pixie nymph

planning this event is no easy job. from the time i open my eyes in the morning ’til the time i close them to sleep, my mind is so preoccupied with the wedding preparation. people say the whole point of hiring a wedding planner is to relieve oneself of too much stress but i disagree, i still get migraines trying to organize this big day in my head! i guess just trying to figure out which is which can be major headache!it’s funny how i even dream of it in my sleep.

everyday when i wake up, i try to think of one thing i can accomplish for the wedding such as asking updates from my team and emailing people in one way or the other part of it. tiring but i’m moving forward…thank God!

don’t get me wrong, i’m also excited at this point of my life. i get to dream of what my wedding day would be. and even when i was younger, i told myself that i want to go through the phases of ‘growing up’, finding the ‘one’, getting engaged and walking down the aisle with the white dress on and so on and so forth. i didn’t even want to skip any of it! that’s why it never came to my mind to have a quickie wedding ceremony in las vegas eventhough, we have been there twice in just a few months time…i know it’s absolutely stress-free, all you have to do is find a wedding chapel along the strip, pay for the whole thing, put on your dress and then that’s it!it is amazing how they can do everything in that little chapel which takes months or even a year to prepare on a normal basis. well, that’s Vegas!everything is possible!

the good thing amidst everything is, my boss is being lenient on me lately…not too many workloads to add up on my already busy mind!thank goodness!

No, it’s not the wedding ring but it’s the engagement ring. For some who doesn’t know, the one i have on right now was just temporary. We were kinda rushing to find one last year after Gene proposed to me in Hotel Intercontinental, Hongkong. So after the trip, we went straight to Glorietta and bought me one before our scheduled dinner with some friends and relatives in Greenbelt that same night we landed from HK. As we were also excited to tell everyone the good news. So I gotta have something on my finger that night!

So after the wedding gown, now, he is kinda busy looking for the perfect engagement ring. And knowing him, I know he would want his friends to find out that he got me the best. For some reason, I’m not very particular about it, 1 carat would be great! Let’s see where his search will  lead us, I wanna be there to fit it on my finger and say this is it!

The lady at the bridal shop was right when she said "once u found your wedding dress, everything else will fall into place". Of course, other than the wedding ceremony and reception, there are dozens of other details that I/we have to look into. For instance, the wedding invitations and favors. Although, I think I already found the perfect invitation concept, I still have to make it final and give the go signal to the team. A good friend who’s been helping me with great ideas, came up with something so unique like personalized wedding invitations. I loved the thought but knowing the time constraints and my inability to be creative, I told her that it won’t work for me(thanks so much mee for everything!).

Gene has already chosen the concept and look for the reception. I left it to him as this is part of his expertise, being an event planner himself (only political though). All he wanted was simple yet elegant look of course, everything must have a touch of pink.

We are down to few more decision-making. I can’t wait until my wedding planner will say,"Edelyn, eveything is set and ready!"…

Moral lesson in looking for the perfect wedding dress?never dilly-dally!ever since Gene proposed last January 2007 on our Hongkong trip, I have been searching for the best wedding gown that I could  find. Even when I was back home, I have been talking to some designers  but nothing really caught my fancy. I must admit it took me a while to get started when I got here, we have been travelling and had the best time of my life. So after our LA trip, I told Gene that we should start going around some bridal shops in the bay area especially in San Francisco. What really makes me happy, that he’s very cooperative and more into finding one for me. He never gave me a budget, all he just said was, "find something that u like". It was stressful at first, as they wanted as much as 15-18 weeks lead time to get the gown ready. Imagine seeing a hundred and so gowns in a single shop here but I was unfazed as I already have a picture of the perfect wedding dress for me. So we shopped from one to the other, drove all over the bay area and I got calls from these people everyday as they want to make sure I purchase the dress that I’ve tried on. After searching high and low, today, I found it! Gene had been very instrumental in deciding the right one, he gave pretty good opinions on all those dresses. Thank goodness my search is over! I truly feel it’s the most perfect of them all…  and oh by the way, i’ll get to pick up the dress months from now…

where am i on my wedding prep?hmmm…let’s see, thanks to my wedding planner, we have already made reservations for both the reception and wedding rites venue. we are still on the process of choosing the officiating priest. as for the other details, we are still working on it though. i am somewhat relief that i have a wedding planner to help me do the details. he does all the canvassing and window-shopping and then he recommends what he thinks is the best for our concept. with all these preparations, comes a fervent prayer that everything will fall according to God’s plans…

2 saturdays ago, i already had my first wedding dress fitting. to my surprised, i fell soo in-love with it. it’s so much more than what i envisioned in my mind. i love every bit of the whole gown. i can’t wait to walk down the aisle with my beautiful wedding gown someday soon…