Tag: Weddings

Day 27: Fonts our wedding invites are made of

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27/30: Typography. I love words and fonts. I can spend hours browsing these sites, drooling and staring at fonts I can’t afford. I’ve collected fonts through the years and I feel so bad for failing to keep a back-up. You see, when that creep (whoever he is) stole our MacBooks, he also stole my font collection. *sad face*

Anyway, enough about things we can’t anymore change. (:

Imagine my restlessness when I was choosing fonts to use for our wedding invites. I must have changed the layout and the fonts ten thousand times. In the end, agreeing that we want the invites to look simple and modern, we settled with Avenir, Chapparal Pro, this pretty (and not to mention free!) sans serif Bebas Neue, and a vintage script, BallPark Weiner. Those fonts are all over our love story too.

And.. I have nothing more to say today. :P

Last 3 photographs, coming up!

Day 24: I remember how happy I was that day

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24/30: Something pink. We finally got a copy of our official wedding photos from Exquisite Photography. Kuya Bim, our dear friend and Kuya who agreed to take our photos, did a really good job with them. There were hundreds of beautiful photos but the MacBooks were stolen even before we found time to choose which ones to upload on Facebook. I guess uploading them is not going to happen anytime soon.

EP uploaded some on their official FB account though. And this photograph is one of my favorites, yay! I looked really happy in this, no? (: That’s because I was. I am.

This reminds me that no matter how stressful, sometimes heartbreaking, the days were leading to our wedding day, I still woke up on the morning of August 13, 2011 with so much peace and hope in my heart. I’ve waited for that day for so long, and when God finally made it happen, there was nothing or no one who could take away the joy in my heart.

We’ve been heavily warned about getting married. Some people even questioned our decisions and challenged us to reconsider, while others gave us their full blessing and support.

We were told that marriage isn’t all love and bliss, that it involves a lot of work, and that it can be a painful thing if not done right. You might think that I’m not the right person to validate these claims as I have only been married for 3 months, but if you’d take my word for it, I say, yes, married life can be really challenging, but the fact that it’s a God-given gift does not change. I say, it’s truly worth it.

Day 22: People around us are getting married

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22/30: Hands. Here’s one last solo picture of my pretty engagement ring. Shortly after this picture was taken, a wedding ring has taken up residence on the same finger. Since then, you’ll never see me wear one ring without the other.

I’m not sure when it started to feel like everyone is getting married! College org-mates, high school friends, cousins, relatives, colleagues, friends of friends, and childhood barkadas are suddenly taking the highway to marital bliss, one after the other. There’s an entire wedding industry, with thousands of wedding suppliers, that does not run out of things to do! In our office alone, 3 ladies got married in a year. Normi got married about two months before I did. Ivy is currently planning her wedding too.

When we were in Boracay, we received news that our friends Jasper and Darlene officially got engaged. We knew that Jasper was planning to propose in front of family and friends but even though we weren’t there to witness the proposal firsthand, we were truly happy when we heard that he finally did it! And then there was another friend/in-law, Ate Che, who got engaged last week. I can’t forget the smile (and the blush!) on her face when she showed us her ring, it was lovely.

Marriage is such a beautiful thing, and I’m really excited for our friends. I’ve always had a thing for engagement and wedding stories, each one unique and different from the rest. Just like I said in the past, I love how they remind us that love is always at work, and that God is who He said He is — Faithful, Perfecter of our faith, Author of love, Maker of all things beautiful.

Day 20: Work of art + labor of love = Treatbox

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20/30: Bokeh. Christmas lights make for beautiful bokehs. (:

When my cousin, Ate Dots, confirmed to me that she and her husband were flying in from Sydney to attend our wedding, I just knew that I wouldn’t want anyone else to do our wedding cake but her. Ever since the launch of Treatbox, I’ve been an avid fan of their creations and have often wished they shipped their treats internationally.

Needless to say, our wedding cake was beautifully made, even better than I imagined. Ate Dots captured the color palette perfectly and the details were so intricately designed it was an instant subject of many of our photographs. She even captured my hair, my dress, my bouquet, my dimple and Bud’s mole. I still have the cake topper kept in a jar, but the cake has (obviously) long been gone. Just the same, it’s gifts like this that leave behind beautiful memories and photographs, ones you’d keep looking at for years to come.

Thanks Ate Dots and Kuya Mitch (and Jonah!) for bringing Treatbox right to our reach, and for not missing our wedding for the world. (:

Shameless plug: If you’re in Sydney, specifically in Paramatta, Blacktown and Eastern Suburbs, do check out Treatbox! They specialize in custom-made, eye-candy fondant cakes and cake pops, and I heard Ate Dots’ silvanas are really delicious too!

Day 18: Hello, I’m still swooning

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18/30: Smile. I love it when he raises his eyebrows like that. (:

I’ve been spending a lot of idle time with David since Boracay, with me still in sick bay and needing time off work to rest. It’s weird how easily I get tired lately. And then there’s my backlog at work, the result of a couple of days’ absence. Just the thought of them makes me want to crawl back to bed.

I’d consider it a gift though, this time of rest. Maybe God is telling me to slow down, to recharge my batteries and be ready to work double-time. Either way, I’m thankful for being forced to take a breather. And I’m thankful to have David at a time like this.

Sometimes I would find myself staring at him, smiling and needing to catch my breath. The thought that this is the man I’m spending all the days of my life with still overwhelms me in a way I can’t explain, I sometimes wonder if it’s just part of the “honeymoon stage” or if it’s a permanent thing. I really don’t mind the permanence. I could really get used to swooning over one man forever.

Day 17: That swanky, forever-bound limo ride

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17/30: Technology. This is the closest thing I have to technology: Mae‘s Samsung point-and-shoot in my hands, and this vintage limousine that took us to the wedding venue.

Marvin, our videographer (have I told you guys he’s awesome?), and Sheila, were in this ride with us. There were just too many things happening inside that limousine in our short trip from Viviere Hotel to Fernbrook Gardens. I remember cramming my wedding vows, and spacing out a lot, and fidgeting a lot, and smiling a lot, and hugging my Mom a lot. I didn’t have a lot of photos in that limousine but I do remember being fully aware that it was the pumpkin carriage that was taking me to my new life with David.

Speed-posting on the second half of these 30-days. 13 more days left.