Taiwanese way

Taiwanese has some customs when it comes to weddings.

Taking pre-wedding photo is one of them.

Besides taking pictures during the wedding ceremony, Taiwanese usually will make a photo album about their love stories ahead of time so the guests can WOW and HWA when they wait to get in the ceremony hall.

Sounds silly, and it is. When we just moved to Taiwan B saw some couples taking pre-wedding pictures around our apartment, and he swore he would not be one of them! Well, never say never. We also had our pics taken and make them into a HUGE photo album.

The best part of this photo shoot was the bride got to wear a lot of more dresses than just the one in the ceremony! So I went to Julia wedding again to pick the extra clothes for our photo shoot.

All the grooms who are going to get married to Taiwanese brides have to know one essential idea--the bride is the super star in this photo shoot and the groom is somehow a prop in the background. You can tell by the the numbers of dresses they offered me to try-on!

My point of this photo shoot was "exaggerating", any ridicurous and crazy dresses, just bring them on!!

Some sexiness was good for cheering my dear B up during the upcoming longggggg photo shoot.

OK, I think you all enough of me today.

Wedding dress

Searching for a perfect wedding dress is always a bitchy journey.

In Taiwan, 99%of brides rent their wedding dress, wedding dress rental is a huge industry here. B is a Swedish, he doesn't like the idea of renting my dress for the big day " Think about it, once of your life time! You don't want to rent a dress somebody else may had it on" he said.

OMG, B has no idea buying a dress is not easy here, I either has to fly back to USA for buying a dress or I have to custom make one here. Overall, it is cheaper and more convenient to make my dress here.

We find to a place where they can design and make a wedding dress for me with decent quality in Taipei city. The place called "Julia wedding" they do wedding photo, dress rental and design, make up and hair etc.. The price is not that cheap--I can buy a Vera Wong with that budget.The process was very detailed, my wedding dress designer will reference my desires and pictures to come out with 3 idea sketches and I pick one to do mock-up. I have to do 3 times fitting and they will sew the whole dress all over again with the real material.

The first and second fitting was disappointing...
The cut didn't fit me well, too much shit on the dress.

The last fitting my sister and I were finally feeling there is a hope that I can walk down the aisle not naked,haha.

Actually, it was better than that, when they put the veil on me to try out the mock-up, my sister was feeling emotional and had a tear in her eye [she insisted that's because she was pregnant and moody] Adam never saw the dress till the wedding, we did pretty good job to hide the dress away from him!

Here is the final mock-up looks like