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One day to go. Tomorrow I'm gonna be a missus!!!!


I am amazingly calm, mind you. Yesterday, people commented how relaxed Ane and I are. I am actually more stressed with things not wedding related. Hehehe.

Later, my family is checking in the hotel already. Ane and his parents will just go there tomorrow morning.

Oh, I had two bridal showers last weekend (c/o our Baddicts friends and my college galpals), sans the stripper/s, were still all good and fun.

A big thank you to all who helped us prepare for this wedding. Our friends, our family friends, fellow Wawies. Hugs to all of you!

This is it!!!!

Shameless...ehehheehe

We did not avail of any wedding registry for personal reasons...but that doesn't mean we don't need, or will not appreciate, our guests' cash errrr gifts... :)

I guess it won't hurt anyone if we express our wishes (wink! wink!):

1. 29" (or bigger, ehhehe) Flatscreen TV -- for the home theater system we bought last Christmas (yep, pathetic as it may sound, nauna pa namin bilhin ang dvd player at speakers, ahahahaha!);

2. Four fluffy pillows and one body pillow;

3. Beddings for our King-sized bed (dark wood finish), preferably high-thread count;

4. Brand new Desktop computer (for my digiscrapping needs ahahahah);

5. Cash...cash...cash...

Of course, I'm kidding! We just want to have the people most close to us to share our special day. Gifts are just icing on the cake :)

Anyway, I am so happy and I feel so blessed that a lot of people are looking out for us, asking what our needs are, and simply offering the best they could give. They all know who they are. We are so thankful that we have received the following as early wedding presents:

Cash gift from my sister's in-laws...Boracay honeymoon package from one of the Ninangs (includes airfare!)...my sister and her husband for my gown and a bit of the entourage gowns...electric fan from one of Ane's relatives...our bed...our main/back-up photog, John Aguas, and a lot more from others who are helping us make this wedding happen. We started with so little and we're ending with so much more and with more than enough.

This post started with a joke and now I'm getting all cheesy, geeesshhhh...Must end now, hehhehe....

Lapit na!!!

Fifteen days to go, and most of my sidebar tasks are crossed out!! Yey!


The rest are really minor details.

I am so glad Clarice is around, making things sooo easy for me.

She's so awesome, she keeps me sane! :)

Canonical Interview

We had our interview last Saturday with the Parish priest of OLCP. The interview is a requirement before we could get our forms for the Banns. Ane was the first one to go, then it was my turn, then the two of us together.

I was kinda nervous about this interview. Ane was more nervous than I was (I think!) because he pissed me off big time the night before, ehehehe. Peace!

Anyway, it was easy, except that the priest spoke in english and he kept on eating his letters. I had to ask him to repeat some of his questions. But he tried to make it as light as possible, asking humurous/tivial questions such as:

"Do you plan to have an abortion?"

"Do you plan to leave the country and leave your spouse behind?"

"Are you religious?"

"Do you plan to kill him?"

I would flinch upon hearing the questions. But later I realized, it made sense, all of it. Afterall, marriage is a covenant that shouldn't be destroyed by no one or nothing but death.

I guess the priest just wants to be sure we are ready for such big commitment.

:)

having problems with pasting pics..aaarrrggghhh!!!

What's with blogger?!? I tried attaching pictures to my last two entries and it just doesn't work. I tried uploading directly, but it returns an error. I tried adding codes to attach pictures from our yahoo album, it doesn't work either. Even if I use photobucket, I fail.

This is so frustrating especially when I so wanna share pictures!!! ***ranting...ranting..ranting..***

Anyway, it's wayyyy past my bedtime (in Ane's clock , that is!) so I gotta stop figuring it for now. If I don't get back later, just click on the links for the mean time.

big sigh.

Our Invites!!

I picked-up our invites today!! Click here to see other pictures and larger views.

Our invite by Spyder Creative is thermograph printed on Mocha and Ecru paper. The print is colored brown. We chose the cursive font ourselves because we didn't want to just follow the usual samples in a common invite these days. According to Ms. Adaline, this design has been in their catalogue since year 2004. Therefore, this is a not so new design afterall. But it is wonder why Ane and I immediately fell in love with this. It was in fact love at first sight!

