Wedding Favors

Wedding favors are the gifts given as a gesture of appreciation or gratitude to guests from the bride and groom after the wedding reception. In Japan, we usually combine a food gift and a product gift.

The most popular food gift is Baumkuchen, since it represents longevity and the long-lasting prosperity of the family. Of course, you can present a pound cake or whatever you like, but we chose Baumkuchen without question! Same as our wedding cake, our Baumkuchen is from the pastry shop anniversary!

Then the most popular product gift is a "catalog". I don't know how we call it in English, but we call it "catalog gift". As you can see, it's a catalog that you can select an item that you want to receive later at home! Long ago, it was simply a booklet, but nowadays, it's in an album style, so you can use the album later!!! You can include a thank you card in the catalog, too! No wonder I chose the heart-patterned album. hehe! Of course, instead of catalog gift, you can present anything you like, but we wanted to give our guests a choice ;)

Last but not least, we also prepared a petit gift. It's a butterfly with 5 Jordan almonds. Five Jordan almonds symbolize five wishes for the bride and groom: health, happiness, fertility, financial stability, and longevity ;) I hung them on my arm and gave one by one to the guests when we saw them off! Why not heart?! Because we wanted to close with a butterfly since our invitation card was a butterfly, too!

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Already A Month!!!

Can you believe it?! It's been already a month since our wedding!!! Time really flies!!!

Should we celebrate it tonight?! Maybe too much! Ha-ha!!!

Anyway, as you can see, my gel nails are all cracked!!! I was going to remove them yesterday but I put off the day till Friday because I love them ;P For my cooking, I can't do them again, but I really think gel nails are cool!!!

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GOTO FLORIST

Our wedding theme was "Heart Full NY Central Park". GOTO FLORIST decorated our wedding hall (LA COLLEZIONE) to meet our expectations.

A month before the wedding, we had a meeting with president Goto. On that day, we couldn't see all the flower arrangements but had few samples and drawings. One of the samples was the heart-shaped flower arrangement for guest table C. (left bottom drawing)

What was amazing was president Goto's creativity! In the vase, he put some strawberry jam to make it look red and sweet! Moreover, he said he's gonna use red sand, stones, gel window stickers and many other fun stuff on the day! The flower as you can see is no longer flower, but a creative object. He says he wants everyone to see, touch, and play with it. Isn't that amazing?!

However, we were worried about the Central Park, since we only saw the drawing with a huge heart in the park... we had an option to remove the heart from the park since it cost a lot, but we kept it because we thought it would be something nicer than what we expect...

... and that was true! The huge pink heart was in nice contrast with the green park!

Everything was beyond challenge! The lawn grew beside the guest tables was just like the Central Park, with some trees and rocks, of course! You can find birds and squirrels in the park, too! In the park, there is a table where you can have a break. In contrast, all guest tables were decorated with heart-shaped flower arrangements. Small hearts hanging from the ceiling created shadowgraph of hearts. (you can see the shadowgraph HERE)

It's been already a month since our big day but I still feel excited when I see those pics ;)

Many many thanks to GOTO FLORIST!!!

Anyway, it is time to remove my wedding nails...
Now my gels are all cracked X(

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