Veluz and Leonard Co

I finally got to finalize with Veluz regarding all the girl's dress... yesterday:)

For the guys ento... We went to Leonard Co for a quotation... Surprisingly, it was really not that expensive... I think Karl will more or less settle with him for the male entourage and look for another one for his suit...

Keep u guys updated...

EMCEE...

I finally found my EMCEE! I met up with Jerome Lim Go yesterday... and I like him... A LOT! hehehehe! Solve at last. What's funny is he was the first calling card I got way before (when I was not cramming yet!) I somewhat got his card stacked up with other cards and wasn't able to meet up with him until yesterday (...after countless of attempts in interviewing 'other' emcees). Oh well, at least I got him even if he is not one of the well-known emcees in the Wedding arena... I think we clicked in terms of ideas and attitude... I sure hope that going with the intuition doesn't fail me this time. I just booked him a few minutes ago...

I need to finalize other suppliers as well...

I got my new quotation from interplay and it still a li'l bit high :( I hope we can agree on a price somewhere between her price and mine heheh!

My Cousin's Wedding

My Cousin had her wedding last Sunday... June 18th....

At last! She's on her honeymoon right now :)

Some pix of her wedding day as well as my copy of the Pre-Nup pics at my
MULTIPLY SITE

I am finally startng on finalizing my suppliers... EMCEE!!! i still have none!
:(

Angel Bar... Wedding Invitation

Angel Bar is expanding it's services to invitations...

I checked their site and found that we were (again) part of their sample works (hehe!). Great layout :)



Angel Bar Photography- Sample Wedding Invitation

Wedding Marathon

Month of June...

Fave month of brides-to-be to get married.....

This June, I got three weddings to attend one week after the other....

June 04- Mila (UST classmate)
June 11- Karl's Sister, Sabrina (I am the bridesmaid with Karl as my partner :))
June 18- Cousin, Michelle (To Johnson...No position on the entourage whatsoever, hmp!)

... I am scheduled to get my gown from Larry tomorrow for Sabrina's wedding... I am so excited! hehe! Last June 4th, I also went to the church wedding of Cherry's sister, Candy to look at veluz's gown. It was good yet simple... I just think that the materials for the entourage was a bit stiff. i Love Cherry's gown (Maid of Honor). I even tried taking some pix. The puff sleeves of the flower girls was really cute and whimsical but Karl commented that the dress itself was a little bit plain... The ring bearers wore vest which Veluz asked me to look and I can say that I still prefer the coat and tie... I don't know yet though because we haven't finalize anything yet.

My mom, on the other hand, went to another wedding wherein the designer was Jerome Ang. Her comment was the gowns look really simple. Not that stunning for people to take notice... :O

Engagement Pictures Installment

I have posted the 1st installment of our engagement pix. 1st Installment includes mostly our pictures... Friends and Family pix to follow

Ting Hun

We finally had our Ting Hun! Yey! It was not perfect but atleast it's already finished and we can proceed to the wedding preparation. There were some glitches because there was only 1 person doing the coordinating and she was not in the area when the ceremony was ongoing because she was busy preparing the goody bags... Oh well! We were able to figure out what to do next with alot of pauses in between hehehe!

I will try to post the pics... Pretty big files on the pics I got here and I have to resize them for easy upload...

Taken from my cousin, Steph's Camera

Weekend in Paradise

Spent the weekend with Karl's barkada in Boracay. Our first out of town trip... :)

It was also a chance to take some pix which can be used for our avps... yey!

Nice sunset.... great Crepes.... YUMMY! and had a very tasty dinner from Seawind restaurant. Buffet at less than P500! The view from our place was fantastic. the only thing that was not so good was the walking we had to do from our place to the place where there are lots of people... Oh well! We must need the exercise...

Some pix...
Boracay Pix from Wedding Announcer -go to Our Photos

More pix at my Kodak Gallery...
*to my friends, I can send link through email if you want to see more of our pix from the trip... :P

3 more weeks to go to engagement day...

