Flowers. Florist. Gazeebo or Sofa???

It never occurred on my mind that we have to set aside a portion of our wedding budget for flowers. Much more, I never thought that it would eat up a very material portion on our budget! Worse, it distorted our budget!!!! Waaaah!!!! And I used to think that flower arrangements on church and reception just pops out..free..haha!

Hmmmnn... I thought best things in life come free.. I wanted the best. But why do I have to pay for it? Non sequitur. :p

Nyways, I already have our church venue so I searched for florists who've already decorated the place. And I immediately fell in love with this arrangement..

                                   

Breathtaking. I love the hanging flowers. I love the cone-shaped design that gives an illusion that the flowers are floating mid-air. I could imagine how it feels walking towards the altar...

Well, this design will have some minor ammendments and it will have to complement my motiff (green and gold) But for sure, I'll be seeing these hanging flowers and the cone-shaped designs on my wedding day.

For weeks, I am in trouble choosing between gazeebo and sofa but with the advice of our florist, I finally chose sofa..hehehe... I asked what my hubby wanted and he wanted the gazeebo. his opinion is only his opinion.. akin ang final say. lols..

So on our wedding day, I'll be expecting this arrangement on azaya

Plus, I want these tall vases on our presidential table.

Guess they're lovely but I'm not sure if it will complement the design of Sirkulo as I want the venue to be filled with swag and lanterns (see below pix...)

oooops... kindly disregard the pretty ladies on the photo. :p

Diary of A Rushing Bride

So today, Sep 11, 2011... Me and my soon-to-be hubby finally had the time to go home to Tarlac and start meeting suppliers!  ( We are currently working in Angeles Pampanga and  have exhausted all those leave entitlements and could no longer afford any salary deduction as every hours paid by the company counts much in the budget!) Here’s the itinerary for our Sunday action-packed weekend:

                8:00 -9:30 --- attend the Sunday Mass for the announcement of our Marriage Banns

                10:00 – 11:00 --- meeting with our florist

                11:30 – 12:00 --- downpayment and contract signing with our cake decorator

                12:30 – 03:00 --- pre nup photoshoot with my hs Bessie, Neslie Paraan

                03:00 – 03:30 ---meet with our prospective Master of Ceremony and Singer (Reception)

                03:30 – 04:00 --- meet with the Tarlac photobooth owner

                04:00 – 04:30  --- book our lights and sound system  coordinator

                04:30 – 06:00 – meet one of our future Ninongs

Yayyy..I forgot.. I initially planned the contract signing with our wedding videographer this day as well.  Kung san pwedeng maisingit na oras..hahaha..

Yes. I know. I could almost hear the “to dream, the impossible dream” music in the background. Out of those nine target to-do’s, was only able to finish four... L

Anyway, what we’ve been able to accomplish I consider milestones for our wedding planning considering it’s only 50 days from now..hayyyss...

We were able to attend the final of the Three Consecutive Mass for our Marriage Banns. (Note that we missed the second Sunday Mass..nyways, Father Lito released my certification! Yey!!!) So immediately we went to San Sebastian Church (our venue) and did some inquiry regarding the availability of wedding singer, sound system and florist. Negative. Confirmed. I need to find suppliers for my church and venue arrangements.  Good thing was able to meet up with our florist, cake decorator and sound and lights provider.  It was bit rainy early morning so I also had to cancel our photoshoot and resched it on the 25^th.  Still have lots of pendings..huhuhu.. but target date is to finish ALL this week.

Nyways, here’s the list of pending items:

                Final Invitation Design – c/o chacha

                Food Tasting on Azaya

                Concept for our pre-nup video

                Photobooth – still looking for supplier

                Wedding singer 

                Emcee

                Bridal shoes and accessories

               

I think I need to update this list as I might have still missed a lot of details... help!