Drafted Itinerary on the Wedding Trip

It's really difficult to plan for a trip that is not only for yourself. As our wedding will held in Sydney, we decided to have our honeymoon in Australia right after the wedding.

Of course, we do want more friends to attend our wedding. So, we must plan for a trip that will also value for them to join. We love to share our happiness with friends. So, we don't mind our honeymoon Will have the participation of others. Let's have fun!

However, to ask the friends to join, we better work out a draft itinerary and budget plan for them first! It's really really so tired in doing this. You need to do many researches. Browse through all the tourist guide books, browse through the Internet, search the website of hotels and airlines, ask peoples for comments, search for local tours information. Then, you needed to analyse the information, compare the price, try to figure out the interest of different peoples....... It's so complicated! And, the most important of all, the trip should be for US!! We should have fun in the trip!

After several months hardworking, the final drafted itinerary have been worked out!!!!! Great! Hope that it's workable.

Though the budget will be high for each people (Estimated HK$35000), I think it's worth to visit Australia!!

Suggested Hotels for Stay:

2 Nights in SYD: Medina Harbourside hotel Sydney
5 Nights in Tasmania:
Star Apartments Hobart
Somerset on the Pier (Hobart)
A Tamar Valley Resort (Launcestor)
3 Nights in Cairns: Waters Edge Hotel (Cairns)

Local Tours in Tasmania:

Chocolate Factory, Richmond, Tasmania Devil
http://www.affiliate.viator.com/brochure/product_show.jsp?ID=1010&PRODUCTID=1016&CODE=3998_776&AUID=3963

Launceston 3 Days Tour
http://www.discovertasmania.com/home/index.cfm?siteid=960&display=product&productid=9002438

Penguins & Places
http://www.tourstogo.com.au/tour.1048


Local Tours in Cairns:

Great Barrier Reef Adventure Tour
http://www.tourstogo.com.au/tour.81

Ballooning , Tjapukai, Skyrail, Kuranda+Train+Cairns Beaches
http://www.tourstogo.com.au/tour.1547

Balloon & Fitzroy Island
http://www.tourstogo.com.au/tour.4516

Kuranda Scenic Railway, Village, and Skyrail (1:30pm)
http://www.tourstogo.com.au/tour.3313


** More could be found in http://www.tourstogo.com.au

Wedding Gown for Wedding Ceremony (Ratna Dolma)

Just back dated the process of how I chose for the wedding gown in Jan 07.

As our wedding ceremony will be held in Sydney, we decided to tailor-made a wedding gown in HK instead of rent for one.

I do love simple style wedding gown with A-line cutting. I think ball gown is just outdated. In addition, as it will be an outdoor wedding, I think it's no need to have much beading. Cutting is my major concern. In addition to A-line, Sunny have a special request. He said my chest is the most sexy area. He think V-shape neck line with spaghetti straps will suit me most! Yep, I do love deep V neck line and I think it's so sexy. I tried to find reference photos and a suitable shop to tailor made that.

After reviewing some comments from the forum of ESD Wedding, I sorted out 2 shops in Central. One is TinaEllen and the other is Ratna Dolma. Sunny said he knows Tina from TinaEllen as she's the dresser in TVB before. So, I made the appointment for the two shops on 6 Jan 07. I think the gown could be ready before March and I can use the gown for engagement photos shooting.

We stopped at Ratna Dolma first. The owner of this shop is Ellen. She's a woman in her middle age around 4x. She's so nice and can show her profession in tailoring. I think she have pretty much experience. Though she will not have sketches before making the gown, she will have a mock up first for you to try the size and cutting. Sunny think that as we want to tailor made the gown, actually we didn't need to walk around different shop. If Ellen is good at tailoring, we can just told her our needs and figure out how to make the gown. So, he suggested to turn down TinaEllen and spend more time with Ellen of RD.
Yes, he was right. We then decided to tailor made our gown in RD.

Later on, I have think carefully that if we use the gown also in E-photos shooting, as we would have our doggies with us, I'm afraid they will make the gown to have stains. Thus, I think I better bought another cheaper gown for E-photos shooting. I then called Ellen and ask her not to hurry as I can wait until later this year. Ellen said it is fine for her and she ask me to fit again on July or August.

The above is the first mock up of my wedding gown. And I've tried an evening gown at RD. That EG is so perfect with lots of beading. That EG make us feel that RD have good tailoring. That reinforce us to make the gown in RD.

Wedding Accessories

I've bought several necklace to match with my gowns and evening dress. The accessories are quite expensive and heart shaped stimulated diamonds necklace costed me HK$2000.

Wedding Gown Style References

Just grabbed from the internet and magazines some wedding gown styles that I preferred.

Regalo Wedding Rings

I have taken several pics of our wedding rings last week using my Nikon D80 with the kit lens. The rings were from Regalo, a Japanese brand. The rings are so special that can let us to engrave our name outside the rings. Though the rings were so expensive, for what they're worth, they're exquisite. The rings cost us more than HK$20000.

Actually for such a price, we can buy a so called famous brand. At first, as I loved Cartier especially her watches (actually I've 4 Cartier Watches), I decided to have the Cartier "LOVE" series as our wedding bands. However, as usual, the services were so bad when we visited their shop at Pacific Place. After looking for several rings, Sunny thought that the style is too common and there are more and more people have Cartier as wedding rings. This time, Sunny is right! So we tried to look for other brand. By incident, I found out Regalo from internet and the most lucky that is, Chow Sang Sang in Hong Kong is the sole agent in HK for Regalo. We then no need to go to Japan! The story of our wedding rings was that.