, am not excellent in nothing (;c), so I accepted his suggestion to mix a little bit of pink touch to the flowers. And then, came in K.Maz to give her own piece of mind, and ... I have to agree that they know what they're saying and I am sure the outcome would be great. So the decorations turned out to be pink-peach kinda.

In the end of the session, I sat down with Niwa, accompanied by Ms Tinkris, who's new at SACC, but seemed good at what she's doing, (prolly coz she's new?), or from her previous work experience. Niwa agreed to set up another meeting with the person-in-charged for the sound system so that we could discuss further on the PA system for the band and stuffs.

Next, I picked him up and we went to collect our sijil Kursus Kahwin which we previously attended a week ago at Pusat Kejiranan Presint 16, Putrajaya. The price for the course is a standard amount of RM80 (at least we think it's standard through some surveys). The place was OK, and overall the speakers was not so bad either. Only that, how we wish that the free meal (included in the package) would be a little bit more ... satisfying. We both thought the Teh O was super sweet but the air Sirap was tasteless (which was supposed to be sweet since it's ... SYRUP!). Karipap was nice, though. But all in all, Alhamdulillah we've done it. Next!

All right. And then, came the best part of the day...

We went for our 1st shopping for hantaran today. The total damage was RM1184. *ngeee* Here are the details :

Shirt & Tie

Budget cost : RM150

Actual cost : RM79 (without tie) - after using RM20 cash voucher

Watch

(for him)

Budget cost : RM300

Actual cost : RM300 (after 10% discount) + free watch stand!

(for her)

Budget cost : RM(not in the list!) LOL.

Actual cost : RM320 (after 15% discount) ♥ the box!

Perfume

(for him)

Budget cost : RM(not in the list 2!)

Actual cost : RM250 (free DKNY travelling bag)

(for her)

Budget cost : RM300

Actual cost : RM235 (free DKNY document bag)

Calculator check = I'm soooo gonna do OPP everyday, starting right NOW! *errrkkk*

As a bonus, he got himself some stuffs, and also, he bought me a pair of Nike Dunk-Hi! (not in the list 3!!!) Weeee. Absolutely love it!

Who says we need an occasion to buy a present? ;P

Cut-cut!

Went to D'Renjis yesterday to explain my dream-dress to Kak Ani, the tailor. Found out that the person I was dealing with about my package before has resigned. Thank God I went there in time, I think Kak Ani almost forgot about my dress. :( Anywayz, I am not hoping for such high expectation on this because I know that my taste of art & design is always the opposite of the majority, but I am just a bit relieved that now I can focus on other things.

Just a slight info on my dream wedding dress - It will be a long 1 piece dress, with empire waist, lace top and the bottom part will be from flowy chiffon material. Well, I really hope it won't go the total opposite of what I've imagined. Of course I can't expect a tip-top result as Kak Ani is not like the other well-known designers but based on her previous works, I must say that she is indeed a good tailor.

Till the next one!

Bandung damage.

A little bit on Bandung's update.

The 4 days trip apparently was not enough. Since we have discovered some new ideas at the very last minute. Despite the fact that we missed our flight from LCCT and had to buy a brand new ticket (yerp, all 4 of us), we still enjoyed the trip and happy with the goods bought. And that extra 10kg, was not our fault. Heee. Many of my cousins are also tying up the knot this year, so we took some orders as well..

Ok this post has been dreaded long enough so let's make this quick.

In Bandung, we stayed at De' Tropis. A very nice place, with complimentary coffee/tea/(the oh-so-famous) Teh Botol at the pantry, nice background music at night, very friendly staffs especially Pak Adi & Pak Untung! The security guy looked young but he's nice too, helped us to call for dinner-delivery, only that I didn't get to know his name. ;P

So the damage in Bandung were :

For family and friends -

• Telekung (loads & loads of them!) - not really sure who LadyBoss wanna give them to, but I always take a deep breath and God willing, any excess will just be a 'sedeqah'. Price ranged from Rp80.000 - Rp210.000 each.
• Textile : For LadyBoss & 2 sisters, for brothers' 3 baju Melayu, 5 usherettes, 1 thick cotton fabric which LadyBoss claimed to make her jubah = Rp1.600.000

Favours -

• Tasbih (50pcs-large) : Rp1.000 each
• Tasbih (800pcs-small) : Rp700 each ; cousin's order
• Fan (50pcs-small,chiffon) : Rp500 each
• Bekas zip-around mengkuang (100pcs) : Rp1.000 each
• Kotak songket (24pcs-medium,square) : Rp2.500 each
• Bekas dompet (800pcs-batik) : Rp1.000 each ; cousin's order
• Sampul (supposedly) for buku doa (50pcs) : Rp1.000 each

All these were boxed and sealed at Dinar Accessories in Pasar Baru.

