Wishing all my dearest family and friends to have a good healthy year ahead!
Saturday, January 01, 2011
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Fairytale Wedding Portraits as seen in EAD
Thanks Elizabeth Anne Designs for sharing these beautiful wedding portraits in the blog! Do stop by EAD for the full post!
Photo by: Marie Labbancz Photography
Is 2011 going to be a big year for you?
Yours Moment hereby wishing you happy counting down to year 2011! Hope you have a great year ahead!
Photo by: Marie Labbancz Photography
Is 2011 going to be a big year for you?
Yours Moment hereby wishing you happy counting down to year 2011! Hope you have a great year ahead!
Stunning Bridal Portrait as seen in EAD!
I went through some real wedding pictures on Elizabeth Anne Designs the other day and I would like to share these beautiful portraits of the blushing brides with you while we are counting down to the new year day (two more days till 01.01.2011)!
Stay tune for the fairytale-like wedding (newlywed) portrait I have seen in Elizabeth Anne Designs coming up next (I love the entire wedding feel so much - one word - beautiful)!
Lastly, I would like to thank EAD for sharing these lovely pictures in the blog! Love stopping by your blog everyday.
Stay tune for the fairytale-like wedding (newlywed) portrait I have seen in Elizabeth Anne Designs coming up next (I love the entire wedding feel so much - one word - beautiful)!
Lastly, I would like to thank EAD for sharing these lovely pictures in the blog! Love stopping by your blog everyday.
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Counting down to 2011 - 3 more days to 01.01.2011
2010 is a great year for me!
1. Married to my wonderful husband and moved to Iowa
2. Worked with my friend to develop Yours Moment website
(not in full force yet as I am still waiting for a software to come)
3. Traveled to West Coast with my girlfriends
4. Visited my family and friends back home in Malaysia
5. Assisted my sister with the preparations for her wedding in November.
Let's review the list!
I was thrilled when my hubby asked if I would like to spend the rest of my life with him (with the lovely hand-painted banner!). Sure I am! We would like to thank all our family and friends who helped us to celebrate the meaningful moment of our life. 01.01.2011 is coming up! Cheers to our first anniversary on the new year day!
Was it hard to say bye to NYC? (A place where many people have been dreaming to visit/live!) Well, it was not too hard in terms of leaving the single lonely nights in NYC. BUT it was hard to leave my wonderful friends, family, and colleagues. They were the greatest companion during all my lonely nights in NY. We celebrated the holiday season together, tried out new restaurants around the city, and even the grocery shopping with my girlfriends was fun! Thank you my lovely NY folks!
Next up was to planning a all-girls getaway! Air tickets - booked; hotel - booked; car - checked; map - ready; and we ready to have fun. That was my first all-girls vacation and it was fun. We had so much fun together. Thanks Eva, Kay, and Julie for joining the West Coast trip! I miss you all. Hope you have a great holiday!
Visiting Malaysia is ALWAYS a big deal! Who doesn't like to spend more time with their dearest family? There is no exception for me either. I miss my family and glad to be able to spend three months holidays with them. I would like to thank everyone who made an effort to visit or just hang out with me. Mom, I just miss your home cook food so much! Yes, I am learning and trying to prepare sumptuous homemade meals for my family. Thanks for sharing your recipes! I will be back in year 2012 (hopefully another long vacation for both my husband and I)!
Last but not least is to helping my sister to get ready with her traditional Chinese wedding. Oh my...by looking at the to-do list, there were just enormous amount of things to do and there were many customs for a traditional Chinese wedding (hopefully we get to hold a modern Chinese wedding with less customs when it is our turn in year 2012)! Despite tremendous amount of things to complete before the wedding, our goal was to have wonderful time with our long-time-no-see relatives and friends. We hope that everyone enjoyed the party and had fun chit-chat with each other!
Photo belongs to Author own collection.
1. Married to my wonderful husband and moved to Iowa
2. Worked with my friend to develop Yours Moment website
(not in full force yet as I am still waiting for a software to come)
3. Traveled to West Coast with my girlfriends
4. Visited my family and friends back home in Malaysia
5. Assisted my sister with the preparations for her wedding in November.
Let's review the list!
