My Vendors Listing: Part 1: Nikah

This gonna take a long long long entry. I shall segregate them into 3 segments of my events: Solemnization, Malam Berinai & Reception. Let's start with Solemnization first.

As I mentioned in my earlier entry, you have to start surveying vendors/service providers as early as possible and always watching out any of their promotions. May it be blog hopping, stalking other people's Instagram (as they always hashtags and tagging their vendors), Facebook pages like yada yada. Everything it takes to get the best and affordable with your budget of course.

1) Dowry/Hantaran Decorator
During my engagement last year, I thought I had a gifted hand or any hidden talents to decorate my own dowry. Oh boy, I was so wrong! It didn't turn out good and at last I let my auntie figured them out for me. Ahaha. So, I have wasted my money to buy all the decoration stuffs and I still have the leftovers until now. Buat semak rumah seriously! And tell you, they're not cheap either. So, I have set my target to find the dowry with a budget of RM100 per tray the most. I have few decorators in my list already and contacted them. But, Allah swt is a great planner after all. While I was stalking Dr Ezani's wedding on IG (Winner of 1st season Masterchef), she mentioned about her hantaran decorator and I contacted her immediately. And yay! lucky me as she was having a fresh flowers hantaran promotion. Can you believe it that I got only RM50.00 per tray for my hantaran??!! A freaking RM50.00 for fresh flower hantaran!! Even when I told my family and friends, they couldn't believe it because they were so pretty and exclusive looking. Alhamdulillah, it was my REZEKI indeed because I always wanted fresh flowers hantarans and Allah eased my way. I also ordered my hand bouquet for Nikah and Reception from her. She is Yanie from The Craft Potion. You may want to check out her Instagram: thecraftpotion and her Facebook as well. Link is here. You'll be amazed with her works. She is really a nice girl to work with and patient enough to follow my taste. (Just because I can't decide what I really wanted LOL). She understands your needs and will try to fulfill it as much as she could. I love you girl!

2) Dais
As for dais, I didn't waste my time surveying as I chose the vendor I used for my engagement before. Azura from Pearl Art Creative. She is one talented girl. I love her touch for the dais. Her taste is chic and romantic and she understand what I wanted too. Poor her. I was so indecisive!! She's so patient with me though! At the end of the day, I chose white flower and earthy theme for my dais to match with my Hantaran's theme. Alhamdulillah, another rezeki for me as she also was having promotion for fresh flowers dais! Ya Allah, you're the best planner and thank you for easing my ways towards building this Masjid :) Azura charged RM800 for mini fresh flower dais decorating and since I added chairs and Set Renjis, total was RM1000. That was reasonable right?? When she and her team set up the dais at my house a night before, I was worried sick. That was because I expected a MINI dais but the one she was setting up was huge! Didn't look like MINI at all! I was worried because I thought she thought I wanted a normal dais instead of mini. So, I was calculated the cash I have in my wallet to pay her because for normal dais, the charges is more (just in case). When I encountered her, Alhamdulillah, another rezeki (Masha Allah), she said yes, it was supposed to be a mini dais but since I'm her repeated customer, she upgraded for me. Semoga murah rezeki dan semoga perniagaan semakin maju my dear. Go like her page in Facebook (Pearl Art Creative) link here and she's on Instagram as well.

3) Photographer/Videographer
PHOTOGRAPHERS ARE IMPORTANT! Yes, they are. Of course you would want to hire someone whom you could trust to capture all your special moments right? :) I hired Ministry of Moment as my official photographers for my 3 events. Siapa tak kenal Ministry of Moment kan?? they need no introduction. Photographers are my top priority ever since we have decided to get married. Well, after booking our hall and we got a date, I booked my photographers straight away somewhere in March. At first I wanted to hire Udey Ismail and Mukhriz Latif Photography. Too bad, they didn't respond to my inquiry :( And they only replied after weeks I confirmed with MOM, haihs (and that's after I sent repetitiously). I always wanted to hire Udey and Mukhriz because I've been a fan of their works ever since they're with CST. No rezeki in this they say..hmmphh. Besides photographer, I also got myself a Videographer and Live Update team. Not my initial intention at first but they offered a good deal and payment plan during Pameran Pengantin whilst for the live update, I was charged only RM100 for each event. Lucky me yay! My videographer was Shutter Place and live update also from the same team, Shutter Feed. Do check out their Facebook here and Instagram as well :) And oh, please seach for #hafizaimi in Instagram and you can check out their beautiful works there.

