Wedding season (musim perkahwinan).......

Here comes the bride (Selamat Pengantin Baru)…….

I am taking this opportunity to wish all the brides a Selamat Pengantin Baru that have had engaged me in making their wedding dresses. I am sincerely sorry that I can’t make it to every reception (kenduri) due to prior commitment. Though I tried my best to fit in at least a wedding attendance a weekend…but I am still constantly faced with “which one to go to?” predicaments, always taking into account the fact that I do not want to hurt anybody’s feeling. Well of course you can never be at two different places at once….not unless you have some kind of super power…

The following wedding dress belongs to Pn Imah’s customer. She is one of the cottage industry ladies I knew for a very long time. I am only doing the bead works on this 2-in-1 dress, on the lace material and on the satin (the bottom part). The beads are from pearls, sequins (plastic and metal), seed beads, glass beads, acrylic beads and swavoroski beads. Using only white and silver colour palettes. 

I would regularly receive order from my fellow tailors to add beads or embroideries on behalf of their customers. This type of networking has been very fruitful for all parties and is proven to be a win win situation thus far……

Wedding season (musim perkahwinan.....)

Here come the flower girls……..

When it comes to the actual wedding day, the flower girls play a very important part in making that wedding a success. Besides the chaos of organizing the little ones to behave accordingly and performing well in their part, it never fails to attract the attention on their dresses, especially while they are walking behind the bride and groom at the aisle.. The addition of well dress precious little girls can definitely cheer the crowd, all thanks to their cute outfits that match perfectly with the wedding theme colour..how adorable!!!!!!!! I have the privileged of making a few flower girls outfits recently, and I was thrilled to bits to get my hands on them. I don’t know what to say; making girls dresses are one of my favourite things to do   (just too bad I can’t make any for my own…). Has luck have it.. I am only blessed with sons and with any luck daughter-in-laws sometime in the future… (how near?... I don’t know..).

Wedding season (musim perkahwinan).......

Season of the bride (musim perkahwinan)………..

It is customary to give gifts during the engagement which will later be used for the wedding ceremony. Among the most common gifts are the delicate expensive beaded chiffon fabric to turn into the wedding dress (pakaian pengantin), this way the future bride and groom can save money for something else like their honeymoon or other things to start their new life.

I made this peach orangey heavily chiffon fabric into an engagement dress (baju bertunang) for a Cik Ela sometime late last year. She did not come to see personally but sent her fabric and a sample through a family member to me. And that was the last time I hear about her since she is currently working in K.L until just a couple of weeks ago when I finally able to put the face to the name...

So, here’s what happened… cut the long story short. She sent her white silvery beaded chiffon fabric to a tailor in K.L and gave my work as sample to follow. Little did she know that it did not turn out to be same as mine unfortunately and nothing fits her…. The size was like two sizes too big to fit this petite lady (poor girl disappears in it), the quality of stitching is far out by miles and basically she is not pleased. So….she brought the two baju kurung moden back to me, asking if I can salvage her wedding dress to resemble her original engagement dress and makes it fits her like a glove. And that’s exactly what I did and exactly what I promise to deliver. In the end it works well for her and now she can give out her infectious broad smile during her important day. It makes all my hard works worth every bit when I can help someone to realize her wedding dream… Just another day at the office….. A happy ending from what could easily have been a disastrous chain of events…