Brand new look

My super cool cousin just create something and it makes my favors look better and awesome. She basically add the packaging for the magnet. As simple as that but it gave a whole new look to it. I'll let you judge by yourself. ( *insert Drum roll*)

front view

side view

a peep inside

open up

back view

Well, I think this is a good idea and the best part, it's so affordable. So what do you think?

Oh hello, magnet!

I've been sent an angel. He must have heard our prayers for a magnet supplier. I posted in a wedding forum bout our quest on getting 5cents diameter magnet. I was quite worried yesterday when there's no single reply to my post. I waited and waited but nothing comes by. However, as I open the forum today, guess what I saw? 2 reply! I almost skipped a heart beat. One member suggested I contact a photographer from Ipoh regarding this. He is making magnets as wedding favor, so he might have supply. In just a moment after I send him a PM (personal message), he replied. The price are quite reasonable but still not the economical enough. If Hubs couldn't get any, we'll have to settle with this. Might have to travel all the way to Ipoh to get it. Or better, get our Ipoh friend to bring back when they go home for Raya holiday.

I'm so happy!!!

Magnet where r u?

Me and Hubs have been searching high and low for ferrite magnets. You know, those lil black round thingy behind your fridge magnet? We just need the magnet, not the whole fridge magnet. And we need them in large quantity, say a few hundreds. The feedback we receive from those we've asked, buy the fridge magnets and pull them out. If only it's that easy. We are not talking about one or two but few HUNDREDS. I've beens searching for them online but the supplier need a company name when I wanted to email them bout the quotation. We've been to hardware shops, bookstores, gift shops....but it wasn't a popular thing. Hubs have a few friends that might help out in sourcing this magnets. Keeping finger cross.

By the way, we need them for our lil DIY wedding favor. If anyone know where to get the magnet, please kindly let me know.

T-shirt for best man

How forgetful me!! I actually concentrated on the bridesmaids t-shirt on the previous blog till I totally forgot to post the best men's one. Sorry for my mistake.

Here you go
The t-shirt might not look so good over here. But it sure does look nice on them. I can't wait for my photos to be out from my bridal shop. They should be ready for review end by end of this week but too bad, I'm not around at that time. So I'll have to be patient and wait for another week.....*sufferring*

BMs' T-shirt for outdoor photo shooting

We have hand delivered most of our favors to my bridesmaids and his best men. As promise on the earlier blog, here I am, giving a sneak peep into the t-shirt they are going to wear this Sunday. I'm so excited. This will the one and only time we are going to take the pre-wedding shoots and I got to wear wedding gowns!!! Did my excitement manage to spread to you? Only those Bride-to-be will sense it. The reason I'm getting them to be with me in the photo shooting is because they have been thru thick and thin with me. They know me inside out and have become part of my loved ones. Honestly, without them, I wouldn't have achieve who I am today....of course hubs played the biggest part. This is also the new style my bridal shop is offering (i mean to include others in the photos). Have you seen any third people in your wedding album? Apart from the little prince and princess you brought along cause of their cuteness? The first time I saw this style, I know I want to include them too. Call me copycat but if it's a good thing, why not?

I search high and low for the perfect t-shirt and I come across this cute Mr. Bean. Here's the front look.

Look what's written on the side....The back view.....

Don't you agree this is cute? So tempted to buy as it cost only RM10. The biggest problem is, it is FREE SIZE! Furthermore, it doesn't have the curve at the waist area. I'll probably look like a big tank. What more could I expect from my BM. They are all a size smaller than me (read: XS). So my mission is far from complete.

All that was before we bumped into hubs aunt in one of the stores. Coincidently her daughter, his cousin, also own a shop just upstairs. Without wasting any more time, we rushed there and I hungrily scan thru rack after rack of shirts. His cousin did recommend some to me but TOTALLY not the style I was looking for. Mine was the sporty type and at the same time, pretty. Hers was either way too cutie or sexy type. But I do manage to find one that I love so much. It's a normal one but with cute animals in front. And the most important thing, it's in white. The color or purity.

