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So I've had the meeting with Ara Photography to make me a pre-wedding video. We're gonna start shooting on Feb 26 the latest. The concept is still on process. The videos gonna last about one whole song. Our option is "Running" by No Doubt or "Happy Together" by Tahiti 80. But Mbak Fitri from Ara said that the song from No Doubt is more representable. Just like what the fiance had chosen. So let's see how it goes.

I've already got the invitation dummy. There's some things to change just yet. So I come directly to meet the designer and I've requested for him to change while I'm there. He surprised on how detail I am. He said that I'm unique and this is the first time for him to handle a client like me. Well, I think it's the polite way of him to say I'm controlling. Either way, I just don't care as long as the final result fulfill my satisfaction. Here's a little sneak peek of the cover of my invitation which is very much inspired by "500 Days of Summer". Actually, "Away We Go" and the layout of Frankie Magazine are also my references. I will upload the whole invitation later once it's all done.

Last night Kak Dewi asked me to check on the wordings of the marriage manual books. She asked if I want to add any personal wordings from me to my parents. Looking to the past, there's sure lot of things I should be asking apologize of to both of my parents. But I'm not sure if I want it to be written down on the book and let everyone to read it. But I will try to put up my personal words and make it nicer so I won't be so embarrassed then.

Ah, and yesterday I finally visited Flora Lines. This bridegila is still craving for pink peonies to hold on her wedding. Hah. So I went there and met Mbak Nini. She said that it's quite impossible to have peonies in March because they have it imported in June - July. I feel quite disappointed. But I give another alternative, fuchsia roses for my bouquet just like in this picture below. I don't want to add any other type of flowers or colors and not even baby breath. Maybe just some green leaves underneath it and pink ribbons to sweeten it up. The thing is, there's some risk I got to willing to take. There's a slight chances my roses bouquet might be broken or some leaves might be faded. Let's just hope it won't be happening. And I've ordered pink peonies for my second receptions in Jakarta. Hopefully she can provide it in May. In the mean time, I also check on other florist if they have pink peony in March. Crossing fingers!

Between Carnations and Roses

Wandering all around Mangga Dua to find the perfect flowers to use as the background decorations for my wedding. I was inspired by the backdrop of Forever 21 cashier at Grand Indonesia. The shocking pink roses are just too beautiful and irresistible. My decorator was meaning to use Jepara but I wasn't really into it. Using Jepara will not match my theme. He said using flowers as my background will cause a lot of money. So my mom suggested me to go find the flowers myself. It's impossible to use fresh flowers so I'm planning to just find the high quality artificial ones. I visited Forever 21 just to checked out how they made the backdrop. Took photos quietly while queuing to pay for some stuff that I wasn't planning to buy. Turns out they ordered the flowers from the USA. And I believe it costs a fortune, which doesn't fit my budget. So Mangga 2 is my very first option.

There are too many kind of flowers with various price. My background height is about 10x4 meters. Big size so I need dozens of flowers to fill it in. Unfortunately, the high quality artificial flowers which look almost the same as in Forever 21 is quite expensive. It costs about Rp 25.000 - Rp 35.000/6 buds. There's also artificial flowers that feel almost the same as the real ones that cost around Rp 250.000/12 buds. After doing some maths, if only I want the cheapest roses to fit in 10x4 meters, I will need to spend around Rp 85 millions. Crazy, right???

first option

So I go for the second option, which is replacing roses with carnations. I have to re-assured myself for thousand times to finally choose this. The price is waaaaaaaaaaaay cheaper than the first option. But hopefully the carnations will look as good as roses. Ah, well....

MAYDAY, MAYDAY!!!!

HELP!

Where can I get pink peonies in March?????

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