DIY Bride Extraordinaire! (Part II)

It has been three months after the wedding but reminiscing once in a while about that day has been our stress reliever. ^____^ It was a blast! Anyway, the last time I posted about our DIYs for the wedding was 17 days before the big day. Hubby and I wanted it to be a surprise for our guests so I'm posting it just now as an inspiration to those who wants to DIY stuff for their wedding and also to brag about the result of our hard work! Heheheheh!

Treasure chest for our wedding bands and unity coins.

Our Rings

Our Unity Coins w/our wedding cord as background

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We actually did not made the chest itself but we DIY the ring inserts and modified the inner part of the chest to make it more in theme with the wedding!

Reception Guidelines Standee.

It was not hard making this actually. I just searched for free swirls on the Internet, used PowerPoint for the lay outing and write stuff we really want our guest to do during the reception! Its up to you if you want it to be formal or in our case funny! Our guest loves this!

Sweets for treats!

Yummy golden chocolate balls and wafers!

Chocolate wafers and Italian candies!

Our wedding is actually a chocolate themed wedding, and to keep our guest happy during the program and while waiting for the dinner we wanted them to munch on treats! A chocolate candy corner for the reception is actually more of a want rather than a need, that's why hubby and I decided to just buy chocolate wafers from the supermarket and visit a popular chocolate store. Our DIY for this was the glasses/containers. I particularly remind my coordinator to gather this glasses after the wedding (sayang yung mga baso), but to our surprise the guest took it all with them at home! They thought the glasses was give-aways too. Hubby and I felt good about that, kahit tinangay nila yung mga baso at least ibig sabihin nagustuhan ng guests. ^____^ We also put Italian candies (c/o our Ninang Jenny) with the chocolate treats, hubby and I searched for the perfect packaging for this and so happy we found a cute box in our motif. We also did the repacking of it by ourselves. ^_____^

Our give-aways! 

Our Cadbury give-aways!

 Chocolate theme wedding so we really wanted to send our guest home with one of our favorite chocolate. Thanks to Ate Criz (Vic's older sister) for giving us boxes and boxes of Cadbury chocolates for give-aways. She purchased it in UAE and hand carried it nalang. The new packaging of Cadbury is foil, di na sya paper lang na you can easily remove. Hindi na namin matutupad yung first plan na palitan nalang ng personalized wrapper yung original cover ng cadbury, so what we did was just wrap it with specialty paper (2 colors; gold and metallic brown), attached our DIY monograms, thank you note and then finish it off with satin ribbons! Walaaahhhh!!!

Special give-aways for those who had help us with our wedding!

Flower girls' headbands

My baby sister Aila and pamangkin Arabella rockin' the headbands I made!

I didn't want my flower girls to look like a walking pomander balls on our wedding day. I shy away from the usual "pang flores de mayo" gowns and headpieces.  ^_____^  I had chosen a clean simple gown and made a matching headbands.  I purchases a shinny off white headbands from a stall in divisoria and made flower from the excess silk ribbons we used for the giveaways. I added gold beads at the center of each flowers which is also few excess from our DIY wedding cord then that's it! Pretty diba? They looked so cute! My baby sister and cousins still use the headbands to school!

7-IN-1 Bridesmaid dresses

Our pretty ladies with their DIY 7-in-1 dresses! They did not make the dress of course but our girls DIY the design of their dresses. I just provided them with the broaches, bahala na sila kung what style they want the dresses to look like... I must say, I was surprised how creative they all were.

Escort card - Table assignments 

Vic and I personally made the seat assignments. We didn't ask our coordinator to do this, naisip namin its us who knows the guest personally so its also us who knows best kung sino ang magkakatabi. We also did not use table numbers for seat assignments but our favorite chocolate as table names.. I wanted to DIY the frames but Thoffy (The One Exclusive) said meron na daw silang papahiram. Im glad he lend us the frames but if I had a chance to do it all over again I'll spruce-up the list of names.. Maganda naman pero mas mapapaganda ko pa kasi sya.. Heheheehe.. Thanks to the One Exclusive for lending us the frames... ^_____^

MAP Insert

With the help of google map and AutoCad, I was able to DIY Our Map inserts for the invites. I didn't want to shell out P10 for each inserts so I made one for us... I think its served it purpose naman... ^_____^

Our Map!!!

Our HITCHED Sign!

In movies after the couple exits the church they ride their wedding car and the movie usually ends with a scene showing the sign "just married". For our movie, este wedding pala, our sign says "HITCHED!" Hehehehe.. Wala lang...How to make it? Very easy, black illustration board,  gold paint, paint brush and a steady hand for painting the letters! Double adhesive tape it on the back of the car lang tapos na!!! Astig diba???

