SELECTED: Cake Maker

It was just recently Richard's friend Evan, our hockey buddy, got married to Flora on an Alaskan cruise.

During the post-wedding celebration with friends, I finally got to chat with Flora one-on-one. We discussed her wedding and my wedding planning. When we got to the discussion of wedding cakes, it was then that I found out that she's a pastry chef at Sutton Place Hotel. Flora offered to make our wedding cake!

It was amazing! Nothing beats having a friend make your wedding cake!

Basic starting details:

5 tiers

round cakes

royal icing (no fondant)

3 classical flavours

Swarovski Crystal Wedding Bears

As for the look and appearance of the cake...time for us to start googling and checking out wedding magazine for ideas on how we would like the cake to look. At the same time, besides a simple and clean design for the cake, we'll probably leave it to Flora and let her have a free artistic hand at the creation of the cake. 

BOOKED: Cecil Green Park House

Early May 2011

I had the most depressing news...Ceceil Green Park House informed me that Saturday, August 18th was not available for booking. Someone had already booked off that date for their own full day celebration.

I was soo shocked and quite depressed!

I was quite shocked because someone had already booked the venue. How was that possible? I have been waiting since late last year, 2010. I wasn't allowed to book yet, since they only book 15 months in advance. It's not even 15 months yet!!!

I was quite depressed because I had really had my heart set on Cecil Green Park House being my wedding ceremony venue.

I gave up hope...I wanted to throw in the towel...I was very mad...I wanted head to roll...

Richard told me to take a deep breath and let him deal with it.

Richard spend most of May working on getting Cecil Green Park House for our Wedding Ceremony venue. From daily phone calls and daily emails to the Interm Manager to calling his other contacts to see if they can do something about this situation. We pulled every string we had. We contact everyone person with a connection we had. We went over and above the Interm Manager's head. We left no stone unturned!!!

During this time, we also started talking about alternative wedding ceremony locations...not that either one of us really wanted to get married anywhere else, but we had to cover our bases just in case...

We looked at the following locations:

Aberthau Mansion at West Point Grey Community Centre

- similar to Cecil Green Park House, but smaller and a bit more rustic

Jack Poole Plaza, Vancouver Convention Centre

- why not go big by the Olympic Cauldron...hehehe

Friday, May 20th, 2011

After Richard's persistence for most of May, he finally got it!!!

The Intern Manager dropped the other unconfirmed booking and booked us in!

We have Cecil Green Park House, University of British Columbia as our Wedding Ceremony Venue!!!

Thank you Richard!!!

SELECTED: Photographer / Videographer

Richard and I have selected our Photographer / Videographer for our wedding next year!

Evoke Imagery
http://www.evokeimagery.ca/

I had run across their booth late last year at the Urban Wedding Show.
Mom and I fell in love with their photobooks, many of which were imported in in from Europe!

After emailing many vendors that I loved, Tamiko from Evoke Imagery emailed me back.
The quote they provided was awesome, but what sold me and had me arrange a consultation was the thoroughness they were going to be with my wedding and their eagerness to work with Richard and I with what we want and have to have.

I fell in love with them after the first consultation.
Tamiko and her husband & business partner, Curtis, were awesome!
I loved their personalities and enthusiasm, along with their thoroughness in making sure all this works out to the liking of Richard and I. This is so important because Richard and I want quite a bit and quite a bit are out of the box, untraditional, and different.
The sample of their work was amazing! They even have photos of scenes that I want for my photos!

They and their team just finished covering my Chinese Engagement Event on Saturday, February 5th!
From the samples that we have seen, we were not at all disappointed.
We are definitely in good hands...I can't wait to upload the photos they took!!!

Here's some photos to get you started...

BOOKED: Sun Sui Wah Seafood Restaurant

Richard and I were never one for following the standard order of things.

Even before Richard officially proposed to me, we had already booked our wedding reception venue. We also had to book early because Chinese people are always picky about the day and special days that have 8's are always first to be booked up!

We selected Sun Sui Wah Seafood Restaurant, located on Main Street and 23rd Avenue in Vancouver, BC for Saturday, August 18th, 2012.

Sun Sui Wah is actually one of Richard's favourite Chinese Restaurant and the first Chinese Restuarant he and I went to together for dim sum with some of my friends. We still go there all the time for dim sum on the weekend, either just the two of us, or with family and friends.

Frequent celebrity diner: Tamara Taggart from CTV News. We see her there all the time!