Fawwaz Amsyar's Cukur Jambul

After a long hiatus of event planning (oh even planning gathering for reunions are not enuf to satisfy me!) finally got to do some d-i-y projects for my baby boy's Cukur Jambul event.

I chose for the theme colour to be BLUE, simply because mama had already bought a baby rocker for fawwaz (it was a surprise prezzie for us, she bought it while we were still at the hospital) that was blue and white, so we just went with that. And it was a very BIRU event.

Having a themed colour event is quite easy. U don't have to try that hard to make it happen. Its all in the details. My bestfriend pojan offered to design for me, so I asked her to make an A3 sized poster and lettering's for the backdrop garland. She made them & emailed to me so that I could print out and cut them (only sacrifice is of course have to be a bit more diligent & stay up the night before -_-)


We set up one arabian style tent infront of my parents house & of coz scallops & tablecloths were light blue :)

familiar centerpieces? yeah ulang idea masa wedding reception, just re-used stuff that was still in my d-i-y wedding box. As it was a small event, not many tables so I just printed out 5 pics of baby fawwaz and on the back printed out a larger version of the TQ tags (which I downloaded free online). Then I just edited & added on some text, wallah, customized :)

our event was on 12 May 2012, mama chose the date since fawwaz was already 42days & also my bro & hubby were flying from sabah. coincidently that date also marked the first year of the passing of my beloved grandmother, so on top of majlis kesyukuran, we also had a tahlil & yassin for my late grandparents. It started at 11am with mostly family members.

Mama specifically called male marhaban persons coz it was how her family always did it. Bacaan doa dari father-figures katanya. So hubby carried fawwaz and the guests & family members cut some of his hair off (memang aku xreti bercerita kan).

then it was family photo session in front of our d-i-y backdrop. mama & lil sis wna went to nagoya to buy the fabrics (i was in confinement remember) but of coz she had to send me dozens of mms's to get my approval hehe, they also went to Jalan TAR to buy the boxes for our door gifts, love them so much! balloons were a last minute buy that I grabbed from popular when we went out buying A3 boards & paper for the posters. My uncle sewed our fabrics together foc ;)

oh, didn't think I wanted to get an outside photgrapher since we were budget tight but after thinking about it so many (many many many!) times I thought 'but we'll never get this moment back again, first kenduri for our child, and I have so many diy stuff that took planning & time' . soooo googled up some photogs and found ummi's blog: theladiesphotographer.com , coz of our non-existant budget (merayu dgn hubby to squeeze it in) I took her shoot & burn package for 2 hours, just enuf time for the cukur jambul event.

jejaka yang diraikan

ummi also took our photo's outdoor's which was cool (outdoors pun seblah laman rumah je hehe). dapat jugak family shots of the 3 of us.

come 12noon our guests started arriving for our makan2 & meet the baby session. We appointed our trusted caterer again (he provided for our nikah & malam berinai) and everything was delish! (pantang? err dah 42 hari dah mase tu haha). He also made the drinks blue (sampai skrg xsure the flavour, but we had fun guessing it! either mixed fruits, laici or air mata kucing?). My aunts & uncles sponsored curry puffs, popiahs & kuih apam (which i pleaded for her to make it in blue & white hee).

ramainyaa orang bergambar dengan fawwaz, he was such a good boy the whole day plus the night before, nangis nak mintak susu je, probably knew people were celebrating him. By this time my photographer was one of wna's best friends Nadia :)

these are some of the group photos!! me & wna decorated the baby rocker using vines of white flowers and tied them together using floral wire (from my diy box), we used the white carpet from my wedding and used props like my 2 teddy bears & floral balls. All recycled!

me & my little angel. i bought my baju a day before the event coz i had totally nothing in blue. So while mum babysitted fawwaz, me & hubby went hunting for baju & stuff for d event. I actually wanted to get a jubah or something that was not fitting but didn't have time to go looking & ended up buying baju kurung modern & was supposed to take out the darts on the back (so it wudnt hug my fat body so much) but in the end forgot coz was too bz wif deco & door gifts. hehe, honestly i looked like a log wif my tummy wrapped in my abdominal binder (xleh pakai bengkung). But all shots without my body were nice :)

these are the door gifts we gave out. the paper bags were for the marhaban'ers. inside were a mini sejadah & chocs. Inside the normal doorgifts were hand-knitted cases (from my aunt) that were filled wif chocs. The cupcakes were sponsored by my lil'bros girlfriend & her mum! baik gila kot! they were adorable choc cuppies wif fawwaz's name on them. She got them from Kupkek Amira.

