My now fiancé popped the question in August last year so I’m excited to be sharing the details of our wedding planning over the coming months. We are having our ceremony and reception here in Perth in October with our friends and family, and a second Chinese wedding dinner mainly for family in Singapore a few weeks later.

As of today we have 9 months to go until our big day and I’m pleased to say that we have ticked off a large chunk of my “wedding to do list”. We have venues booked for both events, a bilingual celebrant, ordered my wedding dress, purchased bridesmaid dresses, a bright colour theme and locked in our DJ, photographer, videographer, florist and hair and makeup people!

We are foregoing save the date invitations and jumping straight to the wedding invites and have Aimee from Aimee Paints designing our invitations. I found her via Hello May, which is a bridal magazine that I’ve fallen head over heels in love with and have taken a lot of inspiration from. Aimee is based in the UK so we have asked her to design our invites that we will then get printed here. We received our first draft just before Christmas and I can’t wait to share them here once they’ve been posted out!

There are still a few other things to be decided on including suits, transport, wedding cake, wedding favours and possibly a dessert table. At one stage we even thought about making our own naked wedding cake but tossed that idea out pretty quickly, simply because we would have no idea what we were doing!

We also have a few Chinese cultural traditions to consider and prepare for leading up to our wedding including the Goh Dai Lai (engagement / dowry ceremony), hair combing ceremony the night before and tea ceremonies on the day. It’s been pretty interesting to learn along the way and something that I look forward to sharing as well.