Remember when I was designing my wedding dress? Well it was a success ..well sort of. I originally was going to wear 2 Indian lehengas, but I ended up wearing only one. I wanted one dark pink one for the morning and one white one for the evening.

Here are the two dresses I wanted:

Wedding dress from Daania

I wanted this for my evening ceremony and reception.

Before having the dress made, I sent out my sewing patterns to a tailor in India. He stitched them up using cotton material and shipped it back to me. I was quite pleased with their work.

Pretty good job, huh?!

Here are the final products, as you can see neither dress turned out quite how I wanted:

This is what the tailor sent me the first time. I loved it, but it needed more bling.

More bling was added.

All in all, both dresses turn out beautiful, but I just wasn’t happy with my white one. However, after much deliberation, I decided to get myself another dress – and I am so happy I did.

I got this dress instead.

My evening dress.

Pretty dresses.

Me in my white dress.. and my handsome husband next to me.

I have to say, I am pretty excited and kind of nervous since anything can happen. So far my muslin for my bodice is complete, it just needs a few tweaks here and there. I’ve been losing weight in the few months so it has thrown my measurements off. My deadline to send my muslin is the end of January. But we’ll see how that goes, because it probably won’t.

The dress you see up there was the dress I was the dress I was making. But it seems like every time I do a search on Google, I find something nicer and I change my mind.

So here is my work so far.

This is my bodice:

The reason I went back to Singapore. Anthony Bourdain made it out to seem like it was amazing – it was a disappointment.

Not a big deal.

Chinatown – Singapore

I think this is a mall near Orchard Road. I really don’t remember.

These were delicious! I got a potato one.

Little India – Singapore

This shaved ice dessert almost made us late for our flight to Thailand.

Sentosa Island – Singapore

On the way to Macau

Ha Noi

Found cheap laundry services in District 3.

Our giant bag of laundry. Total price 112,000 Dong.

Ho Chi Minh City

No sidewalks in District 3. They pretty much ended the minute we crossed over from District 1.

Lots of motorbikes in HCMC.

HCMC – District 3

Strange rice jelly snacks we bought from a lady off the street.

I’m a millionaire!

The rice jelly snacks…

Lady selling those rice jelly snacks.

iPho.

Spring roll station at the Night Market in HCMC.

We saw a couple getting this at the Night Market.

Meat and vegetables.

Night Market pho…It was okay…

Night Market fresh rolls

Night Market

I missed you Pho24.

Reunification Palace

Cambodian Tailors and Cambodian Silk

Leaving Siem Reap

Phnom Penh Airport

Another temple we saw during the small tour