random txting ♥

i want to share this before i change my mind.. haha

my oso and i, we like txting. random unimportant things usually. one sentences, a phrase. whatever comes. we just wanted to be connected all the time. we're that close! XD

our txt exchanges are very random that we can skip thru different emotions by the minute. we're special people. =))

last night, we were both on graveyard shift and we're just txting randomly. then he txted me something like this all of a sudden:

--i'll build up the txt exchange from random to cheesy.. excuse me. =))

o, life is good! ♥

wedding gown for sale :)

hello, hello! :)

a friend asked me if i can sell his sister's wedding dress. you might be interested, comment here if it's in your liking. :)

details:

used last october 27, 2012

original price was Php 22,000

asking price Php 11,000

made by concha españa

 

here's the gown...

pretty i must say. :)

 

 

 

 

revamp

i had the chance to meet my wedding coordinator yesterday.

she's my cousin, hoho. XD

we discussed things. i guess she was surprised on the progress i have so far. she says i don't need her. haha. XD but i told her i need her to sort my mind. she agreed. hoho.

we parted with her giving me an assignment. to give her my pegs --via pinterest. and to finalize our guest list. ugh! the dreaded guest list. XD i never realize until she said it that we need to settle that as early as now to have a visual estimate of our upcoming plans.

my oso and i talked about it before and settled for 200 pax max. but as i started to think about people, ..i don't want to think about it for now. =)) we might be being idealistic? hoho.

but, we really want to stick by that number. *insert determined face here*

also, we might be going out of our decided wedding palette. heartbreak. T.T

but i'll do my best to make it happen --sort of.

i was blogging before how i'm not panicking and here i am doing just that. boo me. =))

o well, papel. i'll give myself time to settle this. i hope by next week, there would be a silver lining across my sky. haha. aja! :P

sharing the phuket fun

photo's from the proposal day. i'll share this so the character from my proposal story will have faces.

mixture of iphone and s95 camera photos. enjoy. :P

my best loved photo

discussions..

excuse my crying face :))

the very ignored roses =))

candid

its reds and pinks, not noticeable though.

we're not kissing XD

love art c/o oso and pj, haha XD

lunch and fruitshakes

candid. blue ring, green nails. yak :))

most decent i can ever look :))

the bangla boys

"omit the belt", they say :P

my oso and i posing for a polaroid shot

mom and rayan. they never got up the whole time =))

my oso with his sponsors? =))

mae, pj and i. posing for some phuket love.

as i said, mom and rayan never got up. even for photo ops. boo. XD

oso and pj. loving the beach. --wish i swam too.

me and my oso

oso, mae and pj

our flight fare sponsors, thank you thank you :*

doing their best to get us a flight

12-hours stuck at phuket terminal

endless conversations

...on a seemingly endless night

ang makasaysayang pinoy henyo =))

it had me at hello

let's talk about my dress. haha.

i saw this at pinterest some months back. it had me at hello. XD

i'm a lace girl. if only i could wear it everyday, hehe.

i plan my fitting by next year, after the christmas holidays. just to be safe with the weight to be accrued. =))

further details, someday i hope. it's too far from being real yet. so let's leave it here. :D

the ring details --so you won't ask about it too much

without further a do, as i'm still into blogging today, i will share my ring detail.

ok, first things first...

i never had pictured myself on a diamond engagement ring. beats me, i don't feel like i'm that type of girl.

i did not pick sapphire due to kate middleton. swear, i dreamed of having a sapphire ring long before she got hers. hehe.

i began searching for a good sapphire ring when i was 20, i think.

my birth stone is sapphire, added bonus on choosing it. :)

my search started long before and it ended long before as well. based on my sent items at y! mail, i saved this picture feb of 2011.

here's the picture of the actual ring i fancied:

when i found this, i told myself, this is me. the emerald cut fits me well, it has edges. i like edges. :)

i like how conservative it feels. --this is just me, i guess. hehe. plus, it's simple and classy enough for me. i'm not really particular with things like this so spare me further technicalities. hehe. XD

for it's specifications and other details, please see where i found it.

here's my oso's version of my dream engagement ring:

photo by patong beach

as per my oso, my emerald cut dream was shattered due to kate middleton's ring. the jeweler cannot avail stocks for it since it was the same as kate's cut. heartbreak.

my oso cannot wait for it since he has his time table. :)) also, the triangular diamond on the sides were out of stock too. so the jeweler did minor adjustments.

i love my engagement ring --to death.

even if it did not fall as exactly as i want it, the one who i imagine it giving me is the person who i dreamed will. that's dream come true enough. :)

dream e-rings are dream e-rings. my oso says he'll find me an emerald cut after the wedding. he promised. :DD

my ring came with an unofficial certificate for techincal purposes i think:

please don't ask me how much, my oso won't reveal it even if i threw a hundred of tantrums for asking already. =))

the jeweler's contact, that my oso can share. :D comment for details.

the proposal --may 7, 2012

it started one monday morning when we're about to leave for singapore. we were at phuket, on our last day of vacation. we are heading for brunch since we are to leave for the airport. but my oso and pj are missing. he was room mates with pj and rayan on that trip. but rayan was the only one in their room when i called them for lunch. at this point, i still don't have any idea.