I was thrilled when my hubby asked if I would like to spend the rest of my life with him (with the lovely hand-painted banner!). Sure I am! We would like to thank all our family and friends who helped us to celebrate the meaningful moment of our life. 01.01.2011 is coming up! Cheers to our first anniversary on the new year day!
Was it hard to say bye to NYC? (A place where many people have been dreaming to visit/live!) Well, it was not too hard in terms of leaving the single lonely nights in NYC. BUT it was hard to leave my wonderful friends, family, and colleagues. They were the greatest companion during all my lonely nights in NY. We celebrated the holiday season together, tried out new restaurants around the city, and even the grocery shopping with my girlfriends was fun! Thank you my lovely NY folks!
Next up was to planning a all-girls getaway! Air tickets - booked; hotel - booked; car - checked; map - ready; and we ready to have fun. That was my first all-girls vacation and it was fun. We had so much fun together. Thanks Eva, Kay, and Julie for joining the West Coast trip! I miss you all. Hope you have a great holiday!
Visiting Malaysia is ALWAYS a big deal! Who doesn't like to spend more time with their dearest family? There is no exception for me either. I miss my family and glad to be able to spend three months holidays with them. I would like to thank everyone who made an effort to visit or just hang out with me. Mom, I just miss your home cook food so much! Yes, I am learning and trying to prepare sumptuous homemade meals for my family. Thanks for sharing your recipes! I will be back in year 2012 (hopefully another long vacation for both my husband and I)!
Last but not least is to helping my sister to get ready with her traditional Chinese wedding. Oh my...by looking at the to-do list, there were just enormous amount of things to do and there were many customs for a traditional Chinese wedding (hopefully we get to hold a modern Chinese wedding with less customs when it is our turn in year 2012)! Despite tremendous amount of things to complete before the wedding, our goal was to have wonderful time with our long-time-no-see relatives and friends. We hope that everyone enjoyed the party and had fun chit-chat with each other!
Let's CHEERS for year 2010!
Photo belongs to Author own collection.Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Last Minute & Yet A Lovely Christmas Present
In a blink of an eye, Christmas is just four days away! For those who are running out of time to do Christmas shopping for your aunts who love cooking, I came across this food gifts in a jar idea (via At Home with Kim Vallee) that you might be interested to making one!
Instead of baking cookies for your family and friends for the holidays, why not sharing your delicious cookies recipes with them and let them enjoy the baking process themselves? It is a simple and yet thoughtful Christmas gift for the foodies. Also, I personally think it is a creative way of sharing your favorite recipes (in a jar) with family and friends. Furthermore, you may customize the gift to accommodate each gift receiver's favorite recipe!
Preparing these edible gifts in a jar is not a daunting task at all (you may assign this task to your young children and guide them through). In fact, it can be done in simple, quick and easy three steps of preparation. Firstly, you will need to get the recipe (or you already have one in mind). Secondly, you will need to buy the ingredients, jar and decorative items (such as paper goods and ribbons). Then, layer each ingredients inside the jar and seal it with love! Voila, you have got lovely homemade Christmas gifts for your loved ones!
Are you preparing your Christmas gifts in jar too?
Photo Credits:
1. Cake mix from Food Network
2. Muffin mix from Kracoustics.com
3. Cookies mix from DailyMe
4. Spiced hot drink mix from The Yummy Life
5. Hot cocoa from Emma's Paperie
6. Hot Chocolate from Paper & Cake
Instead of baking cookies for your family and friends for the holidays, why not sharing your delicious cookies recipes with them and let them enjoy the baking process themselves? It is a simple and yet thoughtful Christmas gift for the foodies. Also, I personally think it is a creative way of sharing your favorite recipes (in a jar) with family and friends. Furthermore, you may customize the gift to accommodate each gift receiver's favorite recipe!
Preparing these edible gifts in a jar is not a daunting task at all (you may assign this task to your young children and guide them through). In fact, it can be done in simple, quick and easy three steps of preparation. Firstly, you will need to get the recipe (or you already have one in mind). Secondly, you will need to buy the ingredients, jar and decorative items (such as paper goods and ribbons). Then, layer each ingredients inside the jar and seal it with love! Voila, you have got lovely homemade Christmas gifts for your loved ones!
