~DIY No. 2 WiLL YoU Be?~

I'm in my DIY mode again and i just finished doing our wyb e-cards for our entourage :) I got the link from W@W forum and i'm super happy that it turned out good and my female ento liked it. at first i was thinking of doing it in a real card form but when i read about it in W@W, i thought it would be more practical and eco friendly. :) so here are few of them. :)







For the guys, Ian preferred the texts to be in tagalog because he finds english texts cheesy. haha! so here's his version.




happiness again! :) weeee! :)

~LeSS ThAn 4 MonThs To Go!~

Geez! I can feel the excitement and i'm kinda nervous already. :) but i love this feeling!! :) yup! it's less than 4 months and it's my turn to walk down the aisle. :) here are some of the updates of our wedding preparations.

So far our preps are doing okay and i'm excited to see the final sketch of my gown :)
We have decided to get Ms. Mila De Leon as my designer and she'll do the gowns of my entourage too! :) i put my trust on her so I hope she won't fail me. :)

Kutchie, our coordinator keeps on impressing me/us. I was a bit worried with some small details of our wedding like the headcount of suppliers meal, misalette, place cards etc. so i told her that i want to talk about it on our next meeting. And during our meeting with her last month, I felt so relieved when she told me that she and her team will take good care of it. she even volunteered to help us in doing the packing of our wedding favors and she also talks about the littlest things which i really appreciate as an OC Bride. :-p I remember her telling me to ask one of my bridesmaids or whoever to carry a sanitizer and stand near me after the releasing of the doves because sometimes as they say, sh*t happens. haha! i'm loving her more and more and hopefully on the day of our wedding, will be her best of the best :)

~Pre Nup LeG 3~ :)

after 3 months, we get to shooting again with kuya oliver, this time with abcd and pola too and unfortunately it rained. BUT that didn't stop us from posing. haha! it's just too bad we didn't have enough shots at the skate boarding rink and graffiti walls. not sad at all because i love kuya oliver's creativity that he managed to get nice shots using the available resources like the light pole near the bus stop where we were by standing while waiting for the rain to stop, the colorful lights from 313 somerset mall, and the bus stop lights which he made into heart bokehs. :) our time was not wasted after all. :) here are the proofs :)

November 7, 2010
Somerset Skate Boarding Rink
Theme: Trasher

~DIY 1. SaVe ThE DatE TaGS~

Yey! Finally! after 10 years of planning, haha! we finally had our STD tags done! :) thanks to our bestman for the the help and support in doing this. :) it's been 2 late nights of work because we wanted to finish it before we fly back to manila so i can give it to my mom to send to some of our guests :) we thought it turned out good so here it is :)

~3 TiCkS oN OuR CheCkLisT~

Hi, bloggers and readers! :) yep! you're right! another 3 ticks on our checklist for having booked 3 suppliers. :) yey! :)

Here they are, additional to our most trusted suppliers :)

Sensitivity for the lights and sounds
Wink for our invitations and
IMAX for our projector :)


Next Target --->> Gown Designer, Florist, DIYs

~AuGusT AccompLisHmEnTS~

I just realized, I forgot to mention in my last post some of the most important things we've accomplished during our 2 week stay in the Philippines. The wedding bands, canonical interview and the marriage banns. how could i just forget these things? tsk! tsk! anyways, yes! we already got our wedding bands :) an early wedding gift from my future mom-in-law :) weeeee!! happiness! :) well, ian doesn't want to have diamond stones in his ring so he opted for the plain two toned style while mine is just the same but adorned with six hearts and arrows diamonds :) simple yet classy, just the way we wanted :) i don't have a nice picture yet so i'll just upload it later on. :) We also went to Don Bosco church to get a schedule for canonical interview and lucky us, we got a slot day before our flight back to SG. after the interview, the church coordinator already gave us our wedding banns and the schedule for marriage counselling and marriage preparation seminar. :) so far we've accomplished quite a lot already :) whoa! i see a lot of ticks on our checklist :) there should be more on my next post :)

~PrEpS UpDatE~

whew! finally!after almost two months, im back again. :) well, my super duper busy schedule won't allow me to be a regular blogger on my own blogsite. haha! anyways, here are what we've accomplished during our 2 week stay in the philippines.

