I'm SO HAPPY recently coz I know more Bride-zilla gal friends from online frend (talking via emails or msn) and NOW BECOME REAL FRIENDS - we talking through phone and even face-to-face~!!!
I feel life is so great coz I get to know them, share our experiences and help each other to become a Smart & Pretty Bride-to-be ~*^.^*~!!

Cheers to ChienHoon a.k.a Cloud and Daphne a.k.a baby **^.^*~*^.^*!!

More exciting story and 'miracle' coming soon

*happy

10 Oct 2008

Today, I was doin a outdoor shoot where the receiption there was super bad...Mr Ng manage to reach me and told me he got a call from my SA...told him that "how come so late not confirm the big potrait?" "Why write all the bad things about us? Other customer can see...blablabla"
WHAT!? Why pick-on Mr Ng to 'indirectly complain' his own wife-to-be?!? Sorry people, Mr Ng is one-line with me. After I heard this from him...My fire startup!! Why can't they talk properly?I immediatly walk out of the shooting studio, in the middle of the road i stand (whr the receiption is abit better) i called back.

Big album with 30 over pages - I confirm de! Mini album - I never seen the layout b4 but i give them a Yes to go ahead! Left this big potrait i havn't confirm and they cannot start ANYTHING to process the photos?!?....and tell me their designer is sick lar, mc lar will be late to touchup blablabla.... Excuse me!That is soooo NOT an excuse to client. Wht u expact me to do to solve? do the touchup myself?! Give more time?! ALREADY GIVE more then 5 months time after our PS...
*deep breath *deep breath~ I called back and i remember i sound very angry, i said "i'll come straight tonite after my work is done and confirm with you EVERYTHING! so u all can start working on the album!"

STRAIGHT after my shooting @ SunwayDamansara (so far from town) I SPEED to meet them. RAINING! JAM! I gone through all tht with my heart beating like the thunder storm and falling rain, I rush rush rush...

Reach there around 8.45pm *darn sure they give me face one...I reach thr so late. We went in, my SA was busy with her appointed customer upstairs so she assign a SA called AhYong to serve us...we decide there and then with few admenments.

There were a few customers sitting n waiting to collect their AD stuff. I saw this couple...I think she is a member of MB also...coz i saw her photos somewhere in mywedding.com b4...not sure...but if you see this: Let me know and Happy Wedding~!!*^.^* ur bear-bear front car decor tht JM did for you is VERY PRETTY~~!! *^.^*

Anyway..back to the story...then came this girl...I always like to see her eyeliner *hihihi Pam ^.^
When ever she see Mr Ng, she said he remind her of her korean customer...and today finally she show me his picture....MUAHAHA She's right also...he does look abit like Mr Ng exspecially the smile...Nice talking to you, Pam!

So, finally we decided the potrait! Set the date of album collection, probably around 1st or 2nd Nov08 *^.^* Hope everything will be fine....*praying hard everynite
Oh! We also decide on our Car Decoration~! Light Blue+white Net Ribbons~~ *our color theme! And also my AD wedding flower bouquet too~~! Set set set *^.^*!

Now, just hope they'll do my photo album nicely with nice laminations and finishing. Yosh! Gambatee JM!

23 Spet 2008

We went to our BS for my EG gown fitting. HO-HO-HO...guess wht happend to my gown fitting?
Hum....something out of our expectation or u can say 'DIFFERENT' happend....yesss....VERY DIFFERENT...

As usual, after work I rush down to Pudu to get Chenseng, had our 'short' dinner and head to JM for my EG gown fitting. What I expacted for my EG: Chinese Collar gown - abit eastern feel (konon-nya,ha!) But chinese collar in BLUE?!?....i dun think so...=( Nevermind, few days b4 I went to EG gown fitting, I'd asked some of the 'EXPERTS' in MB: ruby and Lil' angle ^.^!! THANK YOU so much for ur advises and tips on choosing a EG~~!! The words from u gals are very precious to me *^.^* and it brought me a very smooth, worry-less EG fitting..!

