Great news! EMINENT Sibu is celebrating its 1st Anniversary Promotion from now till end of August 2010!

Promotions include 5-Days International and Local Holidays and more… For those who sign-up early will have privileges of having free poses during their photoshoot along with free designer’s gowns upgrades.

Don’t miss this great offer and opportunity! Visit Eminent France Taipei now or send in your enquiries to them to find out more.

When painting a room, you may feel a little lost – there is a big difference in choosing a color you “just like” and a color that actually suits the room. Begin by deciding what kind of feeling you wish to encourage in a particular room – sensations of tranquility, vigor, heightened energy, chattiness, solitude, etc. Map it out! I’ll choose three rooms to use as an example:

Kitchen: (I want to feel/make others feel) warm, vital, cheered, and welcome.

Bedroom: (I/my partner want to feel) inspired, tranquil, creative, and at peace

Living Room: (I want to feel/make others feel) active, talkative, energized, and “comfy”

Choose your own rooms/moods accordingly, and then get ready to talk about color! Here is a quick guide – see where your list falls on this chart, and keep in mind that the shade of a color alone can make a dramatic difference. For example, a dark purple might promote a regal, creative, or perhaps quirky feel, suited to your dining room or art studio, whereas lavender might create the perfect sense of peace for your bathroom.

Black Great for accenting/bringing other colors together. Evokes dominance, strength, independence, simplicity, and elegance

White Opens up any space and gives an airy sort of tranquility/sense of freedom. Works well with colored accents. By itself, white suggests purity, light, happiness, and serenity

Red Energizes the body and mind, stimulates blood flow and conversation. If you’re looking to add excitement, dialogue, and passion to a room, red is the way to roll

Green Pleasing and easy on the eyes, green evokes feelings of ultimate serenity, peace, tranquility, relaxation, and growth. Darker shades can add a touch of elegance as well

Blue Cool and laid back, blues promote relaxation, comfort, and happiness. To create a serene and lovely atmosphere, explore the many shades of blue

Orange Is warm, energizing, and appetizing. A combination of two warm colors, orange promotes friendliness, fellowship, and invitation.

Yellow Cheery, intellectual, and optimistic, yellow adds light to any room and stimulates the brain. Generating a wealth of positive emotion, yellow will bring a smile to any guest’s face

Purple Majestic, artistic, imaginative, insightful, and inspiring, purple is a unique choice that also works great as an accent. In the right tone, purple can be very soothing as well.

Remember that this chart is a generalized guide – what is important is how you feel surrounded by a particular color. So go visit a friend’s home, home design stores, or just take a walk in nature and take notice of how you respond to various colors. Bring out the good dinnerware, invite some friends over for a meal, and ask them how they currently feel when they are in the particular room in question. Or if it would be more comfortable, just take a poll within your family.

Also, consider coordinating with some of the gifts you may have received at your wedding reception! Assess what you’ve got as far as accent pieces go, and consider which colors would be a good compliment. Let your home help you cultivate the love, trust, and warm feelings that a newly married couple should enjoy. You’ll be surprised at how much you are affected by the colors in your home. Happy painting!

Ann Martin is a freelance writer and artist who writes for a variety of wedding, entertaining, and dinnerware sites, and in her research, enjoys discovering new pieces for her own home! After a recent purchase of Noritake Colorwave Graphite, she happily found that Noritake Colorwave blue was on a friend’s bridal registry – what a perfect gift of “something blue!”

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A love story to be told…

What if they never met? Life would be so lonely isn’t?

A wonderful couple who is the life of their party!

A great way to document those heartwarming moments on your wedding day.

Loved what you see and want to know more? Send your enquiries to Manggis Production to find out!

Venue:  LG Floor (near Giant Supermarket), Cheras Leisure Mall.
Time   :  10.00am – 10.00pm

Here is a sneak peek on what special offers are provided by the hotel for happy couples on the fair:-

> FREE tables on your wedding day
> Honeymoon destination – Hard Rock Hotel Penang
>…and more irresistible offers!

Be sure to drop by to attend the wedding fair to gain those exclusive offers when you confirm your reception during the 3-day wedding fair!

For more details contact Snowbie (Concorde Hotel’s wedding consultants)  at 03-2149 2604. If you have questions in mind, send your enquiry to Concorde Hotel Kuala Lumpur now.

Special rates for all of Steph Tan  Photography’s 2011 Destinations. Packages include concept consultation, all images returned, as well as a custom artbook. Enjoy 10% discount for bookings confirmed before 15 September 2010.

