Hizon's Detailing Meeting

For our vacation, I made sure that Doms and I will attend at least one detailing meeting with our caterer together. Last December, I had a food tasting but Doms was not with me. So, last 30 July 2010, I was so thrilled to go to our caterer's office because I was with Doms and with my whole family.

Our chosen caterer was Hizon's Catering because this catering company was well recommended by my friends and other family members. We also have a lot of first hand experiences with Hizon's so there's no point of looking for other caterers.

Chrissy Sajonia was our contact from Hizon's. She very nice! What I like about her is she replies to my emails. Being an overseas bride, I made sure that my chosen suppliers reply to my emails. Mind you I have a lot of questions! Makulit for short :)

Anyway, Chrissy started with the detailing meeting. I like her style because she has a lot of pictures to show me. She gave me discounts and she was there to give her advice about the wedding reception.

Here are the add-ons that we added for the wedding:

• Added pink roses for the couples table and fermosa leaves in the couples gazeebo like the image below but our tablle runner is pink.

• Added orchids for the PS tables and decided to get the rectangular table instead of round.

• Additonal waiter for the PS and Couple's table.
• 4 Scoopers for the buffet line.
  
• Carving Station for the lechon that we will order from Lydia's or Elars.
• Upgraded guest tables with Zen Sexy flower arrangement.

We also decided to get their package for kiddie meals and kiddie tables. I find this very good because I wouldn't want the kids to be seated in the guest tables eating "adult" food. I could add more guests instead of the kids. So far, we have 20 kids in our guest list and I really believe this is a great idea.

We also had a food tasting on that same day. We were presented with the buffet food that we chose intitally. Everything tasted great! My mom just gave the comment to Chrissy that the BBQ Chicken should be well-done.

We were there for about 2 hours and we were able to discuss majority of the stuff about the reception. We were really happy that we had the time to do this detailing meeting. I am now excited for our next and final meeting with them this November.

Written in Ink Wedding Invitations

I have a lot of things to blog about because Doms and I went home to Manila to take care of the wedding. It was a very short vacation but I am happy we were able to accomplish a lot of things.

I am going to start of with our wedding invitations. Initially, Doms wanted to create our wedding invitations. He has the means and the talent to do it but our only problem is the printing. So, we decided to just have it made in Manila.

During the Wedding Congress in Megamall last Saturday, 31 July 2010, we chose one wedding invitation that caught our attention, Wink!

Wink or Written in Ink has great designs for wedding invites suitable to our taste as well as accommodating people to ask questions during the fair. Their invitation prices are also within the budget and their invite designs are great!

Here is the pattern of our wedding invitation:

Our invites will basically look like this but we changed come parts like the colors and the paper quality. We will also added some sparkles in it to make more eye-catching and unique.

I am really very excited about our invites already! I hope Jocelyn, our contact person will reply to my email already so we can discuss the wordings and the layout of the invites.

DIO: Will You Be Cards for Principal Sponsors

We just created our own acronym...

DIO or "Did-It-Ourselves" was coined while Doms and I were making our Will You Be Cards for our Ninongs and Ninangs.

Well, I must say or DIO project turned out well and good. So how did we do it? Here are the materials that we used.

Disclaimer

Doms and I bought the colored papers and the lace tape in Paper Market, Raffles Mall. I love this store! It houses different kinds of craft materials, papers and accessories. We were there for more than an hour looking and matching papers and laces.

So the cutting that we did was just simple cutting and not the hard-core cutting. Most of our time and energy were spent in debating the right color for the WYB background and the type of font.

We bought 4 pieces of purple 12 x 12 polka-dot board (1.40 sgd each), 7 pieces of pink edged polka-dot board (1.20 sgd each) , 3 pieces of lace tape with different designs (11 sgd per pack) and 20 pieces glossy photo paper (2 sgd per pack).

I love the lace tape that we bought! Doms was the one who decided which lace to get.

Of course our DIO project wouldn't be possible without the help of Doms' gears aka "my precious". Apple iMAC and Canon printer.

The creative inputs all came from Doms. I just added some of my opinions about the WYB cards. Here it is!

Thanks to Graphizar for the caricature!

So after some snipping and snapping and after we've added up all the materials together, the finished products looked like this.

Lagot, parang hindi pantay yung ribbon! Hahaha...

So there!

Our DIO Will You Be cards are now ready for distribution and mailing. The experience was really fun! Doms and I enjoyed doing our WYB cards. 'Til our next DIO project!

Creating our WYBC

Last night, Doms showed me the first draft of our Will You Be Cards. I liked it immediately mainly because he was the one who created it from the characters, to the veil down to the bow tie.

He is still tweaking the design but I am already so excited to share it everyone! I hope that he can finish it tonight so I can send it to the members of my bridal entourage.

Update: 26 July 2010

Whew!

I know it has been a long time since I posted how excited I am for our WYB cards. I just got the time to post it here.

Tan-ta-taranan!

Here is our Will You Be Card for our Bride's Maid. Basically, everything is the same for the rest of the ento members. Doms just changed the name according to the ento role.

Hahaha... I really love our WYB!

Wedding Congress, Here We Come!

I just registered ourselves to the upcoming Wedding Congress on July 31 to August 1, 2010! I am so excited about this because this is the 2nd bridal fair Doms and I got to go and experience.

I hope that in this wedding congress, we can achieve and book the following suppliers:

• Wedding Invitation
• Bridal Car
• Wedding Rings