Are you preparing your Christmas gifts in jar too?
Photo Credits:
1. Cake mix from Food Network
2. Muffin mix from Kracoustics.com
3. Cookies mix from DailyMe
4. Spiced hot drink mix from The Yummy Life
5. Hot cocoa from Emma's Paperie
6. Hot Chocolate from Paper & Cake
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Creative iPhone Save The Date!
I bet many of you have seen a Wedding Save-The-Date Card. There are post card style, portrait (photo) style, on calendar, on the magnet, and etc. But have you seen something more than printed words and portrait of the bride- and groom-to-be holding the date on the save-the-date card? I am dying to see some creativity from the couples or photographers!
Save-The-Date Magnet via Wedding Paper Divas
Save-The-Date Photo Card via Wedding Paper DivasSo when I first saw the Save-The-Date on this iPhone via Ruffled blog, my heart screamed for GREAT IMAGINATION! This photo was taken by A Simple Photo. Not much styling needed to get done, just the phone feature and (of course!) THE ring! You have it all - a creative way to inform your family and friends about the date you are getting married to the man you cherish!
Image Credits:
Save the date card via The Knot
Thursday, December 09, 2010
Uniquely Beautiful Ring
Hello people!
I have got a beautiful ring to share with my dear readers today.
Ta-da!
Despite rows of diamonds criss-crossing each other, the center stone still stand out brilliantly. The meaning of a guy presenting this ring to his sweetheart becomes so special. For him, his girl is the unique one in the world; and she outshines the rest and stand an important role in the guy's heart. How sweet!
How about you? Do you have a special proposal story to share?
Photo Credit:
Criss-cross Diamond Engagement Ring from Kaboodle.com
I have got a beautiful ring to share with my dear readers today.
Ta-da!
Despite rows of diamonds criss-crossing each other, the center stone still stand out brilliantly. The meaning of a guy presenting this ring to his sweetheart becomes so special. For him, his girl is the unique one in the world; and she outshines the rest and stand an important role in the guy's heart. How sweet!How about you? Do you have a special proposal story to share?
Photo Credit:
Criss-cross Diamond Engagement Ring from Kaboodle.com
Monday, October 11, 2010
How many dresses do you have for your wedding?
How about 3 dresses? It is not unusual for Malaysian Chinese brides to have more than 2 dresses for their wedding. You might say it sounds like a fashion show; but it is true for the bride.
The idea of owning a gown is yet not so popular in Malaysia. Unlike brides in US where they buy wedding gowns for their weddings; Malaysian Chinese brides usually rent their wedding dresses from bridal studios. The bride traditionally wear three wedding dresses. The common set comes with a white wedding gown, a cheongsam/qipao (祺袍) or kwa (traditional heavily embroidered formal red wedding gown popular in Southern China), and an evening gown (bride's going away dress).
When does the bride wear a wedding gown, a cheongsam, and an evening gown?
Traditionally, the white wedding gown with veil is worn during the wedding ceremony. The second dress, a traditional Chinese wedding dress, to be worn at the wedding banquet. And lastly, the bride will change to an evening gown (also known as the bride's going away dress) before the bride leaves the banquet.
Nowadays, the bride will wear her white wedding gown for morning wedding ceremony (出门). She will then change to a cheongsam or kua for tea ceremony (敬茶). And lastly, she will have all three dresses for wedding banquet/reception. Wedding gown for opening, evening gown during the banquet, and cheongsam at the end of the banquet.
How about you? Are you having at least three dresses for your wedding?
Photo Credits:
1. Traditional Kwa from Elegant Event Design
2. Cheongsam from Datang Wedding Dress Co.
3. White wedding dress from That Special Occasion
4. Purple evening dress from Dress Feeling
The idea of owning a gown is yet not so popular in Malaysia. Unlike brides in US where they buy wedding gowns for their weddings; Malaysian Chinese brides usually rent their wedding dresses from bridal studios. The bride traditionally wear three wedding dresses. The common set comes with a white wedding gown, a cheongsam/qipao (祺袍) or kwa (traditional heavily embroidered formal red wedding gown popular in Southern China), and an evening gown (bride's going away dress).
