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