Our love story with this "Tying the knot" invite started when we went to the March fair at the NBC Tent. We actually had a simple design in mind: A traditional rectangular (definitely not square) plain invite, that is three-folds and opens horizontally, the fonts to be used are plain print type (i.e. arial) and a not too cursive script (i.e. not scriptina or beautiful), not necessarily showing our motiff which is orange-green-yellow, and Spyder was most likely our choice to render what we had in mind. :)

As we were browsing thru Adaline's album, while she attended to another client, Ane suddenly said, "Ane, ito!!!"...and I didn't need some convincing anymore. :) We just felt it.

And we knew our hearts we're sold right there and then. c",)

Fittings

Updates first on how our day went last Tuesday. :) It actually started with a petty fight. Before picking up Ane, I drove thru McDo to fetch some breakfast. He said he wanted some fries and it was up to me what to add for him. So I ordered Egg Mcmuffin for myself and pancakes for him (plus the fries). When I reached their house, we left right away. While driving, he wanted me to feed him. I was willing to oblige only if he won't eat the pancakes with butter and syrup (it could get messy and malagkit, di ba?), but he like it with butter and syrup. I was being maarte I know, I didn't give in. So he started giving me the cold treatment and he would mumble things to himself. Hmp! Hay, I ended up saying sorry na lang...

We were able to accomplish almost everything. We got the guest passes from GR. Our sample Misalette was approved. Our church requirements are complete except for the banns and permit from my parish. The forms for which we will claim after our Canonical interview on Saturday. We got our contract from Ariel. Jao has his tela already. But we were not able to buy Ane's shoes. Sigh. We looked and we sought in vain.

Anyway, today is the entourage's third fitting (first for the flowergirls). It went on smoothly, no tantrums from the little girls, yay! Unlike when they had their measurements taken sometime in March, Ayen (one of the fg's) didn't like her measurements taken thinking that we were in a doctor's office! Hehehe, it was my first time to be stressed with anyone from the entou. See some pictures by clicking the link on the sidebar or here. And here are some of the pictures of today's fitting:

Looking good, looking good! :)

Itenerary for tomorrow...

I am so glad that Ane was allowed to take the day off tomorrow to offset all the hours he worked overtime for the past few weeks.

What needs to be done?

1. Gazebo

a) Claim guest passes, 400 pcs.,
b) Inquire about the sound system provider.

2. OLCP

a) Submit Marriage License,
b) Submit Msgr. Bart's authority to solemnize to marriage document,
c) Secure form for banns and permit from bride's parish,
d) Schedule our pre-cana for may 20,
e) Submit sample misalette and list of addresses of principal sponsors,
f) Check availability of boys' choir.

3. Ariel - get contract (long overdue!)

4. Meet up with Jao - give cloth for pants and barong.

5. Buy Ane's wedding day shoes (fitting nya na kasi soon).


I hope one day is enough! (just thinking about the travel time and all sigh...) Oh well at least I won't be alone doing these! Hehehe :)

Updates! Updates!

I have so many long-over due kwentos and pictures to share, I tell you. Imagine, neglecting this blog for too long, obviously, there's just so much that I've been meaning to share.

One, we already have an on-the-day coordinator. Yay! Ane and I decided that to keep me sane, I need the support of professionals. And so since February, I have Clarice of An Event to Remember to guide me. In a few days time, we're gonna be doing the turn over already as we are about to reach the two-month mark! Sheesh!

Two, the female ento, mothers, flowergirls and bearers (except those who are in the US) had their measurements taken sometime March. This friday, they will be having their third fitting already!

Three, I myself will have my fourth fitting (wedding gown) & third fitting (reception dress) soon! My gowns are kinda delayed because E's assigned modista for my dresses got chicken pox so R was advised not to come to work for two weeks, heheheh.

Four, Tita Miles Hilario will be our florist/stylist for the entourage, church and venue. Finally! This is one decision we've been thinking over for quite some time now. Her quotation is kinda steep but then we are assured of the quality and I'm sure she will deliver pretty well. She did my bestfriend's ento flowers three years ago, and looking at our pictures, I am more than convinced that she is the right person to handle our flowers :).

Five, Spyder Creative will do our invites. After seeing Tanya's invite for her December wedding, Ane and I were quite convinced that Adaline (and her team) is our choice. It helped even more that Spyder was an exhibitor at the Bridal Fair at NBC Tent in March, so we were able to personally talk to Adaline. Our invites are scheduled to be delivered by May 6. Yey!

