Guest Book Layout

I am so happy with our guest book layout! Not only is it beautiful, it was extra special because Doms was the one who designed it.

We liked our initial guest book layout from Vignette but we were thinking of another concept and design so I asked Vignette if it's OK if we create our own design. They agreed! So Doms is tasked to create and design our guest book.

I am so proud of Doms! He created our guest book for 2 nights only and it turned out to be amazing! He sacrificed his PS3 and Star Craft II hours and poured his attention to our guest book. Thanks baby!

So, I'm sharing our guest book design here. I hope you like it!

Guest Book Front Page. This is similar to our Save the Date Card.

Guest Book Page 2 - 3. Too bad the coffee cup and and frappe sketch is not seen properly. I can't post high-res photos here.

Guest Book Page 4 - 5. The text is not that clear.

Guest Book Page 6 - 7

Guest Book Page 8 - 9

Guest Book Page 10

Guest Book Page 11

24 Days to Go!

It's exactly 24 days to go before our wedding and I've been very busy with work and the wedding preps that I totally forgot to update our wedding blog. So, now that I have some free time in my hands, I'm abusing it by updating our accomplishments for the wedding.

Let's start with our additional guest give-aways. We have our main give-away which is the photobooth but my dad suggested that we have a separate give-away for our older guests, like my lola, who has problems walking already. So, Doms and I searched endlessly for an additional guest give away and I emailed each one of them and inqired.

I was able to find Swell Sweets online. Swell Sweets is owned and managed by Gel Colet. Her specialty is baking and her creations are wonderful! I saw her cookie designs and I instanly fell in love with it! She gave us a quote and it was right for our budget so we got her to make our cookie give-aways.

Our cookie design is like this, see image below, but of course the main color is purple!


I initially wanted to use our cookie give-away as our place card holders, where the table number of each guest is printed, but we haven't finalized it yet. Doms will be making the Thank You card taht will go along with our cookie give-away. I'm sure it will look great!

Next stop is our wedding ring. Doms and I were not very worried about finding a wedding ring because they are hundreds of jewelry stores here in Singapore and we see them everywhere. So, we just let time pass by and decided to buy the ring in December. This is where we went wrong.

Looking for a wedding ring is as hard as looking for needle in a haystack! Everything matters in searching for a ring. From how it looks like in our finger to how it goes along with my engagement ring. We really underestimated the power of searching for the "right" wedding ring.

Then we saw this wedding band in Taka, ION Orchard. Shempre, epal yung engaement ring ko kase sinama ko sa picture :)


We tried it on and we instantly loved it! The rings were thick just like what Doms wanted. The bands are made of 18K White Gold with a .3 CT diamond on each ring. What's best is we had a great deal and discount for the rings.

For Doms' wedding band the price was 1,350 sgd (45,562 php) and was discounted to 950 sgd (32,062 php) while my ring costs 950 sgd (31,9884 php) to 800 sgd (27,000 php). We were computing our savings and we immediately bought it because it's really value for money.

Next stop, Doms and I need to search for our wedding shoes and he needs to buy his belt, his inner shirt for his barong and his perfume.

So that's it for now! Until our next wedding accomplishment :)

Pre-Cana Seminar and Canonical Interview

Our 5-day vacation in Manila last 13 to 17 November was so fast! Every single day was filled with schedules and meetings for the wedding.

Pre-Cana Seminar
Mt. Carmel Church
November 13, 2010

Our first stop was our Pre-Cana seminar in Mt. Carmel. Doms and I were both so tired from the flight that we had the night before. We arrived in Manila at 4am and we need to be in Mt. Carmel at 8:00 am for the seminar.

Naturally, we were sleepy. But, as the day progressed and the different speakers of the seminar came in, we became interested in the seminar and we honestly had a good time.

There were about 16 couples in the seminar. The first part of the seminar was sharing to everyone in the room how we met and what made us decide that this person beside me is the person I will marry. We heard a lot of stories and we really enjoyed each one of them. I particulrly liked our sharing because i love sharing our love story. I even recorded what we said!

Anyway, after lunch, the session tackled on human sexuality. The person in charge of the talk was so funny that we didn't feel sleepy at all!

The afternoon session was our favorite. It talked about family planning and some tips and secrets on how to make couple's sex life interesting. We were laughing all through out the session!

The day concluded and Doms and I were fetched by my family and we ate dinner in Banaple and then wew ent staright to meet Doms' friends.

Canonical Interview
Mt. Carmel Church
November 16, 2010

Just before leaving for Singapore, we had a canonical interview with the parish priest of Mt. Carmel. At the same time, we also submitted the required documents asked fromb oth of us. We also paid Mt. Carmel in full already.

100 Days Before the Wedding

It's 100 days to go before our big day and I have mixed emotions. Not because I'm marrying Doms, but because of our pending stuff or tasks for the wedding. To get me into the "lovey-dovey" mood, I decided to have a wedding countdown starting today.

* I changed the process of my wedding countdown. I'll make it by 10's.

This countdown is not just an ordinary countdown. I will be posting love quotes that I feel I can relate to.

So here it goes!

Next countdown post will be on the 90 days before the wedding. But in my FB account, I was able to continue the countdown.

Tawag sa Kasal

Just got news from my family and friends that our marriage banns has been mentioned during Sunday Masses in our Parish Church in North Fairview. It kinda makes me "kilig" when they told me the news.

"Tawag sa kasal: Diviña S. Tutaan, anak nina Luis J. Tutaan at Zenaida S. Tutaan, na nakatira sa North Fairview QC ay ikakasal kay Alvin Dominic B. Valentin, anak nina Dominador D. Valentin at Rosario B. Valentin na taga Makati City, sa ika-15th na Enero 2011."

I can't believe I even told my dad to record it! But of course he refused.