Our Big Day (Holy Matrimony)

The most significant part of our big day was the Holy Matrimony. Coming from City Harvest, we didn't have many venue options. Of course, I did want my wedding to be in a beautiful setting as opposed to a hall/room. After all, it's just a one time affair. We were very blessed to be able to rent Charis Methodist Church for our big day. It's just everything I wanted in a package. Dreamy and all... it was like a dream come true. 

After our gatecrashing in the morning, we rushed to the hubby's place and then to church. We were blessed to have such a lovely venue to share our precious moment with our guests. 

We had a lovely candy bar filled with goodies for our guests. Our theme was Carnival... but me being me, I was once again all over the place so we ended up having a little of what I like all about weddings >.<

Our brothers even made a box game for our guests to have a try at home many kids we would have!

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Billy & Cynthia: Church Sanctuary Flowers by Mirage Flowers

We were blessed to be able to rent Charis Methodist Church for our church wedding. CHC is awesome but the timings and venue didn't fit my bill. Thankfully, Charis Methodist Church was available for rental to baptised Christians and it's such a lovely venue! Without much hesitation, we booked the venue as early as we could (about a year prior to our wedding). 

The venue being very pretty on it's own as it has a quaint little chapel-like church Sanctuary. Being so, we did not have to put in much effort to dress up the place. We were truly blessed to have been sponsored by Mirage Flowers for our flower decor. For a lovely church venue like such, all we really need are just flowers.

As our theme was Carnival, we had fun, bright and cheery flowers! These gerberas with hydrangeas are just perfect for our theme! (: Our coordinator Charlotte did an awesome job of arranging these flowers for us speedily on the wedding morning and even had them set in adorable little cones! 

Previously when I helped out for a couple of friends' weddings, we DIY-ed our flower decor. It may have been much cheaper but it was a lot of work too. And it sure is nice having the experts taking care of the decor for us once in a while! 

Beautiful blooms isn't it? (:

Coupled with the ribbons we used to cordon off the pews, there were just breathtaking. 

Here's our coordinator Charlotte working real hard to churn out our decor within the little 30 minutes we had! 

Beautifully set up! (:

I just love the church Sanctuary so much! 

We were also blessed with a beautiful table flower arrangement that was set up on our solemnisation table. 

Here's some not so glam shots of signing our marriage cert. Sometimes, I really wonder how many facial expressions the hubby and I have... 

Once again, we're truly grateful to Mirage Flowers and coordinator Charlotte for sponsoring us with our pew flowers and table flower arrangement, making our wedding venue prettier than it already is within a short time frame of 30 minutes. The flowers truly completed our Sanctuary decor. 

Do check out Mirage Flower's Facebook page here! 

Also check out this post I have here on the many other services Mirage Flowers specialise in! (: 

Billy & Cynthia POST 4: Charis Methodist Church

About 2 weeks ago, our payment for Charis Methodist Church was made after Charis confirmed our application. Even though we're from City Harvest Church, we're unable to have our church wedding in the main auditorium at our preferred time as Children's Church will be on then. We would have to settle for Chinese Church or Children's Church, something which I didn't want. Forgive me but who wouldn't want a dreamy location to have their wedding ceremony? Even CHC's main auditorium was a lil' off my dreamy expectation of a venue for and the fav boy even promised me balloons to do up CHC's main auditorium if we were to have it in CHC. 

However, since the timings and venue didn't match, we sourced for more options. 

We're truly blessed to have found Charis Methodist Church which coincidentally is where Cam & Pris tied the knot earlier this year. The images I found online had me mesmerised as the Sanctuary was just so wedding-ish. So as they're open to rental for Baptised Christians, I was thrilled.

We sent in our email with questions etc. and about a year before our wedding, we had our application submitted. By God's grace, we have gotten it and placed our deposit. 

As non-methodist baptised christians, we're paying $1240 as we have about 300-400 guests. We placed a 50% deposit to secure the venue for our big day. 

In addition, we are allowed to have our pastor wed us. So, by faith, it'll be Pastor Zhuang who'd be marrying us! So, if you're looking for a church wedding venue like we did, you may consider Charis Methodist Church. More details of the applications here and the rules & regulations here.