Happy D.I.Y Pelamin : Before & After

It's been almost three months but I have not done blogging about my brother’s wedding. Read earlier posts here and here. This entry will be a short one, of our very own D.I.Y pelamin. Spending thousands of RM on a pelamin would cause a serious damage to our budget. So we commissioned a local carpenter to build us a base for the pelamin and later did the decoration ourselves. 

Metres of cloth and fabric are from my mom's collection. The same chair & mini stage were used at my wedding & my sister's. We bought only three things for this pelamin. One is the glass lantern, and the other two, were bought at a shop selling bakery supplies. Any guess?

 

They are, the shining gold doily paper and the mini crown on top of the pelamin. It's made out of round gold mini cake cardboard, commonly used as base for mini cakes.

Something Old

Set merenjis

Something New

Glass lantern

Something Borrowed

Tapak pahar

Something Blue

Bunga telur

Happy D.I.Y Hall : Before & After

Previous entries on this wedding reception are posted here and here.

We started off preparing the hall two weeks prior the reception. My father and I checked out the hall, accompanying us was Pak Din, the carpenter we had hired to build the pelamin. Six years ago he built my pelamin and my sister's three years later. We were very fortunate to have the hall newly painted by the Majlis Daerah Rompin and the colours matched the wedding theme perfectly.

Majlis Daerah Rompin gave us the green light to begin work two days before the big day. The family, cousins, aunts, uncles all gathered together and with full force, started off by arranging all the tables & chairs. Pak Din came and had the pelamin assembled & erected early so I could begin work on the decorations. Yup, that's me laboring over the doily papers for the pelamin. All the table top covers, clothes for the scallops & table skirting are my mother's. Yes, the banquet chair covers & the ribbon sets too. She has a stockpile of them, which she had earlier bought for my wedding and my sister's.

We had the hall all to ourselves so we placed some mats on the floor, we had picnic, and we even brought some pillows. My sister and I brought our kids along and the hall provided a very spacious area for them to run around and boy, they had a ball!

On the eve of the big day, the caterer came to set up the tables with plates, drinking glasses and such. We installed some light bulbs for the pelamin, placed the telur rebus on all four bunga telur stands, did a sound check, did the bunga manggar and many more of teeny meeny touching-ups.

17th July came and feeling a bit discontented with the table top settings done by the caterer the night before, we spent the last few hours before the event to finish off the pelamin, the main tables and the VIP’s. We took a few rounds inspecting the hall, lit some candles and headed home to get ready.

Finally, after working vigorously for two days and nights, everything is all set and ready to receive the guests.

Postings on pelamin and door gifts are to follow soon.

The hectic week.

A week! That was exactly how much time we had to pull things together for an engagement function. On a Friday, I was informed by a dear friend, a colleague of hers was getting engaged in the next seven days.

There were wedding favors, souvenirs for VIP guests, 9 trays of hantaran, centerpieces for VIP tables and a hundred other things on the to-do list.

The good news is we managed to get everything done, as perfectly as possible, just in time before the event. It was an excellent teamwork effort and I'd like to think that my teammate and I are a perfect match. Thanks dear!

Beg Mengkuang II

Tahniah kepada bakal pengantin baru, Iyda & Khairul

Mini mengkuang bag.

Available in other common colours.

Gift personal shopper.

If there is such a term, that's what we have been up to. Based on a request from friend of ours, Lyda, we scouted around for the best materials and came up with these suggestions.

Introducing : Paper boxes

Tired of the same paper bags ideas?

Our paper boxes are here. We have more than 20 available templates. These paper boxes are great because they are friendly to the pockets. Furthermore, we can tweak and change the templates, colours, fonts and such, to meet your request. Minimum order quantity is 500pcs.

Talk to us and we will suggest what works best for you.

Here are some of samples.

Heart truffle box.

Purse box.

Stationery box

Bon bon box.

Triangular box.

Flaptop box.

Gable box.

Half scale box.