..Subtle Silence..

Before Hun and I started to seriously, and formaly "chat" about marriage, I actually haven't given much thoughts about what my wedding gown should look like. The pressure of obtaining approval from both of our parents was so overwhelming that I simply couldn't spare any time or energy on the details. It wasn't until I felt my parents have tacitly accepted our plan that I started to browse online for wedding ideas, and one day I accidentally came across this wedding gown in a post on verywed:

I can't quite remember my very first thought about this dress, but it must have been something like "oh my god this is so pretty!". After I googled a bit I discovered that this is probably the most popular dress in the "White by Vera Wang" collection, a bridal line exclusively designed for David's bridal by Vera Wang. 

I first heard about Vera Wang through the movie "Bride War". Kate Hudson wore a sweetheart neckline ball gown for her wedding, an absolutely gorgeous dress, a classic Vera Wang aesthetic! 

But how the brand "Vera Wang" really made an impression on me was this hiliarious part of the movie when Kate Hudson bawled and cried because she finally realized all those chocolates and candies she has been snacking on during work made it impossible for her to zip up her dress. Her fiance tried to comfort her and told her that they can always get a tailor to alter the dress. Kate Hudson responded madly with a statement:

"You don't alter Vera! You alter yourself to fit Vera! Geez, what did boys learn in school"

每天在溫哥華無所事事等著回台灣的我

對於婚禮的許多事情都只能憑空想像, 無法實際去行動

漸漸的, 我陷入了恐慌

深怕自己什麼都做不好

我這位可怕的perfectionist with severe obsessive compulsive disorder的理念是

既然要做, 那就要做好

婚禮如果因為我沒有好好計畫而變成一團遭

我應該會有一整年的低潮期吧!!

這些壓力讓我開始羨幕著別人可以有婚顧搞定一切

只需要對單一的窗口開出自己要的項目

1st place: Light Pink x White Peony

It is and will always be my most desired bouquet, although I'm most likely not going to get this because Oct is just not the right season.

No greens should be showing, should be wrapped with white lace or something...

   this is definitely No. 1 !!!!!! 

 dreamy!

Now that the wedding color has been decided, I can move on and search for wedding invitation design inspirations!

So far I have a few ideas in mind:

1. An invitation "card" - Nice and simple

2. A ribbon across the middle 

3. A phrase at the top of the invitation that illustrates our love

4. Ivory colored paper, blush + charcoal colored writing

5. Both in Chinese and in English

6. Blush color envelop with charcoal sticker (or wax seal?).

Some of the things I want to avoid:

The first and most important thing to decide is definitely the WEDDING COLOR!! It is hard to proceed with the rest without it, ex. decoration, flower, utensils, wedding favours, invitation...etc. Everything should be based on the wedding color combo. Here's something to keep in mind, I gave up my previous desired color palette after I read this from ehow.com: 

No. 1 Principle: Coordinate your wedding colors with the venue rather than fight it. Design your color palette for your wedding using the colors you already have available, even if they are ugly colors...

Even with that said, I still have to complain about the colors of my wedding venue. It's such a nice hotel, but...dark purple x dark red? Not to mention the yellowish backdrop of the stage...

...what's done is done, I'm still going to have to work around purple... 

挑了喜愛的巧克力

綁上鮮紅色的緞帶

訂了客製化的貼紙

寫上你和我的名字

細心的在每一個禮盒

貼上屬於我們的喜悅

7年了

我即將要從你的女友

變成你的未婚妻