paris fashion week

just perused through the spring ready-to-wear from paris fashion week.

i must say i'm pretty disappointed in the offerings. nothing pretty ala spring. even marc jacobs didn't whet my appetite. the spring collections are usually my favourite. free, floaty and flirty, in all manner of girly colours. oh well. will wait for NY fashion week then.

pretty pretty dresses from some of the collections:

Ad and I had an informal meeting with a group of our close friends who will be helping us with our wedding. Our wedding committee. Waaahh… I have a committee! Our treasured friends.. needless to say we ended up spending more time chatting and eating rather than brainstorming proper. But thanks to Ad’s zealousness in planning everything to its minute detail, I think handing over the remaining plans to WW and Ade will be ok. At least we won’t have to stress up before the big day, knowing everything is in capable, loving hands.

I’m so grateful for them. Mostly for their moral support and assurances. I haven’t experienced any bridal jitters yet. Nor have I suffered sleepless nights worrying whether everything will go according to plan. Actually, most of it is because Ad is wonderfully capable.. not to mention he is gifted with a very high stress threshold! Unlike yours truly.

Anyway…I think everyone is looking forward to a new project, if I can be so presumptuous to assume that! Thank God for such dependable friends.

Will be going to Petaling St. with Ad this Sat to buy stuff. Urgh… not really looking fwd to traipsing ard there. I’m glad I’m not going alone. And I seriously need to get material for my veil. My mom has stripped her wardrobe bare a couple of times, trying to find her own veil for me to use. ‘*sob* she can’t find it! Darn.. and I thought we could start a nice family tradition by passing down the veil. Oh well.

Cards and wedding programs are not printed yet. Hopefully will be ready in one weeks’ time. I’m getting help from the cell to write the names and do some girly thing to the envelopes / programs. Gee, really hope it’s ready in time.

Oh dear.. forgot about the extra ‘embellishments’ that I’m supposed to complete for one of my dresses. Bleh. Laziness consumes me.

wedding dresses

i was checking out a few dresses before i made up my mind on the cut i wanted. boy.. did i have info overload! strange enough, lots of the dresses advertised in foreign bridal magazines looked really gaudy and overdone to me. i thought big, billowy skirts with the lace factory were out in 1880? haha. at least the ones i found thru the internet were much better. it's so difficult to surf and find the right site! there are LOADS of links and whatnot that just confused the jitters INTO me! in the end i gave up and just went straight for a couple of well known designers' sites. hello vera wang...

sadly tho, i didn't feel like any of her designs (tho they're pretty amazing) would suit my petite frame. sigh... sucks not to be a giraffe. these were some of the ones i liked:

food tasting

so we just had another excuse to pig out haha.

not surprisingly, the portions were extra large, the food passed our extra critical standards. however, i didn't quite warm up to the new 'wedding organiser' person at sheraton subang. she replaces our original one, who has quit in this ever demanding and competitive arena of wedding planning. this new girl, young and naive looking is so unbending and as straight as a ruler. she shld have been an accountant or something, not someone involved in marketing!

all the extra icing on the cake promised to us by the previous person seemed to have garnered raised eyebrows and dubious looks from this new one. she adamantly follows what's in her rule book and flexibility is a no-no to her. bleh... what a bore. at last the other person was fun and helpful, always assuring us that she'll do everything she can to fulfil our requirements.

and i don't think this new girl can take criticism well at all! hahaha.. like when we commented on the lack of fins in the sharks' fin soup! and when i asked her whether we could have the prawns peeled vs the rather unpopular unshelled ones. heh. never thought the reason was so that the dish would look more 'generous'! apparently, peeled prawns look smaller when served (therefore they may have to add in a few more to pad up the dish! - ooo guess this'll really stretch their already 'small' margins?)

one tip tho - if you find the requisite ice sculptures as ridiculous as i do, trade it in for an extra free night stay at the hotel! definitely beats walking out of the recepion after dinner to see your love-swans sitting there in a pool of water sans their heads!