How is it? Nice?
Here's one with me wearing it.
You could see it fitted perfectly. So even my smallest size BM will not drown in it.....I'm pretty sure she will not. Will she? Hahaha.....I'll get to know the answer when they come for photo shooting this coming Sunday. We've prepared props to make the photos look livelier. Among them are kite, buble...oopps! Gonna seal my mouth for now till the photos are ready. Then I'll give a sneak peek too.

Are you going to include your bridesmaids and best men into your wedding album?

DIY card + favor for BMs

Here's our BIG PROJECT!! Previous blog I wrote about what favor I want to give my bridesmaid. I actually plan to do the t-shirt with wording "BRIDESMAID" on the front but we couldn't find the iron-on sticker plus nice plain t-shirt. Lucky us, we stumble upon a cute t-shirt with 6 lil animals on the front and immediately felt in love with it......maybe not us, but me alone. Hubs love it too but not as crazy about it as me. He knew I appreciated my friends (read: a lot) and he supported in whatever I plan to do for them. I'll post more on the t-shirts (for bridesmaid and best man) later, after I hand deliver all to our bestest BMs. These are all for the BMs who are going to be in our photo shooting also =)

I'm thankful that hubs was as excited as I am in making this DIY card. He got to do for his BMs and me for mine. We scouted around for the materials, papers from POPULAR RM10+, ribbon from Memory Lane RM2, and nets from Long Summer RM6 (Prangin Mall).


First, I made a sample for the dress and tuxedo. He's not good in arts...hehe...so he resort to cutting the brown and beige paper to form the frame layer. He does them without sweat while I'm still struggling with the cutting. Evil me, I made him cut out his BMs' tux. You could see it wasn't an easy job as the collars are a separate piece and they are tiny. There was a few time the collar's sample lost in his hand ( it's only 5% of his hand ). He had to search high and low for it.

At last, the dresses are done. The difficult part of this step is to get the net to stay fluffy while pinning the ribbon to the dress.


Ta-da! We did it. everything is glued to the card. The only thing left is the wording. You'll know what I mean in a second.


The master piece from hubs. He's so proud of it, he kept taking picture of them while mine is still far from complete.


Credit to hubs for putting the fullest effort and completed the cards successfully. So I load more of his workpiece, although there are many more I had to forgo. Too many to load. Sorry dear!


Here's mine for the ladies....


The complete pieces for 'Him' and 'Her' BM. We spend around 4hrs to get the cards done. You could see we really put in our heart, blood and sweat (erm....working in air-con room, so not much sweat I guess)


The 3D view of the gown. If only I had this gown for real for my BM. Budget constraint. Everything DIY and they have to self sponsor for their own white dress ..feel so bad bout it.



All the pieces put together. Due to reflection, the photo did not come out nice.


I know these do not look good. If I did not make them myself, I won't even know what the hell are they. Believe me, this is only part of the process.....


Now please put your hand together for the complete set.


A different angle makes them stand out like those models, don't you think so?


Presenting the lovely bridesmaid of the year...


*Phew!* All these are finally done. The total hours spend, I guaranteed not less than 10hours in total. There's not all. I've also included their name on the outside. Initially plan to put them on the t-shirt but was not confident enough. So ended up putting them on the cover instead. The wordings are not the normal one using pen, it's those 3D type whereby you can see and feel them.

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What do you think? Does it look good? Would you spend so much time and effort in doing favors for your bridesmaid and best man?

Wedding Favor

Everyone is excited about wedding favor but non can be as excited as the bride & groom. I had my chance of excitement. I'm a DIY addict, so when I saw so many cute stuff online, my head just spins with ideas flowing here and there. A preview of what I had in mind previously.

Card Holder

Heart shape bell

Bride&Groom in Car

Chair candle

Bride&Groom Suit

Favor Box

Traditional Wedding Chair Chinese Take Out Box

Formal BoxBride&Groom Box

Shirts

For Bride

For Bridesmaid

Those favors are only available online and OVERSEAS. So it'll cost a bomb! to ship them back here. I thought of doing the t-shirt for them but it's not that easy finding for the iron-on wording sticker and a plain white shirts that is nice and fitting. Yesterday, Hubs accompanied me to find for the stuff. He's sweet, ain't he? Although he's tired but he want to enjoy the whole process with me. We didn't manage to get what we plan initially but we got something similar. Will post bout this later when I snap some photos of the whole process and the final piece.