More Fun In The Philippines

Its officially summer! I miss having summer breaks :(

Anyways, I just wanted to share this video from Bob Nicolas. Its a different take from the Philippines' tourism campaign - MORE FUN IN THE PHILIPPINES.

Enjoy!

Weddings... it's more fun in the Philippines from Bob Nicolas on Vimeo.

22nd Wedding Expo by Themes & Motifs

This wasn't our first bridal fair experience. We've already went to quite a few bridal fairs prior to this but this was our first time to book suppliers. What I really liked about this bridal fair is that they have placed all same category suppliers in one area. However, it would have been better if the map they provided us also listed where a specific supplier is located. I remembered that this was the case in the previous bridal fair we attended at SM Megamall last February.

It feels good to finally cross out some items from our list. We've booked our invitations & bridal (+ entourage) gown suppliers. ♥

OTD Search - Side Story

Initially, my mom has recommended a coordinator for our wedding. The coordinator was also the same coordinator whom helped us with my sister's debut 9 years ago. I actually couldn't remember how he was as a coordinator or I guess I just didn't mind at all since I was just 19 back then. All I could remember was he choreographed our dance number/cotillion. I also had this impression that he invited someone (like a date) on my sister's debut. This was the reason why I was a bit hesitant in meeting him.

After months of my mom persuading me, I finally agreed to meet him. So I set a meeting with him last month. The meeting went well, he actually had taught of a theme for our wedding. And I got a little bit excited for our wedding because of the ideas he shared :) After the meeting ended he told me that he'll draft a proposal and that we'll be meeting again after 2 weeks. The 2 weeks had passed but I haven't received any updates from him. So I sent him an SMS last week (Wednesday) to ask if he has made the proposal. He replied that he has one already and will be able to present it to me the following Monday since he has some events that weekend. We both agreed to meet on Monday evening. The night before I sent him a text message as a reminder. He then replied that he can't make it because he forgot that he has a previous out-of-town engagement and that he'll be out-of-town for 3 days. He added that he will just leave the proposal at their shop and that he'll call me today to set another meeting.

On Monday, I asked my Mom if she can drop by the coordinators shop to get the proposal. That afternoon I got a text message from my Mom that the coordinator did not leave any proposal and even the people at the shop did not know that he was supposed to leave a proposal. :( I already sensed that he did not have the proposal yet because he just asked for the name of my fiancé the night before. My mom was a bit disappointed about this and told me to find a different coordinator. She even told me not to contact or reply to the coordinator anymore. This stressed me out! I’m not the type of person who leaves people hanging. I mean I wouldn't want people to do that to me so why do it to others, right? I just told my Mom that I’ll just wait for the coordinators text/call on Thursday (today!) as he promised. But if I don’t hear anything from him then I’ll apologize to him for not getting his service anymore.

Come to think of it I just remembered that when we had our first (and probably last) meeting he told me that he doesn't do event (wedding/debut) coordination full-time anymore but do agree for previous clients. I know that I'm only getting an OTD service but if it would take him awhile to send/prepare the proposal because of other activities then what would I expect from him a month before the wedding?

And so the search begins... ♥

A Beautiful Affair SDE

H2B and I are both fans of John Lloyd & Bea love team. We have seen most of their movies and actually one of the reasons why we chose our church is because they previously shot a movie there.

So allow me to share this SDE I found made by Treehouse Story. Its from John Lloyd & Bea's recently concluded television drama, A Beautiful Affair.

A Beautiful Affair Wedding | Full Version from Treehouse Story on Vimeo.

CAST:
John Lloyd Cruz
Bea Alonzo
John Estrada
Megan Young
Dimples Romana
Janus Del Prado
Slater Young
Angelina Kanapi
John Arcilla
Irma Adlawan
Jim Paredes
Maritoni Fernandez
Jaime Fabregas
Erika Padilla

Official Soundtrack:
Ikaw at Ako by Johnoy Danao

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Kids on Weddings

This was one of the recent topics at WeddingAtWork. I really wanted to share my thoughts with regards to this topic but I chose not to because I will just be repeating what has been said already. I just went on and read the thoughts and opinions of other w@wies.

Myr & I both agreed that we will have an "adults only" event. Even our entourage did not consist of any kids because we really wanted the event to be "adults only". As expected, we heard comments from both our parents and other members of Myr's family. (Haven't formally informed most of my relatives that I'll be getting married this year. LOL!)

Kids may be cute but kids will be kids. We just would want to avoid kids throwing tantrums when they get bored during the ceremony or reception.  I've attended weddings and have seen children running around the reception venue, kids as entourage members not wanting to walk alone and delaying the bridal march, children crying while the ceremony on-going and the list just goes on.

It seems though that we really can't avoid having kids in our wedding. One reason is that the whole family will be attending and don't know where they could leave their 8 year old daughter. We allowed this since it seems like a valid reason and because its Myr's cousin. So now, kids will be allowed as long as they are our relatives. I guess since we were vocal about this that they would try to as much as possible "contain" their children during the ceremony.

I'm still thinking if we should still place a note in our invitations that the event is for adults only. Since that will not be the case anymore. I guess we would just write down a limit to the number of seats reserved for them in the RSVP card. ♥