Ok..here goes. Once I entered JM, my SA was busy upstrairs, I was wondering 'wht's she doing? must be 'sien to layan' me de. Coz me so picky mar :P' So we went upstrairs....I was so SURPRIZED!! She had already hand-pick selected almost ALL the BLUE Evening Gown and hang nicely in a row for me *^.^*~~!! SO SWEET of her~~!! *gamdong neh

I browse through the BLUEss but dun hav chinese collar =( "Nevermind, you can still go pick wht u like and try...I just pick out so easy for u to see lor!" *thankyou so much, ahYee So, me and chenseng went to the rows of EGsssss and search...search....my SA also help to search. "Chinese collar mostly is red...can try...maybe nice..." So, she suggested 2 red EG for me:

This is the 1st EG I tried: Bright RED Chinese Collar Modified Mermaid Cut ^_^
- It's made out of RED SATIN
- It's collar is very high and foldable *suitable for long neck, broad shoulders bride
- From chest till knee lenght is all gathered satin, so can emphasized on the body curve, and also can hide tummy *suitable for very 'shapy' bride
- I LURRRVV the mermaid's tail *^.^* *it gives the side view of this gown is so 3D!

2nd: Chilli RED TUBE FULL A-LINE GLITTERED gown ^_^
-It's made out of VERY Glittering blinc blinc fabric~ so shinning!
- It has a slightly low waist additional gathered ribbon with 3 blinc diamontes ~so the 'audrey hepburn'!
*suitable for all size brides
- It's full A-line (with no can-can under the skirt) is so comfortable to walk with *especially during 'yam sheng'

Well, well...you must be guessing "Isn't your colour theme = BLUE? Silver?White?....Now, RED!?"
Eh-hum~~ paiseh everyone... I did try on the blue EGsss...the cutting/design/pattern...not up to my liking...and most of all, the shades of blue they have, not very suitable for my skintone =( Abit disappointed BUT not disappointed also coz I GOT A BETTER EG tht 'REVEALS' more of my 'beauty' then other blue EG (eh-hum! abit self-centered..i know...paiseh paiseh) So, my FINAL DECISION went to....*drumroll~~

Kathy's EG:
DEEP RED THAI SILK NARROW A-LINE with 2 piece Dropped Godet ~*^.^*~

- It's made out of Deep Red thai silk *makes my skin looks fairer
- It's cutting is so simple that really brings out my figure
- The shine of the Thai silk looks very classy too!
- The top part of this gown is only support by 3 narrow strape~ sp sexy~~!! with a blincblinc diamonte on each strape

- It's a low-cut at the back~ *phew~ with additional soft transperant long gathered chiffon dropped till the floor!
- There will be more new small blincs add on to the dropped godet *so when I walk table to table, I give the illusion of leaving glittery shines on the floor (like fairy hor~~!)
JM: Please add new blincs for me~! Thanks a thousand lots! I wanna become fairy~~ hahaha
So! I had a fun and satisfying EG fitting and Chenseng also had a relaxing time watching me 'transform'...'tranform'...and 'transform'....from east beauty to west pagent! *muahahaha
NEXT!! I'll be writting some IMPORTANT TIPS on how to choose EG! and MORE MORE drawings of EG that we found and 'explored'!! Be awaiting....*^.^*

We now are very BUSY with alot printing stuff...invatation card, slide presentation, doorgift, animation, car decor, house decor....SO MANY THINGS NEED TO DO! aaahhhhhh....

Well, step-by-step lor...So, with my Dad's HEI words...me n chenseng create a TRADEMARK (TM)for our wedding *^.^*~~! *drumroll ~~ ~~~~~ ~~~~~ TADA!

It will appear in our wedding album, our invatation card, slideshow....almost 'everywhere' !! hehehe... What do u think? open for comments comments...*^.^*v
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Called my mom n dad...told them what's the current status on our wedding preparations...hum....Don't Worry, girl...Be Happy *^.^* So, daddy wrote me some 'words of wisdom' (more like words of love...hihihi) for me. Here's a 'Hei':

This 'double happiness' chinese charactor - HEI...is written by

my beloved Daddy - Mr. Foo Yong Check *^.^*!

He wrote some other few words for our wedding invitation cards, wedding potriat and wedding slideshow! Can't wait to see the final artwork with my Daddy's master piece in it!! *happy *happy Hei..!Hei...!! HEI...!!!

Why is this happening!? I've already "give-in" and look at the brighter side on my 2nd demo with JM and already padam-api....Then today in MB, cloud massage me: Kathy! There's someone reply your comment in JM thread..go see! So I went to click... AND THIS IS WHAT I SAW!