Six, we already have souvenirs. I went on a 2-day road trip to Legaspi, Albay, Bicol a week after my birthday. Oh well. I actually planned on this trip to buy abaca bags to serve as our souvenir (Seeing Mayon without the clouds covering it, church hopping in Naga, hearing mass at Peñafrancia, and eating at the famous Gumaca carenderia are just plusses :)). Now we are in the process of finding the right material for the packaging. Exciting! :)

Seven, our guest list and other church requirements are ready. For the guest list we are fixing the names (for the invites) and their contat numbers (for rsvp). I've laid-out and printed our sample misalette. We (rather, I...kuwento later) have our marriage license already! Yahoo!


That's it. Pictures later, promise :)

Love is sweeter the second time around...

Four years ago I was ecstatic but afraid.


But I, rather WE, decided to give the relationship another shot.


We acknowledged the fact that we weren't perfect individuals.


But we vowed to do our best to be perfect for each other.


I'm glad it worked.



HAPPY 4th ANNIVERSARY, ANE! I can't wait to be your wife. I love you!

Something to smile about

With less than six months to go, I woke up this morning thinking about the guestlist. I've been struggling with it since the start of the year...because in December, we practically did nothing for the wedding. So I texted Ane...

Me: Parang wala sa guestlist mo si D.B.? Nde mo talaga nilagay?
Him: Ala ba hehe. lagay mo po. asa list ko si EDC at KS di ba

Me: Nyeks, ala ka bang list sa 'yo? Yup kasama silang 2. Nde pa ba updated list mo, baka may nadadag or nabawas, pde ding i email mo po...
Him: Meron po. Nagta try pa ko magayos, pero la pa binabago
Me: Oks, kaya mo ba ma email yung changes today?
Him: E ala pa naman ako nababago e. dagdag lang si D kse nakalimutan nga. Double check mo din po...
Me: Ok, ok :) Gagawan ba ng save the date ang _____?
Him: Di ko pa alam hehe. c G pa lang may alam na ikakasal na ako hehe...
Me: Oks, nde ka ba nigu goosebumps when you say 'ikakasal na ako'? ...
Him: ...nakakakilabot hehe
Me: Hehe kaya nga (me grinning from ear to ear)

Well, it's true! I got that funny feeling when he said that. Ikakasal na kami. Malapit naaaa!!!!

Our Save-the-date Magnets

So this is the design that was voted the best among my layouts. I'm a newbie at layouting ... it was such a relief that my friends were actually able to choose at least one design, haha. And then I had the magnets printed by Made4U . They rushed the printing so we could get the magnets before Christmas. (Feeling ko naman kase matatapos ko ang packaging ng lahat lahat bago matapos ang taon duh, ako pa! Syempre pa hindi ko natapos agad hay).

Once I had the magnets on hand, I bought the packaging materials for mock-up from National Bookstore and SM. And when the outcome was already acceptable, I bought all materials right away (but did not start with the actual DIY project immediately hehehe...) I used handmade paper, glossy cardboard, cream-colored ribbons, translucent paper for the tags, eyelets, some glue and some thin double-sided tapes. Tadah!

So there. We spent P20 for each magnet and less than P5 for the packaging materials. DIY-ing rocks!! Can I just say I had a lot of help from our resto guard (for cutting the handmade paper to the desired size), my cousins for cutting, and from Ane and Gian (attaching the eyelets needs a lot of energy hehehe)...

Wedding Bands

Here's a picture of our wedding bands. Super simple, noh? Just the way we like it. They're so simple my mom even joked that couples who marry in a mass wedding choose bands like these, hehehe. Ane is not really the ma-jewelry type. I, on the other hand, love jewelry...am just not a "ring" person. Only when I got my engagement ring that I started to wear a ring everyday, geesh.
These are 14k imported white gold bands (3.4g mine, 3.5g his). Looks yellow in the pic but it isn't (I just could not find the right angle to shoot heheh more pics here). We were given 5% discount because we chose the bands off the shelves. And since we went to the store in Meycauayan where alaheras get their supply from, our bands are super duper cheap. We inquired in one bridal fair and we were quoted twice as much for the same simple design! Talk about big savings, hehehehe. Our rings are also already engraved with the oh so traditional nicks and date.
Can't wait to wear MY band!! :)

Another DIY project

The packaging for the Barong & Pants Tela for the Ninongs and Male Secondary Sponsors, and for the Cloth for Ninangs.

The vertical bags are for the secondary sponsors, while the horizontal ones are for the Ninongs. For the Ninang's tela, I've painstakingly sewn sinamai sheets to fit the folded cloths. The ribbons were bought in a stall in Market! Market!

