on with the preps...

it's my eric's birthday today. how i wish i could be with him to celebrate his birthday...:-(

last friday, i got news that our marriage license is ready for pick-up at the san juan city hall (yehey!). that's one of the things we were stressing about before eric left since the license has a validity period of 3 months (that means we only can apply for it on september), eric left august and we have to be both present when applying for it! good thing eric was able to contact someone from the san juan city hall to "fix" our license. we submitted all the requirements prior to him leaving and the contact person said he'll just be the one to make all the necessary arrangements. let's just hope the license is legal...:-D

yesterday, i brought my mama and sisters to veluz for their first fitting (gowns were in the actual thai silk already). the contrast of salmon, periwinkle and cobalt is just so beautiful! unfortunately, my gown wasn't ready yet so i just contented myself in looking at my mama and sisters while they were fitting their gowns. veluz gave them an idea already on what their gowns would look like...at least they have finally decided on the style.

mama and i just came from dapitan arcade (previously known to us as "mayon") to look for the planter we will be using to put our give-aways (forget-me-not potted plant). mama finds the planter from san too expensive given that we have a budget for our give-aways. we were able to find a planter very similar to san's sample but for a much lower price (almost half!). it has to be ordered though and customize based on our specifications. we decided to still look around and found a yellow galvanized can with red lady bugs all over it! (side kwento: we initially thought of having a ladybug/lovebug theme since eric and i collect ladybugs/lovebugs! we even asked noky of printsonalities to propose a ladybug/lovebug lay-out for our invites!) we brought with us a sample of the pot that will be used to for the plant and it fits the galvanized can perfectly! in addition to that, they would be able to provide us 200 units of cans immediately without having to order it. talk about meant to be! we decided to purchase the galvanized cans and not order the sinamay planter anymore. we then proceeded to vs orchid's branch in cubao to put our order of 160 forget-me-not potted plant to be delivered on december 9 (we ordered 160 plants instead of 200 since we were able to buy only 160 cans given our quality control check of the cans). next on this is to print our tags that will be attached to our give-aways.


planter for our give-aways

am so happy i was able to accomplish something on our preps for this weekend...