rayan said the two went out to look for a good place to eat in. so we decided to look for them outside the hotel and ventured once again at bangla road towards patong beach. but still, the two were out of site. my mom probably got tired wandering around under the hot sun that she asked rayan to look for them instead. i remember i was calling up my oso's phone but he's not answering. we were hungry, we need to find them soon.

so off rayan went to look for them. he asked me to come with him. so i left my mom with mae. they said they will be buying pasalubong while we're searching for the two. at this point, i'm still not having ideas. --due to hunger, maybe?

we walked and searched by patong beach. walking, taking pictures, walking by the right side of the beach, walking to the left side of the beach. then, to the right again, then stopped somewhere in the middle, took pictures, searched some more. hmm.. now, it's suspicious.

maybe this searching thing has something to do with the postponed morning date with my oso. he asked me before heading to bed on sunday night if we could go out the next morning and spend time just the two of us. i was excited with the idea since we haven't had any time for ourselves on the trip so i agreed. but monday morning, there was rain. so, it was cancelled.

as we stopped in the middle of the beach, near a lounge/bar --can't remember really, pj suddenly comes out of nowhere. ok, i got suspicious at this point. plus, panicy. haha. i asked him where my oso was. he said he'll take me to him. i just need to follow the roses. what roses?! o, the one by my feet. ha! i ran. =))

but pj caught my arm before i got far. i was really hysterical at this point, crying out of nervousness. no, no, no. not yet, please. i really don't want to do this. my hopes and plans came rushing through my head all at once. yes, just as they say when a person is faced on an accident. it happened with me as well. but i need this to be over and done with. so i did what i was told. i followed the roses laid on the sand, the roses being washed by the waves, the roses, sticking on the sand where tourists were happily staring at me, asking me to pick up the roses. --sorry, i'm kj, i don't pick up roses. haha.
with all the panic i'm feeling, i didn't see my oso right away. he was pointed out for me by a lady with golden hair, hihi.

he was sitting by the deck, staring at me. he's staring at me and crying. o, no! this is it...

i came over, he was not saying anything. he's just there crying, looking at me.
--at this point, the conversation is a blurr. up until today, i can't remember how it exactly happened. forgive me. XD

what i do remember is, the first thing i said to him was, "'wag mo'ng sabihin magpopropose ka?" =)) i know, kj down to my bones. hahaha. i'm not proud. XD

he was mad at me for saying that. i probably broke the script he was planning in his head. but what can i do, i was so tense. :))

i can't remember how it came up. but, he proposed by saying, "would you spend the rest of your life with me?" while he took out a sapphire engagement ring from his pocket. --the closest thing to the picture i gave him a few months back of what my engagement ring should look like.
haha, what should i say, i answered him, "wala tayo pera". ok, kill me now. =))

but we discussed for a couple of minutes about it. i remember asking him, why would he do it now. we've talked about this, we said, 27. i'm still 24. was he pressured by people around us who keeps teasing? was he bored on what we are now? he said he was not. he just told me, "gusto kita pakasalan kasi mahal na mahal kita.." and that melted my heart.. so, who am i to say no? i trust my oso so much that taking this step with him would be worthwhile. difficult, yes. but worthwhile. :)

so that ended it, i broke up with my boyfriend. ..he's now my fiance. we're engaged.

i was really floating that time from mixed emotions running through me. rayan and pj were taking pictures of us as i later noticed. they were congratulating and being happy. i took a look at my ring and smiled as i stare at it. my ring is brighter and bluer than the sea and the skies of phuket. it's so beautiful. --and big, in my opinion. XD

we were so happy as we took some more pictures by the beach. then, we head back to meet with mae and my mom.
o no, mom! how while i tell her? panic once more. haha.

but as it turns out, my mom was pretty ok with it. she didn't even looked surprise. haha. she even took the honor of telling it to the whole family. --even if i told her she is not suppose to tell it yet. pasaway.

we ate lunch that morning and spend the rest of the day and afternoon loving patong beach.

the end. --or rather, the start. :P

something useful

i'm slacking of with wedding plans. haha. well, that's how i see it since my mom talks about it more than i do. XD but then, i'm really like this and my mom is always like that. so i guess things are still well. :D

i was blog hopping today and i stumbled upon good fonts, hehe. free fonts are always best. i know i need it in the future since i have plans that i would like to see come to life. i'm still decluttering my head that is full of ideas.

i had fun downloading fonts here. so i hope this'll help you.

and o wait, i have something more to share. i stumbled upon this on pinterest. someone might be able to find inspiration on this. it would best help people who have trouble with their vows. hehe :P

i'm still thinking if we'll do our own vows. i'm weighing on my ability of not crying on that day. i don't like to look like a mess when i deliver my vows. i'm pretty emotional, so that's still a thought. haha XD

my blog today is somehow useful. i'll give myself a pat on the back for this, haha. :D

and now for some aesthetics..