My cousin also ordered her giftbox and tag in advanced and we collected them at Salsa Souvenir, also in Pasar Baru. The final product was Alhamdulillah, not disappointing. She paid for about Rp2.130.000 which include 800 personalized giftbox + thank you tags.

We also went to Tangkuban Perahu just to chill and relax a little. Bought those sweet strawberries & raspberries (which said to have been dipped in sugar syrup), but sokaylah, sedeqah pada 'orang gunung'.

We had lunch at Simpang Raya. Ada small gazebos where we had to bersila sambil makan. (Cheh, kat rumah makan atas meja, pegi tempat orang nak bersila pulak kan!) Haha. But the food was great! Gurame bakar, tempe, ulam. Very layannn. I don't really fancy jus Alpukat. It's too thick for me, but if you don't mind sucking up your heart through that straw, do give it a try!

Our supir for the day, Pak Dadan also brought us to some (must-go) FOs along Jalan SetiaBudi - Rumah Mode, Jalan Dago-Grande,Raffles,Natural,Donatello,etc. We did not manage to go to Jalan Riau because it's a little bit difficult having LadyBoss coming along for a long walk. Not that she's a burden, but I understand how she didn't really enjoy what I did. So after watching me go in and out of the dressing room and hi-jacked sister's plastic-money, we went off to look for some tudung. Pak Dadan brought us to Rabbani but we insisted to go to Syafira's boutique after that because Pak Adi has told us about their good factory-price. But we were so disappointed because apparently Pak Dadan did not know where we could get that cheap-price for Syafira's beautiful tudung so we were driven to the exclusive boutique, instead. LadyBoss and sister both bought a piece each.

Towards the end of the day, we found out about a long stretch of great 'tokos' specially for printings - cards, buku doa, etc. And we just HAD to find out about it on the day before our departure back to KL. Went into one shop, and walked out to see another one, but all of them have already closed. ;c So we planned to go out early the next day, hopefully we could run and get the best deal for whatever we want (at that time we haven't decided yet!-HAHA) before heading to the airport.

Next morning, sis & hubby went to Toko Tiga to buy (kinda)-cheap Levi's jeans while LadyBoss & I went straight to Jalan Astanaanyar to start our search. It was not all-fun having the idea of us both walking looking for stuffs because it was super difficult to stop and agree at something that both of us like. But after that, we stopped by a small printing shop with no fancy what-so-ever pancy in it, no air-cond, just a table fan, I think. Printings were done mostly by hand and I mean, manually! One hand put a paper in the machine, another hand stamp it, put aside, and repeat till maybe thousands of them! And I just knew right that second, I've found my printer! :P The price for a small buku Doa with Asma'ul Husna is Rp4.000 each, and my wedding card is Rp3.000 each for 500pcs. It's hardcover-ed, without envelope. I requested for free envelope but failed, and without wanting to waste anymore energy, I agreed to pay extra Rp500 each for 250pcs of envelope.

And then I started to bang my head to the wall because not knowing how to bring those things back, since it will only be ready in few weeks' time.

Alhamdulillah, couple of weeks later, an old friend, staying nearby got back from Bandung. So I passed the buku Doa through her. But for my wedding invitations, I've planned to ask for a dear friend's help when they went there for their honeymoon in July. :D Thank you! I hope nothing would freak me out because I just want to receive the invitations and started sending it out to guests just before August and hopefully everything will be done on time.

That is all a little bit here and there on Bandung's update. Even though it's a little delayed, but hey, better late than never, right?

Am now kinda excited about my favours for SACC's reception. Will update on that when everything is (at least) 50% confirmed. Oh, and will be going to D'Renjis tomorrow to discuss about my dress design. Hopefully the tailor could create it beautifully on me. Till the next one. Ta~