Wedding Invites

In case if you are wondering why have I stopped updating my blog and Facebook~ing, I am extremely busy watching my TVB Chinese Series. Past few days, I was sitting at home feeling bored, so I took one series (from the stacks of pirated Chinese DVDs that Mum had bought previously and still is buying) and started watching. Bad move! I couldn't stop and almost every night I am sleeping at 1:00 am! -__-"

Current TVB craze : Emergency Unit ("E.U") - so many dashing hot old actors

(I am a sucker for mature-looking actors in jackets ahem!),

the actresses sucks though.

Back to the preparation, we are now working on the dreaded guest list and we are having such a headache doing it!! Should we call this person? Church event only? Or both events? Can we accomodate so many people? What about the costing? I have been inserting names, striking out names, and re-inserting names again. It is so tiring and troublesome! At times like this, I wish I had a wedding planner. :(

And we have not even gone to sorting out the name list in Excel, the table arrangement, the RSVPs, and the actual day coordination yet!!! *pengsan*

I am still waiting for Bear to revert with the finalised guest list as he may still want to include some more names before I pass it to my parents to include theirs as well. Wonder why Bear is taking so long?

Initially for the wedding invites, I didn't want to spend more than RM2.00 cos people will end up thowing them away. So, I spent a lot of time sourcing and asking around for cheap invites. Ultimately, LH Creative Concept located in Pudu was the place to go. But, the designs are like your stereotype of mass-produced cards. In other words, so ugly! :(

Keeping in mind that I STILL don't intend to over-spend on the invites, I sourced for more alternatives and ended up in Sunflower Paper Passion & Things located in Ikano. Me and Bear dropped by there and no doubt the designs were much better.

Problem is that, the nicer the designs, the more expensive it is! An empty card costs from RM2.00 onwards. Printing would be additional RM100 per block. All in all, for a simple design like the one below, the quote would come up to RM3.30 per card, which is not too bad we reckoned. A tad too simple for my liking though. :(


One day, as we were walking around Tropicana City Mall - I asked Bear to teman me to Storybo*k. I had always been curios about this shop as it looks so pretty from outside. And voila I saw that they print invites as well. The invites were so pretty, contemporary, clean, and sweet ok! Having no expectations at all (I was almost certain that the cards would be expensive), we proceeded to ask the owner, Enya on the quotes. Turns out the cards starts from RM2.20 - RM10.00. The pricing is tiered and discount is given in accordance to the volume. Best of all, ALL of the cards are custom-designed (i.e. no other couple can have the same design as yours), designed in accordance to your theme, and the pricing INCLUDES printing as well. You can print as much stuff and insert as much pictures as you want at no additional costs! Of course, if you want to further enhance the cards by decorating it with ribbons (RM1.80/piece) or crystals (RM0.80/piece), then there would be additional costs incurred.

I am SO excited!!!! So, right now we have shortlisted Sunflower and Storybo*k. Honestly, I am skewed more towards Storybo*k. We shall ask for further details once the guest list is more or less finalised to ascertain the number of cards needed and the final costing.

Love;
The-Bride-to-Be