Our Registration Table

I didn’t expect that Quidos, our caterer will put lots of wedding details in our registration table. If I only knew we didn’t put much effort in adding more as it was okay already for me. (Less work, more budget, haha!), hubby and I just doesn't want it to look too blank. Anyway, hubby and I really enjoyed doing it (well more me on that side) so it's okay. All the frames, pinwheels the letter boxes were all our labor of love.

Materials Used: Frames, Jar, Pinwheels, Letter boxes, Ribbons, Pink Bucket

Sadly, our photographers wasn't able to capture all our DIY's, huhu, I should've reminded them to do that.
























Side Kwento's...

We initially colored the letters silver but it didn't quite look good so we changed it to the closest color that we've got to the theme. Much better than Silver.

Testing our crafty side

We also added “Guess How Many Kisses Game” upon registering. That’s why there's a jar of Kisses in the table. The winner was announced after the party. We saw that all our guests were excited to know who the lucky guesser is; they all wanted the jar of Kisses. The lucky winner was my Maid of Honor’s boyfriend Jeck. Btw, Kaye, my MOH was 2 months pregnant on my wedding so I believe Jeck won the prize because of the lucky baby. :)

Winner!

DIY Table Number, PinWheel in a Bottle and Madlibs

We decided to use some pictures from our 2nd prenup as our table numbers. We also added Pinwheel in a bottle and wedding mad libs in the table to keep them busy while waiting for us. We bought colored pens for them to use. It’s also cheaper if you have your own printer and print the photos and mad libs on your own. As you can see, the details of the design is very easy, we just wanted to add more to the theme and I guess we did a pretty good job despite of the rush and the budget.

Here's more during the preps...

Materials used:
Picture Frame
Ribbons (Pink, Gray and Teal)
Bottles
Paper Doily
Colored Pens
Card Stock for the madlibs

DIY Wedding Invitation

We are very proud sharing with you our wedding invitation. We wanted a non traditional invite for our wedding and wanted not to splurge much for it. 

Materials were bought in National Bookstore. Hal was in-charge of measuring the size of the layout and I am in-charge of the design using Photoshop. Hal assisted me with printing and cutting. We used Epson L800 for printing. 

Pros: 

More bonding time for the couple

Will enhance your Photoshop skills

You can easily update your invitation details

You’ll save a lot of bucks

Cons:

Possible petty fights if your hubby doesn’t want to cooperate or lazy 

You’ll get a bit frustrated if you wasn’t able to achieve your desired style and design

You’ll get sleepless nights in cutting and working on it 

Overall, I am happy with the results. We also spent less than 1,000Php for our invites, so it’s very worth the effort. It’s just a simple invite but we've made it out of love. 

2nd DIY: Will You Be Our Ninong/Ninang Card

We decided to just edit our Save The Date card to be our Will You Be Cards for our Ninong and Ninang. The envelopes were DIY-ed too. We also printed small version of our monogram for the envelope seal. We wanted our future Ninongs and Ninangs to have these printed invites to make it extra special. We personally gave these to them upon informing them about the marriage. :)

First DIY: Save The Date

The first DIY is our Save The Date card. After hours of browsing the net for idea and design, I fell in love with the minimalist yet cute design from from Weddingchicks.com. So I decided that instead of creating one, I downloaded the free invitation template and had it customized using Photoshop. It’s really an easy job because I love Photoshop editing is very used to it. Hal approved it immediately! We just had it forwarded to our friends and relatives via Facebook instead. Not only that we save a few bucks, paperless is Earth friendly. :)