"Hi Kathy,I'm also very worry about the album photography designs. So, last week I went to just married and they've showed me a lot designs.
I also asked about yours' designs, they told me that you have draw out by yourselve right? They also told me that you have additional extra printing the photography. You total have 16 stories right? I feel very suppricing because since you said you didn't like the photography then how come you additional extra photography?
I feel that your designs are more like normal fashion magazine designs not like wedding photography designs? Maybe you more prefer the square designs because I saw all your photography in square frame just like "bak, bak ,bak" the photography in your album also! But for me, I more prefer the designer profile because he's designs not only the square designs only. That is what I more prefer!"

What is this girl trying to say?!? First of all, I'm putting this in my blog because I suspect this is not a normal bride-to-be in MB. I checked her profile, she only post in JM thread and no other thread. Even if I'm wrong, I still wanna bring this up coz her words is sensetively treatening! AND insulting! ME and all the people who are HELPING me in my wedding album preparation such as: JM photographer - Alvin, who took very nice ps for me; JM designers - I dunno who do my album but so far, I talked to Storm and find tht he is a tolarate person and lastly, my SA - ahYee, eventhough sometimes, I know she finds me difficult to layan and thoguth her service is not good but still she do her job...AND WHO THE H*LL YOU THINK YOU ARE!!
I discuss with other bride friends and found out ALOT OF SUSPECTS! How come SHE got the privilage to view other's demo!? How come SHE know so many details about me n my SA conversations!? How come SHE sound so jealous because I added more poses to 16 stories?! How come SHE is so protective with the so-called 'designer profile'?! And what is wrong if I add stories?!?! WHAT IS SHE TALKING BOUT!?!
So this is my reply:"Hi FuiFui,In my previous post, I never complain bout the photography, only complain bout the demo. Wht is the 'additional extra printing'? Did you mean add poses? Yes, I like most of the pictures tht PG Alvin took for me...so I add poses But, our 1st demo turn out not really as what I expected...
Regarding the design you saw, I dunno which design they showed you..(1st one or admended one?) But anyhow, I have to admid that our album layout designs are not those 'super beautiful - award-winning' ones...wht i geram and not satisfied is: most of the time, they give excuses and explanations that are not clear and not very reasonable and all these will lead us to the 'anger' point (coz we dunno how things work, we r in the 'blur-zone' and need patience explainations).
Different ppl have their own preferences...infact, I saw my 2nd demo already and they did a nice job. So Fuifui, hav you seen ur demo? When is ur AD? I sincerely hope that you are happy with it. *All brides Rock!*"
So far, SHE didn't reply. But ...

"Maybe is their own staff!" one of my bride friend said.

WHT!?! OH-MY-GOD!!!

I HOPE THIS IS NOT THE TRUTH!! Why did SHE wanna do that?! INTENTION TO RUIN your customer who are ACTUALLY PAYING YOU?! ANNOY YOUR OWN CUSTOMER?! Spoil or cause DISASTER to your own customer's wedding happiness?! Most of all, DID SHE EVEN KNOW WHT SHE's SAYING?! Becoz of stupid things like this, SHE'll cause trouble to herself and her company!... y?Y?YY?

"Maybe they saw your angry post wanna take revange!" HUH? WHT!?!

Revange on customer's complain!? HELLOooo!! There are SO MANY COMPLAINS out there bout PROBLEM ISSUES in EVERY SINGLE Bridal House's: ABOUT THEIR LOUSY SERVICE, CHEATING AND STAFF'S BAD ATTITUDE....That are x100 times WICKED and CRUISED then my post! Why does SHE just pick on 'the-no-body-know-who-am-i' kathyfoo?! Wht's her problem?

For this moment, I still not sure who is this SHE that talks like this. But me and my bride friends will try to find out. And if...IF..IFFF SHE is what we mention above, we are seriously gonna take some action and I will so...soooo...REALLY LOOK DOWN on this person - insulting me and her own collegues!!
So I added another reply:"Hi Fuifui,Every customer have their own story to tell. I am amazed: how come you are able to know so much details conversation between me and JM staff?
Is your SA Ah Yee also? or you are JM's employee?
I never mention my profession in my blog or even in any of my post ler....strange that u can even bring up the demo tht JM did for us and compare with some 'normal magazine fashion designs'?? You sure u r talking the right person??
I believe every BS has their own designer profile that is good selling point for their client...and Fuifui, is actually good for them to know, you like their designer profile...so you can get your album ontime or even faster :)"
In this reply, I'm still cool with HER and told her that SHE has made a good choice by using the BS's designer profile...BUT I still wanna ask...."MISS AR, what is your problem? Maybe can tell us your stories and all of us brides in MB can help you!"
***Now, I know... out here, other then me, there are MORE ANGRY and WICKED customers that had sign-up to the same bridal house as me. Good luck to you, FuiFui and Good luck to you - JM coz need to handle MORE 'CHALLENGING' customer then me...GOOD LUCK!!***

After my 'very angry' post, I read them back myself...I REALLY sound angry!! scare myself abit here o.O Well, that is what I see, what I feel and my experiences, so I decided to keep it. *HA!
Is my blog~my diary~there's no need for me to explain myself. So...story continue...

