flora isabelle

STILL ALIVE

Yup I haven’t died under a pile of tulle and tiffany blue ribbons and stationery. Though I’m kinda sick of robin egg blue by now.

One of my customers turned friend is using the following palette for her wedding and I think it’s super pretty!

We are customizing her bridesmaid dresses to her wedding theme. (I LOVE working with fellow brides!) If you want pretty bridesmaid dresses too, email me flora@clubcouture.cc :P

Exactly 14 days to go and surprisingly with so much not done (mainly for wedding #2), I’m still pretty chill. RSVPs not finalized, wines not bought and I have a whole bunch of hair/ face/ brows/ wax appointments to fit into my schedule. Not going on marriage leave simply because I can’t take time off the business.

BUT I do have part of my engagement pictures ready :P

Done up by the partners :D Eternally grateful to them - sometimes I wonder what have I done to deserve these AMAZING friends. If you guys are interested in engaging them, email me flora@clubcouture.cc :) will upload the bridal shoot next!

Waiting for the boy to come back from his fishing trip so we can plan tomorrow’s Sunday date.

Have a good weekend peeps!! xo

Inbal Dror

Inbal Dror 2013. Wayyyyy too pretty. Wish I had discovered her earlier :(

a wedding is a day, a marriage is a lifetime.

The following quote came to my mind when I was shopping for my wedding shoes this afternoon. After checking out Christian Louboutin, Stuart Weitzman, Jimmy Choo, Aldo, Nine West, Steve Madden, Cole Haan, Zara, Charles & Keith, Ferragamo and On Pedder, I can FINALLY conclude the shoe search.

The thing is, I’ve spent the past few weekends shopping for the wedding - lingerie, shoes, jewelry etc - alone (I prefer shopping alone, don’t have to worry about people waiting for me) and when I return home from work on weekday evenings, I do a quick dinner with the boyfriend and then spend the rest of the night doing more wedding stuff. Emailing vendors, researching and all that. Even when we are physically together during meals or before bedtime, I’m usually on my phone either messaging the partner who is now my personal stylist about the dresses, the shoes or just checking out more wedding stuff on the Internet. 

I have forgotten to ask him how his day went, or listen to him tell me about his new fishing reel or even thank him for the dinner he prepared. I know I have posted something about this before but it was only today sometime between Louboutin and Jimmy Choo that I realized that I might be focusing too much on the wedding and ironically, neglecting the person I’m marrying.

It’s going to take me A LOT to try to loosen up cause I suffer from insane OCD (FYI I think I’m no bridezilla cause I have yet to boss anyone around, I just do everything myself with crazy wtf details) but I think with 4 weeks to go till the wedding, it’s time I start to trust that things will fall into place somehow and get back to being in love, which is why I’m marrying him in the first place, right?

So with that, I’m logging off my computer now to have dinner with the boy and let him tell me about the new amazing fishing reel he just bought and the super awesome magic cards (yes wtf) he has :)

OMG I AM DAMN SAD! And annoyed too!!!! :(

So I bought this super pretty dress by Alice + Oliver from Neiman Marcus for my second dress and was waiting forever for it to be shipped.

Then this morning I got an email from NM telling me:

“Our freight forwarder, FiftyOne International, has blocked the delivery of this order because it violates Fish and Wildlife regulations.

We are unable to ship any merchandise made of real bird feathers to an international location.”

:( :( :(

So I searched everywhere again to see where I can buy this dress and found it at aliceandolivia.com and was happily checking out when I realised that they don’t ship to Singapore! WHY!!! They can ship to Guam, Haiti, Paraguay and all that so WHY NOT SINGAPORE! 

SO SAD :*(

anniversary!

In between all the wedding planning and work, I had totally lost track of dates. Until the boy set the alarm for 8am on a Saturday morning and whispered Happy Anniversary while I was still in a sleepy daze. #waytoosweet

He had made reservations for breakfast at Rider’s but I decided that we should we should sleep in so we ended up having our favourite hokkien mee for brunch instead haha.

Tian Tian Lai hokkien mee at Toa Payoh - the BEST in town, really!

He also surprised me with movie tickets to I Give It A Year (which IS a feat considering that I’m always the one booking movie tickets, plane tickets, hotels.. ok you get the idea) so anyway after the movie, we went to Haramiya and then Partyworld-ed till 2am with the boys for Z’s farewell thingy.

Life’s simple pleasures :) 

Quick One

I’m waiting for the boy to come and send me to town for an appointment cause I can’t get a bloody cab. *feel so loved*

Since selling the car, during times like these, I REALLY wish I didn’t :(

Spent the morning doing pre-wedding shoot research (our shoot is in 2 weeks! wedding is in 5 weeks fml) and aiya I don’t know how we can EVER pull off those romantic shots. You know, those of me lying on his chest and closing my eyes or those of us staring far far far away into the distance? Fuck I just cringed big time as I typed that hahaha. We are just not lovey dovey like that! We don’t even take pictures on a regular basis - after so many years together, I think we only have 7 photos of us together wtf.

So anyway it’s just 5 more weeks to the big day and there’s so much nonsense not settled yet - I ONLY confirmed my wedding dress on Monday and my second dress is still sitting somewhere in the US yet to be shipped. I don’t even know if I’m wearing a kua and if I am, I don’t know where to get it haha. Wedding shoes also fml not settled yet. Jewelry is thankfully settled - aiya I have so few diamonds, don’t need to spend much time choosing lol

So anyway I had so many months since July last year to plan this wedding but I spent all my time doing I don’t know what man… so now I only have 5 weeks to settle the dresses & the photoshoot which are often the MOST IMPORTANT things to other brides but I leave ‘em right to the very end lol

Okay the boy’s here! Bye bye!

bridesmaid dresses!

So between 2 weddings and 5 bridesmaids, I will have a total of 4 designs!

For the Rochester wedding, while the theme of the decor is tiffany blue-esque, my babes are going to be wearing black dresses! Cause I don’t want them to look like my table runners la haha.

When Simin first got the dress! So hot ;) Some alteration is needed for the sleeves but I think this is PERFECT for the dinner reception! So Audrey Hepburn / Breakfast at Tiffany’s!

Then for the family wedding, in the day we still have to fetch the bride (NO gatecrashing!!!), do the tea ceremony etc and the colour scheme for the wedding entourage is still robin egg blue (make my life easier heh).

My sister will be wearing:

While Garry’s sister will be wearing:

Not getting the friends involved for this wedding cause I’d feel damn bad to take up 2 of their weekends in a row. 

The groomsmen will be wearing ties in a matching colour :)

All dresses lovingly made by ClubCouture of course - drop me a message at flora@clubcouture.cc if anything here catches your fancy?

We have been getting quite a few requests for bridesmaids dresses lately! Some example of what we’d done previously:

For Pauline’s wedding :)

For Holly Jean’s wedding!

I think quality is very important when it comes to bridesmaids dresses - a bad choice of poorly made dresses might just make the entire wedding look cheap :(

But most importantly, I want to give my girls a dress that they would want to wear again for future functions, dates etc. Not some “costume” they will toss aside after the wedding.

Remember the fugly bridesmaids dresses from 27 Dresses? 

As for the Peony Jade wedding dinner, I’m still trying to finalise the chingchong dress/ outfit.. any ideas? :)