sharing with you an instagram picture of my dinner date with my oso. ♥ we celebrated our 102nd month with ramen. :D

yes, we rarely have photos together during meal dates since we don't like sitting together. :D

reality

my oso visited me at work today. and we ended up discussing about our expenses and target money to make our wedding dreams into a reality.

and yes, the discussion is quite stressing since wedding budgets were never not extravagant. that is, if you plan to make it as close to what you really wanted. and we want it as close from what we wanted. we wanted to be ideal and realistic at the same time. hehe, i don't know if you get me. but that's as close as i can describe how we wanted our wedding to be.

we're not really struggling. we both believe we're not. we just don't want our emotions and happiness to solely guide us in making this happen. we want to be collected and reasonable too. to avoid being surprised that we need to pay so much and we'll have so little.

but i believe that we'll conquer this. i actually feel good being worried about our expenses. i'd rather be paranoid than make decisions out of happiness. haha, i'm weird. XD but what i find weirder is that i can blog like this while i'm listening to maroon 5 rock in rio 2011 concert. haha. XD

and what i don't understand more is how this blog is not turning out to be just like the other brides' blogs. i'm suppose to be posting reviews and opinions on suppliers or posting pictures of my DYIs right? well, i feel like i'm not that type. maybe i'll give it a chance when my schedule is jampacked with wedding stuffs? --but i doubt i would chose blogging over getting things done. haha XD

but i will really really do my best to be a normal bride in preparation. i will post pictures and be happy and avoid blog posts like this. =))

chill

i don't know why that i'm not panicking about the wedding. haha. XD it's a good thing right? being a bridechilla. but why do i feel so wrong? :))

i don't know if i'm like this because it would still be a year before our big day. or that i feel i need to be as enthusiastic as the bride-to-bes on the forums i lurk in. haha. beats me. XD

i've been organizing a lot of things my whole life that i feel like this is just another event. but this is one of those i need to really really prepare. don't get me wrong. my thoughts and ideas for the wedding are pretty much chaotic in my head. i had so many things i want that i can't manage to pull it of in one single motiff. haha. but even so, i feel like i have all the time in the world. i hope that this feeling stays with me for the rest of the preps. but i'm guessing panic will visit me when the year turns 2013. hohoho.

i would be sharing this photo of my oso and i for aesthetics. hahaha

phuket 2012 ♥

assignment

last last week, we met up with our p/v supplier. parting with them, a homework was given: to decide on the engagement shoot theme. haha

two weeks have passed and i'm still struggling with a concrete theme in my head. well actually, i have key items i want to have on our shoot: i want a praire, a bicycle and a chapel. so far that's the farthest thing i have decided. though i'm still having other options where i don't require that. struggle. T.T

another thing i need to consider is our personality. i want to bring out something people don't see from us everyday. we're happy people. but it would be difficult for us to project that to the camera since my oso is very self conscious. i mean, very very very very very very much conscious. normal photo taking is ok for him. he adores his face. :)) but to project and all, good luck. :)) so that is another point to consider. i'm not good with posing as well. but i guess i would be less of a worry than my oso. hehe :p

our overall theme for our wedding is yet to be decided as well. a problem with too many things in mind is to fit it all together. i hope we could decide on this soon. or rather, i hope i'll get over with procastinating and actually start with something. haha

nice to know: engagement rings

stumbled upon this while i was blog hopping way way back when i didn't know i was to marry. :)) dug up my archives today and found this again.

 

source:

http://weddingphotography.com.ph/9524/history-engagement-rings-40-wedding-ring-photography-ideas/

expo expo

today, my oso and i went to our second wedding expo. :))

the philippine wedding summit at the world trade center, hosted by themes&motifs. woohoo!

we didn't really grab the chance for discounts. since our event would be a year from now still. there would be more opportunities for that. we need to focus on the essentials first. we are ok with the big things already. we're still saving up on future bookings and feeling our pockets for the ongoing downpayments we need to settle. hehe. so we just looked around and inquired for future references. :))

plus, it's really fun to go at expos since it reminds you of the pressure you need to feel in making your wedding very possible. =))

sharing photos we took at the car park before leaving the event...

we can't do serious photos :))

 yes, my hair looks like that regularly. so don't ever mention it already. i see that everyday. =))

i love the rays of the sun blinding our eyes as we took this photo in the hot afternoon. hohoho. sorry for the poor camera resolution. iphone's front camera sucks in real life. X))

and see my goody bag. no goodies, just papers from participating suppliers, hehe. :P

matchy matchy with the car seat cover

i will look at these when i get home. or maybe on my restday.
i hope i can find something we'll need, hehe. :D

how i met my oso. the not so cheesy and very concise edition. :D

we were still fourteen back when we first met. junior year in highschool. we became friends even if we were never classmates. we got acquainted because of his first love. haha. yes, this is the typical tv story where the bridge became the gf. well, not on the typical story flow though. those who knew us since highschool would know the in betweens, you may ask them. haha. i'm a lazy storyteller. :))

we ended up together "unofficially" when we were in our senior year, a few months before graduation. we were formally gf/bf status when we were seventeen, freshmen in college.

and the rest of the story, i will tell when i feel like it again, haha. :D