The Wedding Vendors - The Pre- post

Gong Xi Fa Cai! Xin Nien Kuai Le! Angpau lai lai laiiiiii....... (no, I really mean it, I need them big bux for my wedding. Esp since it's my last year before I start giving out angpaus)

I'm always amazed at how lifestyle bloggers have the discipline and energy to blog almost everyday. I guess the keyword here is discipline. I usually have a long list of things I wanna blog about, but at the end of the day I just roll around in bed. Heheh.

Since I'm pretty free right now, I thought I'll just take a few minutes to list down the vendors I've booked. It's also another way for me to avoid eating and sleeping and eating and sleeping (what I've basically been doing this whole CNY break). It's probably too early to be posted (hence why I'm titling it as 'pre-post'), but I have nothing better to do. Meheheh. So here they are by events:

Nikah

• Venue - The Surau behind my house
• Hantaran - DIY. Dulang rented from Rentales, flowers from Floristika Bangsar.
• Mini Pelamin - DIY. I'm praying hard the banglas I've hired my friends would be able to help me out on this. It was supposed to be with another upcoming wedding decorator, but I'm on a cost cutting mode and I have a feeling they had given up on me (I've been trying to schedule a meeting with them but never seem to get to do so, plus my bad I kinda gave them false hopes on the hall decor but in the end chose someone else instead).
• Attire - Unaisah Azlan. If you've come across other bloggers' posts on her you would know that Unaisah is a very busy designer. If you're looking to book her, I suggest contacting her months ahead (like me!) as she did take a while to reply to my email. Also, she told me she's going to concentrate on something else besides wedding attires soon. My first fitting session with her went well, although she used a 'template' for the fitting instead of the original baju so I don't know how it looks just yet, but I am sure it'll turn out just fine.
• Caterers - Dad's Surau friend
• Photographer - Shukry Ghany. I stumbled upon his Instagram and stalked it for a bit before asking him for a quote. I was a little startled at the quotation for 3 events and was at first not going with him. Later on, I decided to still proceed with him but only for the nikah and reception on my side (save sikit). The reason being, I found his style was not so 'typical' like other Malay wedding photographers. I would've loved to hire Stories, but of course the price was waaaaay out of whack for me, so Shukry it is! 

Reception

• Venue - Dewan Seri Siantan, Putrajaya. 
• Attire - Najib Salman. I came across Najib when I was looking around for someone to make our 'bridesmaids' outfits for my sister's wedding last year. Najib deserves a post by himself. Hahahaha.
• Caterer - I actually can't recall their name. Bahahahah. But they catered for my sister's wedding and they were quite good. As long as the official food critic my Dad is ok, I'm ok. Although I'm still annoyed at the fact that they don't have table and chair covers.
• Pelamin - I originally booked with 2.Bridal Sanctuary, however not long after they split up and now I'm going with one of the partners, Syed. He has now started his own business called Syed Signature Wedding. My drama on finding wedding decorators deserves a whole blog by itself. HAHAHAHA.
• Doorgifts - Various. I had a difficult time finding the 'perfect' doorgift. What I've learnt is, unless your budget is 'the sky's the limit', there is no such thing as perfect doorgift. If you're looking to give something useful and memorable, chances are it's gonna cost you a lot. And if you're planning to give something affordable (read: items that 'look' useful but are so small and not use-able, ends up a decorating piece), chances are the guests would already have ten of it at home and would throw yours away in the days to come. So I decided to just go with food. As my theme/concept is supposedly traditional, I'll be giving out telur pindang and some chocolates/dodol. I bought the bunga telur from Sri Impian in Kuantan (I had nothing else better to do in Kijal at that time, so I wandered about in Kuantan and came back with 16 boxes filled with 'em bungas) and the chocs will be packed in a white noodle box that will be ordered from Greentree. The telur pindang would be supplied from my watzisname caterer, chocs are (as of now planned) to be sourced in Langkawi, and dodol from  a guy named Khalid.
• Photographer - Shukry Ghany
• Invitations - Luv Card (Jakarta)

As I'm obviously far from being able to review these vendors, I will only post link to these vendors after the ceremony. However should you need information, do feel free to drop me and email. :)