DIY : Monogram

FOR CHICSAKE 

Renaissance Writings

My friends and Family never thought that I would even get married or I think they even wondered whether I know that such a word existed. So I can't blame them for their reaction when I sent them our save the date via FB, courtesy of Wedding Chicks ( they have a lot of Wedding DIY stationaries and inspirations)

My cousins were happily excited to the point that my cousin Jason almost booked a ticket to Manila for June 2013, Jetstar was having a promo and its ending soon. Luckily he confirmed the date with me before they bought the ticket.

 Some of my friends also thought that we are getting married this year

DIY Save the Date from Wedding Chicks

This was our Save the date picture that I've sent, well I think this was misleading although it was not intentional hmmmm? maybe they are so excited .. or selective reading that they missed out the full date below :-)










After receiving my friends and family's reaction and I don't want to have anymore confusion. I changed our save the date picture

DIY Save the Date from Wedding Chicks

 So far am not getting any confused reaction, I think this Save the Date picture is a keeper.

Most Brides to be would be asking this question... How do I start? What should I do? Well, for me I asked Google! and there are tons of websites that could help, frankly I was overwhelmed with the information that it made me confused but then it made me excited at the same time I even questioned myself if I really want to go thru this, sounds weird but I think this is normal. Planning a wedding is a roller coaster ride, with its ups, downs and turn I know its going to be worth the ride.


So what did I actually found in the web? tons of checklist I've downloaded a few and selected the one that could work for me, from there I tweaked the templates according to my need.

Here are the websites that I found:


This is the first website that I found, I got so excited that I  signed up and made our wedding website stayed up a few nights so that I could finish it and share it with my friends, their wedding website templates are easy to use.
They also have a lot of tools that you could use to start planning your wedding, although I did not use it I still prefer to work on my worksheets offline. Our wedding website is the first thing that I was able to cross out from our long to do list.



My sister suggested this site since we already have a wedding website I did not bother signing up until I was searching for a guest list template, It was so cool and heaven sent. You could download their guest list template and upload it to the guest list manager and this is the cool part, you could make a make a seating chart, I find this so helpful. I was able to see how the layout of the reception would look like which again made me excited. Ive transferred our wedding website here

This is the Wedding worksheet am using.

I think it was in 1995, we are both working at Jollibee Padre Faura. I was then a SMART officer and he was a kitchen crew, we didnt even hit it off at the start for I have my own set of Kuya's so I dont even know him well. I had this community project in Quirino Grandstand and I needed someone to accompany me, I asked Ma'am Shell who I could borrow to help me out, I was hoping that it would be one of my Kuya;s for I dont want to be bored so I was like hinting to her but lo and behold she choose Rodel!!! Since I dont want to start an argument with her I just settled with Rodel, well it was awkward and least to say boring, Rodel is not as talkative as I am :-(
Dont know how it happened but eventually he was part of our group, well maybe he hit if off with my other Kuya's ( Bartley, Marlou ) our group was inseparable and I was closed to all of them plus their GF's. Rodel then became my break buddy since he doesnt have a choice, his GF then wouldnt be able to leave until I go for my break. Yes! you read it right his GF then was my assistant :-) He would be accompanying me for my break, buy me iced tea from Wendys and go for yosi break, and just like that we became close friends. Did I mentioned that am a spoiled brat with my Kuya's

I left Jollibee to work for Cafe Elysee, both of us are single and unattached. Among my Kuya;s hes the persistent one that would pick me up from work almost everyday ( remember Iam a spoiled brat ) my staff then would assume that he is my BF and of course I would deny it and explain to them that we are just friends (Kuya and Ate) . When did it hit me?? well, a staff of mine commented " Ma'am no guy in his right state of mind would waste his time with a friend if he doesnt feel anything, friends dont do this to each other and you just have to see you two together, its different! " Boom!! then I realized that there is something there that I didnt realized before hahahahah well I just kept this to myself and just went on with our set up.

I got a job which required me to work in Surigao, June 13, 1999 the a day before I left...well it was a sad and happy day. Iam leaving Manila but then finally we are officially a WE..

14 years later.. with our own share of ups and downs.. We are getting hitched!!!

 OK OK!! I know this would come as a surprised to most of my friends. They never imagined me getting hitched. Ive been this super independent person and Ive given this vibe that am not the marrying type.

But as you age, a person becomes mature :-) and whether I like it or not I am learning to conform to the norms.

So how to end my single blessedness???

Am going to write about it, the joys, the stress, and everything in between of wedding planning.

Did I mention that am based overseas? This is really going to be a challenge.. but again I've always liked planning events...

So Good Luck to me... BRING IT ON!!

Let another adventure begin!!!