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. :)

In search for the chosen Photographer/ Videographer

Memories will last for a lifetime, that’s why we wanted to invest on having a professional photographer and videographer team to work on our wedding. The flaws are, if you want the best, it’s expensive, and probably eat the entire budget just for the shoot. Yeah, I know investing here is because of the output, the talent and effort put all in there equals WOW. However, budget couples may have some other priorities to consider, or maybe if I have millions to spend for my wedding, why not. However for a budget couple that does not want to splurge just for a day, call me practical or kuripot. What I’m looking for is something that you’ll feel the worth.

We had Parkershot Photography, what I like was we was able to talk to Joan the General Manager and the wife of the photographer. And since we are already negotiating with them, we gave them their budget and adjust to their capabilities. They will do the Video and Photo coverage of the wedding. What I like was we are very comfortable talking to her and we saw professionalism. She’s not pushy and I can feel the passion on what they are doing.

I am hoping that it will turn out just perfect.

Looking forward for the e-session and the wedding day, I’ll definitely update you for the feedback. 

Our Fab Mood: Gray, Pink and Teal Wedding

Sorry for being gone for a while, yeah you know already, busy with the business and other stuffs. We are now starting to do the wedding preps again after months of being lazy. So to start, here’s our wedding color palette. 

Image Credits: Google

Pamamanhikan Dinner

Even we are in a long relationship, our families doesn’t meet formally yet until that day. They only knew each other through our stories and just some basic information. Hal is like a family in our house already and me to them but our parents haven’t meet personally yet. My parents don’t like to go out and his mom is in London most of the time and spent maybe 1-2 months here yearly. So as soon as were engaged, we planned an early pamamanhikan. We scheduled it last summer vacation because my Kuya’s family that was already residing in Bulacan will be staying for a few days in our house for a visit and Hal’s mom was here for a vacation. I wish Kuya was present but he’s in UAE but I’m still glad that my sister-in-law and my niece were there. Tatay was always in the province so I informed him in advance. They brought some food and my nanay cooked some too.

The dinner went well since both parties are ready and aware that we're already on the right age to get married. Some questions on our plans were brought up but they let us all do the planning since they know we can handle it well. What was funny that night was it looked like Hal’s mom is doing talk and was asking permission for the marriage.

After the first meet, we treated my Nanay and my soon to be mother-in-law for a relaxing bonding time at Ace Water Spa with Hal’s brother and his family. Unfortunately my Tatay doesn’t want to join because it’s really not his thing. 

With Damon and Sansa too! 

Our Wedding Ring

We do not have plans in buying our wedding ring yet but it just happened. It was a busy Saturday; we went to a bridal summit by Themesnmotifs at the World Trade Center to check wedding pegs and possible supplier. Right after the bridal fair, we also went at SMX to check the Graphic Expo before we went home and so we pass by the Suarez Jewelry and decided to check it out.

And it all started with some chat and fitting and we decided to reserve our rings that day.

Why we easily decided purchasing it in Suarez? The rings we saw compared to those we checked at the bridal fair seems fairly priced. Though we saw good quality rings as well in other shops, Suarez also do have good quality sets of rings to choose. You can customize, buy back guarantee, plus the lifetime warranty.

Not mentioning that the rings we saw are what we like, we preferred two toned rounded ring, plus they have a promo of free diamond each so instead of adding, we just stick with the one they already include in our rings.

This is not the actual ring but this is the closest to the one we chose for us.  :)

Good value for money without loosing the quality is what we are looking at and we were able to achieve it in Suarez.

http://www.suarezweddingrings.com/

Where Are We Getting Married?

St. Peregrine Laziozi Parish is our church for the wedding. It is where I see myself walking down the isle. I grow up here, spending my Sunday obligation mostly here with my choir mates. I’m glad and proud to say that I’m part of the Epheso Choir. I miss serving and singing up there, though I am unable to attend nowadays, I still continue spending my Sundays here, mostly with Nanay and my soon to be husband. And because Hal knows that I have no other church to consider, he gladly agreed.

And for us to make sure we will get the date and the time we wanted. Reservation was made! 

St. Peregrine is such a lovely church for a catholic wedding too, simple and elegant. It’s very accessible especially if you are from the South area. Though you may have limited reception venues, still there are some locations you can consider. 

How about you? 

Where is your dream wedding?