3 more weeks and it's finally the engagement day....

Grabe! How fast the time flies... I have the engagement dress with me (Shoes and bag!? not yet purchased), Cake ok (Tom to deposit DP), Photography ok, Candies and cookies none yet. Paper bags for the goodies are not yet enough. Karl's Barong almost done I think... So far so good, I think! Our house is a mess right now because our housemaid went on a vacation and hasn;t come back yet! Our ceremony will be at home so there! I need to clean up in time for guest on that day... tsk tsk!

Alex Franco...Jasmine Mendiola

04-11-2006

My siblings, Karl and I went to meet Mr. Alex Franco at Pioneer Center for the supposed details and questions regarding his craft... CAKE-MAKING. We were satisfied with the taste but the design for their engagement cakes were just ok...


Ready...Get Set...




Go!



04-17-2006
DOUBLE BOOKING: I didn't originally planned on meeting any supplier today but then my mom was quite free the whole day and decided to sched an impromptu meeting with Emily of Sugarbox and jasmine mendiola... I met jasmine but unfortunately, wasn't able to meet Emily at the scheduled time because of a backlog on a meeting with another client...

and again to Manlapat's... Engagement wears....

We got a call again from Mr. Manlapat regarding the cloth... Deja Vu!? sheesh! We had to go back there and get the cloth in exchange for another one... Good thing was, I asked my mom to go with me to check the problem with the cloth. My mom, having some background on clothes making found a way to use the cloth without having to exchange it and without compromising the design... (WAY TO GO MOM!)

One more thing off my checklist :)

I also had my fitting again the other day with Veluz for my engagement gown. A little bit wide on the hips but everything more or less good to go.

2nd thing off my list... :)

Linea Victoria again...

April 07, 2006

A sudden interruption in the smooth flow of barong making for Karl... He got a call from R.M. Manlapat informing him that the cloth (from Linea Victoria, Manila) he left with them was not enough to make the supposed design they were supposed to make. Uh-huh!? I thought that all of those cloths are standard? Then, he explained that how the cut of the cloth was incorrect not the size of the cloth. Anyway, we plan to go to Manila one again and try exchanging the item or buying a new cloth to give Mr. Manlapat…. Sheesh… Time a wasting….

Wedding Treasures... and photos to treasure

April 03 2006

Wedding Treasures

Wedding Treasures… The wedding coordinator which consisted of three sisters who shares a love for making dreams comes true… We had a meeting with them at 6pm Starbucks, T.Morato. Originally, it was Eugene who was supposed to meet us but unfortunately, she still has a client then and made Evangeline meet us instead to discuss their package. Vange looks easy to talk to and very accommodating although they costs more than other event coordinators which I have inquired but not yet met…by a few thousands, we decided to get them right away.

Other Wedding coordinator we asked quotations from but never got the chance to meet: Just like Ours, You’re Invited and An Event to remember. I am sure that these 3 wedding coordinators are just as good but we have a good feeling with Wedding Treasures and lots of good feedbacks on this group and decided to make a go and start finalizing with them regarding all those endless canvassing of wedding suppliers during the before-coordinator phase…

April 04 2006

Angel Bar

Another visit on Angel Bar with Sherry Tan (a great friend….and photographer) with address: 1163 La Torre St. Manila. 254-9983. I went with my brother for his passport picture and Karl for our photo shoot (an addition for our small collection of pictures)… Can’t wait for the prints… hehe!

Makeup....Photo shoot and Florist...

Saturday....April fools (full) day.... and my day is quite "full" starting with my scheduled makeup trial with Bambi or Manila who is known for making up the chinese face. He is not that friendly like the last trials but he works fast and knows what to do. One thing I noticed is he doesn't ask what type of makeup you prefer but does his own style right away... hmmmm.... The result? A little bit light according to my mom and friend. My mom doesn't like the hair that much.

After the trial makeup, went to a friend's studio with my mom near Bambi's place and had a photo shoot with my friend the photographer... The perks of having a great friend who can capture my look as well as being patient and let me overcome my initial shyness in having to project ala model haha!



