Kalo Bespoke - a wedding blog in Hong Kong dedicated to contemporary stylish brides

Hello I have created a new blog Kalo Bespoke - this blog is dedicated to all contemporary stylish Brides in Hong Kong. There will be loads of interesting information for the Brides to be.

While this Kalo Make Art Blog will contains interesting arty, creative things explored and created by Kalo! 

Chinese Wedding Invitation Wording Template - How to Title Bride and Groom

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Chinese Wedding Invitation Wording Template - How to Title Bride and Groom

When it comes to Chinese wordings for wedding invitations, a lot of people have no idea on where to start. Especially how to address oneself as 長男 // 次男 // 幼男 //  小兒....

Here is an easy guidance to help you...

Traditional Chinese Wedding Invitations use a special format.
They are read from top to down, right to left.
They are also versed so that the bride and groom's parents are the official hosts.
Here is an example:

Take note of following etiquette: 
1. Specify the date of the wedding in both gregorian/solar and Chinese/lunar calendar form.
2. List the day of the week in parenthesis.
3. Precede the bride and groom's names with their birth order among siblings.

*** See below for more information on how to name the birth order
For example: Eldest son Second daughter Youngest son
4. The characters for "welcome" should be in larger font than rest of text.

Information obtained from here

Ranking amongst Siblings: Here are some terms that are commonly used on Chinese wedding invitations:

小兒 : refers to the only child in the family 

小兒 : ALSO refers to Groom has no male siblings (can have sisters/ older or younger)

小女:  refers to the only child in the family 小女: ALSO refers to Bride who has no female siblings   (can have brothers/ older or younger)

長男 // 次男 // 幼男 : oldest son / 2nd son / youngest son長女 // 次女 // 幼女 :oldest daughter / 2nd daughter / youngest daughter

For the Groom, he just need to arrange the sequence among himself and his brothers, and do not need to take into account of his sisters if he has any. This applies to the Bride too.

E.g. He is the oldest son, with 1 younger sister and 1 younger brother = 長男

E.g. He is the only son, with 1 older sister = he will still be referred as 小兒 (do not take into account of sisters)

Hope this is clearer and hope you will find this useful. 

*** Please check out my new Blog dedicated to Modern Adventurous Brides

http://kalobespoke.blogspot.hk/

More artwork done by Kalo's students

Here are some artwork done by my students in Singapore this week.
We were making Chinese New Year greeting cards, aboriginal arts and painting like an Impressionist! Teaching does put a big smile on my face.

Coco On Cavas

May I introduce COCO, the Canadoodle dog. Yes Canadoodle, not CanNoodle.

She loves you to play hide and seek with her toy (you hide the toy, she goes find it)

It is a life saver game sometimes when I want some peace to do more design work.

Unfortunately, she didn't come to Asia with me. So before I left London, I designed and screen printed a tote bag with her silhouette and her name (disguise by the Coco Chanel sign) on it. It is a great bag for dog walking, it holds a lot of Coco's toys.

Amazing painting done by Kalo's student

I have been teaching arts to this little girl (age 11) since December last year. We had about 6 classes so far and today is the first time, she did her first painting!  I was teaching her how to paint like the Impressionist Masters and LOOK ! Her painting is amazing! I feel really proud. 

Our subject matter - lovely flowers, some tiny onions and a fake bird! 

 Believe me, she is 11 years old only, just that she is rather tall! 

Meryl's first finished painting

Um... this is mine ....

Kalo Make Pattern turns into a shoe box

My illustration turned into a pattern. My pattern turned into a shoe box.

Seeing the final product is just an amazing feeling :)!

                                    

      

                                   

Shoe box signed by Hong Kong singer Kelly Chen

Coffee Shop in Singapore

I woke up really early today at 5:30 in the morning to do a bridal make up in the East side of Singapore. After that I went to a lovely coffee shop in Tiong Bahru to relax and to recover!
This cafe I found is called Orange Thimble. It has a lovely setting, with lots of individual rooms and a back yard filled with sunshine.  I ordered a latte and an English roll and sat there on my own for like 3 hours? It is somewhere you can chill out for the whole day and not worry you will be kicked out! Plus, the staff has a great sense of humor too.