Out target is to be able to deliver all bags to the owners before the month ends. We're done with three of them, FIFTEEN more to go! nyahahahah.

Updates!

The ticker above says it's seven months before our day, and I've been telling myself that this blog also needs my attention, teehee. Okay, so here goes my updated list (and yes, I've done quite a few more cross-outs in the list at the sidebar, yey!):

Church. Still Our Lady of Consolation. Our next visit is scheduled in April, 2006.

Reception Venue. Still Gazebo Royale. I attended one wedding in the same venue, and I fell in love with the place all over again. Simply gorgeous at night!

Caterer. Hizon's. There was an unfortunate incident that we had to change our AE. Our new AE will be Ms. Maila. Yet to set a meeting in January.

My Gown, Entourage Dresses, Mothers' Dresses and Ane's attire. Still my designer. Ane and I are over ( I hope!) the fact that we have gone a bit over the budget for these.

Ninangs' Tela. I asked my designer to choose the right fabric and order for us (for the discounts of course!). I've picked the tela already, cut and in plastic, and are ready for distribution. By the way, the color is champagne gold.

Ninongs', Fathers' and Entourage Barong Tela. My mom, Ane and I went to Divi one Saturday to choose the tela for the Barongs. We chose Piña suksok and I forgot the other type, hehehehe. Huge, huge discounts because we bought a lot. Ready for distribution.

Photog. Still Richard Garcia. We have yet to see the work of his recommended second photog, Carlo. I wonder if there's a need to hire another group (someone is expressing the desire to hire someone as a gift!). And, Ane also promised we could invest and go over budget for the pictures!!! Exciting!

Video. Still Ariel Javelosa. Not that I'm hoping he will do the coverage personally, but i'm keeping my finger's crossed. Also, he transferred to another office and I haven't heard anything from them.

Wedding bands. NL Jewellery. Our schedule is to seek for the right bands come January. But yes, we already have those! And engraved as well. Why too early? Well, we are getting the owner of the shop as one of our ninangs and we don't want her to get the wrong impression so we bought the rings agad before we inform her. :) Our rings are simple yet gorgeous. There will be a dedicated post for the rings.

Living arrangements after the wedding. Ane's pad with his parents downstairs. Needs minor changes (new bed and a few appliances). Means I will have to stay in one place (I'm currently shuffling myself and my things around three houses!) until he decides whether he quits his current job or join me in managing the businesses.

Cake. Quintbelles. Met with Val during the Intramuros bridal fair. I already discussed with her the design I have in mind and our budget for the cake. I was assured that they only use designs once, which is nice. I also stressed I don't want fake cakes using styro, so they promised they'll look at the possibility of using wood instead. Yey! Still waiting for the sketch.

Make-up. Happy it's Madge Lejano. She is easily my mostest, favoritest artist (sabi niya kasi hindi daw siya supplier eh heheheheh) and it's kewl that she considers her clients her friends. I am so glad that I booked her the day after I had my TMU, otherwise, I would have lost the opportunity.

Save the date magnets. Design is my own layout. Printed by Made 4 U. Packaging is DIY. I'm thankful that I asked Marc if they offer magnet printing. They do, and they even offer the service for only p20 each (I canvassed and the others quoted p30 to p35 each!). So I was able to claim the 250 magnets last monday and then last night I did the mock-up for the packaging, which turned out nice naman. I guess that will keep me busy for the next few days (on top of my other responsibilities of course!) and I'll post another entry on the Save-the-dates once I'm totally done.


So there. Still looking for suppliers for the remaining Major needs: Flowers. Invitations. Souvenirs. Pero ika nga ni Ane, "Next year na yan..."

Madge will do my make-up!!! Photoshoot was F-U-N!!!

Last Sunday, we scheduled our Pre-nuptial Photo-shoot. As expected, it was a blast. We experienced problems during the planning stage but I'm glad we pulled it off.

A month before the schedule, I booked Madge Lejano. I was hoping she could schedule me at 9am (or earlier) so we could go straight to Caleruega, our number one option as location. But sadly, Madge can only see me at 10am. So we decided to choose another location in QC or in Manila. We chose Manila because we also wanted to see the sunset at Baywalk.