August 13
It was my birthday but I had to skip the celebration since we didn't have enough time for the meet ups with our suppliers. but thanks to our wedding planner kutchie for giving me a mini cake. sweet! anyways, going back to the preps, we met with the following suppliers.

Me-anne of Sensitivity for the lights and sounds - we're currently reviewing their quotation and if everything is okay, we're ready to send the downpayment. :)

Vangie of Printsonalities for invitations - for downpayment :)

Tes Alparas of Notes and Flowers for entourage bouquets and reception flowers - for review, waiting for the breakdown of prices :)

We also did an ocular to The Loft @ Manansala and Blue Leaf.

North Forbes Pavillion is already scraped off from our supplier's list due to some reasons and at the end of the day we decided to have blue leaf as our reception venue. see below for the pics. :)





























August 18
1. Food Tasting and detailing with Josiah's
2. Went to the shop of Merlene Marcelo and Mila de Leon

No doubt, Josiah's food are really good and Happy, our AE always tries her best to accomodate all our requests and answer all our questions. :)I hope their service will be at it's best until our wedding day :) we're now waiting for the final draft contract and reception venue layout and we can move forward already with other suppliers. :)by the way, we have sent our cake design to them already :)

Merlene Marcelo was not there when we visited her shop but her accountant was there to accomodate us and she even asked me to try some of their gowns. I fell inlove right away with this one gown that I fitted. It's made of pina fabric with a very nice beading and embroidery design, long beaded train, and fully beaded callado bolero. I gave them my details and measurement in case we decided to get them to do our gowns. :)

Mila De Leon is one bubbbly woman whom you'd love to talk to. :) luckily she was not busy when we visited her so we're able to discuss quite many things about choosing the right gown for me and getting the color swatches of our motif :) she's the designer who proposed that serpentina cut gown would look fab on me. she did two sketches. the one that she proposed and another based on my gown inspiration. :)































August 23
We went to Rosalyn Lagdameo and she's also nice and accomodating :) i just instantly liked her and I'm sure mom and future mom in law will like her too. :) she has sent her quotation already and just waiting for the breakdown of prices. perhaps you'll know on my next blog who i chose to do our gowns. :)yet to decide. women! :-p

We also met with Junby. Kutchie recommended him to be our emcee and we like him :) we're gonna send the downpayment together with the rest of our confirmed quotations.

We have also received quotation for the projector already and we need to add to our budget the cost of breaker for blue leaf.

less than 6 months to go before our big day so perhaps I have to start with our DIYs already.

Pending List

1. Music selection for church and reception - in progress
2. Names of Principal Sponsors - ASAP
3. Full body picture of the bridal entourage - ASAP
4. Compilation of our baby pictures - to be done on October
5. Birth certificates/Baptismal Certificates/Confirmation Certificate/Cenomar - october
6. Marriage License - to be filled up on October
7. Pre cana seminar - To schedule on November 28, 2010
8. Marriage Counselling - to schedule on March 2, 2011
9. Groomsmen/Bestman Suit - to contact the involved ASAP
10. Grooms's suit and shoes and bride's shoes - to start looking
11. Paloma's nest - to order on October
12. Bride & Groom + Bridal Ento Shirts - to find supplier
13. Cake Topper/Pens/Chocolates/Wines/Props for the reception/Camera pendants - to find supplier
14. Arrhae/Bible/Cord/
15. PS/SS/GM/BM/Parents gifts
16. Wedding Favors
17. Watch wedding movies :)
18. Invitation letter to Fr. Peng to be our officiating priest
19. Trial Make-up
20. Marriage Banns - to be submitted on October

DIYs To Dos

Misalette - template sent already
Save the date cards
WYB cards
Place Cards
Escort Cards
Table Names
Bridal Ento AccessoriesUnity Candle
Matches
Napkin Sealer
Guestbook
Couple's Trivia

Till my next blog :)


















more updates on my next blog :)

cheers! :)