BLISTERING, MADDENING & BEAUTIFUL

What a difference a day made, twenty four little hours
Brought the sun and the flowers where there use to be rain
My yesterday was blue dear
Today I'm a part of you dear
My lonely nights are through dear
Since you said you were mine
Oh, what a difference a day made…
And the difference is you, is you”

"What a Difference a Day Made," by Dinah Washington

We hardly ever, if at all, copy and paste lyrics in our entries.  Which can be sometimes intriguing, ironic and regrettable as Gab and I both have such different, voracious, and accessible tastes in music – i.e, my experience as a performer with Center for Pop, and Gab’s as a bassist for three amateur bands. We’ve only managed to share a handful of eclectic/pop/sentimental renditions in our wed-site, although surely, the remaining weeks before September should allow us to swoon everyone with an additional wholesale inventory of Videoke hits. :-)

Gab in his revered den

Banyo talk w/ the architect

  …But the lyrics to the song perfectly capture our present Manila State of Mind. That – despite the extra-ordinary, super-sized, bottomless busy-ness surrounding our blistering days/nights/in-betweens, we’ve kept at our sweet, lovely miracle like two little engines that could.  Every week is a heatstroke-worthy trek to the condo, to a wedding fair, to Wilcon or Home Depot, to meet a vendor, to meet our contractor, to go over our priority list, to meet up with friends and guests, to the bank/parlor/dress shop/Church, or to have my lovely gown refitted, etcetera.  Our weekends these months in no order comprise city-wide searches for stylish (but reasonably-priced) lavatory/bathroom fixtures and floor tiles, canvasses for wedding favors, scanning the WorldWideWeb for prenuptial, reception and floral arrangements, and putting in the work for DIY items. WHEW.

DIY resumes at 38 degrees C.

 Oh. And gasoline prices be damned!

But we’re still smiling and shining ala Stevie Wonder and Friends, never minding the torturous perspiration and agitation.  I should be so lucky that Gab is very much involved in the fiery planning process (and I thought guys weren’t supposed to dedicate their time on these granular, petty details?? Awww.) – because I wouldn’t last another day without him :-) Our cash flow/accounts are also taking a s-e-r-i-o-u-s hit because of these regular appointments and disbursements; but luckily, we’ve been gifted with the occasional generosity of a few friends and family members.  God’s love still truly works in the ways of others. :-)

...with another Save-the-Date fan and fellow frappe-drinker, Ao.

Sometimes, our quieter moments at our respective offices provide stables for reflection and perspective.  Reflections and revisitations can never be mundane: what started out as an honest albeit playful “what-if-we-get-married proposition” back in February 2010, has become this epic, maddening kind of life-altering event that has pretty much consumed our every spare weekend and centavo over the past year!

We wonder to this day, less than 4 months from our D-day: how did we ever get here? How did we ever fall into each other’s place, countenance and comfort?  How did it happen – plunging headlong into each other’s ethereal daydreams and thick, ice-blended concoctions – that we’ve ultimately found ourselves joyous and resolute atop our very wishes-on-a-star? Was it the first kiss, or a crooked, circumspect smile, or the gentle tap of two fingers on the shoulder, that did us in?  Was it the first trickle of iced coffee intertwining with our first share of shallow stories as they ascended from our larynx and out of our lips? What made the difference?

with Gab's cutest nephew, Zeke

world's finest: bride, couturier, bridesmaid

A lot of conjecture can be thrown in and out of the furnace, and be wrought from its voluptuous flame, so to speak.  None of which would be entirely accurate, but, romance has its way of filtering out all logic and deduction, and to speak only through metaphor, if not, hyperbole.  And we are romantics, are we not?  What we can tell with some veracity is how, one slow afternoon in 2009, we ended up having drinks at a Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf outlet in Q.C., and snacked happily on the remains of the day.  Fittingly, Gab and I turned from mellow acquaintances into good friends that day; although it wasn’t until a few months when our partnership took off in which we concluded our first out-of-town dinner (Bag of Beans) with memorable frappuccinos amid the cool palpable darkness of Tagaytay.  The smaller dates that would follow were no less evocative.  

