FaizalAzwin : BAJAU FAIRYTALE [301010]

Date : 30 OCTOBER 2010

Time : 8.00 AM - 3.00 PM (ketibaan pengantin, 11 AM)

Location : Kampung Dambai (Pengalat), Papar, Sabah

Theme : Bajau

kesinambungan entry terdahulu..on an early beautiful saturday morning after sleeping for (almost) 3 hours, we woke up to take our showers & solat subuh & to get ready for the reception. We changed into our bride & groom t-shirts (wajib!) and me & hubby took turns pakai inai (memang instant habis! hehe) helped by my bro & sis-in-laws, dila & fadhli :)

while we were waiting for our henna to dry off (hubby occasionally dozing off to sleep), my darling 'PuRe arrived :) yays! walaupun they were all dressed up and were actually supposed to be my wedding guests, tetap aku mintak dorg teman & help me out (i love u gals foreverrr)!

(macam askar2 to the rescue je ok)

outside the wedding was already going on, with the kulintangan (the alat music) playing beautifully in the background, us dengan kelam kabut angkut all our outfits and me non-stop on the phone with my videographer & make-up artist, we hurried off to hubby's uncle's house across the road. We were gonna get ready there.

Masa tu dah almost 8am, but org kampung ramai yang dah sampai and tngah makan-makan, so we tried to blend in with our t-shirt & jeans (kantoi a bit coz we were carrying our gold outfits!) and my syg kna tahan la 2-3 kali org ajak dia borak to wish congrats, hehe (ok another kantoi point was our screaming t-shirts kan? haha)

after safely arriving at uncle ghulam's house i went to put in my contact lens (oh for ALL my receptions i wore contacts, yg effect nmpk mata besar tu, 'FreshLook Illuminate' ~without any power), sangat best contacts nih, especially since im a first time user, ehehe (oppp selingan plak)..me jabbing my eyes & make up & syg gets down to bisnes, briefing his bro's on the tentative program (which he planned & i typed the day before)

and then it was make-up time!

sementara tu c-nah tolong make-up kan my pengapit. hee

lepas itu, sesi memakai baju bajau traditional,

memang perlukan bantuan dari yang pakar ;)

terasa macam princess zaman dulu (hahah)

after we were all ready & made up, we climbed into our cousins car for a ride to the 'usungan', with was about 600 meters away

sempat, mesti sempat

we had two cute-dressed up horses and a

kompang group to lead us to the reception

our 'usungan', kenderaan yang dihias seperti perahu

INFO: There are different customs for each suku kaum, my father-in-law is from the suku-kaum Bajau Samah (Bajau Darat), thus it is also different for the customs practiced for those berketurunan datu (nadhirah i pinjam ur link k, sgt informative). Maka, bagi kaum bajau yang bukan berketurunan "Datu" (seperti Faizal & Azwin), usungan yang mereka naiki berbentuk perahu.

lovely blue sky on our wedding reception day

 (despite it being rainy for the whole week, we were truly blessed)

heheh, the groom waving to his neighbours

we caused the small traffic jam :D

when we reached our house syg went off the usungan first

anddd...as the truck apperently did not have a small ladder, thus came the sweet gesture that all the wedding guests thought as our suprise gimmick. and i honestly tell u now. all of that was totally unplanned!

after getting off the usungan, we were lead to the pelamin

before we were to proceed to the dais,

 we had traditional dancers performing

(oh yeah, the male dancers lebih lentik dari pengantin perempuan u olls!)

then uncle nih bawak ktorg round depan pelamin,

x ingat brape kali, 3/4, ktorg tak tahu kenapa, follow saje

our traditional pelamin that i am so proud of my hubby of!

 (will story on details later)

us on the bajau wedding dais :)

our emcee (green shirt) & pembaca doa

then it was time for the merenjis ceremony

mama my beautiful

abah merenjis camera man skali :D

father-in-law salam semua including pengapit

getting blessings from nenek bongsu :)

we had fun on our wedding dais!

then we got off the pelamin to mingle around

and 'acting' to eat for the cameras.

meanwhile music & dancers entertained the guests

our Uncle Ghulam also sang, his voice is Amazing!!!

we joined in the 'Manuk-Manuk' dance

us running away from the dance, hehe

then it was picture time :)

us with the kulintangan music players.

 we look so costumed-up

my loves (hakim je xde, demam so dia tido somewhere)

my kekasihs (plus another 3 not in the pic)

with my in-laws

then we went to the nearby beach for a brief outdoor shoot,

but it was a drizzly afternoon (hujan rahmat) hee

p/s: this entry is named 'fairytale' as that is how our uncle & cousins called it..it did feel magical tho

p/p/s: next up -our official sabah reception vid

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??