Aunt Cynthia, Sumei, Juo, Aunt Paulina, Christie, Jason, Dad, Yuan, the photographer and videographer all showed up shortly after 10am. I had a lot of help with putting on my wedding dress. Thanks to Vicky, Annie and Aunt Paulina! Everyone loved my dress, tiara, necklace, veil and bridesmaids' dresses!! They were all amazed at how I found these quality items at such low costs.
As for our wedding cake, we were originally opting for cupcakes because normally western wedding cakes costed from $5 to $15 per slice. And cupcakes were about $2.50 each. However, we found out out that there were hidden costs like renting the cupcake stand, taxes and delivery charge. It added up to be also about $4 per cupcake. Therefore, we decided to go with this cute cake from St. Germain and it costed $420 including taxes and delivery. We received a lot of compliments from our guests and were really satisfied with how the cake turned out.
Flowers also turned out nicely. We spent a little less than $800 on the flower package which included 1 bridal bouquet, 2 bridesmaid bouquets, 10 boutonnieres, 2 pillar flower arrangements, 2 small head table arrangements and 30 gerbera daisies. The bouquets turned out a little smaller than what I expected, but the 2 pillar flower arrangements were really nice. The 2 small head table arrangements didn't last to the reception, so it was kinda a waste. We also received a lot of compliments from the guests about our centerpiece idea. With the water pearls and LED light in a square vase tied up with blue ribbons, they created good atmosphere and tied in with the blue theme colour. I just wished the photographer took more photos of the glowing centerpieces at the reception.
For the greeting table, I've put in a lot of effort into decorations. I've made 7 bears holding English letters spelling out "WELCOME". Also, 6 more bears holding the wedding photo thank you cards for guests to take for souvenir. The most difficult part was the Ferrero Roche chocolate tree and bouquet. It took some skill to put them together and thankfully it didn't get ruined during transport. My brother had done a tremendous job on our wedding day. He managed to moved everything from our house to the venues, kept the vendors on-time and even took care of Yuan as a ring bear. We were very very impressed with how much he helped out and pulled everything together for us on that day.
The one and only hiccup we had was that the videographer didn't show up at the reception. Apparently, he was only aware of the tea ceremony and the wedding ceremony at QE park. Since he's one of Mom's friend and we never really paid for the service, I didn't really have a right to order him around to get what I wanted. It was really unfortunate, but I really can't complain for a service that I didn't pay for. Hopefully, we will be able to get the ceremony part of the video from him and retrieve some pieces from other guests for the reception part.
If you are interested to see more wedding photos, you can check them out HERE.