Bag of Beans, baby

Starbucks Tagaytay (2010)

In hindsight, we sort of regret not to have taken pictures of our “older” events - particularly, as neither of us anticipated the momentum that would transform our cheerful friendship into a lifelong commitment – the greatest and happiest decision we’d ever made. :-) But while there are only a few photos to tread our just-friends past with, the places themselves retain their relevance, ambience, and indelible power.  For posterity’s sake, we’ve managed to somehow sneak into the thickets of wedding preps a few quaint dinners at those very cherished places.  (Sadly, the old Coffee Bean outlet’s been shut down, since)

Commemorating partnerships and sweet transitions at Chocolate Kiss Cafe, UP Diliman

But at the end of the day, we realize: we’d still much rather head home. We’d much rather find time to chat, lie down and relax, embrace, sleep, tug, dream and care about each other as if it were the most precious alibi for missing out on the many fleeting, immaterial urgencies of the waking world.  The beautiful difference had always been with us, no matter how sentimental, no matter how grandiose the world allows our metaphors to be.

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And it always starts out best, as friends.............................

Summer 2009, seasons of true friendship

office sendoff, August 2009 - a larger destiny beckons...

Home Sweet Home, October 2009...our first official date @ Le Souffle

 

Celebrating our first "lavish" dinner @ Lemuria (November, 2009)

...followed by a most memorable Christmas (City of Pines, 2009)

High in the sky, on our first Valentines (Cebu, 2010)

Turnin' the tables: reminiscin' the friendship @ our old office (March 2010)

..and a well-deserved summer romance (Pearl Farm, May 2010)

Falling into place, the best Engagement dinner @ Tosca (end-August 2010)

... and a post-engagement weekend at Hong Kong (October, 2010)

2011 is LOVE -- as in the flourishing of greens and blues and earth (February, 2011)

...as in the inspiration we find and recreate everyday.... (Tagaytay, 2011)

As in the differences we celebrate every passing moment, w/ every cup of coffee (Cafe Ysabel, May 2011)

A Different Kind of Summer Romance (and Finding Time to Do Everything)

We GET it.

Hitting the resort after a birthday party

Its torch-like out there, the prickly heat of the sun like hedgehog quills, and its glare – especially at midday – is overwhelming every bit of Earth and infrastructure. Day-lit working hours tending to be a bit more sluggish, office loads more grueling than usual, and our traffic-tested tempers lousier than we’d wish!  A/C seems to be broke even at full blast, and I’m ‘fraid there just aren’t enough horses to ramp up the, er, horsepower. Gab sweats a lot, lot more than I do, but I’ve had my full and unfair share of changing shirts within the same hour these days.  And if you’ve driven past by those thermostats beside the traffic lights: we’re looking at 38, 39, 40 degrees Celsius! Wow. Literally, enough to induce human convulsion.

Calm moment at Club Manila East

So you can imagine how much of another miracle its been that, despite the furious, unrelenting heat here in Manila that Gabby ABSOLUTELY despises, we were able to accomplish our fair share of grown-up tasks, eventful due diligence and rewarding rendezvous(es?) the past 2-3 weeks to keep our happy momentum from melting down, or burning down from its own flame.  Of course, we haven’t hit the beach either, as much I’ve been wanting to, but that’s always an open possibility right after marriage.  And that’s just about the most comforting, lovely reality thereafter.

