After debating about it forever, we’ve picked a cake vendor — New Renaissance Cakes.  I’m sure we’ll be happy with it.  Bonnie’s gotten good reviews and she’s reliable.  Matt and I attended her cake tasting back at the end of October and then just put off the cake decision making for awhile.  We tasted the cake of one more vendor whose cakes were sooooo incredibly delicious but also double the price of Bonnie’s cakes.  In the end, I’d rather splurge on other things and just have a good, decent cake.  We’ll likely end up picking at least 2 flavors: chocolate (cuz’ Matt looooves the chocolate) and some sort of white cake (I’m leaning towards bananas foster right now).  Next, we have to decide on a cake design–here are a few that I like:

Speaking of vendors, we also met up with Jonathan and Whitney of Brown Sugar Designs a week and a half ago to design our invitations.  After the labor of making the Save-the-Dates, we decided to go the route of getting the invitations professionally done.  I’m really excited as their work looks amazing—they’re even cool like that and keep a blog.  We showed them some of our current color choices and a few inspiration words: “simple, elegant, modern, classy, chic, flowers okay, not too traditional, not too detailed”…and that was that!  We’re meeting up with them again this weekend to look at their first mockups…I can’t wait to see what they come up with!

Meanwhile, sounds like we have an appointment on Jan. 2nd at Mona Lisa Salon in Hong Kong to take our Pre-Wedding Photos (aka cheezy Chinese engagement photos).  It’s actually quite the cultural thing to go to a studio and take photos together in wedding attire (and no, not yours but rather ones that the studio has on hand).  Couples also sometimes will dress up in old-school Chinese silk outfits and take pictures drinking tea.  These photos then get printed out and blown up and are *typically* shown at the reception.  We probably won’t show off the cheese but it’ll be pure fun.  My mom’s super excited about how these will turn out.  I’m a bit apprehensive about how cheesy this is going to be…but alas, I know it’ll be fun.  Just roll with it I keep saying….

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