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.
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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.
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