It's hard to believe in 2 months I will be jetting off with the love of my life and my parents for our wedding in Hong Kong. There have been a few ups and downs along the way, but mostly it has been easy flying, but now that it's sooooo close, I'm feeling a lot of emotions; happy, excited, nervous, anxious...I think that's totally normal, especially because its the 'unknown' of things to come. 
As K and I live on the other side of the world, it's been long distance planning with his parents, who've taken the time to do most of the groundwork, and organised everything for us. It's kind of like planning a wedding over Skype and photos sent by email. I'm positive his parents have done an awesome job and I can't wait to just walk into my wedding banquet and see how wonderful it is!
I'll be posting more of our Hong Kong wedding updates as the weeks pass, and I still have an enormous amount of packing to do for not only myself, but helping my parents as it's their first time overseas! Exciting!
In the meantime, I hope you like this little gem. This is my wedding band we bought last year in HK, so I could wear it on my other hand as a reminder of our first wedding!

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Whilst we were in Hong Kong, my wonderful finance bought me these beautiful handmade slippers after one of my dress fittings. They were so pretty we got a purple pair for my mum as well. Aren't they super gorgeous?! I almost feel like Dorothy from The Wizard Of Oz because they are so vibrant! I love these soo much!

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The whole purpose of our Hong Kong trip this year, was for us to not only wind down and relax a little from our jobs, but to attend K's cousin - Matthew, and his bride to be Blanche's wedding. I'd never seen a traditional Chinese wedding before, apart from what I'd seen on You Tube. The day was an early start, and a late night, so we were definitely ready for bed by the time we arrived home! We were able to take lots of photos of the days events which I'll explain below. I've broken this up into two parts, the traditional tea ceremony, and the church ceremony & reception :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our day started at 7.30am, we woke up and got ready, as we had to leave at 9.45am to go to Matthews parents house in Ma On Shan for the traditional tea ceremony. It was a high rise apartment and the view was amazing. A massive window of sea views and a great view of the water park that was close by! All the girls, including the Groom's mothers sisters wore flower armbands, which we wore all night. Must say it did go well with the dress I wore later on for the reception! I had photos with my mother in laws sisters which was nice, now I have something to put in my photo album :)

LTR: With my flower wristband / My gorgeous man! / Cute pic of us!

Me & my mother in laws sisters. My MIL is on the far right :)

The Bride & Groom arrived just after 11am, and they both wore traditional costumes, which were so beautiful! After greeting everyone, the ceremony began. I would imagine with conducting the tea ceremony with most of their relatives, kneeling for the long period of time would have hurt, or either, you'd have very good leg muscles! Fortunately for me, I will only have to kneel for a short time at our wedding in March, as my knees probably wouldn't hold up that long!

The Bride and Groom arriving for the tea ceremony

Giving of gifts (red envelopes) Should also mention this is my father in law!

The Bride and Groom with the Grooms parents

I'm very lucky to have been able to witness such a great event, and it makes me a bit less worried and more happier that I know roughly how the day will go for myself and K. (Which by the way in other news, my two custom made dresses are finally finished, and OMG, I cannot believe how BEAUTIFUL they are. Our tailor did a superior job and I'm absolutely elated!)
Stay tuned for Part II of Matthew & Blanche's wedding!

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Sorry everyone! I know I haven't updated in over a week, I'm currently in Hong Kong at the moment, and I haven't had a spare chance to post any updates. I'm using my old iPhone, instead of my usual one for safety reasons, but I'm really regretting it because the camera is just SO crap! So I haven't even updated my Instagram for that reason. 
The past few days have been an absolute blur trying to get everything organised for our Hong Kong wedding next March, so lots of dress fittings, shoe fittings, decoration scouring and dinners. I unfortunately fell sick early Monday morning - which could only be described as hell. But I am better now finally and am able to think of shopping adventures again! Yay!
Yesterday I had my makeup and hair trial with K's brothers lovely girlfriend and her friend. We were supposed to be doing the trial at K's parents house, however we ended up doing it at his brothers office, complete with studio lighting and filming which was interesting! I think they did a pretty good job on me, although there are a few little changes I'd like before settled on the 'look'. I have another trial coming up next week so I'll see how it goes! Meanwhile, here are some photos of the afternoon :)

I promise I will try and update more frequently over the next few days, I'm hoping to get some more camera gear and lighting so I can better improve the blogging experience!

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