Kalo Make Art Bespoke Wedding Invitation Designs

Tuesday, 5 June 2012

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

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 (this means curved brackets).
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.

***The above information was 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!

Gregorian - Lunar Calendar Conversion Table of 2014 (Jia-wu yer of the Horse):
Please check out this link if you want to convert the Gregorian to Lunar dates for 2014

*** Please email me at info@kalomakeart.com if you would like a wedding invitation wording template guideline!

Monday, 4 June 2012

My Hong Kong Wedding. com

I am thrilled to be included as a Bespoke Wedding Invitation Designer in Hong Kong at

My Hong Kong Wedding.com is one of the most popular wedding information website in HK!

Sunday, 3 June 2012

Succulent Love - wedding ideas for Hong Kong Brides

I used to think Peony was one of the prettiest flowers and I would definitely use it as the main flower for my wedding bouquet but I guess I am slightly changing my mind now as I've discovered S-u-c-c-u-l-e-n-t!

According to my friend "Wiki", succulents are water-retaining plants that store water in their leaves, stem and roots and are adapted to dry areas of the tropics. No wonder succulent is a rare choice to be used at weddings in Hong Kong and Singapore! (The challenge will be finding these beautiful plans in Hong Kong!?)

To have a wedding invitation in Hong Kong with a Succulent theme would definitely stand out. I will probably design some succulent wedding invite for my In House collection soon.

I hope I have raised your interest in succulents as much as I do.

If you are looking for an "one of a kind" bouquet or a wedding theme, perhaps consider Succulent?

Thursday, 1 March 2012

Kalo Make Art Hand Sewing and Illustrated Greeting Cards

My dad found a lovely sewing machine from the cupboard a few days ago. It is a vintage as it is more than 30 years old! He taught me how to use it and here are some cards I created with this sewing machine ...

Monday, 19 December 2011

Kalo Make Art Recipe Tote Bag

This is my latest design - Kalo's Recipe Totes! The idea sparkled while I was cooking one night. I was thinking of things to make as a present for a good friend, who once asked me for the recipe of Chicken Chow Mein. (I cooked this for her once, she loved it and after the meal, she took down detailed notes of the recipe!) So that was how the RECIPE TOTE IDEA came out!

Thursday, 18 August 2011

Travel Drawing Series - Venice | Berlin |

Travel drawings in Venice. 04-09 August, 2011
Yuko, thanks sooo much for your surface pattern book. I love it!
Tor, thanks for being so fun and friendly. I enjoyed our evening out together.

Travel drawings in Berlin: 01-04 August 2011

Thanks Jon for a fun, cultural and artistic trip to Berlin. It was great fun playing blind drawing (drawing and not looking at the paper) and cycling around the city.

I am glad I learnt a lot about the holocaust which I didn't in high school !

| Blind drawings outside the American Embassy |

// Blind drawings at the outdoor garden at Jewish Museum //

Friday, 27 May 2011

15 hours of Surface Pattern Design Course, London

Do you know that there are four types of repeats ? Block; Half drop; Brick and Mirror !
If you are not sure what I am talking about but interested to find out more, I would highly recommend the Surface Pattern Design course at the City Lit, London.

Please (!!!) make sure the course is taught by Rachel Gornall. Besides a well structured course outline, Rachel is inspiring, passionate, super helpful, dedicated and always full of energy! One of those great teachers who would stay behind class to help and discuss with students if we have any queries.

Fortunately, I met a bunch of creative friends in the class too! They all have interesting careers, from art tour guide at the Courtauld Gallery, art restorer, Thomas the tank engine licensing lady, editor at ELLE deco, a girl who owns her own ceramics cafe ...

My theme is 'circus' and I am particularly interested in the movements of acrobats!
Human forms are just incredible! I am amazed that in 15 hours (3 hrs per class, 5 classes in total), we all learnt how to design, create, form and PRINT our first pattern design, all from scratch! Here are some snapshots of my work and my classmates' work:

// mood board - circus theme full of acrobats! //