Wedding: The Statistics

There's the pie chart of the wedding expenses. A HUGE chunk went to the Reception/Caterer. That's the way it's supposed to be. Never cut back on your guests. Never serve them mediocre food. All else can be DIYd to save money.

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Wedding: The Day

Swagger goods

Queen's kicks

His and her scents

Literally Saved The Date

Prepping up

See my new ink

All prettified up

All dappered up

Even already-married couples get jitters

Ninangs

Ninongs

One of my flower girls

My bridesmaids

The groomsmen

Stoked

Bound

Heaven

Cake (and cupcakes)

KTnxBye

Wedding: The Reception

At first I just wanted to have invitations in bottles, then I, decided to give out wines to the principal sponsors, then the favours came in bottles too and so I, with the help of Kar from k by Cunanan helped me to make it recurring theme. Bottles.

Bottles adorned with flowers in the couple backdrop

Bottles and jars with assorted flowers also adorned the guest tables.

  

Our Paco Park reception

Wedding: The Food

People raved about the food in our wedding. That was a sign for me that the wedding was a success, for the high and mighty I, have a tendency to diss on food served on weddings which are just the usual menudos and pininyahang manok. And I'm not just saying that, I really feel insulted when I come into a wedding all dressed up, dolled up and even with a gift then you'll serve me menudo. Really now? Isn't that like an everyday dinner food?

Pasta, roast beef, carrot rice, chicken something in teriyaki glaze (the one that looks like siomais), herbed corn and the  carpese salad.

Broccoli and cheese soup, creme brulee, mixed fruit compote and picatostes in tsokolate-e

Thanks to Ira who took photos of the food on the wedding, I have an idea of how it looked like to the guests who were served buffet as opposed to the presidential table who had it sit-in.

Wedding: Bride's DIY Projects 2

Now if you paid attention to your THE/HELE classes in gradeschool and highschool, and if your handwriting is as artsy-fartsy-dainty like mine, this will be easy.

The Wedding Coins

1. Asked mom for their old wedding coins (coins dated 1942)
2. Went to the palengke to have it cleaned

Here Comes The Bride Signage

1. Buy illustration board
2. Get scissors and cut up a heart from the illustration board
3. Using the black side of the board, chalk in the words 'here comes the bride' in the daintiest way possible.

Secondary Veil

1. Buy tulle from your fabric shop
2. Buy lace from your fabric shop
3. Cut up the tulle into an oval
4. Sew around the jagged edges of the tulle the border lace

Just Married signage for the Combi

1. Buy illustration board
2. Buy multi-colored chalk
3. Write 'Just Married' in your cutsiest handwriting. Date and place optional
4. Add in sunshine, butterflies, bees, trees, fluffy clouds, hearts and everything that reminds you of your happy place

Primary Veil

1. Buy the finest tulle in the fabric store (in this case: I bought the shiny one that's closest to my gown colour)
2. Buy shiny white beads
3. Cut the fabric into an oval
4. Sew in the shiny white beads at the edge of the fabric (about 2 inches off the edge)

Wedding: Bride's DIY Projects

Here are some of my DIY projects. I'll give you no brainer instructions, to make it fancy, use your imagination.

The Match for the Candle Sponsors

1. Buy a standarad match
2. Get a wrappring paper in your wedding colour
3. Get some scissors and glue and wrap the wrapping paper into the match
4. If you have a monogram, stick it in

The Ring and Coins Pillow

1. I got a small square pillow lying around
2. Using the leftover fabrics from the entourage dresses, cut up pieces the size of the pillow
3. Style as you please (in this case, I used blue fabric with a pink "runner" in the middle and yellow ribbons, to make sure all wedding colours are represented
4. Sew them up together
5. Use ribbons to fasten your rings and coins

The Wedding Cord

1. Get a nylon string in your craft store
2. Buy beads in your wedding colours
3. Start beading, think of creative patterns (in this case: It's blue-pink small beads alternated 50 times, then a big pink bead to close off the 50, then a bigger yellow bead/button, then the pink big bead again, and so on...)
4. Make it into a big number 8, each hole must be big enough to fit a grown person's shoulder

The Flower Girls Baskets

1. Buy a generic basket in DV
2. Get your nylon string and beads again and start beading (blue-yellow-pink for this)
3. Once you have enough strings of beads to use, twirl the string of beads around the basket handle and secure them using a gluegun
4. Put more beads where you want the beads to go around (in this case: around the base of the basket)
5. Buy pink paper (I don't know what they're called) and stick it into the basket, secure using a gluegun
6. Pour rose petals into the baskets.

Petals and confetti cones

1. Buy wrapping paper in your wedding colours
2. Cut them into about 8x8 squares
3. Style them into cones
4. Secure the cones with adhesive tape or stickers (in this case: used the leftover name tags)

Hissy Fit

I was about to book December 18, 2011 for both Paco Park and Church yesterday. Then they said, someone already booked them on that day.

*HISSY FIT*

I need to connect with either Tamayo's, Cunanan or Jack n Jenn's catering. They are the accredited in Paco Park. Hizon's and Ignacio's aren't. So is my newly-discovered Juan Carlo.

*HISSY FIT*