Seeing JC Buendia's Designs

A few days ago, Eyebrows and I decided on getting Randy Ortiz for Eyebrows' tux. But for some reason it didnt sit well with me. I know my fiance and he's not into the funky design. Eyebrows is classic, he likes clean cuts and simple designs. So, we searched some more. Decided to see JC Buendia, For some reason, I couldnt find much advertisement in the web of him, but I knew some grooms who worked with him. He's reasonable and classic.

Setting a meeting with JC was tough. Weekends were out of the question since he had a wedding pretty much every week. After office hours was a long shot since he was all the way in Cubao, but we tried anyway. So here we were on a Monday evening seeing him sketch for us. :)

JC Buendia sketching his design

When the sketch was done it was exactly as we expected, simple and classic, so Eyebrows. Then he showed us fabric - different choices for the ties... we decided on a beige tone. It was clean and it would make Eyebrows stand out from the rest. Side note: when we met with Veejay a few days later, he recommended we go for a beige-ish polo shirt as well. What a good idea! IM EXCITED :)

The salpicao tradition

After the meeting, we headed off to dinner. Decided to try out a new restaurant along Conneticut, Greenhills. Eyebrows went with the Filipino sampler dish and I had the salpicao. Coincidently, that every time we decided on a designer, we headed out to eat salpicao after!!! HAHAHA! (After deciding on Veluz, we had salpicao at Casa Armas. After deciding on Veejay, we had salpicao at Apt 1B. JC is our guy for sure... hahaha!) How strange is that?

Having dinner

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Choosing a Catholic Church

After confirming with the priest for the nth time, we've finally gotten the go signal to get married in a Catholic church. We figured we'd have a very intimate ceremony with just immediate family in a quaint chapel a few days before our Mactan wedding. Now this leaves us with a new task - look for a simple, small and cozy chapel to hold our Catholic ceremony.

We checked out St. John Bosco Parish. The church itself would have been perfect but a little too big for less than 10 people. hehe. The chapel is not bad, but then the lack of natural light makes it feel like an underground haven -- maybe this isn't our venue... keep searching.

St. John Bosco Parish

The St. John Bosco Parish Church, wedding crashing! Hey, is that Terence???

Another chapel we came across was the one in Greenbelt. It would have been perfect. Cozy, easy to get to, close to restaurants - very convenient. I called to get the details, and unfortunately, they dont allow weddings there.

The Greenbelt Chapel

Havent had the chance to look around some more, but Im thinking Christ the King? I remember Ethan having his baptism in one of the chapel areas. Its really quaint and simple. Quite pretty.

The Christ the King Chapel during Ethan's Baptism

The Christ the King Chapel Podium with the crazy clan

Now all we need to do is visit and get the requirements. Hmmmm... mental note, make time for that soon. Time is moving fast!

Meeting our Wedding Planner - Bong Abella

Meeting Bong Abella, our wedding planner for some updates

We're so blessed to get a wedding planner that frequents Manila. When I found out he was in town again, we met up at Cyma, Greenbelt for some dinner and chit chat. It was nice to be able to share with him my vision for our wedding and to get his inputs as well.

Choosing the paper and finishing of our DIY postcards

Its that time of year again when teenagers take that leap from their sheltered lives to perceived freedom - college! I remember that phase of my life, excited for my independence but unsure of where I want to go or who I want to be.

Both Eyebrows and I had siblings who just graduated from high school. This night, we were getting ready for dinner at Choi Garden for Michelle's grad dinner celebration. We were a bit early, so we thought to stop by Promenade for some drinks. Perfect opportunity to do a bit of wedding planning!!! We sat by Xocolate, Eyebrows ordered a tall sugar-free chocolate shake, and I water. Pretty cool that the water they served was exactly like the water bottle we were having custom made for our wedding!

Sample water bottle for our Despedida de Soltera give-away by Nature Spring. Planning to have our logo custom printed at the bottle

Spent some time deciding on how to have our postcards printed. The postcards were pictures we took from different countries, edited to give it a vintage effect and printed to be our giveaways - supposedly. Never realized there are so many types of paper and lamination to choose from! We decided on using Foldcote 12 with glossy lamination, P10 per piece. Going to have it made at the printing store right outside my office.

Looking at the sample postcards

Posing with our sample postcards.

Side note, we bumped into Jeff and Lisa (our wedding photographers) too! Was nice to see them again.

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