on wines and a very busy tuesday afternoon

with less than a month to go, i have already conditioned myself that i'd be very busy with last minute wedding preps.

so far these are what we've accomplished in the past couple of days:

after scouting where we can buy the cheapest asti martini (went to s&r, sm supermarket, rustan's supermarket and two liquor distibutors - mama said to look in hi-top supermarket as well but i wasn't able to check out the prices there anymore), we bought 5 cases of asti martini (read: 5x12=60 bottles of asti!) at s&r last sunday. eric and i decided to buy just 20 bottles of asti but my papa insisted that if we're going to serve wine, we have to serve unlimited wine and not just one round for toasting. looks like there's going to be drinking on our wedding...which remineds me to inform our guests to come prepared (bring a driver)!

last tuesday afternoon, i submitted our remaining requirements to mt. carmel (wedding banns from both our parishes, list of principl sponsors with complete address of two principal sponsors). one last requirement is our canonical interview which is scheduled on december 8. and i thought the church requirements would never end...

i then proceeded to fernwood to settle some stuff. i was surprised to see that there weren't any events that afternoon in all four venues. i've never been to fernwood so quiet, peaceful and calm(and believe me, i've been there quite a number of times) . i went to the office and talked to our ae, joy, to reserve half of fernwood's courtyard (thank god it was still available and i was able to negotiate some additional number of guests with it), pay the chapel's aircon and pay for the glass dance floor. i also requested for the chairs in the chapel to be silver come our wedding day (there were silver chairs in the chapel that day) since sometimes i see gold chairs instead. joy immediately made a call and confirmed that it's going to be silver chairs in the chapel on our wedding day. i wanted to go around the garden (as usual) and joy accompanied me to show the improvements that were made since the last time i visited. they are currently constructing an arch on the entrance of the driveway of the two gardens. the falls and pond in cycad garden seems to be bigger to me. joy pointed out there were four swans in the pond (and a lot of ducks). the walk from the cycad garden (main reception venue) to the courtyard (where we're going to have the buffet tables) is just so beautiful. you have to pass by the entire side of the pond with the view of the falls just to get to the courtyard. am sure our guest wouldn't mind the walk to the buffet area.

after that, i went to korben in roces ave. (papemelroti's main store) to claim the gifts we'll be giving to our parents and i placed an order for our gifts to our principal sponsors. i then went to national bookstore to have our gifts to our parents wrapped.

that night papa brought home the 3 cases of chamdor sparkling bubblers i ordered from louis maclean (which is conveniently in the same building of his office). that's additional 36 bottles from the 60 bottles of asti that we already have! we decided to have sparkling bubblers available so our guests would have the choice between alcoholic and non-alcoholic drink. the distributor of chamdor also gave us two personalized flute glasses which they'll be sending to my papa's office within the week.

i felt pretty good that tuesday as i was able to accomplish a lot on my list.