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Day 9: Our travel-themed wedding

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9/30: Details. Here’s a quick photo dump of some travel-inspired details of our wedding. Apparently, Josiah’s Catering made ours the featured wedding of the month (September), so hover over their website or scroll down this post to read the lovely writeup they did about us. (:

Suppliers: Catering, Setup and Styling by Josiah’s Catering, Cake by Treatbox, Wedding Rings by Matus Jewellery, DIY Wedding Invitations made by yours truly *bows*. Photo credit: Photos are either taken by my brother Nate Sanchez or taken off Josiah’s Catering’s Facebook account.

Read our feature at Josiah’s after the jump! Whoever wrote this really did it well, thank you.  Continue reading “Day 9: Our travel-themed wedding” →

Stray Cats, An Answered Prayer, and Happily Married

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Hello, I interrupt regular programming to give way to these three beautiful things that just made my day. Inspired by Three Beautiful Things, I thought I’d start sharing random blessings on random days here in my blog, too.

1. Last week, we took in 3 stray cats off our street. They were just too small and we couldn’t bear the thought of leaving them as we were passing through Thursday morning. They’re about 4 weeks old, we learned, thanks to Google. We feed them milk using medicine droppers and keep them in a shoebox.

I can’t remember ever wanting cats my whole life but so far, the experience has made me know David’s soft side a little bit more. Oh you should see how serious he is taking care of them! I tell him he’s becoming emotionally attached (and how adorable I think that is), which, of course, he denies.

2. My husband and I led Praise & Worship in church today. Standing up there together to lead a congregation of worshippers is a real joy (and an answered prayer), I still can’t get over how blessed I am.

3. Later in the evening, we opened our doors to a bunch of hungry friends from church and had an awesome time eating, and watching a cheesy tagalog film, and just hanging out. They brought some Chooks-to-go, I cooked tuna sisig, David played host.

As the day ended, I sat on the couch with my husband and we talked about how we spent the whole day extending ourselves to others and what a blessing it had been to us. “I’m so glad I married you,” he whispered. And I need not say it then but I know he knows that’s exactly what I feel too.

Day 6: When it’s clear this time you’ve found the one, you’ll never let him go

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6/30: From a low angle. Here’s my photograph for today, from a low angle, our first dance.

When you know that you know who you love, you can’t deny it.
Or go back, or give up, or pretend that you don’t buy it.
When it’s clear this time you’ve found the one, you’ll never let him go
Cos you know and you know that you know.  ~Shawn Colvin

We danced to Shawn Colvin’s When You Know (OST of the movie Serendipity), a song we chose for its lyrics, and its beautiful music, and the fact that it brings back scenes and memories of New York.

It was really special, our first dance. I was wearing a flowy chiffon skirt, bubbles surround us, as well as an audience of family and friends that seemed to have faded away in the background as soon as the first chords of the song played and David started swaying me steady in his arms.

It was the first of many more slow dances to come, it turned out. These days, however, I need not wear a fancy white gown. No need for bubbles and mood lights and music either. These days, we would dance in our pajamas, or whatever we have on, whenever we feel like it, wherever we are. We would dance on the kitchen floor, or on the rooftop, or in the supermarket, or sometimes even in the bus stop while waiting for our ride.

The whole world is our dance floor. And everything around us fades away every time we start swaying, just like it did the first time we danced.

Day 4: Thoughts on love, life and death

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4/30. Green. Green was not our wedding motif, but our garden venue happened to have ferns and trees and vines as permanent fixtures all over the place, which means, about three-quarters of our wedding photos can be posted under this category! (:

Anyway, this photograph I chose was taken just before I walked down the aisle. David was already in front, serenading me one last time before I became his wife, and there I was at the back, seconds away from my bridal march, still unable to believe that the moment had finally come.

Green reminds me of life, and I like how the color represented just that on our wedding.

On a sad (but totally related) note, there’s this blogger whose husband recently died of a heart attack after 16 years of marriage. I didn’t know Jennie Perillo until yesterday when I landed on her site after some aimless blog-hopping. It was August 7 when her husband died, just a week before our wedding. Reading through her posts, I had this sinking feeling in my stomach at the thought that, as I was starting my life with David, someone else was mourning over the death of her husband. I cried and cried, reading Jennie’s posts. What used to be a blog teeming with delicious recipes and vibrant photos of food now floods with Jennie’s grief—recollections of that fateful day her husband passed away, thoughts about life, death, and moving forward, and love letters to her husband that one could only wish he could read, wherever he is.

I kept reading, I even went through her archives to find posts about her husband Mikey. I don’t think she wrote about him when he was alive as much as she did now that he’s gone.

I don’t know Jennie, but her loss hit close to home as I realized how much my life now is tightly intertwined with someone else’s life.. and how losing this person would be just like losing myself. I don’t even want to imagine how Jennie feels. Continue reading “Day 4: Thoughts on love, life and death” →

Surprise, I turned 28!

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..one month ago, that is.

Date backtracked–I have to post these pictures before I totally forget all about them! It was, after all, my last birthday as a single person, and I’ve got the sweetest fiance who made sure I had the sweetest surprise birthday party ever!

Apparently, David had been secretly convening with my family and church friends the whole month of May, organizing this sweet surprise. There was food, flowers and confetti, Rhiza-themed games, and an embarrassing AVP of my childhood pics. David also “showed up” with a recorded video of a song he wrote for me, a video montage of birthday greetings from his/our family and friends in New York, and later on, a live Skype feed projected on a huge screen for *gasp* everyone to watch and see.

28 happy years, indeed. :)

And of course the whole family was there (can’t believe I didn’t have pics with my two brothers that night though, LOL), as well as my extended family in church. I just love how David & I have extended families from two sides of the world! :)

Jeni, Xaris & Ivy: my boyfriend’s accomplices.

Totally clueless, I had to call David to tell him that my family and friends gave me a surprise party, only to realize later on that he was the mastermind pala!

Reading what I wrote last year, on my 27th birthday, I just can’t get over how time flies by, and how God makes all things work together for good.  So much has happened since I turned 28, and I could only expect that the next couple of months will be even crazier, and more mind-blowing!

Year 28. I am sooo going to live every moment of this year, that’s for sure. :)