Wedding

The happiness of our wedding day, on April 2, 2011 is still lingering on my memory. It always brought a smile to my face.It started early, the sky was still dark when Bill drove me to Seni's house to get my make up done, while he slept on the room next door.

The make up was perfect, Seni's talented hand applied all the essentials so the make up will stay for the whole day. It was soft, but with color. It was colorful, but not over the top. She did a great job on the eye. Few pallets she used to mix the color did show a good result, and the false eyelashes makes it perfect. I thank her for this, and did I mentioned that she trimmed my eyebrows and shaped it so it really fits my face ? I still continue her work of art until today.

The preparation of the wedding went all the way back to last November, when Bill and I started to look for a place to have the wedding. We both are in school, and pretty much busy with homework and study almost all the time. We want the wedding to be as simple as possible, yet memorable.

We looked into some places nearby our house, we browsed for some other possible places. Some are too big, some are too small, some are too costly. Until we find Skanzonia, an old docked boat in Lake Union. It was perfect setting for our wedding. It was on the lake, it is docked so no one will get sea sick, the view was facing Seattle's space needle, and it's only 15 minutes away from our house. To make it more perfect, they have their own caterers, which bring us less trouble to find a good caterer. Yay! No hassle to find a caterer and deal with them.

Beautiful view from the boat.

The DIY invitation are bought from an artsy-crafty store near our house. We print out the desired texts on the paper provided, and sticks all part together, put our pictures in, print out people's address, stick them all together, and send it from the post office.Simple and nice.

Clothes we wear on the ceremony

The dress for wedding ceremony in Holy Family Church is Kebaya. I got it made back in last June, by my neighbour in Indonesia. I just want it to be white, and with color, and pretty. The shoes that were wore with kebaya are made in a shoe shop in Indonesia for $30. Comfortable and pretty.

Bill's suit for both ceremony and reception was made in Shanghai, and he wore them for my brother's wedding back in 2009. Batik ties is purchased when he came over in the same year.

Reception dress I got from Etsy and the boots 

The dress for the reception was a vintage boat neck dress I got from Etsy. When my mom came, she put some beads on it, and makes it even prettier. The bow are made by me (with my mom's help). The cowboy boots accompany the dress was from back in October 2010, when I fell in love with cowboy boots for the first time. The decision to wear boots was the best decision I made. It was so comfortable, I was able to enjoy the party without any pain on my feet, without being barefooted.

Wedding bouquet and wrist corsages

As for the flowers, I was talking to my Maid of Honor, Michelle, that I am looking for a place to find a cheap flowers. And she offered to do my flowers. It will be cheaper of course, as she don't want to get paid to do it. I told her our budget for flowers, and what kind of flowers I wanted, and she made it ALL came true. I love tiger lilies (some called it Oriental lilies), and the arrangement should be simple. The hand bouquet should be just stems of lilies, tied by ribbon. Flowers for the table can be any kind in assorted colors. The vase should be just simple, and can be in all different shapes. She do extra effort to go all the way to Ikea in Renton to get beer mugs as the vase, tied it with fuschia and pink ribbon, and for the flowers, she got me another tiger lilies ! My favourite! And the good thing is no flowers got wasted. We encouraged our guests to bring home a vase of flowers with them.

We have fabulous Naomi as our photographer. She is a friend of Bill's, she is eager to do wedding photo shot, and we truly trust her.We bought a briefly used, and higher level Canon DSLR camera, and some nice lenses, and we give it for her to practice, two weeks before the wedding. Things goes both ways, she practiced hard with our camera, and we're not being demanding, and the pictures are gorgeous.We are fully satisfied, and now we have nice camera and lenses as a result.

Flower and table runner

The batik table runner for the dining table are made by my mom. Some Indonesian culture.

Sign in here !

My dad brought some colorful wayang bookmarks for our guests to bring home, they are from Jogjakarta. Another Indonesian culture, not to forget that it is useful.Guest book was a black moleskin book bought in a bookstore. We stick pictures on it, and my mom did some writings on it. The big photo album was made by me in 2007, as our 1st anniversary presents for Bill.

Coconut cream cake - amazing cake topper

The cake was from Metropolitan Market. White and delicious coconut cream cake, and the fabulous cake topper is a wedding gift from my cousin, Monique. Perfect.

Fun time

The combination of our desire of a simple and beautiful wedding, surrounded by helpful and talented people around us, and our good attitude about everything definitely erase the words stress from the preparation process.

We enjoy the reception on the boat, keep moving around to greet family and friends, enjoying delicious food, and companion. We danced, we laughed, we had fun.

A wedding is only one day, Marriage is a LIFE TIME.