Honeymoon Plans

We plan to take our honeymoon in Paris and Italy. We booked the flight for the day right after the wedding. And, we've also booked the hotel in Paris for the first 3 nights. Des Academies et des Arts is the name of the hotel and after we've researched for many hotels in Paris, this one looks the best and the price is also reasonable. Also, it's good pretty good reviews on both Trip Advisor and Yahoo Travel.

Here are some photos of the hotel.

I think it's important to invest a little for the first 3 nights on our honeymoon. It will give us a chance to relax and wind down and enjoy each other's company after so many months of stressful wedding planning and kitchen reno.

Super-quick color fix in Photoshop

This is the most recent photoshop tip I learned.

Wedding shooters, if you need pleasing color that isn't too sterile or perfectly balanced, open your image and duplicate the Background layer. Open the Levels dialog, click on the middle (gray) eyedropper icon, and click a lighter part of the gown. The process overcorrects the color, but that's no problem: We have the equal-but-opposite colors in the underlying image. Reduce the Opacity until the color is pleasing for the bride.

Keynote is so cool

Q and I are working on our growing up MV that we want to play at our wedding reception. Keynote is way cooler than powerpoint. After doing some research online, most people use Power Director or Ulead for making simple music slideshows. They are both PC software that can't be used on Mac. We also found Final Cut, but it seems quite complicated. Finally, we both tried Keynote and we found it quite simple to use and flexible to customize each slide to make it more interesting. Hopefully, we will be able to finish this in time.

Wedding Cake ordered

Finally, we decided on this cake. It looks pretty funky and cute. I like it because it's blue!

DIY Wedding Things 婚禮小物

I just realized that I've never posted the DIY things we made for our engagement luncheon. Here they are. Q and I both had a lot of fun spending one afternoon making these things.

1. Two Bear Candy Plates


2. Two Bear Signing Pens


3. Six Bear Thank You Clips


4. One DIY 4x6 Photo Frame