Sending invitation cards sounds easy….i hand the cards over to the receiver, remind him of the timing and invite him to my wedding…

sounds easy?

what if the receiver is of a older generation and starts asking who else can he invite? and he wants another 1 to 2 tables for his friends. what will you do?

to add on: to push away the idea, the parent reminded that person that the groom’s father had long passed away and it is not necessary to invite that group of guests.

hmmm…what if this statement is said in front of the groom?…not one time…not twice…

but a total of 6 times in a time span of 2 hours…

and i’m the groom.

… … … (silence, my mind is blank, what should I say? what should I reply? Or should I have said anything at all?…)

delievering the wedding invitation cards has been a torturous experience…at least to my soul and mind…i don’t know if i should smile or cry when reminded that my father is not around…

once said is enough…

but …
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?It may come as a surprise to most brides that, originally, the wedding cake was not eaten by but thrown at the bride! It developed as one of the many fertility traditions surrounding a wedding. Luckily this custom evolved into actually eating the cake.

Today’s Traditions

? Most people don’t associate the wedding cake with having lots of children anymore, instead the wedding cake has become kind of a first meal for the bride and groom. Today’s couples cut a slice before anyone else and feed it to each other, symbolizing the support they’ll provide through their many years together. In addition, the confections themselves have become a showpiece instead of a symbol – you can get a wedding cake with a fountain in it, pieces of infrastructure (bridges and such), or cakes that you could honestly mistake for a present or a hat or other inanimate objects.

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For this week, I had completed some of the necessary things to be done. I met up with my uncle who owns a printing firm and he is willing to print my inserts at zero-profit. (If you go to outside printer, they may charg you at about 80cents per insert)

Inserts are the little piece of paper in between the wedding invitation cards:

Below are the 11 info you need to fill in before you go to the printer:

1) couples names in Chinese and English

2) couples’ parents names in Chinese and Mandarin

3) Hotel’s ballroom in Chinese and English, inclusive of address in both languages

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I thought that I can send the wedding card inserts for pirnting today. As we were looking through the contents in an insert, never did I know I was still short of many information.

These are the 8 required information you need before you can send?the inserts?for printing:

1) English name of bride and bridegroom

2) Chinese names of bride and bridegroom

3) English names of fathers of both parties

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I have just added the wedding packages of the different hotels and restaurants. These files are sent to me by the banquet departments of the hotels and restaurants when I enquired about their charges of their wedding packages.

These are in pdf (acrobat) or doc (MS word) format.

This is the link:

https://romance-fire.com/wedding-packages-for-lunch-dinner/