Alhamdulillah it was a smooth event & our utmost prayers are that little fawwaz amsyar grows up to be a good muslim, happy, successful & healthy, anak yang soleh & cucu yang manja & penyayang :) Amin Ya Rabbal Alamin.

FaizalAzwin : H A N T A R A N S

Just last year i was jotting down details in my hantaran checklist...

We saved quite a lot of money on our hantarans as we bought all raw material for the 16 dulangs sekaligus, I decorated most of the hantarans and lucky me got such a great bestfriend (my one and only SOEDAYDAH) that lent me all her dulangs for FREE plus lent me the lovely flowers and silver & gold boxes from her engagement & wedding :)

from Azwin to Faizal

(brown+pink+cream)

my sireh junjung was composed by my aunt cik ling

(memang wajib cik ling buat-kul 4pagi siap)

the normal boring stuff

uuuuu, im proud of this :) saved up a portion of my personal savings to be able to buy syg this cam-corder. Full HD!! beli kat PC Fair, KLCC in August '10 (yeah so whatever kan? org lain boleh bagi kereta & rumah atas dulang, well utk org yg tak originally kaya it means so much more to be able to buy ur loved ones stuff like this, using cash!)

bodyshop godies, dah siap gubah for both syg & my products, hehe (sengaja suh salesgirl bg bakul yang ikut thema jugak)

the tafsir that we bought at Semua House

sweet plums & chocs in cages

books for hubby

dari dulu-duluuu lagi i have always wanted to give syg books as a hantaran. I love reading & so does he, so wanted to share our interest on our dulangs. Found a lot of good reviews on Ustaz Saiful Islam's books and have also read his blog and rasa sesuaila beli buku ni tuk hubby so he can learn and I can learn together. The books are:

i) 'Aku Terima Nikahnya'

ii) 'Sampai ke Syurga' the second book after 'Aku Terima Nikahnya' and Dr. Gray's famous relationship book

iii) 'Men are from mars, Women are from Venus' and syg punya special request a book on

iv)investment/investing (his new hobby apparently now)

heheh, nothing special about our hantaran cake, just ordinary new york cheesecake from secret recipe :) even one of my aunts had asked 'eh, bday sape ni?' hahah, simple sgt cake smpai dia ingat cake bday je..

well, because most of our budget had gone towards the event at the hall, so we decided to tone down the expenditure on our hantarans. so there you are, no fondant or fancy flowers, i guess the only thing special to me is I bought the cake at a special discounted price thanks to mama's friend who is a branch manager at secret recipe. Got a delicious cake & payed less for it :D 

syg's huge sized ring, batu zirconium

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from Faizal to Azwin

(baby blue+white)

 the beautiful gubahan sireh junjung with gorjes red roses:

 credits to kak fid (syg's cousin)

 my ring holder/cheque holder and mas kahwin
 (in the blue album)

this is the ring holder i rented from former b2b
 zila ziman :) dah tngok gambar dia?
and yes shes really that pretty in real life too

my sulam penuh telekung from bukit tinggi, indon.

 kirim saja dari org buk! mau pegi ngak ada duit. hehe

(my indon sucks, i can speak sabahan a bit tho)

credits to kak fid for this gubahan

weeeeee, my favourite of them alllll, my pink comel zephyred (haih, semua barang aku bernama zephyred) lappy top, my first lappy top ever, (before this pkai pc shj) tq yang! tq yang! tq yang!, kerana bank-in kan duit and mebolehkan aku pilih lappy top aku sendri :D (thanx kak fid for this tooo)

ELLE handbag & polo shoes, huu, tak sempat kumpul duit sampai boleh beli coach sebijik, heee, ala apedehal, kahwin is for a lifetime, u have a lifetime to buy me all those

branded stuff syg ;)

body shop aqua set my favourite smell

syg's side beli cake choc from bakers cottage

9 balas 7 dulang = 16 dulang

materials for deco

(flowers, glue, polistyrene, etc-i still had a lot of my tools)

all cost around RM250

that would mean on average RM16/dulang :)

budget? yes i was such a tight budgeted bride

Eventhough my hantarans & deco are nothing much to flaunt about, but I have this sense of overwhelming satisfaction, becoz even tho simple, tak grand, tak mahal, I did it by myself & that always makes me happy (the feeling of being in-charge, hehe). and decorating it myself saved me alot alot alot of money..

