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It's getting nearer and nearer!We used to think we'd have enough time to plan and look at options but now it's more like a rush... what are we going to do on our FIRST year anniversary!!! weeeeeeeeeeeee! Time flies sooo fast that we are turning one year! very happy and exciting! Actually, it's still this December but we've been looking forward to this since the day after we got married! haha... I guess the whole experience of planning and the gathering of people closest to us made us want more of this kind of event to happen. We'd be so glad to get married each year!^^ We could marry in so many ways here in the Philippines, having many tribes and traditions to follow, we could just get adopted in those tribes and be married in their rites, that'd be cool...or seriously speaking, we can have a Baptist ceremony too, Ramil my husband is a Baptist but we got married in Catholic ceremony 'cuz I am one. Anyway, that topic could make a whole new post so, I'd just stick to YES, we can plan a Bapist wedding too,right? He got so excited when I mentioned that we can actually do that!^^ Among traveling, spa resorts and party with friends, that is one of our choices on WHAT TO DO ON YOUR FIRST YEAR ANNIVERSARY?!

Anyway, you'll find out what we decide upon soon!

Sharing you some photos from our last years before the wedding!...at a theme park of course!













Happy Weekend Everyone!!!

xoxo
Sassy.

BIG wedding that I was not in.

So how is this related to my daily life being able to watch a wedding on the news yesterday...hmmnn...well it was said to be the wedding of the year as it befits royalty. A wedding between a senator and a tv journalist/news anchor. I don't know if it's really the wedding I want if I were a celebrity or royalty at all...you know the BIG crowd, the non stop flashing of cameras, shrieking fans, I don't know if I'd ever fit into that scene anyway, I'd be a total obsessive-compulsive mess! But there they are radiant, smiling, teary-eyed and owning the moment as if nothing else matters than meeting eye to eye down the longest aisle I've ever seen (so far) at the Santo Domingo Church. The theme was classic Filipino where the ladies wore traditional "Filipiniana" (Fi-li-pin-ya-na) dresses with butterfly sleeves and the men wore Barong Tagalogs, an embroidered, off-white, long-sleeved-collared shirt made of weaved pineapple fibers. Classic, very elegant and now I wished my wedding was Filipino themed...arrgghhh...it seemed so posh.

old picture of women in Filipiniana and men in Barong

Korina Sanchez is the bride and Senator Mar Roxas is the groom...hmmnn...now if you can remember me doing a post about Mar Roxas he is the supposed to be presidential candidate that gave way for a much popular candidate who is Noynoy Aquino...what's interesting is Noynoy Aquino is Korina's ex-boyfriend whom they made into a godfather in the wedding...haha...Noynoy is not even that old and is single. ^^

oh well... their fates are intertwined in so many, many ways you can read them in my older post.

here's the wedding on the news:

PS. I just learned that her florist was the same with the florist of my friend who wed in my last post. ^^

xoxo
Sassy loves weddings.

Wedding at the Bamboo Church

How fun it was haha...eventually the whole formal event didn't came to be...^^ Everyone was notified to just store away their gowns and be in a "semi" formal wear or whatever they feel right about wearing to a wedding...my husband has stuffed his tie in my clutch bag and I wore a flowy blouse and pearls. We car pooled with friends making the travel less harassing. The traffic was sooo bad at the coastal road, we began watching movies...yay! 'perks of being friends with a Congressman's wife, we rode into her car with one digit plate number and 2 LCD screens and snacks! awesome... We were able to breathe in our clothes as the location is about 2 hours drive from our city that wore on to be an hour more snailing our way through.
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We finally reached the church 20 minutes before 4pm, our first time to see the St. Joseph Parish in Las Pinas (Las Pin-yas) famous for the Bamboo Organ built in the 19th Century. The organ still plays, they used it for the wedding and it sounds fantastic, very much like what Dracula would use in his castle at the mountaintop to sound scary...tentententen! But this sounded awesome clear, you can only imagine what it was like for the people of the 19th century singing with this instrument playing, it would've been the coolest church in the country! The church also has bamboo chandeliers and ceiling, terracotta tile floors and ornate stone walls, though small it is cozy and has a feeling of being in a medieval world but also very Filipino for the use of Bamboo.
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The ceremony was very solemn, they only have about 100-150 guests of family and friends. The church was decorated with Sampaguita..^^ I find it very interesting that they did...even the Bride's bouquet was made of clustered Sampaguita, it's a white Jasmin flower that's very fragrant, it filled the church with it's scent.
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At the reception, the tables were still set "somehow" formal with all those spoons and forks and glasses that we scrabbled together eventually when the food came because the tables have huge centerpieces of roses and fruits, beads and the couple's photos that there weren't much space for the plate with food sooo...yes, eventually the utensils went out of its proper order, so what!

