A few more finalizations

We have got a few more things finalized this week.  Yes I mean wedding related things, what else could they be? 

1.  We finally decided on our wedding favours, it would be something from Croatia.  Bear did a bit of research and found something we both like.  We both feel this gift is more exciting compared to my original idea of chopsticks with guest's name engraved on.  I hope our guests will like the little gift as much as we do.  We will have Kike order the gifts for us in July when we get an exact head count.

2.  We got Bear's suit last weekend.  He also bought a nice black belt, tie clip, and cufflinks.  I really like those cufflinks, it has a bit of purple to match our theme colour.  And of course, we bought two ties (one for Donald) and a shirt.  I didn't like the tie when I compared the colour with the maid of honour dress.  So we will have to return them and find something else.

3.  We finalized the design of the Chinese side of the invitation.  It's unbelievable how much time we ended up spending on it.  I am so glad we didn't do it from scratch.  We are still working on printing everything out (invite, RSVP card, map, return envelope, and outer envelope).  Proper ettiquet is to address the evelope by a calligrapher or directly printing on it.  People do use labels these days, but bear and I both decided labels are just not right for us, and since we have no budget for a calligrapher, so printing it is.  Bear is going to use Crystal Report to prepare it, hopefully it will save us a bit of work.  For people who live in greater Vancouver area, we decided to hand deliver the invitation to them if we have enough time.

4.  I decided that I want a full gathered style veil instead of centered gathered, so I need to get it altered.  I thought I didn't care before, so when I explain to the seller in China and realized that they didn't understand the difference, I just gave up and told them to do what they usually do.  Last week, I tried to hold it with my hand to make it a full gathered style and I tought it just looked much much better.  So I decided to ask my seamstress if she can alter that for me.  http://www.theweddingveilshop.co.uk/id363.html  This site explain very clearly how they are different.  I was a bit confused at beginning, but it was very obvious if you had a veil right in front of you.

That's the update for this week.  And this weekend no wedding planning!!!  We are going camping :)