{"id":925,"date":"2019-09-06T11:58:44","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T11:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.pinkoi.com\/en\/uncategorized\/hwzr8iym\/"},"modified":"2019-09-06T11:58:44","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T11:58:44","slug":"hwzr8iym","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.pinkoi.com\/en\/design\/hwzr8iym\/","title":{"rendered":"How to DIY Your Wedding: Tips from Pinkoist Zoe\u2019s Outdoor Wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In Asia, weddings are quite often the parents\u2019 big day just as much as the newlyweds\u2019, if not more. Now, DIY wedding has become more popular not only in the west but also in Asia where it has its own tweaks and arrangements. Last year, Pinkoist Zoe had the outdoors DIY wedding<\/a> of her dreams, and she is excited to share how she and her husband built it from scratch. From decorations to planning advices, you can learn from her experience!<\/p>\n

First, a greeting from Zoe:\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Hi guys, I\u2019m Zoe of the Designer Relations team at Pinkoi. As a fervent giraffe collector, I met my husband-to-be at my friend\u2019s toy shop. We were there for work reasons, but it was love at first sight which blossomed into the tomb of love. Just joking there! Yes, love blossomed and after two years of relationship, we decided to get married and started planning our wedding together.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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What is the significance of a wedding<\/a> to you?<\/h2>\n
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I think marriage is a promise. It gives me a sense of security that this person and I are committed to exploring life together for the rest of our lives.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

As for the wedding, we see it as a creative process the two of us share, and a lovely beginning to our marriage.<\/span> In the end, wedding is a visible outcome, but its true meaning is in the experiences we create during the process. And we are lucky that our expectations for the wedding are similar, and want to invite our friends and family to our \u201ccreative project\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Why do you want to do it yourself?<\/h2>\n

Maybe because we were influenced by the western weddings in movies and on the web. We thought it was ideal and wondered if it was really possible in Taiwan to invite friends and family to enjoy a sunny afternoon at our wedding. The usual hotel ballroom package is not really for us.<\/p>\n

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What\u2019s the benefit of planning your own wedding?<\/h2>\n

First, we can create the exact wedding we want. We actually started with a list of the things we don\u2019t want: we don\u2019t want a wedding MC, we don\u2019t want a photo shoot standee, we don\u2019t want the business-card-sized wedding photos, no sticky rice in our menu, and no cleavage. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Second, since we design our own wedding, we have complete control over where the money goes and whether it\u2019s worth it<\/span>. We have a limited budget so we\u2019re careful where each penny is going towards. For example, within our limited budget, we only spent roughly US$260 on the wedding bouquet<\/a> and floral decorations<\/a>. We came up with the perfect decoration without fancy imported plants and flowers.<\/p>\n

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Since we control the budget, there\u2019s no one to blame if things didn\u2019t turn out to be perfect. We hear a lot about newlyweds nitpicking after the wedding, but since we planned for this experience, all the good and bad are going to become a part of our wonderful memory.<\/p>\n

The third benefit of DIY wedding is that we equally share the happiness of a beautiful wedding<\/span>. After attending or seeing photos of the wedding, many friends and family told us that it was very special, a lot of fun, or \u201cthe most ______ wedding\u201d they\u2019ve been to. At moments like this, all the stress melts away, and we felt it was totally worth it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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What are some important things to keep in mind for a DIY wedding?<\/h2>\n

The first thing to do is to make sure all of your parents agree to this. A DIY wedding is not just a matter between you and your husband. It\u2019s important to get your parents\u2019 support before you proceed.<\/span> It\u2019s not very good to let the young people have fun at the cost of the parents\u2019 discomfort and disapproval.<\/p>\n

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Also, it\u2019s too easy to keep increasing your budget for a DIY wedding, because naturally you want to do everything your heart desires! So my first advice is to compromise because you can\u2019t fit every idea into the time and money budget. Some might suggest extending the wedding for more fun and games, but no. Consider the elders, the toddlers and everyone who came out of town\u2014it\u2019s best to stick to the schedule for the usual 2.5 to 3 hours.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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After you\u2019ve decided what to keep in the wedding, the next step is to turn them into a realistic, economical plans within the budget. I have an example of doing this: my wedding cake<\/a>. It\u2019s simply amazing, if I do say so myself! \u00a0<\/p>\n