The cake was HUGE too! wow...I gaped at it.period.
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My husband and I won a game for the couples, winning our table an extra bottle of wine! yay! we were awesome at naming body parts with the letters "P" and "T"...

The night went on great, I'm sure the couple are pleased that there are NO major hitch at all besides the guests not being able to find their seats because the seating plan was a "mirror" image of what is actual! haha... nothing bad or worse was noticeable other than that so good job to the couple and the on-site coordinators! ^^ and good job ME and hubby for winning the delicious wine!

i love weddings!

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me and the hubby reminiscing...

the bamboo and Capiz shell chandelier

Sampaguita (jasmin) flowers as aisle decor

my red shoes to go w/the motif.^^

the 19th century Bamboo organ played at the wedding

coming as we are!

ceiling lamps at the reception

the HUGE cake. 'but was too far for my camera...and me.

Donabel

HUGE centerpiece.

yummmm...not just for the kids! yay!

friends not behaving.

me and the hubby

cheers!

Happy Weekend!

xoxo
Sassy

of weddings and Azerbaijan, the country I'd like to know about

So I'm out conquering the world with the projects that I get involved with and able to land a part in a building that's going to be constructed in Azerbaijan. OK, let me repeat that: "Azerbaijan" ... cool, now where is it? Sorry that I had to Google, I'm really not that keen on geography but I know this place must exist and it must've been needing buildings ... so far so good in that aspect! As long as there's land and people who needs space for living, we're there! It just sounds so mystical, the place. That I imagine it to be with white castles and forts and mosques, somewhat like Turkey. Hmmnn... I need to do more research! I'd like to know more so I could share it with my team mates. So hang on Azerbaijan, I'd get to you fast!

Anyway, life is sweet and beautiful lately. I don't ever want it to change, always wanting it to be plain, simple and happy. Tomorrow is pay day, so I'd be happier! haha ... I needed a new dress for a friends wedding coming up in October. True Love! They will be married twice. They already had a civil wedding, but now they want to do the church, so ok! we'll do the church with you! haha ... Oh Lynne, don't stress yourself too much or It'll show!Oh well, that's what your new mineral concealer is for! ... So happy and excited to see your dream wedding!

Let's take a peek shall we? just click on this. Lynne and Dale at weddingannouncer.com. It's a free website where couples could share their wedding preps, love story, photos, announcements and more! The forum is very friendly and gives out many suggestions, I'm glad to have found it while I was planning my own wedding (mj and ramil) ... we didn't have a "wedding planner" haha ... I don't know why you'll need one? err... kidding, you need one IF, you could trust them to do exactly what you wish... and I'm no easy client if that's the case, 'cuz I tend to expect too much and hate to be let down! Sooo, I pretty much did my own wedding, with a BIG help from my MOM who happily did things perfectly! She knows me too well to be mistaken, that's what mom's are for and the MOH is for! I did the research, the calls, the visits, even the souvenirs ... I did bows after bows of bronze and gold combination, our motif. BUT, it was all worth it ... we had a highly personalized touch of a wedding ... AND 'you know what? Our wedding album hasn't been printed yet ... but it will be next week! ^-^ because I just finished the words for it. I wanted a magazine type album that has our story, fave quotes and the lyrics to the song we danced to, letters to our parents ... uhmm.. poems ... even the layouting I had to guide the photographer! I'm obsessed! yikes. It just dawned on me now that I am obsessed! haha I also did the designs of the dresses and even my own gown! HOW OBSESSED I WAS! haha Now tell me I needed a wedding coordinator at that! ^-^ It was fun doing all those things, that after the wedding ... I just missed the crew I worked with, I even thought of putting up my own events coordinating business from all the people I know now, I could really do it! BUT, you know ... more than the skill learned, I was inspired by my own wedding ... I don't think I could really do it for others. It was out of love and inspiration that I was super woman, but if I do it commercially ... 'not so sure if I could...

Anyway, I'm saving the whole story for our anniversary! ... Yup, there's more! ^0^ ... and never going to get tired of it!