SVD dinner @ ShangriLa Mall, w/ Tonet

late visit with Frances & Baby Chloe

As we had hoped, we’ve gotten great responses and more than a few thumbs-up for the Save-the-Date packages we started distributing out since late March to friends we hadn’t seen for a while now.  Its been dubbed a “labor of love,” by a few friends – and that’s what it is precisely.  Others wondered if those were our Invites, already, and if receiving one meant getting a free Frappe. Hmmmm!!? Other friends were more hilarious, as they tried in vain to twist and open the coasters as if opening Forrest Gump’s box of Choc’lits.  Gabby calls it a fusion of strengths: our love for the café culture, and matching, granular workmanship from our lady friends at Creative Prints. We love them dearly… But its mid-April now, and we still got several dozen SVDs waiting to be released as soon as we’re able to reach a “binding” decision on who else makes it to our guest list.  If only money grew on trees… (we’d plant more of them every day!)

First jam w/ TNJ in two years, and first to get married. That's my bassist :)

 The other week, we also took a day off from work to finally meet with our preferred lensman at NICEPRINT. Niceprint hardly organizes early 1-on-1 meetings with their more coveted photographers, so we felt privileged to be a rare exemption!  We wanted to check firsthand if we’d hit it off well with our guy, if there was real or just contrived chemistry between us, and more importantly to solicit his views on our pre-nup shoot scheduled very soon!  Very fortunately, he (barely in his 30s) was very receptive and engaged by the ideas / concept that’d been brewing ala Caffe Ti Amo concoctions in our heads for some months now!  Exciting exciting! Around us, vivid wallpapers of John and Priscilla, Ogie and Regine, and posters of elegant couples perked up our smile not because of their conspicuous, Photoshopped-caricatures, but because we feel we are already affiliated with among the industry’s most admired and respected names.

Our sneak "pre-nuptial" preview + another Gabby/frappe sighting :)

recovered plywood from Gab's backyard

The DIY Spirit also continues to inspire us at every turn! We were such busybodies during the SVD preparations, that we’ve completely embraced the risks, the rewards, and the intimate process of doing some of the additional wedding items ourselves! For the SVD cups and frappes, Gabby did most of the graphics and editing, re-coloring and general design, I did the reproduction, trimming and cutting, and inking all the names.  It might not seem all that much work until you start putting in the long hours right after office, and then see your sleeping hours fall to the sound of timbeeerrrrrrr. :)

giving birth to another DIY Project :)

So what’s our next DIY project? We got the base material with us, but we’re still figuring out an effective design amid the crisscrossing of daily events. Gabby, however, is already doing his best impersonation of a carpenter who thinks he can do a little more than just nailing and hammering. :) I love him!

At any rate, beads of sweat, fuel, food and vendor receipts aren’t the only things piling up these days of wedding planning.  As if wedding schedules weren’t enough distraction from our work, the intermittent renovation and improvement activities involving our  1-½ BR condominium near Ortigas/New Manila has also been well underway since the start of the year.  It still amazes me how we've managed to be so productive and proactive in meeting both our wedding and condo-related responsibilities, on top of being soaked at our respective offices.  I'm just so thankful that Gab hasn't ever been remiss in his property+contractor obligations, design consultations, and weekly inspections, despite the  humidity outside and the distressing number of scheduled payments and other preoccupations! (i.e., Gab also does some freelance writing)  And he isn’t letting up on making sure our modest place is as alluring and accommodating as our shrinking peso-denominated bank accounts can afford… hehe. 

True to form, we’ve been visiting the nearest Wilcon megastores on our spare weekend hours to peruse through and list down estimates for floor and wall tiles, kitchen and bathroom wares – and those in fact are getting to be more entertaining than we initially thought!! Oh, and one time we went accent piece hunting at the popular LRI Design Plaza and the upper-crusty Kish shop in Reposo St., Makati – but came out empty-handed and humbled at the same time. Though we are definitely purchasing an item or two there soon....

...only, not this semester, I’m afraid! :)

But we get it. This is already getting to be a summer like we’ve never ever romanced before.  Oh, summer breeze, you make me feel fine…

Adulthood takes another step forward with help from a small sledgehammer

My fiancee the white-collared carpenter, perfecting the art of chipping cement blocks :)

..a few weeks later...