*Weddings-by-Eternal/Signature Weddings readers enjoy an additional 5% discount. Please enquire directly with Steph for details at steph.sarah.tan@gmail.com or visit Steph Tan Photography website. You can even send your enqury to Steph here.

If you are going around shopping for mooncakes, you might want to check out promotions below, prepared exclusively for you to indulge in:

Concorde Hotel Kuala Lumpur

Memorable Treasures from Concorde KL

Concorde KL unveils its exclusive mooncakes gifts sets that are treasured keepsakes, offering the receiver abundance of wealth for the season. As for flavours, there are old time favourites and new additions to the list,  red yeast Japanese sweet potato, charcoal baked yam and golden baked lemon tea.

Choose your favourite flavours and have them neatly packed into look-alike goldbars inner boxes that comes in a stylish contemporary metallic green box packaging with an oriental decorative jade ornament. Design, concept applies to both  4 piece (180 gm mooncake) and 6 piece (100 gm mooncake) packagings. All mooncakes are certified ‘halal’. This year, Concorde pre-mooncake celebrations starts from July 12 till September 22, 2010.

Price (4 piece box with tea):    RM62.00 – RM92.00 nett
Price (6 piece box) :    RM48.00 – RM66.00 nett

Discounts & Early Bird Special!
- Discount for Concorde Entertainment Card (CEC) members
- 20% discount for early birds for period July 12 – August 12, 2010

For bulk purchase, call the hotel directly to find out special offers. For more information, please call 03-21448750 or send your enquiries to Concorde.

Visit Concorde Mooncake display booth located at the hotel lobby to check out the varieties today!

Hotel Equatorial Kuala Lumpur

Double Indulgence – Double your taste, Double your happiness

Hotel Equatorial Kuala Lumpur is proud to present Double Indulgence that surely will double your taste and happiness to usher this auspicious celebration. The Equatorial’s mooncakes are an ideal gifts for the family, friends or corporate associates. Double your pleasure with their two categories of mooncakes classic flavours and their all-new contemporary flavours. Classic flavours includes the all-time favourite such as Green Tea, Lotus and Mixed Nuts. Making its debut for 2010 is the delicious handmade puff pastry ingots with lotus paste that resemble the gold ingots currency created by Chinese emperors. As always, the Equatorial’s signature minimooncakes are a perennial favourite.

For those who want something extra special, the Luxury Box range offers three selections of your favourite mooncakes that comes with limited edition fork and knife with porcelain handle.

These mooncakes are  available from  23rd July to 22nd September 2010. A booth will be set up in the Hotel lobby from 23rd July 2010 onwards. Also available at major shopping malls from 15th August to 3rd September 2010. Prices start from RM13.90 each.

For reservations, please contact 03-2161 7777 or if you need more information, you could enquire Hotel Equatorial for the latest mooncake updates.

One World Hotel Petaling Jaya

Special sweet and savoury mooncakes at Zuan Yuan Chinese Restaurant

To celebrate this memorable festival, Zuan Yuan Chinese Restaurant, located on the ground level of One World Hotel Petaling Jaya, is offering a wide range of freshly baked mooncakes in both traditional and new flavours on sale from 15 August to 22 September 2010.

Apart from traditional filling such as white lotus paste and red bean paste, new flavours such as Oven Baked Mooncake with Honey Wheat Germ, Single Egg Yolk Oven Baked Mooncake with Golden Corn Paste, Oven Baked Mooncake with Royal Milk Tea, Single Egg Yolk Crystal Mooncake with Pandan Lotus Paste, Crystal Mooncake with Low Sugar Spirulina, Mini Crystal Mooncake with Japanese Potato Paste and Mini Crystal Mooncake with Low Sugar Green Apple Paste are offered. Savoury selection includes the Oven Baked Mooncake with Supreme Mixed Nuts and Chicken Floss.

Prices start from RM15++ per piece. Freshly baked and elegantly packed in a rectangle gift box, Zuan Yuan’s mooncakes are ideal gifts for the family, friends and as corporate giveaways.

The mooncakes are available for dine-in or takeaway. For orders, please call Zuan Yuan Chinese Restaurant at 603 – 7681 1159 or enquire One World Hotel for more details.

Prince Hotel & Residence Kuala Lumpur

The Prince & The Mooncake Odyssey – A Celebration with a Twist!

In conjunction with the Mid-Autumn Festival, Tai Zi Heen is once again proud to presents its popular “Mid-Autumn Celebration with a Twist”! Starting from 1 August to 22 September 2010, discover Tai Zi Heen Mooncake Odyssey and enjoy the new, unique and exquisite creations for the occasion.