12 Sept 2008
Straight after work, I drove to Pudu to meetup with Chenseng. There was quite abit of jam along the way, so I made a call to my SA told her: am on my way, will reach thr abit late....I'm just being a responsible customer to take the effort to inform u, so u can adjust ur timing or whtever. But instead she can answer me: u better come early lor, coz we are closing at 9pm. 9pm!? I thought usually is 9.30pm?! FINE!...I just ignore those excuses they like to use coz maybe she is worried tht things will happend like our 1st demo - they close shop/go home late...plus, I think she already 'sien' with us de... (too bad lar, I got a confused answer (*call) and I hav to mention it. And actually, she can just tell me straight that's her reason rather than leave me a confuse answer...aiiihhh)
Reach Pudu and got Chenseng de. He knew I came empthy stomach...and if I'm hungry, I'll have HOT temper..coz I hav serious gastric problem will go *ter-baboom! So he bought me noodles *^.^*
We reach thr 'round 8pm. This time we get to view the demo on their new LCD screen~*wow, very impressive! So, we browse through the layout..IS SO MUCH BETTER this time ~^.^~ When I say 'better' is purely from our point of view. Becoz I think the designers there wont feel the same...
Oh, b4 2nd demo, I collected a few JM brides layouts as references and see wht is their style, examples from Yenyin, cfchia, charlizenhorward...According to these couples, they face the some problem like me too - 1st demo teruk then after major changes, 2nd only ok abit. They also share with me some tips on how to deal with the problems: THANKS y'all, really appreciate it! All of your album looks so nice *^.^* Thanks for sharing too~~
So this time round, still got some minor changes that require their designer to help 'beautify' it..and I 'put-back' some of their in-house design style *hopefully they realise tht =)* And I really hope by now, they can understand what we want...Hopefully, the next demo can get final approval~!

*Chang *chang *chang and I'm Back!

Yesterday, me and chenseng went to our Bridal House to view the 1st draft of layout of our album (after photo choosing).

THAT'S IT! ST*PID BS!! You all REALLY LIGHT UP MY FIRE!!! Of all wedding memories, I hav the worst and biggest 'TORN' growing in my brain from now on!

28 Aug 2008

After work, I rush out of office coz need to meetup with JM for my 1st DEMO. There was jam outside coz of the roadblock for Merdeka rehersal BUT still I try my best to catch in time to get to JM for my 1st DEMO view. I was full of excitment and some expactations coz me n chenseng print out so many layouts and colour adjustments picture sample tht we prefer...and even regcommanded so many nice foreign websites for them as references. *Hoping they'll appreciate the hardwork we've done and save their time to think "Wht does this customer like ar?" "Wht can i do something with these pictures?" As per conversation we had with the JM designer, he said that he like to EXPLORE NEW stuff and like to try DIFFERENT kinda colour adjustment...so we though what we did here can REALLY help him to understand more bout us....BUT things were not even 10% of my expectation~! *feel like wanna cry again

After I fetch chenseng from LRT, we went JM terus with both empthy stomach. Reach JM, after some girl direct me to sit, nobody layan us...me n chenseng just sit thr...watching their stuff busy here busy thr... I cannot tahan de...so walk upstrairs and look for my SA Ah YEE. I didn't complain to her straight away why am waiting so long (coz I knw I just came, dun wanna sound so fierce, give face abit) So, I cari alasan looking for toilet. Konon-nya, she's serving some new couple for gown fitting, OLD customer like me come de no need serve lar!? Then Jocylen came with a few sheets of A4 print-outs. Chenseng get to see first while i'm in the toilet.

When I came out from the loo, NOBODY was sitting or serving chenseng - he is ALONE thr! So, I rush over and take my first look of those layouts.

OH-MY-GOSH! What is these?

