Less than 2 months...

Now that my countdown is down to 2 digits, everything is coming to my senses that it is now less than 2 months until our wedding day. I started visualizing and planning my wedding for more than 1 year, but the actual preparation really took us 7 months (including the wedding day), although I booked most of our suppliers before but I realized that making payments are nothing compared to going in to details of the wedding, like finalizing the principal sponsors and entourage and calling them one by one, selections of menu to serve, guests list and table arrangements, if your friends for example in high school or college are 12 or 11 and they all want to seat together (lol), music to be played at particular event in the reception, programs for the reception, measurements of entourage, etc.

Mark just informed me that his leave was approved and he is now more excited for our trip to Manila on Saturday, weee.. yep, we are going HOME again for the last leg of our wedding preparation. We will finally meet our coordinator for the first time and she offered to accompany us to Dangwa where we will book Mang Boy Mahusay for our flowers. I so heart her, I told her about my budget for flowers and instead of going to a more expensive supplier she suggested Mang Boy and assured me that he never fails her in terms of delivering really good flowers, so I decided why go to expensive one if he can offer the same service and besides my friend Gia who just got married advised me not to spend too much on flowers coz after the wedding it would be nothing.
We will have a prenuptial shoot on March 30 and I am still looking for a venue, I can’t decide if we will pursue it in Tagaytay or we will just find good locations in Manila or QC area. Pictures will be posted here. Yey!!!

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86 Days To Go!

Well, that's explain how busy I am plus the work load argghhh! We are now working on our invitation, full names and spelling of our uber special casts of this wedding checked, we will just send it to craftmaster next week. I would like to give credit to the Best Man (my brother in law Angelo) for helping us in dealing with craftmaster and for making the map to be inserted in the invites, thanks anjo, you're really playing your part ah, kudos, thanks much!
At first I thought it was very easy to plan a wedding of your dream, coz I have set my mind where I want to get married, what I want to wear, who will be there for us, but after booking everything we need, the hardest part is when we go to details, which one is the best, example: which song will we use this or this or this or this... , parang we love every song we hear pero di pwede lahat, but eventually there is this Perfect One that will stand out, just like the Perfect Creation that God has brought to Me.

We had a blast last month when we went home for wedding preps, we stayed at Sofitel and met Santino, I have high expectations for this hotel but it turned out just a so-so for me, though we have yet to try their dinner buffet maybe in May will get to try, that I heard a lot of positive reviews kasi for their food. We already booked our stay here night before and after the wedding, after that we don't know where to stay (lol) maybe will go back to SG na lang hehehe.

List of our accomplishments last Month

1. If i am a Veluz Bride,, am happy to announce that Mark is now a Veluz Groom!!! yippeee!!! Mark decided to wear a suit instead of barong.
2. Booked our super love coordinator Clarice! yey! She's really my dream coordinator. She gave me a wedding planning kit (have to post a pic pa)...I love her more!
3. Cake...checked! yipeeee! Until now I am salivating for Ms. Joy San Gabriel cake, she has a wedding that day but she still accomodated us. Dito ako excited e, will finalize the design next month sa pag uwi namin.
4. Mother's Gown : Gretchen Pichay, heard Gretchen sa w@w and saw her bridal creation, I am impressed agad.
5. Entourage Gown: Farley - I was talking to him at the phone inquiring for entou gowns, and I was haggling for FG gown, I said, baka po you can give me pa discount for FG gowns 10 po kasi ung FG namin and I heard at the other line his BIG LAUGH, oh and now its 12 na FG na.
6.Second Food Tasting- Eloquente: Ok na ok na yung food, and Jun gave us additional menu which is Lenggua, actually before that may bloopers pa kasi Jun said ma'am minsan lang po talaga ioffer yung lenggua kasi po for 250 guests ilang dila ng baka yung magagamit,, wahehehe may point nga naman, but he still gave it us for free.

We stil have so many things to settle, like the flowers and have to meet pa with Serenata for the bridal march song and guest lists, sana mag RSVP sila agad para sa headcount sa caterer.

Surprises!!!

I didn't expect this to happen, this wedding, my gown,and the E-RING! Am I deserving for this?(lol)

When we got married, although Mark promised me to give me my dream wedding,I didn't take it seriously, as I knew that once we are married our priorities will change, until the day after our first year here in Singapore that he brought out the topic. I was just thinking that wow,, he really serious in keeping his promise, that was the time that I keep daydreaming of myself wearing a nice gown, yap, I think the most important for me aside from my groom waiting at the end of the aisle and my family and friends cheering and happy for us, is my GOWN, but in my mind the wedding is a bonus na I don't want to abuse what I have na,, but there’s one designer who captured my heart, but I need to come back in reality that spending too much in my gown is a big NO, we should priority first what we need and let go of nice to haves. I search for other designers but never push through the transactions, Mark then was so quiet and just letting me decide for the wedding, until he asked me how much is the costs of the gown made by my dream designer, my eyes were twinkling, I couldn’t believe he is asking, and my reply was as I remember,, “naku mahal talaga hon e, dami pa natin kailangan.” (with a little kilig tone in my voice) Then he told me to just try to inquire,, masunurin akong asawa kaya I DID! When Ms. V replied and send the quotation for my gown, I informed agad mark , I was nervous that he might change his mind but he was happy for what he saw and asked me to send the reservation as soon as possible, I told him I will not ask for anything, coz for me my gown is too much, I couldn’t ask for more. Then the last surprised I get from him is my engagement ring, this is the least I expect from Mark, for in my mind I have my gown as a replacement for it.One night after my birthday, I was impatiently waiting for him, coz he usually never go home late, except if he is in a mall to buy something, he is too meticulous in buying things unlike me I easily decide on stuff when I shop, and he always ask permission whenever he will buy something. That night was different, he never answered my call, I was losing my temper, I easily get irritated especially when I am hungry (lol). When he came, I was relieved that he was safe, then he told me he has something for me, I was thrilled coz I knew he’s not kuripot when it comes to me, then he showed me a small box,, my heart was beating so fast, when I opened the box jaraaannn,, it was a necklace,, hehehe waaaa!!! I was not expecting but when I saw the box the first thing in my mind was a ring,, a little bit disappointed hehhee,, but I didn’t show it to him,, he put it on my neck and I kissed and hugged him, we ate our dinner, then he kept asking the whole night if I am happy,, I said I am. The next morning, I woke him up to get ready to work, I thought he was in the shower but after 2mins he woke me up, and the first thing I saw was the same box it was opened and the ring was there, so beautiful and simple. I was looking on it, as he uttered the words he said before. kilig till now.

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