Invite me, Ok?

Can someone be so imposing it irritates you?

Seems like one person directly assumed that he/she shall be invited and that he/she is allowed to bring a mandatory companion. How convenient. I haven't even finalized my decision to invite him/her!

Oh anyway, was so happy yesterday because we already have the formal invitations! And they are lovely lovely lovely...



All we need now are the RSVP cards. :)

Cramming... And sometimes, Work is a Burden

So far, so good...

At least that's what I think...

We're a bit busy cramming for the wedding preparations and what's a bit annoying is that the nearer the wedding date is, the more "office-related" things kind of appear out of nowhere and then voila! It already has a deadline and I'm told that I have been told about it before and that I'm the one slacking. Hmmm... Kinda fishy... But I'm too pumped up to care.

I'm more concerned about other things - like our health and our appearance when THE day comes. Darn it, we're so pre-occupied nowadays and we're becoming to super stingy that we imagine that we can't even afford one full hour of decent body massage. Not even a hot oil treatment! (But that's ok, I have such long hair that even a hot oil treatment would be so damn expensive! Ugh!)

So things to do for the next 2 days:

1. 2 reports from the office
2. 1 audit program/schedule
3. SOPs for my department
4. meetings, meetings, meetings

And for my wedding:

1. proof read the invitation from Paperworks (SM Cebu Branch)
2. contract for the invitation printing
3. purchase the frames (what the heck they're for? hahaha! it's a surprise!)
4. find me a makeup artist (I think I'm going for Bobbi Albert. Whatya think?)
5. follow-up the gowns
   
6. convince Tom to stop overthinking everything and to chill 'coz I think he's gonna break down sooner or later if he doesn't relax
7. Downsize my guestlist, and
8. Check my checklist!

That's pretty much it! Goodluck to me..... Oh crap...

Run Florist Run

Just joking....!

After having a blast testing out our food for the reception and also to sign the contract, we went directly to our church to talk to our pastor's wife for the pre-marriage counselling...

We even thought our appointment was cancelled because the signage said "closed".

Guess we were wrong.

It was a lovely session, with lots of valuable input. I thought we needed more time and more points to consider. Maybe we'll have it continued it Mrs. J had more time in her hands. What was a bit amusing was that I always thought she was a "small but terrible" type of person. Turns out she was just as normal as normal could be. And quite lovely too. Very pretty for a 74-year-old lady whose height cannot begin to represent her hugely timid, soft-spoken and yet impressive personality.

After the said "talk", we went to karbon to meet with our florist for the first time. Ladies and gentlemen, meet Jun Cañete of http://juncanete.multiply.com. He promised to make my wedding "the bomb"! (So here's his photo...just in case.. lol!)


;)


ps: updated the mini-invite already..

Contract Signing for the Venue

Last Friday, we went to Chateau de Busay for our food tasting and contract signing. Victor, the owner/manager entertained us during the said event.

Here are some shots I took while we were trying to figure out where to put the platform for the ceremony:


There was something set-up already because they had a booking for a birthday. Lol!


Tom also took part in the "negotiations"...



And here's a shot at the delicious food! Promise! No biases, it was just yummy!


We later went to our florist...

:)

Mini-Invites

Hey ho... I have mini-invites.

I think you know what I mean for mini-invites... Because of the financial recession and everything, part of our budgeting plan was to print out mini-invites because this seems more cost effective and also maintains a certain level of "us" in it... Formal invitations seem to not embody the personality of the couple too much so we, well I, designed these mini-invites... (have to blur some parts because we haven't actually had them printed yet.

Lol.. excuse the watermark.

Updated pic:

:)

New Links Available

For everybody who receives an invite to our big day, please RSVP here:

RSVP Form

While for those beloved generous souls who are willing and will be giving us gifts, please go here (our gift registry online):

Gift Registry

Thanks everyone!

Food Tasting

Our contact person usually says "food testing".

We have scheduled our food tasting on July 3, that's Friday. We're in a bit of a rush, and so far, Tom has been cramming. I mean cramming. He's getting queasy and weird.

Anyway, so we've scheduled the food thing, we've also finalized, well sort of, the guest list, together with the entourage and the sponsors (yipee!). Think I'm going to add up some sections to this blog to accommodate guest RSVPs and the gift registry. I really don't think it's too late, do you?

Gtg. Have to contact Sam now. Ciao!