Back by popular demand seven year are Tai Zi Heen’s home-made signatures; the Five Variety Nuts, Rum & Raisins, Mini Snow Skin Chocolate Whiskey, Mini Snow Skin Mango Cheese Cake, the traditional Hong Kong White Lotus Paste with Single Egg Yolk, Low Sugar Hong Kong White Lotus Paste and Mini Snow Skin Gummi Bears. This autumn’s new exciting creations are Mini Snow Skin Black Pearl with Sesame Paste and Mini Snow Skin Strawberry Paste with Aloe Vera and Baked White Coffee with Macadamia Nuts.

Another Back By Demand Hot Favourites For Charity! For the kids!
This year kids’ hot favourite is with a new twist! The Mini Snow Gummi Bears with Pineapple flavour! For every box of this special treat purchased, we at the Prince Hotel & Residence Kuala Lumpur will donate RM10.00 to the wonderful children of the House of Joy, Puchong.

These mooncakes are an ideal Princely gift for your family, friends and business associates! Visit The Prince & The Mooncake Odyssey Counter located at the Grand Lobby from 10.30am to 9.30pm and let them assist you in selecting your favourites this occasion. Bulk purchase is available for a minimum order of 20 boxes and above with a 15% discount. A 2-days advanced order is required for bulk orders.

For reservations, please call Tai Zi Heen at 03- 2170 8888 (ext. 8200) or fax your orders to 03- 2170 8808. Interested to know more? Send in your enquiries to Prince Hotel & Residence today!

To ensure that your special day unfolds without a hitch, you can never be too prepared. What happens if the sun destroys your hair or you lose a contact lens? What if your sauce-covered Noritake spoon falls on your wedding dress at the reception? Creating a little SOS pack of “just in case” goodies is a great way to make sure you can handle any unexpected blip or emergency with grace and ease. To begin, select a medium sized purse, tote, or other sizable bag to leave with your maid of honor. The style of bag is up to you – something with pockets, zippers, or another form of dividers is great. Choose something that makes you feel comfortable and renders you capable of grabbing whatever you need without a lot of digging. In this bag you will want to keep the following SOS materials, which I’ve put into categories for you – think of what you might need for any manner of mishaps, from head to toe. This list will get you started, and then add your own…

Hair/Head: Extra bobby pins, hairspray, a curling iron, hair brush, teasing or regular comb, extra makeup, sun tan lotion, hair dryer, umbrella or sun shield if needed
Eyes: Contact lens solution, sunglasses, extra pair of contacts, tissues, waterproof mascara
Nose: Powder, nasal spray if summer wedding/allergies
Mouth: Lip balm, water bottle, throat lozenges, mints, light snacks
Hands: lotion, nail file, clear nail polish, extra colored nail polish if needed
Feet/legs: flip flops or tennis shoes, extra stockings, band-aids
Misc.: double sided tape, feminine products, deodorant, pens, lint brush, any medications, small sewing and first aid kits

Again, leave this bag with your maid of honor. You don’t need to lug it around all day, which will strain your shoulders and remind you of the potential for things to go wrong. But having it close by, you’ll never need to worry about being unprepared for anything! So if the rain attacks your makeup, the dinnerware falls in your lap, or any other manner of small disasters strike, rest assured that you will be well equipped to tackle these troubles without batting a perfectly curled eyelash.

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Celebrating this Friendship Day, Marry.Merry will be having a cool promotion for you and your besties! What better ways to celebrate your friendship with your buddies than sharing some wonderful moments while taking pictures that will last a lifetime?

Learn more about the Friendship Package by giving Marry.Merry a ring at +603 – 7873 6199 / 6197. You can even send your enquiries to Marry.Merry as well.

Business Hours: Mon – Sat 11am to 9pm, Sun 11am to 6pm. MARRY.MERRY is proudly managed by Precious Sdn Bhd.

Take a break from the norm this Ramadhan and share your berbuka puasa moments with your partner, in-laws and friends at One World Hotel Petaling Jaya for a delicious spread of goodness and delights throughout the month of August and September.

Poolbar & Grill

If all of you are a fan of barbecues, you should not miss the barbecue promotion available at the Poolbar & Grill. Featuring a wide spread of authentic Malay cuisine and well marinated meats and seafoods, be enticed by the sizzling aroma and tuck into the glorious selection of grilled favourites available. Drool over a wide variety of appetizer such as paru goreng kunyit, kerabu pucuk paku, lemang and serunding, kerabu sotong seri Pahang, acar buah, tauhu sambal, and the list goes on.

