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Wedding Done

Ams, July 27, 2009 at 8:32 PM

Stupid firefox not letting me blog on here. I have to use crummy IE to make this post. I haven't been able to blog for a few days. Boo-urns!

So anyway, the wedding was last Sunday and it was great. Things went smoothly for the most part and things that did go wrong weren't that big of a deal. Plus everyone was really relaxed and easy going that the issues did not result in any freaking out. Because of this Jack and I had a great day. Nothing could get us down. The guests were amazing. Everyone was so happy for us, which made the day super awesome. Being surrounded by so much love feels great. Seriously, things that would have made me panic or get pissed off just rolled off my back. For instance: arriving a half hour later than I had planned to the ceremony location (good thing I planned to get there an hour before the ceremony =P), forgetting the guestbook for the ceremony, forgetting to print off the photo list, having the ceremony unexpectedly altered, having to stop twice while walking down the aisle to fix my sari, being declared as Mrs. Jack Hsu (no reason to change my fabulous name), having 45 minutes suddenly appear in our reception itinerary, etc. Nothing got us down, even the subtle hints that we should start going to church and start making babies...which I'm pretty sure was not intended to go hand-in-hand. Although I wonder how many babies have been conceived in a church.

Anyway, I plan on making a few more posts as there were quite a few things that I had wanted to post about just before the wedding but didn't get a chance to. As well, wedding stuff is far from over. We finished our gifts inventory and now we have to start on our thank you cards. Guess who is going to be doing those. >_>;;

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Ceremony Rehearsal

Ams, July 16, 2009 at 9:53 AM

We have our rehearsal tonight. I still have so much to do today before heading off for that. I have high anxiety today. I hope it settles down so that I'm not a nervous wreck for the rehearsal. =/

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Marriage Licence

Ams, April 21, 2009 at 10:05 PM

I don't know if I've mentioned this before, but the price of marriage licences vaires across cities in Ontario even though they are all the same licence. What's up with that? I'm assuming they vary because each district has calculated how much it costs them to process the document...or some are just greedy. So we shopped around and unexpectedly (although now we see that it's obvious) Toronto was the cheapest (we factored in travel costs). Here are the prices and a list of things to know about wedding licences.

Brampton: $135
Burlington: $140
Hamilton: $122
Kitchener: $135
Mississauga: $135
Toronto: $130
Vaughan: $125
Waterloo: $130

Wedding licence information:
1. A wedding licence and a wedding certificate is not the same thing. A licence allows you to process a legal marriage under the state while a certificate is presented to you after your marriage is recognized by the state.

2. A licence in Ontario does not have to be purchased, used, or processed in the same city in Ontario. So for instance, Jack and I will pick up our licence from Toronto and get married in Richmond Hill. As long as it is in Ontario then it's fine.

3. Ontario marriage licences are valid for up to three months starting on the date you purchase them so don't get one too far ahead otherwise you will need to buy another one and you won't get your money back for the first one. You also need to meet certain reqirements to obtain a licence, which is listed on the city links I have posted above.

4. Ontario does not require a blood test to get married. Thank God! Stupid eugenic practice.

I hope that helps those of you who wanted to know about marriage licences in Ontario. It's not too complicated but it's nice to see the comparisons laid out for you. Btw, I just noticed that Vaughan requires that you HAVE to provide your birth cirtificate as one piece of ID and citizenship cards are not valid as a second piece of ID (even though Toronto does the opposite!). Ethnocentric much? Why don't they just say that immigrants are unwelcome. Fuckers.

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Huge Update

Ams, April 18, 2009 at 8:38 AM

So I'll make this one mega-huge post and update about all the things we've done for the wedding recently and things I still have to do.

Jack and I asked Jack's aunt (hi Theresa! I know you read this. =_o) to play the piano at the wedding ceremony. She has her Masters in music from UofT so we're pretty lucky to have her play for us. We're still selecting which songs we want played during the ceremony - wedding party walking down the isle, us walking down the aisle, during the signing of the registry, and leaving the chapel. My mom really wants a hymn sung at some point during the ceremony, so we have to pick one for that too. Any suggestions for any part?

We also bought our wedding rings a while back. I got mine the week after we ordered them and Jack's only came in this week. We have to go pick his up but I'm going to take mine back and ask if I can downgrade it. after trying it out when i got home I felt that hte band was too wide. It looks stupid on my short fingers. I didn't really notice that my engagement ring narrows in at the top, making it look smaller. So the wedding ring looks too big and very mismatched next to it. I really hope they won't give me a hard time for wanting to ge the next size down. I'm assuming they won't though. Who would deny a downgrade? But we shall see...

The weather has been pretty nice the past week. On Thursday Jack and I took advantage of the nice weather and decided to walk around Toronto looking for locations for our engagement shoot. We really want to do something in Toronto since we love living in the city so much. I especially like how there are both old and new elements all over the city. We saw some random locations where you walk by brick walls and iron gates with a tall glass and metal building down the street. I love it. We're going to check out the distillery district this weekend to see how we like it. I'm hoping to decide on a location soon so that we won't have to keep looking.

