We mailed out the majority of the non-local invitations last Tuesday. Hopefully for those of you who are in Canada they start to show up in the mail in the near future. We'd love to hear from you when they arrive! Opinions of the invitations are welcome :)
For the rest of you (everyone in Vancouver), we've started to slowly make the rounds of the town to hand deliver invitations to people and be generally sociable. Remember - we'll be coming soon to a neighbourhood near you!
Despite being quiet for a few weeks, we also took the time to make a few smallish updates to the website.
About us
Wedding party
TTFN.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Monday, March 21, 2011
Invitations on the way!
We are in the process of completing the invitations and hopefully to send them out by the end of March. Please update us your address if there is any change. The invitation will come with a main invite, an RSVP card with menu choices, a return envelop, and a map.
Basically, we are providing three main choices of menu, in case of any dietary restriction. We will post the menu details as soon as we get them from the vendor.
We are hoping to collect all RSVPs back by May 31 so we can finalize the details and confirm with all the vendors (wedding planner, co-ordinator, restaurant, cake, wedding favours, decorations, seating arrangment...etc).
Basically, we are providing three main choices of menu, in case of any dietary restriction. We will post the menu details as soon as we get them from the vendor.
We are hoping to collect all RSVPs back by May 31 so we can finalize the details and confirm with all the vendors (wedding planner, co-ordinator, restaurant, cake, wedding favours, decorations, seating arrangment...etc).
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Vaccinations!
After some talk with my sister, I figured it might be useful to give people an idea about vaccinations, just in case they'd forgotten.
For those interested, a bit of Googling indicates that recommended vaccinations for Croatia are:
* Hepatitis A & B
* Measles, mumps, rubella (MMR)
* Tetanus-diphtheria
* Typhoid (if you plan on consuming food in randomish places)
* Rabies (if you plan on spending a lot of time outdoors)
Most people generally have vaccinations for MMR and Tetanus-Diptheria as children, so they're likely not a requirement. Hep A/B vaccinations are pretty standard if you're going outside of common western countries (eg: they're even recommended if you're going to Spain or Russia but not for UK or Italy).
For those in Vancouver, there's a pretty decent travel clinic at Broadway and Ash where we got all vaccinated up before we went to Taiwan. For a fee, they'll have a chat with you and give you some recommendations on what you'd want and then they'll do it up. In general, for vaccinations, you can probably get away with leaving them until 4-6 weeks before you travel.
UPDATE: I stand corrected on the tetanus part - tetanus apparently has to be re-done approximately once every 10 years.
For those interested, a bit of Googling indicates that recommended vaccinations for Croatia are:
* Hepatitis A & B
* Measles, mumps, rubella (MMR)
* Tetanus-diphtheria
* Typhoid (if you plan on consuming food in randomish places)
* Rabies (if you plan on spending a lot of time outdoors)
Most people generally have vaccinations for MMR and Tetanus-Diptheria as children, so they're likely not a requirement. Hep A/B vaccinations are pretty standard if you're going outside of common western countries (eg: they're even recommended if you're going to Spain or Russia but not for UK or Italy).
For those in Vancouver, there's a pretty decent travel clinic at Broadway and Ash where we got all vaccinated up before we went to Taiwan. For a fee, they'll have a chat with you and give you some recommendations on what you'd want and then they'll do it up. In general, for vaccinations, you can probably get away with leaving them until 4-6 weeks before you travel.
UPDATE: I stand corrected on the tetanus part - tetanus apparently has to be re-done approximately once every 10 years.
Saturday, March 5, 2011
The best gifts...
Normally people would set up a gift registry, in our case, the gift registry is the guest list. We are not expecting any gifts, your attendance will be the best gift for us.
To be practical, it would be a lot of trouble for one to bring a gift to Croatia. Then we will have pack the gift in a suit case and travel around Europe with it. Not super optimal, especially when the luggage allowance is very low. Michael and I think gifts are not the best idea. But if anyone insists, we would accept anything that's we can easily stuff into Michael's pocket, like a greeting card. I especially like handmade cards. :P
To be practical, it would be a lot of trouble for one to bring a gift to Croatia. Then we will have pack the gift in a suit case and travel around Europe with it. Not super optimal, especially when the luggage allowance is very low. Michael and I think gifts are not the best idea. But if anyone insists, we would accept anything that's we can easily stuff into Michael's pocket, like a greeting card. I especially like handmade cards. :P
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Cheap Plane Tickets
If you are still looking for plane tickets, our friend Stephanie, who always have tones of travel tips, she just forwarded me an article about a budget airline based in German called Condor.
Condor offers very good deals from a few Canadian cities to Frankfurt. Here are some example of cheap tickets I found on their website:
Vancouver - Frankfurt round trip Sept 17-Sept 24 for $1150 USD
Halifax - Frankfurt round trip Sept 16 - Sept 26 for $891 USD
There are a few things to be awared of when booking with budget airline:
-look into their luggage limitation
-purchase trip interruption insurance (most of time it should be covered by your credit card)
-make sure you always give yourself lots of extra time to connect flights.
Condor offers very good deals from a few Canadian cities to Frankfurt. Here are some example of cheap tickets I found on their website:
Vancouver - Frankfurt round trip Sept 17-Sept 24 for $1150 USD
Halifax - Frankfurt round trip Sept 16 - Sept 26 for $891 USD
There are a few things to be awared of when booking with budget airline:
-look into their luggage limitation
-purchase trip interruption insurance (most of time it should be covered by your credit card)
-make sure you always give yourself lots of extra time to connect flights.
Monday, February 28, 2011
Alice's Blog
For those of you who are interested in the actual wedding preparation , feel free to check out my blog. It is just my personal blog that I use to share and record things I have been doing.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Lots and lots of Updates
There have been a lot of updates on our wedding website. We finally came up with "Our Story". It is a bit long, but we hope it will entertain you a bit :)
We also added a "Calendar of Events", it is still tentative. As we have a better idea how many guests are attending, we might arrange a few things to do together as a group.
A few more things are added to "Ceremony", "Reception", "Accommodation", "Travel Arrangement", "About Dubrovnik", and "Things to Do in The Area".
And our wonderful wedding planner, Kike would like to offer her help if any of you need assistance related to your visit to Dubrovnik. You can contact her at kike@doyouwed.me
We also added a "Calendar of Events", it is still tentative. As we have a better idea how many guests are attending, we might arrange a few things to do together as a group.
A few more things are added to "Ceremony", "Reception", "Accommodation", "Travel Arrangement", "About Dubrovnik", and "Things to Do in The Area".
And our wonderful wedding planner, Kike would like to offer her help if any of you need assistance related to your visit to Dubrovnik. You can contact her at kike@doyouwed.me
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