It was all set. Madge will do my make-up at 10. Ane and I will meet Richard, Mae and Flea around 11am at Shangri-la Mall. Then we will have lunch. Before leaving for Manila, we thought of sneaking around and have some shots in the mall (which is something I really really wanna do...we were able to secure a permit to have a photoshoot in Greenbelt but I'm afraid we won't have time for that anymore..how sad). Our itenerary includes: Fort Santiago, Orchidarium, Boardwalk and Baywalk then to Richard's office for the studio shots. Then dinner.

As evidenced by these pictures, we accomplished the plans naman, but with glitches of course. It's past 12midnight already and we have closed shop (meaning I have no time to rave some more!! Busy day tomorrow pa!), but since I'm excited to share that I have booked Madge Lejano already, I need the pictures to prove that I was very happy with what she and Aaron did. Madge is truly an artist.

More kwento when we get back from Palawan. :) happy long weekend everyone!!

First Trial make-up and side kwento's

I scheduled my first trial make-up (TMU) on October 15, 2005 with Al Galvez of Infiniti Salon who was referred by my designer. Because we are going to attend the wedding of Ane's cousin. Not that I wanted to upstage the bride...I just wanted to be prepared when I meet some of their relatives. The invite said 3pm so I had my schedule set a bit early at 930 (to give me ample time to clean my face in case I wouldn't like the outcome, teeeheeee).

I came in late (sheeessh) at 10am and Al went to work right away. My only request was that I wanted a really simple make-up and to please spare my nose. I know I don't have the prettiest nose ever (read: I know I am pango! :p), and I carry on with my daily life with no fuss, and putting on a nose line will make it more obvious. Being uncomfortable is last on my list.

And so I was happy with how the make-up turned out. Except that my face was itchy the moment Al finished with the foundation (I'm allergic to some products) and endured that the whole day. Thank goodness, I ended up with only three small pimples the next day. I'm schedule for my facial this week.

Another reason I was happy with the make-up: the foundation did not turn cake-like even if we had to wait outside the church parking lot for two freakin' hours. Ane and his parent's fetched me from the apartment about 15 minutes before 2pm and we were at the church at exactly 2pm...with no one else but us...just us. And then we realized that we were way toooooo early when we were told that NSDG wedding schedules are 2pm and 4pm only. We were tricked. And while we were waiting, a taxicab stopped in the church compound and I saw a couple, the girl really familiar. Si Geri!!!! That's Geri of W@W, with her H2B Raymond, I excitedly told Ane. I was excited because that's the first time I'm ever gonna meet a fellow w@wie! Nice to meet you, Geri and Raymond. Sensya na, mahiyain H2B ko eh...

So by the time we reached the reception at Cafe Villa at 6pm, we were starving (MIL2B brought yummy empanada with her for our merienda but I declined to eat earlier with the fear that I might ruin my lipstick! geeesh!). But just the same, I'm still happy with my make-up. By this time, I retouched a little already. And the make-up stayed on until it was time for me to go to bed. Wait! Can someone tell me how to properly take off make-up? I spent at least an hour to take it all off!

Anyway, I still have a couple or so TMU's to go through. This first one really went well. Thank goodness. :)

The rest of the pictures may be found here...if you would like to see how I looked like from before the make-up until before I retired that night. Comments are most welcome!!! :)

Hizon's Catering Centerpieces

Even if we've already signed up to Hizon's since August 27, Ane and I still went to the Grand Food Tasting last October 2 at Gazebo Royale. It was mainly to check out their table centerpieces. I'm glad we went coz that visit gave us ideas for our floral arrangements. I'm also glad we were allowed to take pictures so we will have reference when we set a meeting to finalize with them.

Ms. Marianne is just the coolest AE! We didn't expect to be waited upon (as there were other deals to close) but she made it a point that we are being fed and our questions answered.

The sound system used was from one of the two accredited companies in GR. I guess we'll never have problems with that during the reception. The sounds were clear and loud.

Wedding Preps Update 3

Almost two weeks ago, we have reserved both the gown designer and the caterer.

My mom and I went to her designer one friday afternoon. Next time, I'll tell you who he is. My mom have been asking this designer to do her gowns and dresses. He also did one gown for me a few months back and I really liked the dress on me. Initially we went to talk about my wedding gown, since my gown will be a gift from my sister and her husband. When we got there, the designer proposed a really nice deal to us, covering the entire entourage (except the men)...super irresistible. And since my mom and I are both impressed with his work, we decided to book him, without me asking for Ane's opinion (surely malaking gulo later on!). That friday night, yeah, I lied to Ane and told him the wrong amount. Of course he didn't believe me and come saturday morning, I knew I could not lie any longer and told him the truth (I felt bad myself, about lying). He was angry, obviously, but thankfully we are able to sort it out. I guess I'm never gonna lie again (because he said he might take drastic measure [read: calling the wedding off] if I did something like that again). By the way, our motiff's gonna be orange and yellow accentuated by moss green.