Ever since I saw a cake with giraffe decorations on Pinterest years ago, I\u2019ve vowed to have a giraffe<\/a> cake at my wedding. After we decided to get married, I went and found out that a three layer wedding cake costs about US$160! We thought about it, and decided since our venue already provides an ice cream cup dessert for every guest, we could forego the cake and make a fake cake instead.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Our hearts were set, so we began to create our fake cake. I looked for styrofoam to make the body, and went to a fabric market to find a fabric that drapes and looks like frosting in the sunlight. In the end, this \u201ccake\u201d only cost a third of our original budget. On the night before the wedding, my whole family helped me put together the three-layered cake, and topped it with the giraffes.<\/p>\n

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Another big advice is to not worry about the prep time. Some would wonder, \u201cI work full time. Is it really possible to plan my own wedding with only afterwork and weekend hours? Perhaps I should take a month off to do this.\u201d Don\u2019t stress yourself out! With the right attitude, you don\u2019t need a year or even half a year. Just lock down the time-sensitive tasks, like sending out wedding invitations<\/a>, and the rest will come into place. We only spent one and a half months of weekend and afterwork hours to plan our wedding.<\/p>\n

Then, double check if your wedding venue can carry out your plans. For example, for my sister\u2019s wedding, we had trivias using screens and projector as guests answered holding up signs. I wanted to do that in my wedding too, but being outdoors and having the noontime sun, it\u2019s not ideal for guests to participate. So, I accepted the fact that projecting trivias isn\u2019t right for us. We adapted it and held a drawing trivia on the stage instead.<\/p>\n

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The experiences we designed for wedding guests\u00a0<\/h2>\n

A theme throughout
<\/span>We both like plants and had it as our theme for the wedding. We used monstera leaf<\/a> plant and ruffled fan palm as main visuals on both the wedding invitation and our xibing (traditional Chinese wedding cake) placard designs. They matched our reception planter decorations really well.<\/p>\n

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Hashtags and GIFs
<\/span>We provided a designated hashtag for guests to post on Facebook and Instagram so that all the photos are organized into one place. Common wedding hashtag may look like these: #THECHANGSWED, #YTZXWedding2016, #YuanZoe16, etc. In the end, we chose #yuanmetzoe.<\/p>\n


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Crafty Polaroid wedding photo album
<\/span>We made an album by exporting our wedding photos as Polaroids and putting them into an album we got at Safari World, the Thai photography studio where we took our wedding photos. There are many online services to print Polaroid style photos for less than US$1 each. It\u2019s a budget-friendly choice!<\/p>\n


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One-of-a-kind wedding cake
<\/span>Our faux wedding cake was decorated with 16 year\u2019s worth of giraffe<\/a> collections, and put together by the whole family on the night before, making it extra special.<\/p>\n

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Sign a Jenga Piece
<\/span>Instead of the traditional guest signature cloth common in Chinese weddings, we had guests sign Jenga pieces to help us build memories together.<\/p>\n

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Mason jars decoration
<\/span>We put dried flowers and eucalyptus leaves along with Polaroid<\/a> prints in mason jars, and they make great decorations<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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A bouquet for every lady guest
<\/span>Throwing the bouquet can only make one girl feel special, but I want every guest to feel the love and share the joy of with her own bouquet! Therefore, we prepared several leafy bouquets<\/a> so that a lot more fun and joy are added to our group photos.<\/p>\n

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What are some final advice for the bride and groom-to-be?<\/h2>\n

I\u2019m lucky that my husband isn\u2019t an emotional person. Even though I kept firing the f-word during the stressful planning, he never picked a fight with me. Instead, he would say, \u201cYou\u2019re really silly, Zoe. We\u2019re planning our wedding and we should be the happiest people of all! Why put yourself in such anger? We should be happy all the time.\u201d Thinking back, these words were the absolute truth!<\/p>\n

Do not get emotional and fight with each other because of your wedding!<\/span> Don\u2019t use hurtful language on each other. Remember, every bit of it is part of the memories you are creating. Enjoy the creative project that you only get to do once in a lifetime with each other! Best wishes to you all!<\/p>\n

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