When does the bride wear a wedding gown, a cheongsam, and an evening gown?
Traditionally, the white wedding gown with veil is worn during the wedding ceremony. The second dress, a traditional Chinese wedding dress, to be worn at the wedding banquet. And lastly, the bride will change to an evening gown (also known as the bride's going away dress) before the bride leaves the banquet.
Nowadays, the bride will wear her white wedding gown for morning wedding ceremony (出门). She will then change to a cheongsam or kua for tea ceremony (敬茶). And lastly, she will have all three dresses for wedding banquet/reception. Wedding gown for opening, evening gown during the banquet, and cheongsam at the end of the banquet.
How about you? Are you having at least three dresses for your wedding?
Photo Credits:
1. Traditional Kwa from Elegant Event Design
2. Cheongsam from Datang Wedding Dress Co.
3. White wedding dress from That Special Occasion
4. Purple evening dress from Dress Feeling
Sunday, October 03, 2010
Wedding Gowns - What's the difference between Malaysia & U.S.?
Congratulations to all happily engaged ladies!
Your dream to be a one-day-Cinderella will be coming true soon. Aren't you excited?
To create your Cinderella dream, nothing more excited than trying all the gowns your wedding vendor or bridal studios has to offer.
In U.S., almost 99% of the brides will start looking for brand new wedding gowns for their weddings as soon as the first day they got engaged (oh...some brides-to-be even look into their potential wedding gowns way before they got engaged). Many of them will go after their favorite designers too! It has been the tradition for many centuries in the U.S.
However, the idea of buying a brand new gown for Malaysian Chinese brides is considered as new. In old times, many mothers actually made the gowns for their daughters as wedding gifts (or part of Jia Zhuang 嫁妆). Then the trend evolved to renting a wedding gown from bridal studio. The bridal studio offers one-stop services to couples who are preparing for their weddings, such as wedding attires, makeup services, pre-wedding and actual wedding photo shoots, and bridal bouquets. As time goes by, younger generations starting to look for customized services and uniqueness. And hence, some modern brides are leaning toward designer gowns.
Despite the newest trend, still majority of the modern brides sign up with bridal studios who will take care of everything - less hectic and convenient for both couples who work full time.
Are you the bride who is leaning towards gown specialist or one-stop services provided by bridal studio?
Photo Credits:
Gowns by Pretty In White
Your dream to be a one-day-Cinderella will be coming true soon. Aren't you excited?
To create your Cinderella dream, nothing more excited than trying all the gowns your wedding vendor or bridal studios has to offer.
In U.S., almost 99% of the brides will start looking for brand new wedding gowns for their weddings as soon as the first day they got engaged (oh...some brides-to-be even look into their potential wedding gowns way before they got engaged). Many of them will go after their favorite designers too! It has been the tradition for many centuries in the U.S.
However, the idea of buying a brand new gown for Malaysian Chinese brides is considered as new. In old times, many mothers actually made the gowns for their daughters as wedding gifts (or part of Jia Zhuang 嫁妆). Then the trend evolved to renting a wedding gown from bridal studio. The bridal studio offers one-stop services to couples who are preparing for their weddings, such as wedding attires, makeup services, pre-wedding and actual wedding photo shoots, and bridal bouquets. As time goes by, younger generations starting to look for customized services and uniqueness. And hence, some modern brides are leaning toward designer gowns.
Despite the newest trend, still majority of the modern brides sign up with bridal studios who will take care of everything - less hectic and convenient for both couples who work full time.
Are you the bride who is leaning towards gown specialist or one-stop services provided by bridal studio?
Photo Credits:
Gowns by Pretty In White
Saturday, October 02, 2010
Have been gone for the whole summer...I am finally back again to continue blogging more about wedding planning. Rather than typical American weddings, you will see more postings about Malaysian weddings here in Yours Moment.
Always feel good to be home. I totally agree!
Despite traveled many thousands miles from foreign country back to my home country - Malaysia, the moment seeing my family is worthwhile.
See you in my next posting!
Happy Weekend!
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