And they lived happily ever after.... ^______^

That's it for the PART II of our DIY..

click here for DIY Bride Extraordinaire! (Part I)

Hope it this helps para sa mga DIY Brides! ^______^ 

99 Days to go!

Today is our 30th monthsary, Vic also reminded me that we only have 99 days before the big day! Wow! Time flies so fast! I promised my self to write about our accomplishments after reaching the 100 days before the wedding, but because I got my hands full this past few days, I am now writhing about the accomplishments and whats next with the 99 days left before the big day!

Accomplishments:

CHURCH - The Cathedral Parish of St. Andrew in Paranaque

This is where my parents got married, it is where I was baptized and where Vic proposed!

This is it! "THE" door!

 RECEPTION+CATERER - Bali Garden in Bacoor Cavite

Love the place! When we saw it for the first time we really knew this was the place for us!



I love the colors and the capiz!!!

GOWN - Joel Escober

Love him and his design! If you read my previous blog about him, need I say more? He is the best!

WEDDING COORDINATOR (On the Day) - The One Exclusive

First reason why we got them is that they fit the budget! Package includes on the day coordination with 4 coordinators plus host. Hoping so much for them meet our expectations.

INVITES - Wink!
Booked them during a wedding fair so the price is very reasonable. I wanted our invites to be simple but formal and not cheap looking. Carla and Carlo is our sponsors for the invites. Yeiy!!!

BRIDESMAID GOWNS - 7-in-1 Dress

Love this dresses. Because our budget is too limited I asked our friends to shoulder their dresses. I love the idea that they can use it after my wedding, its just like they are investing on a perfect dress.

GROOM'S SHOES - GBX

Love that Vic chose lace up shoes! It was pure leather and on sale! Perfect!

PHOTO+VIDEO - Nice Print Photography

Time was on our side when we booked Nice Print. Booked them 2010 before the wedding of Regine and Ogie, they where the photographers and videographers for that event. I knew they will have higher rates after that. We are also lucky to have Carla and her haggling skills!

HMUA - Mike Bawa

He is a makeup artist of ABS-CBN and he did Carla and Clariz' makeup for their wedding too. I haven't booked him yet, but I hope I dont change my mind.

UNITY COINS - Matus Jewellery

My Mom and Tito John was surprised when I told them how much this was. But Vic and I wanted them, we plan to make them a family heirlooms so the price for this was not an issue.

PAPER WORKS

Baptismal and Confirmation - GOT IT!

HONEYMOON - Surprise daw!!! Gift from Ninang Jenny!!! Yahoooooo!!!

Waiting for its arrival and confirmation!!

WEDDING RINGS - c/o Maan my best friend! Yehey!!!

SOUVENIRS & GIVEAWAYS - Cadbury Chocolate Bars

This yummy treats is c/o Ate Criz (Vic's ate). Since our wedding theme is chocolates and roses, this were the perfect giveaways. Ate will buy them in UAE and I will just make personalize wrappings.

PLACE FOR WEDDING PREPS. - c/o Tito Eric! Hehehehe!

Vic and Aimee's Wedding TO DO List

• Groom's Suite
• Bride's Shoes
• Wedding chord, bible, ahrea and veil
• Bridal car
• Resort or House for Vic's relatives
• Gowns for flower girls
• Wedding Map
• Flowers
• Other church's requirements
• My Mom's gown
• Lay-out for giveaways wrapper
• Photo montage
• DIYs

Whew! So much to do so little time...

The Perfect Bridesmaid Dresses!

For several weeks our weekends are reserved for the wedding preparations, but last Sunday, Lovey and I decided to go to Divisoria for our Christmas shopping. While scouring every corner of 168, my eyes almost popped when I saw a dark chocolate brown dress hanging in one of the stalls. From a far I knew it was the same purple 7-in-1 dress my sister wore for her wedding prenuptial shoot 2 years ago, only this time it was in Daaaaaaaaaaaark Chocolaty Brown! The exact hue I want for my wedding motif! Yeiy!!!

Aside from the purrrrrrfect color its perfect because its less than one thousand pesos! Much affordable than the 7-in-1 dresses online and way more affordable than the gowns made to order! Even before finding the dress, we already asked our girls to shoulder their gowns due to our tight budget. At least with this fabulous find they will be able to use the dresses for other occasions! Now its just like I asked them to invest on a perfect dress! Hahahahah!

By the way, its called the 7-in-1 dress but your are limited only to your imagination!

Next week we need to decide what style will be for the MOH, Secondary Sponsors and Bridesmaid! Will post pictures as soon as we have our final decision. For the mean time the picture below is almost the same style and color of the dresses! PERFECT!!!

The dresses we have are knee-length! Almost the same color!