thus, put aside the fact that i didn't get enough sleep 2 weeks before the wedding because I only had time to d-i-y everything late at nite/early in the morning, it was really worth it :)

tapi if ada duit, tempahla kat professionals or ur other family members to do it, lose a bit on the stress and sleep part, hehe

FaizalAzwin : K H E M A H

I can't not blog about my amazingly beautiful FREE khemah, that i proudly used for my nikah ceremony & malam berinai besar. Untuk yang terlepas cerita, i won this pretty canopy and all its loveliness from a contest i had entered after i got engaged in 2009 ;) detailed story HERE , as a promise to my sponsors,

 i hereby blog on the gorgeous prize i won thru a slogan contest :)

 Majalah Nur edisi November 2009

which i bought rite after i got engaged

 tarikan di cover depan :D

there were around 4 or 5 contests, each untuk kategory sendiri, make-up & busana, video & photography, pelamin deco, etc. and to tell the truth i sent in entries for almost all of them, saje nak try my luck

menarik bukan? x terliur untuk a budget bride like me?

time ni dah brangan dah, kalaulah dapat khemah ni,

at least xdela nampak simple sangat nikah &

 malam berinai aku kat umah nanti

 & boleh guna duit tuk bayar catering

in April 2010, kak Suria from NSJ Events came over to our house to discuss on what event i was having & the theme colour i wanted for the deco. Honestly, time tu i still wasn't sure what colours to choose as i had already set my heart and konon having a white themed colour wedding

tapi kak suria advised (kata pun khemah consultant), biarlah ada colour sikit, bru nampak ceria & meriah, my mum & sis pun stuju so we all agreed on white, cream & gold for the khemah deco. thus everything else followed along as well, gold + cream

  

view from the front, there are actually 2 canopies, kak suria's is the one behind, the one in front is by my mums friend (dpt harga sgt murah, extremely lower than market rate)

tadaaaaaa, this is the lovely decorated canopy from NSJ Events, 20 x 20ft size, full with gold & white deco, 4 fully decorated tables, 32 chairs with cover & ribbons, meja beradap luciously decorated with fresh gorgeous flowers, large fans, backdrop, garden deco & ceiling garden balls (with lights) as well as 8 white-ribboned chivalry chairs :)

I WAS SUCH A LUCKY & HAPPY BRIDE!!

my baby bro posing & matching the setting , hehe

happy at our proudly won prize on our nikah day :)

garden balls

nite event pulak for our malam berinai besar:

i love the flowers so so so soooooooo much. i was still busy going in and out of the house doing final chores when kak suria and her gang came to decorate the canopy, i had some time after to talk to the flower decorater, memang teliti sangat kerja dia and he said kak suria normally appoints him for flower decorating jobs (freelancer). also help take pictures for them too, hehe

the lovely lighted khemah at nite

and it was the most gorgeous setting for our

 pulut kuning cutting to end of the festive night

THANK YOU SO MUCH TO THE TEAM OF

MAJALAH NUR

 FOR PICKING ME AS THE WINNER.

THANKS A MILLION TO KAK SURIA AND HER TEAM

 AT NSJ EVENTS FOR MAKING MY EVENT

 SO WONDERFULLY MAGICAL!!

 (just like how i had stated in the slogan)

and that is the story of our beautiful sponsored wedding canopy ;)

feel free to drop by NSJ's website or you can contact kak suria at: 019-282 7258

KL Reception [021010] : The Details (1)

THEME COLOUR

i had decided on light pink-grey theme way back in this post. What influenced me to chose these colours? Haaa..sebab musabab nye adalah seperti tertera dibawah:-

1) cari colour/combination of colours that my larger family has not used yet for any wedding/engagement, etc.

2) cari colour yang boleh blend in with the wallpaper of my wedding reception hall (dewan gemalasari has the walls full of red maroonish wall paper)

3) choose soft colours as both the pengantin are soo 'cerah' :D

4) make sure not to make syg wear pink for sanding/reception, dont want him to hate me for a lifetime, hehe

5) ouh, fell in love with angkasawan's engagement colour outfit ;)

so blush pink + light grey it was ;)

 

TABLE CENTERPIECE

after confirming that the catering package that we took did not include centerpieces for the table, I decided to customize the centerpieces by putting pictures of us on every table.

