wedding mags

today's entry is brought to you by the letters C-L-E-A- and N.

finally! after my weekends work, i planned today to be my clean up day. read: did quite a few laundry, vacuumed (hate it!), made my home workstation tidy, shredded my junk mails and detailed my car's interiors (something that is loongg overdue!).

and along the process of cleaning, i just realized that (i think) my year's subscription of wedding mags had just ended. they are now piled up at the side of my desk occupying a spot that i can have better us of. i still flip through them once in a while, if time permits. but sometimes, browsing and reading back issues do not really help. specially now that we're more than midway the wedding plans. the things i read and see in these back issues still somewhat influences the things that we have already decided on. bad, bad habit. i always have side comments such as "ay, maganda to!" or "uy, cute! gusto ko tong idea na to!" hehehehe! i tell yah, i'm positive that i am a big part of the reason why my husband's hair is thinning fast, ahahhahhaha! i don't really have plans for these mags as of yet. maybe i'll sell them when i'm done like the other b2b's. or maybe save them for the next b2b in the family, if there's any next in line (*wink, wink*), hehehe.

crane's & papyrus + disposable cameras

the past few weeks has been quite slow for wedding preps. san diego weather has been very, very sullen. i love rain. but rain, minus my bed, and no snooze? baaahh. nakaka depress lang when i think about it. oh well. i was able to sneak in some mall time in the afternoon that there was no rain, though. here are some of my good finds:

disposable cameras with instruction cards from Walmart. other wedding websites sells them for $5.99/camera while walmart has them for $15.99/ box of 4 cams. that's $2.00 savings x 20 cams = $40.00... cashing! cashing! i looove walmart! this cameras will be in each table for the guests to take snaps.



blank engraved initial notes from Crane's & Co. to write letters for our Principal Sponsors. see, this stationary is so darn pretty for my sloppy handwriting. i really gotta figure out a way how to tweak the settings on my computer so i can print them out instead.



blank notes in pink with brown trimmings to write letters for the wedding party from Papyrus. with this one, i'm not quite decided on wheter i should write them the note now (eventhough i've met them already in person and have asked and told them that they play a role in the entourage group, with STDs disposed off accordingly) or just write them personal thank you notes and tuck them in inside their gown/barong boxes? we'll see.


now i hope on my next mall adventure i get to find those monogram cake toppers!

marriage prayer + tealights

in the middle of a busy day at work, who would've thought i'd still be on the roll for wedding preps. while at lunch i stumbled upon this catalogue that sells assorted candles. first flip brought me to the page that shows a candle that says "Marriage Prayer". of course, i took the idea and thought it'd make our unity candle somewhat atypical from the rest. here's the prayer:

Marriage Prayer
Lord, help us to
remember when we first met
and the strong LOVE that grew
between us, to work that LOVE into
practical things so nothing can
divide us. We ask for words both
kind and loving and hearts always
ready to ask for forgivemess as well
as forgive. Dear Lord, we put our
marriage into Your hands.
Amen.

now, only if i could find someone to make me those candles! we inquired at doc's candles, a small stall we found at south mall. they do actually have our cherry blossom motif but they quote us 3k for a set of three to make our unity candles. now, that's a bit pricey for us. i still have quite a bit of time do some research anyways, so the search is still on :)


meanwhile, look what mom and i found at one of my favorite stores, ikea:

scented TINDRA tealights
$3.99/42 pcs.

good deal! and it's perfect to match the motif and they even come in chocolate, caramel and orange combination as well. these little ones will sit at the center of each table surrounding the centerpiece c/o Juan Carlo (?not sure if we will need to hire an event stylist or not). and to hold these tealights, we're in the middle of deciding which between these two to get:

HEJ tealight holder from ikea
$0.50 ea.


votive candle holders from divi
Php 50.00 ea

they all look pretty --one's minimalist in style while the other is more dainty. i guess it's just a matter of price and s/h fees since i'd have to ship the ones from ikea from here. hmmm... we'll see.

gifts: female principal sponsors

it's kind of tricky thinking of gifts. most specially if the gift that you have to come up with are to be given out to people whom you have utmost respect and care for you as if you're their own child. after shopping around online and countless number of malls both brian and i have been to, we took francis' suggestion of providing our female principal sponsors the fabric for their dresses.

fabric cost: Php 80/yard
wrapper cost: Php 120
tools: photoshop, didi, scissors

the fabric is silk in dope dye pomelo pink. we wrapped them individually using two shades (closest color we could get to match our motif) of japanese paper, wooden placemat we found in greenhills, and colored paper in eggyolk. we finished the wrapping design with square cut-out logos (DIY) that has both of our initials. we've given out most of these gifts already and we're happy that ninangs are just sweet enough to appreciate our gifts to them. now all we have to think about is a small token we can give them on the wedding day itself.

DIY: Save the Date magnets

here's my first shot on DIY:


total cost: $13.99/5 sheets of magnets (makes 40)
tools: photoshop,didi

this actually is the second style for our magnetic std's. i figured the first one looked too busy and crowded with too much information in it.

simpler looks better.

what do you think?

final colors + theme + a lot more

after the long hiatus, it's time to keep the ball rollin' again. back to wedding preps, wedding preps, wedding preps! all the details of what brian and i had accomplished since november had clogged up our brains now. time to let them all out!

on dresses. remember my dilemma? well, the color saga had finally come to an end (at last!). when brian and i finally sat down with Francis, he was kind enough to help us choose colors for the dresses. since we've decided that the theme would invovle mainly of cherry blossom flowers and chocolate, we came up with these colors for the girls' dresses:

the first two pink swatches (light pink and fuschia) are for the female entourage, with eggyolk (far right) as the accentuating color and salmon pink for the two moms. gown sketches for the female entourage has been drawn and finalized. the only thing missing are the barongs for the guys, which is brian's assignment in lucban, laguna, where we are hoping to get the best deal from.


and to incorporate the chocolate theme, brown shades will be visible on the little details such as the inivitations, cake, chocolate fountain(s) --one 35' tall + two 18' fountains (only if budget will still fit) and a few of the paraphernalia to be used at the wedding rites.

the cake. here's a scanned photo of the cake we wanted from the martha stewart weddings 10th anniversary magazine. our coordinator, jenne, gave me some cake101 lessons when i inquired about this. she said, since this type of cake is chocolate coated, gumpaste will be used instead of fondant. we chose the top most layer to be fruitcake (so we can save it and eat it a year later), and either apple walnut or banana walnut for the rest of the layers. we wanted the real thing so no dummies shall be used on this one.
cost: Php12,500.00
supplier: chocolato (?not sure if i spelled that correctly)


the invites. another inspiration spotted inside the martha stewart weddings 10th year mag. our invites are inspired by this theme. it will not exactly appear to be a replica of this since ours will have metallic chocolate brown as the outer cover, where dry embossed cherry blossoms are visible in the front flowing all the way to the back covers; 6'x6' in size; with several inserts for the big day's details, etc.,etc.... we're just practically taking the flower details on this one to suit the theme. the design hasn't been finalized yet so mock up invite photos to follow.
cost: Php85.00/set
supplier: Laguna Printing Press, Inc.



the placemats. (optional)... still from the martha stewart weddings collections. this is a neat idea where the placemat will have the menu written on it. we're still debating if we will include this one. heres the sample photo:
cost: Php35.00/piece
supplier: Laguna Printing Press, Inc.


these are only a few of what we have done so far. there are so many more things to write about. 'til the next post, fellas!