MC Honeybee Wedding: The photo of us 1

Say " I do", in what cost?

I still got lots of complement about our wedding from friends and net friends. They keep wondering how much I have spent on our big day. Just so today I was working on a "project" and browsing some wedding related website again. I, too, started to wondering , if this wedding is not under my super tight budget management, how much would it cost normally?


When I planned my wedding, I spent months to look for venues, food and interviewing staffs. Not only I compare their price, I also made lots of custom arrangement to lower the cost. For example, we didn't use a catering company. The buffet style reception and open bar we wanted to serve in our wedding was simple way over the budget we have. A menu like us, which had all you can eat fleshy open raw oyster, sashimi, crab claw, lamp chop, BBQ sucking pig and more, would easily go over $60 CAD per head. Besides, it is extremely hard to find one single caterer that can produce all these fresh and tasty food. At the end, my solution was order each dish from different restaurant and have my closed family and friends to pick it up for me. And I also hired an individual chef term to manage the buffet station for me. As a result, I hot my hotel like buffet station with good foods and fine dinning services. This is just one example how I stretched my budget and human resource to produce a wedding in unbelievably low cost.

Anyway, this is a little summary of my budget:

My original budget projection is $12000. Honestly, this number is impossible to support the fanciness of my wedding. But I actually made this number with a few hundreds dollars less. These all thanks to our dearest dearest friends who thought in big helpful gifts one after one. We don't have to pay for our 3 nights of wedding stay in 4-stars hotel. We don't have to pay for the wedding hair styling for me my wedding parties. We also don't have to pay for all the custom invitation and wedding program fan prints. All these come up to a total of over $1500 CAD extra.

To produce a wedding of the same size and same level of fanciness in Canada,  but without all these gift from our friends and my super budget effective arrangement, such as whole lots of DIY and sourcing directly from factory in China. The same wedding will cost:

A little bit of video to share~

Honey made a wonderful blog about our wedding day.  I did the editing for our wedding video. Unfortunately, due to privacy reason, I cannot post all the videos publicly. So, I made this short video for those who cannot see the videos in my facebook.

Thank you for being so interested in our wedding.

Our wedding post is finally up!!

Haha, I didnt write it but honey did.

Thanks to Candice's pictures, honey made a picture blog about the wedding day. Yeah, I dont have to write then. But I am working on the wedding video editing. You can find the videos in my facebook.

Remember to check it out~

Please also check out the wedding day blogging in honey's blog:

http://monkeyrpn.blogspot.com/2010/07/married-life.html

Thanks

Thank you forgiving us an unforgetable wedding

Dear our honorable friends,
Thank you so much for sending us all the congratulations and generous gifts. You all enlightened our wedding and gave us a best day to remember for the rest of our life. May and I are trying to settling all the wedding remind errands at the moment. Please wait for us. We will definitely send out a thank you card to each and everyone of you later to show our appreciation. We will also update our blog and pictures very very soon.

Best wishes,

Carman and May

The Ceremony Song: Feels Like Home

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am7EI5tdaX4&feature=related

I am so happy to see my parents again~

Today,June 15, my parent arrived in Vancouver finally. We haven't see each other for 2 years.  They brought everything that I had ordered from Hong Kong and passed the custom just fine!

I am so happy to see them. I cant wait to show my mum my dresses and the dress I picked up for her. She loves what I chose for her.  And when she saw me in the dress, I asked her if she felt emotional to see me in the dress. It's so funny how she replied me. She said she felt joyful rather than emotional.  Unlike other parents who may feel that they are going to give away their daughter, she feels just fine to know she's actually gaining another daughter. It's so much better when I am gay. hahaa~~

I just really glad to see how supportive they are. My mum can't wait to start work on my wedding stuffs. My dad is super curious on everything we do and want to get involve on my DIY project immediately. Consider how a "Traditional Chinese Big Man" he is that never want to deal with any housework, my heart is all warm and touch to see him wrapping the favors...

I feel so light to have my mum next to me and help with the wedding. Yeah!!

I love you, mum and dad!!