Lunch at home then proceeded to crowne plaza and met up with Mr. Jun Hen... :) He showed us his album portfolio and talked about the range of his flowers and service. As of now, I am awaiting his formal quotation.

Sunday came and we went to makati shangri-la for Sabrina's (Karl's sister) AVP interview scheduled 10am. Kendrick (Karl's older brother) was already there and had their interview first... Quite good, looks like they are very at home with being interviewed. Ours was not that effortless...hehe! Anyway, we did what we can for that time... and after editing our interview, I hope we looked okay and get our messages and best wishes for the couple across. Lunch at Shangri-la at our old favorite, Mini Shabu-shabu and went to meet Lala of Interplay this time with a laptop portfolio :). Same with jun hen, I am waiting for the final proposal.

Table Number Layout

To my friend Sherry....
Super Thank you... I mentioned to my friend, Sherry (Angel Bar Photography) that I am planning to make a personalized table number layout for the reception venue and VOILA! She sent me initial layouts with just the basis of my motif to rely upon... :) Good layouts considering that she has limited pictures to work on. Thank you! I appreciated the effort more than anything... Mwah!

Will try to post the first layouts which are not the final yet since we need to retake more pictures with better pixel for printing purposes... We are thinking of making use of the pre nuptial pix :)

Any comments as to which layout is the best will be greatly appreciated :)as well as suggestions.

to be included in eash table layout...
* Couple's name
* Wedding date
* Table number
(will try to include all these in the next attempt

THANKS SHE! UR THE BEST!

SAMPLE 1

SAMPLE 2

SAMPLE 3

SAMPLE 4

SAMPLE 5

Tailor Fit...

Karl had his barong cloth tailor made at his father's referred shop...RM Manlapat...
Last day of their 20% off on both materials and labor. Good Thing that we managed to get the discount because the labor is quite expensive...

Set of Clothes....

I've finally finished my 8 sets of engagement clothes which are to be displayed for my ting hun... I also managed to cover the styrofoam with art papers that are big enough to be cartolina but with the glossy shine that we were well-acquainted with when we were kids... :)



Karl also bought the cloth for his barong for engagement. He ended up with the silk cocoon instead of the pina cocoon which he says is quite stiff compared to the one he chose.

I finally crammed our schedule for the weekend with trial makeups and florists... Hopefully, we will be able to finalize something next week.

Double happiness... Heart

I finally made use of our resources and made a D-I-Y Double happiness stickers...

I am so happy with the first result. Though not that perfect, it is quite good and would be a big minus in the total expense...



So far so good... I am doing some progress without getting too stressed out with the wedding preparation...Actually, the only thing getting some progress is the engagement preparation... I'm getting more stressed on our rush project in time for a friend's wedding... (my work still IS, in a way, wedding-related)

…a long way to go

Still on our agenda is the soon-to-be meeting with emcee, Shanda Lim and of course to start with the florist hopefully by next week… A friend of ours, Joy Lim offered to quote on our flowers and I faxed them some of the details and is waiting for their quotation.

I am planning to take a look again at the venues (church and reception) and to take another look and have the feel and review the best angle to aim the camera (hehe!). I have to check the in-house choir or soloist and the music list they have for the church like the wedding march and all that… Speaking of which, I need to talk to Bernie Pasamba as well for the Crowne venue play list and to get an idea as to their performance to finalize if we will retain them, with them being a hotel-affiliate supplier.

Mic Test….

This is our first meeting with an emcee… Referred by Crowne’s Events personnel, her name is Christine Ong and I hope that she will be easy to talk to and comes with an ok price. We were supposed to meet her this pm at 5 and just got back from doing work-related things…Super tiring. :O

Having a small break and checking on my W@W emails before our meeting… Lots of unread mails to check… Sheesh! I am so overwhelmed with all the emails in my inbox…

Will update you on the said meeting when I get the chance :)