I have to start making a list of photographs that we have to take after the ceremony. I've been told by a few people that the family & friends official picture taking is one of the most stressful/ chaotic parts of the day. A lot of times guests don't know what's going on or who is supposed to be in which picture. So I'm going to try to reduce this stress by making a list of the order of pictures as well as who should be in what picture. I'm hoping this will give greater order and organization as well as minimize the bickering from guests who want to give in their two cents about what pictures should be taken. I'm contemplating sending out the final list to our guests too so that they know what to expect, but I'm not sure if everyone will appreciate it. I know some people get pissy when you tell them what to do, even if it is for your wedding.

We're going to pack away all our wedding stuff soon and then continue with our DIY projects after we settle into the condo. We were going to make our own wedding programs but we've decided we don't have time and would rather just order them. I've been scouting out businesses with fair prices and quality products, and I've narrowed it down to two vendors. They are online though so I'm hoping that when we get the programs they will be as good as they look in the pictures. If not, oh well. We saved time by not making them. =P

I still have to order the centerpieces and hair accessories for myself and the BMs. I guess I don't have to wait until after the move to do this. We've booked our food taste testing and my hair and makeup trial for next month. We're hoping to also book in our engagement shoot and cake taste testing. I have to call the florist and place our order...apparently e-mail isn't good enough. Eesh! I'm such an online person. I can't wait until more people become this way too.

I still have to figure out what I'm going to wear for jewelry for the ceremony. My mom is insisting on me wearing a necklace even though Jack will be putting the mangalasutra on me during the ceremony. I think it's stupid, especially since you won't be able to see the necklace on me when i wear the sari. Speaking of saris, my mom tried teaching me how to wear one last weekend. She let me borrow a sari so that I could practice here. I need to get on that.

Still waiting on 23 people to RSVP. *sigh*

Okay, that's enough for one post. I need to get a few more things done before Jack wakes up. He got mad at me this morning because I woke him up before 7. I hope he doesn't stay grumpy today. [edit 9am] Just asked Jack when he wants to get up and he said noon. Yesterday he told me he wanted to leave the house by 10am...looks like another day where we don't get much done. *sigh* [/edit]

Oh fuck. I just got a Rogers message that we've used 75% of our monthly usage already. Screw you Rogers! Stop invading my browser! We live right next to their evil empire, btw.

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Ams' DIY Project #1 - Kusudama

Ams, March 21, 2009 at 12:16 PM

So one of the DIY (do-it-yourself) projects that we are taking upon for the wedding are to make our own ceremony decorations. Our venue needs little to no decoration whatsoever because it is already simple and elegant, which is exactly what we want. We are going to make kusudamas to hang on the outside of pews though just so that our isle photos won't look too bungata. A kusudama is a Japananese origami ball, originally folder all by hand and using only paper to assemble together. The one we are going to make uses glue so technically it isn't a real kusudama, but whatever. We first made a tester one out of white printer paper and white glue, which I would not recommend to anyone to use as final products. We made a second one using actual origami paper and rubber cement which came out exceptionally well. It's amazing how proper products can make all the difference in quality. So here are the stages of our second trial kusudama. All prices are what we paid in Canadian dollars and were rounder up to the next dollar.

1. Here are the products we used. Rubber cement ($2) from Curry's Art Store, pack of 50 sheets of 15cm x 15cm origami paper ($4) from Curry's Art Store, fabric rope ($2 - $.50 per meter) from Fabricland (what a shitty website!), and a pack of four cushion tassles ($4) from Fabricland. So to make eight fully round kusudama would cost us less than $30. Since we're probably only going to make half circles it will be even less. =D

2. Fold one petal using one sheet of 15cm x 15cm origami paper using these directions --> Traditional Bloom/ Morning Dew/ Morning Glory. Man this one has a lot of names. o_O

3. Glue two petals together using a light coat of rubber cement between them and hold together like this. Rubber cememnt dries A LOT faster than white glue and I found it was a lot less messy to work with and easier to wipe away and clean up.

4. Continue to glue the petals one at a time together allowing each glued part to fully dry before moving onto the next petal. Here is one with two petals next to a complete flower with five petals.

5. Here is a picture of a flower next to my head to give you an idea of its size. However my head is unusually small in comparison to other people.

6. This kusudama requires twelve flowers to be made, which will take you 60 sheets. If you are going to make a half a circle then you will only need to make six flowers per unit (30 sheets). I turned one to the side so you can see what it looks like in the back. Yes I know this picture only has ten flowers. I think I got impatient and wanted to take a picture. =P

7. To assemble the kusudama together into the ball stage start gluing the flowers together. Again, wait until one part dries before starting to glue on other sections. This only takes a minute or two so be patient otherwise it will look sloppy. Trust me! The first two flowers are easy, but once you get to the third and yonder it gets tricky. You will have to glue them to more than two petals in the later stages so I would advise gluing two petals and waiting until those dry before gluing the flower to the third, and then the fourth. This just helps keep the flower in place so that it doesn't dislocate from the position you want it to be in.

8. Half of the kusudama (6 flowers) will look like this from the back. It's not really necessary to make sure the back spikes all line up since nobody looks there anyway. From this stage you would glue the ribbon/string/twine/rope that you want to use to hang your kusudama. If you want to use it as a topiary then you would glur your dowel at this point too.

9. Tada! This is what it looks like when it's done. I only did a half one so that it can be flush against the pew.

Our final ones will be red and gold. Hopefully they will all come out as well as this one did.

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