4) Dress
This is also most important part. You can either rent it, buy it or get it tailored. I asked several places and they charged quite the same. I did ask from some famous people as well and their charges are beyond my budget, so thanks but no thanks :P Oh, I got my Nikah dress from The Ninas. Nina Natessa is her name. Got their contact from Maria Elena's blog, that's her cousin by the way. I love her beadworks on Maria's dress for her wedding. Since I got no time to buy the linen (It was already October I think!), I let Natessa do all the works. And she did wonders!! Luckily she accepted my last minute request. Well, many people contacted her ever since Maria's review. I love love love love my Nikah dress. I love it so much that I don't want to wear it because I'm afraid I'm gonna ruin it! Haha. I did the design myself *clap clap*. Inspiration of this dress was from Twilight (the back button) and I stole a bit of looks from Innai Red (Gosh, I can't afford Innai Red). Everyone was complementing my Nikah dress..Hihihihihi. Most of the designers/tailors I asked, their price range are between RM1.5k-RM2k. Oh, go check their page at The Ninas. My package was inclusive of veil and dress. For my scarf (not my initial plan to wear it though) I bought from Marshmallow Scarf in Instagram. I bought two types, chiffon and satin (just in case). I bought it one week before the wedding. Such a last minute decision!

5) Make-Up Artist
As for the make up artist, I hired Nina Faressa. Yes, she's a sister of Nina Natessa. The Ninas is actually sisters providing tailoring and make up services for bride to be :) I love her touch. Simple and soft. She is really careful and asking me whether I like it or not, darker or lighter, that way or this way. Unlike some of the make up artist who are so stubborn and not listening to what we wanted and making us look like Mak Ayam in the end. Make up our face as in they are a colouring book. Pfft. (yes..based on my own experience). Her charges quite affordable. RM300 per session and additional charges for mileage. Her session include pre-wedding make up test. Yes, she will come one week earlier to test make up on our face and discuss on theme, colour, with or without eye lashes yada yada. To making sure you got what you wanted on your big day.

6) Shoes
Well...I just bought my shoes from Charles and Keith. Last minute buying after finding out that the bridal boutique (for my reception) don't have any shoes in my size (Size 5 is common kan?!). Thought of buying from Christy Ng whom is famous for bridal shoes but I just couldn't find a time to go to PJ. Too bad, my shoes is like one size bigger from my actual size!!!! Well, when I bought it, it was fit. But when it comes the day, it became a little loose and I didn't wear it anymore since :(

See..I put the plaster (whatever you want to call it) and it still loose!

7) Welcome Board
This welcome board is inclusive of Thank You Tags, 20 badges and 2 Guest Books. It's about RM580 of the package. Again, I grabbed this promotion from Facebook and Pameran Pengantin. This welcome board comes together with its standee. You may want to check their page at: here.

8) Catering
As for catering, I used my Maybank colleague's sister. She always cater for our Maybank small event and her food is so goooooood. Since my solemnization was in the morning, we ordered stuffs for breakfast, Nasi Lemak, Bihun Goreng, Karipap and some other kuih and hot drinks. Nenek also ordered Rendang Ayam Pucuk Ubi from our neighbour in kampung..Yumms. Alhamdulillah, everything was good. (No, I didn't eat much pffft)

That are all I could think about for now. It's been 3 months since the wedding and I probably missed out some of the details. Will update more soon if the memory comes :P Till then~