Finally, an Update!

Yup, I've got some news to share. We finally started moving again after a long, long, long "vacation" from preps. As I've mentioned in my previous post, we sort of got derailed a bit these past few months. But, thankfully, we've made some progress since that last post.

So what progress am I talking about here? Ok, let me start of with last week (hehehe, sorry I was too lazy to update the blog sooner). Last Sunday, we (Leo, LA, Bernard, mommy and me) went to divisoria to scout for give-aways and invitation materials. We got there at around 8:30-9am and left at around 3pm. We didn't really see much except for those nice wall decors we're eyeing for sponsor gifts. I must say, they're really "great deals" if you compare the prices with those in the department stores. Divisoria is really the place to look for bargains and wholesales.

Anyway, on our way home from divisoria, we also passed by Dapitan for more scouting and looking. We found this supplier of metalcraft who was willing to make a prototype of the medieval picture frame we had in mind. We're going back there 2 weeks from now to see the prototype. We also passed by Dangwa to buy some fresh flowers since it was on our way anyway. While there, we got to finally meet our florist Mang Boy Mahusay (remember it was La and mommy who booked him for us). We even got a picture of him for this blog :D

Even at the time we saw him, he and his team were arranging flowers for another wedding. I don't think they even open their stall anymore cause of the big business they get from wedding bookings. Well, good for Mang Boy.

Anyhoo, that was it for that Sunday.

Next prep news happened yesterday, saturday. Guess where? Well, for those of you who knew about the Wedding Expo, we went to NBC tent last saturday to attend the bridal fair sponsored by Themes and Motiffs (see my logo below?). From my experience of last March's Expo, I knew it was a must-attend event, specially for those who are still looking for suppliers. They give out great discounts and promos during the Expo. I even booked my photographer, Lee, during last March's expo, and my coordinator Wini kept on saying what a "good deal" I got :) Anyway, we already planned to book our strings and chocolate fountain at this September Expo. And guess what? We did! We got Concertino for our string quartet, and I'm really happy with that cause Concertino is Toks new group. Toks Antonio was originally from Da Capo, which is a really well-recommended strings ensemble. We tried to get them before but they already had a booking on our date. Hopefully (and I've got really high hopes) this new group will be as good as the original one. From their demo cd, they sounded quite good.

I've mentioned a while ago that we were also able to book our chocolate fountain, and we got Josiah's Catering for that. Yummy yummy yummy chocolate! There were a lot of choco fountains set-up at the Expo, and in my opinion (and others as well), Josiah's chocolate was the yummiest of them all. They were also the ones who gave us the best deal, so yeah, I'm quite happy with that :D Here's a picture that will probably make your mouth water, hehehe...

So there, that's 2 more items in the list of TO-DOs that we can finally cross out, woohoo! We were also able to meet with Alex of Juan Carlo and Tish and Ronald of Balay to schedule the next meetings with them. We also saw Lee and wanted to schedule our prenuptial pictorial, but he didn't have his calendar with him that time. I'll just call him in his office this week to schedule it, hopefully, on October 1.

Last agenda of that day... we went to Bhleippz Bar and watched DBO's Lunchbox perform. Finally, we were able to hear them and see them live! I can imagine now how they will be at our wedding and I'm really excited. Amiel was really good, and I really liked the flute and the percussions. Too bad we didn't get to see John play the sax. One thing though, their new vocalist had a very soft voice. Nice voice, but soft. She was getting drowned by the instruments at times. It's probably because she's new. I guess she'll still improve in the coming months. We'll see.

Lastly, this afternoon, we also met with Wini (our coordinator) to discuss some more wedding preparation details and to ask her if she'll be able to come with us in our supplier meetings with Juan Carlo and Balay. She readily agreed, bless her, so it looks like we're all set - atleast for the next couple of weeks. Actually, there's still so much to do looking at the calendar that we created (I'll tell you about the calendar some other time cause the making of it is a story on its own, hehe). But atleast we made some solid progress, don't you think so? :D Hopefully we'll have more in the following weeks to come.