Wedding Wednesday: Our Proposal Reenactment Photoshoot

My wedding is now less than a year away {whoa, I still can't believe it!} and for it, I'm happy to announce a new series on my blog! 

Welcome to Wedding Wednesday, a series for all things wedding! 

I feel it's time for me to start sharing all my wedding planning in a more organized fashion, rather than having spare posts here and there. I have so many things to write about, planning a wedding can be quite hectic! Wedding Wednesday, besides being a bride-to-be diary to be published every Wednesday, will also be a place to write about wedding inspirations {sites or ideas that I love} and, hopefully, a way to get some feedback via post comments from other brides-to-be or wifes who would be happy to share their advice with me!

Today I'm specially happy to share with all of you our proposal reenactment pics. J proposed at home, hence the background for this photoshoot... I love each and every picture, I hope you do too! :) Some of the moments during the photo session were truly touching, reminding us once again of all the joy we experienced that day...

 

 

For the occasion I picked this feather dress from Spanish brand Etxart&Panno I bought about two years ago in Barcelona. It's also the one I'm wearing in my about me page. J was wearing exactly the same as he was in the real proposal. As for me I changed my dress because I have way too many pictures with the silver dress from the original proposal...

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Special thanks to Rax Lam and Chung Wong for their amazing work in makeup and pictures.

And just like that.... we've been engaged for a month!

I'm now a believer. Times does fly. Or else how do you explain J and I being engaged for a month already?!

I feel wedding preparations are on the right track, and we've dealt with quite a lot during this first month. The most important thing is the date and venue of our wedding have been set, and even though I'm not revealing anything just yet, what I'll tell you is our wedding is less than a year away!!!

Next week a photographer friend of mine has agreed to help us taking some proposal reenactment pics. We will be shooting at the Disneyland Hotel in Hong Kong, for J proposed at home and that hotel has some gorgeous salons and gardens that can give it that "homey" look. Stay tunned!

I'm engaged!

I'm engaged!!! I'm typing these words and I still can't believe this is true. It's not like it happened yesterday, it was already two weeks ago, but my excitement hasn't gone down by a bit. I've been busy these couple of weeks sharing the news with my family and best friends and, I must confess, I was really looking forward to share these HUGE news on my blog!

J proposed to me on Sunday the 14th of October. It was a traditional and private marriage proposal, 100% my style. J always says he knows me better than anyone, even better than myself, and I'm starting to believe he has a point!

It was Sunday afternoon and we were getting ready to attend J's cousin's wedding. He was ready and waiting for me in the living room while I was still finishing my makeup in the room. When I finally step out of the room, saying that I was ready to go, he suddendly held me very tight (nothing weird until this point because he does so very often), and then... He got down on one knee!!!! I genuinely thought he was kidding because it came totally unexpected and we were already late for his cousin's wedding. So I just said: You're kidding, right? Well, he certainly wasn't!!! He pulled out a dark red velvet box from his pocket, opened it and asked me to marry him. I couldn't believe my eyes, nor my ears, nor anything, everything seemed so surreal! I was so in shock I couldn't even take a good look at the diamond ring in the box, I just new it was big and shiny. I started saying: Oh My God, Oh My God, Oh My God!!!! My brain was having trouble processing all the information, and I was getting all emotional. I finally said: Yes, yes, yes! And just like that threw myself at his arms. Then both of us stood up and, shaking, he took my left hand and slid the engagement diamond ring on my ring finger. I could tell he was really nervous, and so was I! Tears of happiness came down like a cascade and ruined the makeup I had prepared for the wedding we were attending. But I didn't care, at that moment there was no one in this world other than J and I. It was all about us, a moment filled with love that we shall never forget, for it signifies a deep promise from the bottom of our hearts: that of marrying and therefore being together for the rest of our life.

J and I a couple of hours after the proposal

Now a year full of preparations and excitement for our big day is waiting for us. I'm sure it's going to be an unforgettable year!