Me n chenseng look at each other, shaked our heads and dropped our head. We strat to discuss abit. Still NOBODY come the serve us!!! What kinda presentation is this!?! *ANGRY

FINE!! We Do-It-Ourselve.
First thing I saw was: why is our skintone so pale? where is the BASIC touch-up (that infact, I've already circle them out on the polaroid!) I did told the designer, I want SOME of the pictures to enhance abit on the cyan BUT the whole picture also tone-up cyan untill it affect our skintone!?!?...The comparison is very far from the examples I print for them! Lazy work? or cannot achieve the standard? Some of the pictures looked wash-out!! They blame the printer and paper...COME-ON! Presentation like this to show client, you expect client will accept it blindly and say "OK-go ahead and print!"!?! The work is OVERALL NOT READY at all for presentation!
The layout looks like 5 minnute work!! Why? Pictures were just plonk in LIKE WHAT IT IS! No proper cropping, no creativity, no design! Got design also got error: What's with those unresolve WHITE SPACE FOR?!? I ask them, they told me:" You choose 3 pictures for this story only mar.(*one story meaning a double spread)." HELLO!?! If this is your excuse, what do you expect us client to do?! Solve the problem for you or teach you how to design?! Please bare in mind, we did so many 'homework' for them and this is their excuses.
SO! We did 'TEACH' them how to design. I have to SKETCH OUT ALMOST ALL THE NEW LAYOUT FOR THEM!! I hav to ask them for new sheets of A4 paper, I hav to use my own pen to trace back the measurement of the pages, I hav to sketch out the placing of the pictures, I hav to indicate the changes for them, I hav to think whether this picture got space to crop or not, I hav to think this picture can blow-up or not......!!! WHAT THE H*LL am I thinking and sketching like mad lady like that!?!? Now thinking about that night, I'm already ANGRY TO THE MAX!!
I pay MORE THEN RM4,000 and I hav to 'be creative' and think the design that I prefer, so you guys can just walk-away with EASY MONEY?! I tell you wht you BS, I did ALL THE HARDWORK on my1st demo view that nite itself, you may think i'm very demanding and being difficult BUT we already SAVE YOUR TIME AND YOUR BRAIN JUICE!! I can be MORE difficult by just saying:"I dun like, please change." Then, what I assume is you guys wll just cinchai layan us and give us 2nd admenmends, 3rd, 4th, 5th untill we get tired of it and go-on with the EFFORTLESS work you provide. This is plain cheating and bad service.
After all the sketching and explaining on the album layout design, now come the large potrait. We choosed 3 of our 'Guah' pictures for the potrait. Is a horizontal landscape size where the 3 pictures were like PAK! PAK! PAK! THERE! 2 horizontal pictures continue with a vertical picture in a row in the middle of the frame!! WHAT THE H*LL IS THAT!?
ok...design wise nevermind we will think bout it BUT WHAT THE ATTITUDE!? The SA, the photographers, the designers came to our face and say:" Wah, u both sure wanna us 'Guah' pictures to blow-up bigbig as your potrait ar? Wah, u both REALLY break JM record ler! Nobody use 'guah' pictures for big potrait before ler! 1st time, JM got client use 'Guah' potrait ler..HAHAHAHA!" THEY TEASE AND LAUGH at me and chenseng!! Is these the way you talk or advice client?!? Did you even let us explain why or try to understand us as your client?!! Tease client with these kinda attitude! SERIOUSLY, you guys gone too far! Now, while I'm thinking about it, I feel like cursing all of you.
Bridal house is suppose to be a happy place that CREATE WONDERFUL MEMORIES to newly wed couples. Their responsibility is to provide good service and achievable results for client. BUT what JustMarried BS can give is ONLY 50% (or less!) effort they can provide. NO TIME is not an excuse! And is not client's problem!! That means your management hav to do something in order to keep up the quality and quantity of the business!!
I think I hav enough said, so to the couple and brides-to-be out there: PLEASE DO Ala Carte for pre-wedding album! Those bridal house do not much good to you. Out there, there are MANY Good photographers, Good Stylist, Good Makeup Artist, Good locations, Great wedding gown boutiques, Good designers to help you to do a SUPERB wedding album. If you calculate the price of these, is almost the same price (or EVEN CHEAPER) then throwing to those un-flexible, non-creative (that only stick to their lousy template designs) and money-face bridal house! Please think twice...dun fall into the trap...NO MORE!