Memang cadangan asal is to put empty jars on each table, then sumbat gambar kat dalam tu, advantages is jars tu mesti see-thru, so tak de la risk of terbang or kena percikan lauk, hehe

tengok-tengok, Martha Stewart pun ada penah wat jugak :)

disebabkan nak save cost, maka pencarian jars kosong bermula, agak susah nak cari 35 jars and last2 give up sebab xnak buang masa lagi (also kena marah dgn kaye sebab x btau da awal2, dia baruuu je disposed quite a number of jars, haish, xde rezeki la tu,hee)

thanx to our pengapit karon,

 we used these expensive bottles for our centerpiece stands

me & my groomsmen mengerjakan centerpieces tersebut

jars selebihnya tu guna botol kaca ikea (yang diambil dari rumah kaye jugak), asalkan ada stand, kira okla tuuu


gambar2 plak, mintak ain tolong tempekkan logo kat setiap satu, customizing namanye..hehs

banyak gambar ktorg bercouple..

and also gambar dgn family :)

me & my dayangs finishing off sticking

 the pics on the chopsticks and placing them into the jars

my guests at the table with the centerpieces

 (pinjam gambar dorg jadi model kejapp) 

ash , model hensem memperagakan our centerpice.heee

BAJU FLOWER GIRL

i had earlier cancelled to have any flower girls due to some problems encountered during the process, eventho i had already bought the dresses, masa tu dah tak peduli, nak cancel jugak atas dasar malas nak layan kerenah org yang menyakitkan hati..huhu 

thus sebab syg dgn baju cotton berbunga2 yang aku pilih sebab sweet & sesuai tuk budak2 pkai dgn selesa, aku bagi baju tu kat dua org anak sedara aku (my kazen's daughters) supaya dorg boleh pkai dgn penuh kecomelan & keriangan. haha.

thank you Iris & Mimi for not wasting aunty aweens money on the cute dresses :)

haii si comel aish.gmbar mimi plak xde.. 

GUESTBOOK TABLE

there are so many choices to opt for when doing ur guestbook table, me as similar to other b2b's, pening kepala nak choose which one:-

1) Custom make my own guestbook- rasanye ni paling senang, ada satu buku je where all guests can sign sukehati, after wedding just tinggal nak selak je n bace

2) Wishing Tree

3) Polaroid guestbook- yang ni kena invest in a polaroid plak kan, but i so love the idea

4) Wedding guest cards- in the end i opted for this with the help from my bestie pojan becoz she said it would be easier if the guests could rite down their wishes at the same time or even take their cards and rite it at their tables and drop them in the jar on the way out.

lagipun she was the bridesmaid-in-charge so guest cards it was!

inspirations came from:

can also check out Martha Stewarts website

only thing left to do, execute the nite before....

dayangku fauzana@ pojan ketua guestbook table ku..

the most detailed dayang .

I LOVE YOU!!!

  

pesana bergambar from ash

dayang2 ku bergilir2 jaga my guestbook table

some of the wishes

nice wish syg! hahahah, bengong!

and by the end of it all i stuck them all in a

sticky album and decorated them with the

tid-bits pojan had made for mee

CORSAGES

i really wanted to have badges for my reception since before i got engaged lagi, just wanted to have the feeling of having custom made badges makes me smile (even now) hehe.

first step, survey survey survey..good thing i did too, the prices i had stumbled on were quite surprising, one shop even charges RM25 per badge. u must be freaking kidding right? 

masa survey tu, siap2 dah bawak thumbdrive with the softcopy of our logo so boleh tunjuk the designer terus how i wanted the badges to be. found a reasonable priced shop, (actually bukan stakat reasonable, aku rasa murah gilee) and ordered them on the spot (okla, i did tell the designer to show me the design and colour and after being a bit bossy bru paid deposit, hee, betta betulkan design seblum dia cetak rite)

i think i bought about 40 badges kot.

 time nak collect tu alin teman me naik lrt lagi, hehe, thanks yang!

setiap badge utk main committee ada jawatan masing2

and the colours pulak ikut warna the baju that

they would be wearing during the reception

(contohnya my bridesmaids were wearing pink,

so their corsages had to be grey, klu x tenggelam kaler) 

oh, pastu aku order jugak badge bride & groom eventho of coz ktorg x kan pkai masa wedding kan, saje nak ada badge juak, nnt aku dengki tngok org lain sume pakai, heeee

the other badges were for the other family members and helpers ;)

si hakim my youngest bro, 

having fun running around rather than helping out.

masa aku tngah bersanding dia dtg kat kaki aku, 

and asked "along, lama lagi ke? jom balik"

haih, along yang cukup 'penyabar' ni pun jawab:

 "tunggu la habis semua org makan dulu ok"

HAHAHA.mmg wedding org lain kan ni??