The next day, we were scheduled to have food tasting at Hizon's and we were impressed by the way the owner Ms. Baby and our AE Ms Marianne handled us. The conversations went on smoothly and it was never hard to tell them what we want and need. Some things, Ms. Marianne immediately offered us for free even if we didn't ask for it. We definitely grabbed anything she offered, free nga eh! Hehe And since their food is so delish and we didn't have a hard time with them (which is number one in our considerations list), we paid the reservation fee already. Yey! We now have a caterer! It's up to us now when to set another meeting for the nitty-gritty details. We were also invited to go to the grand food tasting on Oct 2 at Gazebo Royale so we would have an idea about their set-up. We left with Ms. Marianne giving us her direct line plus her residence phone number in case we have questions and its a sunday or after office. Galing! For the past two weeks, I would receive SMS from Ms. Marianne everytime she would be out of the office or if she's gonna be on leave. That's nice, because I'm pretty sure that she values us as her client.

Our photographer will be our dear friend Richard Garcia. He's relatively new in the business but we know he and his assistant plus second photog will do a great job in preserving our moments into pictures. Now, Ane and I will not disclose how much it would cost us for Master Rickleng (rickleng = richard magaleng) to cover the event. Ask him na lang, hehehe. Ask me for his number.

We were able to book Ariel Javelosa for our video. He's been in the business long enough to understand our video needs plus his video package is well within our budget. I initially wanted to hire someone who is an expert in on-sire video editing ot be shown in during the reception but Ariel knocked some sense into my head. He said we can show the some scenes din naman from the preps and the church, and he will sdo that for free. As for the Audio-visual presentation (AVP) we decided to get away with the usual picture presentation showing us from kids until now. Instead of that, we shall be exhibiting mosaics (I am still arguing with Ane on who should do it. Ane is insisting to stick on the budget so we probably would not get Mosaic Moments). But we will still show an AVP, probably an MTV format, which Rickleng and some of our friends will help us do.

That's about it. I guess there's no reason to panic yet. Eveything is falling right on schedule, it seems. I'm more panicky for Ditche Ophie (and Ipe), Donna (and Bebert) and Sheila (and Cousin Frenz) who will all get married before January 2006 ends!

Pre- Wedding Preps Update 3 kwento

I should have been blogging about the preps but I've been procastinating...not because I wanted to have a "news-blockage" or something. It's because there are too many things in my mind right now. Now, this blog says "9 mos and 3 weeks until we exchange I do's", and there are a lot of cross-out already at the sidebad list. Just that makes me wanna update and write details.

Anyway, as of today, the only thing missing in our list of major vendors/suppliers are the ones for: the flowers, make-up, entertainment and invites. We haven't met with possible suppliers of these because we both think we shouldn't hurry yet (except for the HMUA [hair and make-up artist] prospects, which I should start booking for THMU [trial hair and make-up] before the end of October, and before we go on a holiday.

Eddie Bruan is number one in my list. Not only did he make a perfect job on my bestfriend two years ago, he also advertise that he use my and my mom's choice of make-up. And his rates are reasonable too.

We have a florist in mind but she could be very expensive for us. We will be scouting in Dangwa late this year, probably. Three shops are already being considered. Our flowers will be simple since I just love the white ones, like roses and carnations and tulips.

For the invites, we gave up the idea of choosing the ones with pockets and inserts against the plain ones which look elegant just the same. Our dream invites cost at a range of p120 to p150 per set. Now considering our number of guests, that amount for an invite would be quite expensive, eh?

For the entertainment, Ysidro's performers will most likely take care of it at the reception. As for the church, we might request the seminarians to be our choir.

Showing my staff and our friends that this is how far I've gone with the preps (with a lot of time left), they can't help but exclaim, "Grabe, you are so organized! Ang dami mo na nagawa!" To which I smile and reply, "the real work is about to happen pa lang." Which is true since there's still a lot of contract signing to do, meetings to set, compromises to make. I'm setting myself ready when January comes , we'll probably be too busy. I'm not even sure if I'll be in the country to finalize all details. Sigh.