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Pamamanhikan and Other Wedding Tasks
This coming January 23 to 26, 2010 will be me and Doms' first trip
going back to Manila together. After more than a year, Doms and I will
be together again in Manila. It kinda brings back all the memories that
we have just going to malls like Gateway and Trinoma and watching
movies and eating. Well the reason why we are going to Manila is
because Doms and the whole of the Valentin family will do the
traditional "Pamamanhikan" to my family. "Pamamanhikan" is a
Filipino tradition where...
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year Everyone! It's officially 1 year and 1 week to go before my wedding. How time flies!!! I am really excited that our wedding is nearing already. More preps to go!! I hope everyone's 2010 will be fun and prosperous.
Christmas Vacation Ala Wedding Preps
During my short Manila visit, I was able to do the list below for our wedding: Ocular visit to Oasis Pavilion = Bernadette Novilla was kind enough to show us around Osais Pavilion. She toured us to the pavilion, bridal suite, rest rooms and other vital places for our wedding. I became more and more excited because at the time that we were there, a wedding reception was about to take place and the pavilion was majestically decorated. This gave me more ideas on how our reception will be....
Kumpil What?
Doms and I were happy talking about our wedding preparations the other day. I was enumerating to him the must-have's documents for the marriage license application and for the church. Demo Dindin (Sitting on the bed, in front of her laptop with the wedding excel sheet in the screen): Babe, we need your baptismal certificate and confirmation certificate from your church. Dapat may naka-lagay na "For Wedding Purposes" Doms (In the computer table, searching the web): Ahh, OK. Madali lang...
Entourage Gowns Inspirations Number 2
Here are more entourage gowns that I think will be the dresses of my secondary sponsors and bride's maid. so far, for Bride's Maids we are thinking of getting Sabrina Tutaan (my cousin) and one of Doms' relatives (not sure who?). For Secondary Sponsors we are getting Khelly Gamboa, Aki Tolentino and Joy Perez.
Entourage Gowns Inspirations Number 1
I've been searching and searching endlessly for bride's maid gown for my entourage and so far, I've saved almost 80 dresses coming from different sites and designers. Among those 80 dresses, here are some of my favorites. From Secondary Sponsors: For Bride's Maids:
Tickler File No. 1
Here are the things that I should accomplish when I get to have a vacation in Manila this ____________ (secret date!). Oasis / Hizons Choose cake flavor and design Preliminary meeting for reception design, decorations and other stuff Food tasting Ocular Inspection of the pavilion Mt. Carmel Read forms given to Mom about churhc rules, requirements etc. Answer the forms and submit to church office Ask additional info about church rules in gowns, songs, photographers etc. Ocular...
Wedding Gown Inspirations Number 1
I've been searching the internet for the gown designs that will be suitable for me in my wedding day. I've found a lot of nice and elegant gowns!!! But of course, I need to check with my chosen couturier if the design that I want suits my body and if it will look good on me. So far, here are the designs that I fell in love with. I added some of my comments in each of the gowns. I love the shoulder design of this gown. Since I have broad shoulders, this style can cut the broadness and can...
Enhancing Our Wedding Website
Ever since I started reading and replying to emails in Wedding at Work Yahoo Groups, I get to see the other wedding websites of future brides like me. I am not being biased, but I prefer MyWedding.Com application than other site hosting. Anyway, there are 2 things that I added in our website. First is the Daisypath Free Wedding Countdown meter, http://daisypath.com/Wedding.php). I enjoyed searching for the right path and the cutest slider. The end results was OK because the meter...
Photo and Video Hunting
Sine we already have our church, reception venue and caterer, the next stop for our wedding partner hunt is our photo and video supplier. We are considering a lot of photo and video suppliers. Almost all of them has the same price range and inclusions in their package. Now, it's a matter of the freebies and discounts that they will give us. Here are our top choices: Nice Print Photo Blog: http://niceprint.blogspot.com/ Feedback: I already emailed them and Charisse Tinio replied...
