High Tech--save the day

We had no free time, the Taiwanese design companies kept us crazy busy.

The clock was ticking and we nearly had no time to design, print and mail out our "save the day" invitation. So, we turned to the modern tech and social network to save our butt" FACEBOOK!!"

台灣的設計公司真是名不虛傳,我們幾乎天天加班,日也操夜也操...轉眼之間,離婚禮時間已經不多啦! 大家紛紛詢問,"你們婚禮是要辦不辦?"我們的婚禮選在瑞典夏天, 很多人計畫要出城渡假, 我們一定要事先讓大家知道婚禮日期來賓才能把時間排開.

好拉,我們拖拖拉拉的最後一刻,印"save the day" 卡也來不及寄, 所以我們轉而求助現代網路科技, 用"臉書"[中文有點詭異..]來邀請大家!

I designed the simple save-the-day card and post on line for RSVP

下班後我們用了一小時就搞定邀請函然後上傳臉書!

Thank god most of our friends were computer nerds, it worked!

我們大部分的朋友都是網路重度使用者, 只能說,臉書真是太好用啦!

Why you are reading this..

When I started writing this blog I had a very practical reason---I needed to communicate with my wedding planner in Stockholm. That's why I started this blog and that's way you can find weird blog posts in the beginning.

I have to say: it is a totally bitch to try to have a wedding in a place is far far away from where you live!!

當我註冊使用這個部落格.是為了跟我的瑞典婚禮顧問溝通.所以最之前的文章都是我跟她的對話.
辦一個越洋婚禮對我來說, 除了麻煩, 還是麻煩!!
好啦...最後是很開心囉[羞...]

The start of this story...

Our story is just like other people, we met at school, been through so many events together, found out nothing could break us apart at this point and we decided to get MARRIED!

Although this is a simple story, we still feel this is a miracle we find each other and everything works between us! The only complicated part is we come from very different countries. B is a Swedish spent most of his life in USA and I am a Taiwanese girl went to US for study. After our graduation, B proposed to me in Maui [Oh the big YES YES YES]

Then, before we start our story of marriage, the first question pop out: 

WHERE SHOULD WE GET MARRIED?

The obvious answer will be Los Angeles but we are not planning to fly all our family and childhood friends cross oceans to USA. No, we are not going to get us in deep trouble.

Then, Where? We think through all kinds of possibilities and find out that there is no way to avoid the trouble. So we decide we will have 3 wedding ceremonies:


1.Registry in Sweden before we relocate ourselves for job.
2.Wedding ceremony in Sweden
3.Return ceremony in Taiwan


Sounds great, isn't it?

這個故事跟這個世界大部份的愛情故事差不太多, 2個人在學校相遇,一起經歷過生命中的點點滴滴,發現似乎沒有甚麼事能將我們分開, 於是,我們決定, 應該是可以結婚吧?

故事簡單, 但,能發現彼此,還能自在的相處,還真不是一件簡單的事,算是奇蹟一樁!
在這看似一切簡單的狀態中, 還是有一件事是有一點點複雜的. b和我來自南轅北撤的兩個國家.
一個是極北的瑞典,一個是極南的台灣[是啦,澳洲是更南..不過,文化上,台灣跟瑞典的距離更遙遠啊].

瘋狂快樂的求婚之旅後, 一個超大的問號宛如晴天霹靂出現:
我們要在哪兒結婚呢.....

Anniversary

It is crazy time past so soon after our wedding a year ago.

I think it is about the time I start to put what happened during our wedding before I forget all the fun and pain details.......

For those people we love and who love us.

時間瘋狂般的飛逝,轉眼間我們的婚禮已經一年前的舊聞啦!

我想,在我忘光婚禮的細節前,是時候開始紀錄當初計畫這場跨國婚禮的又痛又快樂的種種...

給我們愛又愛著我們的人.




 

AI,Please look at this link below. I have preliminary booked 2 "BIG" vases the are higher than me and I am 1,70 cm. We can rent them. They have one red and one white! They are so cool!

http://www.kartell.it/global.aspx?idLingua=EN

The BBQ party at Qvallsta

About the BBQ party on July 4th, Here is the rough [very rough] map of Qvallsta I drew.

Hope you can get the basic image of the place.



When you get in the entrance you will se some space for parking if we need.
A cute center lawn maybe need some light bulbs on it.



You can get to the lake by enter the main house or just pass through the side of the main building.
I think the main building might be under remodeling but we still can use the bathroom in the side buildings.









Our idea is having the BBQ grill in front of the Patio on the lawn with a big table on which the food will be placed. The music center can be on the patio as well?

Some small chairs and picnic blanket on the lawn and by the water and on the deck.

Small lights everywhere during the evening time.

Hope you can get a rough idea of what it will be like.

My ideal wedding cake

Since first time I visited Stockholm and Adam showed me this bakery called Tosse, I knew I want to have their Princess cake + Chocolate opera cake as my wedding cake AKA the most important cake in my life time!! Haha.

The idea is to put 1 big chocolate opera as base and one mid size princess cake on top of it , and put a small opera and topping with an mini princess. I will draw the cake out soon, but I have to get the cake book of Martha Steward first.......

The original cakes look like these [ They are sooooooooo YUMMY!!]






I can not find the princess cake pictures I took last summer....
But I found this picture on line, and I want my wedding princess cake have lots of berries in side!!

Hotel Lydmar

 

 

 

 

 

 

Large Medium Suite

Inspirations for plates and tableware

Hello Ai,

Look at this links for inspiration so we are on the right way.......please enjoy!

http://www.lisabengtsson.se/

http://www.mjhousing.se/visa_produkt.asp?id=875&t=Assieter+Flower

http://www.broarne.se/butik/index.php?searchStr=prickiga+sk%E5lar&act=viewCat

http://www.forr.se/kok/greengate/servis/tallrik_melamin_naomi_red.html

http://www.mixin.se/vara.php?vid=1765&gid=2&uid=0 (not green, looking for a red one)

http://www.vega-direkt.se/portal/articleId*114288/action*2563;jsessionid=36EC0D0DAA424EE0886BAF048C969386.shop_VSE_node1

vega is a red one underplate

http://www.busigt.se/melamin4packprick-p-1654.html

Talk to you later!

:) Åsa

Hello Ai

Tableware color skin mock-ups round 1

From the Original Color skin inspiration I posted yesterday-->>>

I came out 3 rough table ware color and pattern compositions---->>>>>

Plastic Red serving plate+ black [ or silver] plate+ colorful pocadots+ flower pattern dishes+ silver folks , knives...


Plastic Red serving plate+ silver plate+ blue pocadots+ flower pattern dishes+ black folks , knives...


Plastic Red serving plate+ black plate+ red pocadots+ flower pattern dishes+ black folks , knives...


I don't know if these plates are difficult to find?

Although the wedding will be hold in summer but I don't really want the typical summer wedding flower colors such as white+green, white+yellow, White+pink.

I picked some examples I like and I will keep looking for the flowers I want to use as well.









And there are some pieces that I don't like the color but like the ideas:




I will keep looking for more and keep you updated!

Please let me know if you have some ideas in mind!

Color Skin for the wedding

Main color skin
I like this Red+White+ a little bit light blue combination and I would like to add some Black or silver details onto it. So the color skin will be -> Red+White+black [ silver]+ light blue.

The most important thing for me is to make sure the blue is NOT the Tiffany blue.....