End your meal with sweet desserts like assorted Malay kuih, agar-agar lapisan, assorted pudding, bahulu, wajid, putu piring, dodol, chocolate egg custard, assorted French pastries, pineapple tarts, cakar ayam and lots more complemented with free flow of thirst quenching beverages like sugar cane, ‘sirap bandung’, coffee and tea, all you can drink and eat!

Come over to the Poolbar & Grill (located on level 2) and berbuka puasa in a relaxed ambiance overlooking the hotel’s resort style swimming pool and lush landscaped while having an enjoying meal. You’ll be spoilt for choice with the spread of barbecued and grilled items offered!

This promotion is available on every Saturday from 7.00 pm to 10.00 pm for the whole month of August.

Price: RM78++ per adult (50% discount for child aged 4 to 12)
Time: 7.00 pm to 10.00 pm

For reservations, please call Poolbar & Grill at 603 7681 1161.

Zuan Yuan Chinese Restaurant

Do not want to miss out the fun this Ramadhan and want to berbuka puasa in Oriental style? Amidst the opulence setting of Zuan Yuan Chinese Restaurant, located on the lobby level of One World Hotel, treat your family, in-laws and friends to an exquisite Chinese cuisine.

Take pleasure in unlimited offering of appetizers, garden green salad, soups and desserts followed by Master Chef Michael Chew’s culinary creations such as Mongolian Roasted Chicken served with Homemade Garlic Sauce, Wok Fried Fish Fillet with Milk and Spicy Sauce, Wok Seared Water Prawn with Superior Stock, Deep Fried Boneless Chicken with Crispy Onion Cantonese Style, and enjoy ‘eat all you can’ from a selection of more than 40 mouth-watering dishes!

Apart from the vast variety of signature mains available on the menu, indulge in more than 15 types of steamed, fried and baked dim sum. Discreet dining is also available if you, your family and friends (with a pax of more than 10) would like to experience a private setting.

This promotion is available from 11 August 2010 till 9th September 2010.

Price: RM78++ per adult, RM39++ per child aged 4 – 12 years.

For reservations, please call Zuan Yuan at 603 7681 1159.

Cinnamon Coffee House

Hunting for a place where you can enjoy authentic Malaysian cuisine this coming Ramadhan? The best of Malaysia can be found under one roof, at the award-winning Cinnamon Coffee House, as an abundance of traditional Ramadan favourites, signature Chinese dishes and delectable Indian temptations as well as stalls featuring Malaysian delicacies are showcased nightly. With a diverse menu of over 100 dishes offered with the theme of Citarasa 1 Malaysia, have an unforgettable feast for the eyes as well as the palate.

Eight rotation menus have been prepared by their brigade of chefs. Some of the notable dishes served include pucuk ubi gulai tempoyak, rendang daging rembau, kambing kari teluk gong, udang sambal petai muar, nasi beriani gam johor, and much more.

Not-to-be-missed home recipes of bubur lambuk, nasi kandar berlauk, pulut kuning berlauk, mee bandung, laksa kedah and nasi ulam also awaits at the chef’s daily speciality counter while the roasted whole lamb with briyani rice and a variety of sauces is available daily at the carving stall. Watch their chefs in action, as they prepare apam balik, fried ice
cream, pisang goreng, cempedak goreng and sukun goreng at the interactive kitchens. Surau facilities are available for Muslim guests as well as ample parking spaces.

This promotion is available from 11 August 2010 till 9th September 2010.

Ramadan Buffet Dinner:
Price: RM98++ / adult, RM49++ / child aged 4 to 12 years

For reservations, please call Cinnamon Coffee House at 03 – 7681 1157.

If you would like to know more about the promotions above, you can send in your enquiries to One World Hotel Petaling Jaya today.

Signature Weddings, published bi-annually, features some of the world’s finest and most exclusive collections, weddings and honeymoon destinations as well as ideas that will inspire you.

In this issue, it is about creating the wedding of your dreams, on a budget-friendly way. Contrary to common belief, an expensive wedding does not equate with a good one. Your personal touch matters more than you would imagine. Thus, we’re featuring inspirational  weddings; beautiful and budget-friendly ones, no matter what the size of your pocket. Just as every couple is unique, so was their wedding. The fun gets intimate, too. Each is an account of love’s flourish that was fulfilled in marriage. Your wedding is not just a story. It’s your story – you and your partner’s – and this magazine will inspire your upcoming nuptials to be as special as you are.

With a wealth of information at hand, this publication caters to sophisticated brides- and grooms-to-be who would want to distinguish from the vital ‘need to know’ to the ‘nice to know’.

Note: Signature Weddings magazine is available at all major bookstores in Malaysia and Singapore at RM18/SGD10.