...VOILA.  (Gab peers out from his self-styled, custom-designed coffee den/type)

Busybodies that we are -- we deserve THIS

Caffe Ti-Amo means "I love You,"  with rich foamy milk on top :)

They’re Finally, Finally OUT – Stop the Presses! Save the Date, Friends!!

The past couple of months, we’d been working our tails off to accomplish our first “output” of sorts – the SAVE THE DATE.  With much excitement and very little dillydallying, in fact, we finally started releasing the SVD last March 18 – much to the wide-eyed glee of our darling crowd and guests. Very cute and superbly-made coasters by Maita’s group from CREATIVE PRINTS, and useful, mid-sized Burlaps from PAPEMELROTI; the theme should be rather obvious by now, no?  But it always works for us, and seems to work for many others as well!! :-) Its also our semi-DIY project, which is always among the simplest, but most honest and rewarding elements at any wedding, in our opinion.  And it seems that we’ll be pushing through w/ other DIY ideas soon, time-willing!

The pictures will explain the rest.

...Like this picture, me, with a few choice tumblers from HK, USA & RP

So friends and family from all over, SAVE. THE. DATE.  Hope you’d keep the date free for us.  Because once you do, something should be coming your way in a few months.  And who knows, your name might just make the entourage.  :)

Our Mini-SVD Mugs for the world to see!

Made-to-order Burlaps from Papemelroti, a unique Starbucks mug from HK and glossy DIY cups from yours truly

Love Brews, just like warm Alamid coffee simmering over teakwood. Concepts by Chocfrappe, execution by Maita Quesada and her hip group, CREATIVE PRINTS.

“It started over coffee, we started out as friends...”

You’ve been told: Save the Date!! (superb coasters by Creative Prints – maita@creativetwo.com)

  DIY Miniature Frappes (for the VIPs), and DIY Mini-Mugs (for everyone else) -- just the like the real thing. only made of glossy photo paper, and 1/10 the size. :)

...Because Kat knows her scissors well, and has impeccable, wee penmanship :)

Hmmm....what other DIY items should follow? Suggestions are very welcome, as long as they rock our theme :)

MARCHing Forward, 5-months to Go!!

Chillax moment at Centris

It’s been over a year since Gab & I started filling in the details of our wedding – it’s dreamy prosaicness evolving into lyrical form, stride and solid harmony.  Things that were only starting to shape up then, are, fortunately, in very good shape today! And while we admit that it hasn’t been all roses and strawberry daiquiris, the difficult, near-acrobatic act of balancing full-duty work, family, friends, “quality time,” and condominium affairs with the demands of matrimonial planning are keeping our four feet firmly planted a-ground. I guess things could be a lot easier had we only decided to be less “involved” as several people had advised, or to be less exacting/finicky in other aspects of the wedding that appear trivial to others. But it’s a decision we’ve embraced with much passion and energy the very first nanosecond we took it (or, rather, it took us) – and, like the road-less-traveled, it has made all the difference.  :)

Another productive evening with coffee

As we customarily enjoy our frappes with extra whipped cream, or with extra shots of hazelnut syrup, we want our Day to be extra special too –especially since you don’t aspire of having another attempt at marriage.  Coupled with my perfectionist, passive-aggressive tendencies sway (and Gab’s stream-of-consciousness thought bubbles), I’m pretty much constantly on top of what else needs to be accomplished, and making sure that every detail is well taken care of and accounted for.  And with God at the captain’s lodge downing a few of Gab’s homemade martinis, we want our event to be a blissful celebration of the many ephemeral things and truths we so hold dear.

CONFESSIONS OF A COFFEECIONADO (Starring our Favorite Green Siren & Alamid)

• Its official: the days of coasting through work, heading home for Mommy’s staple dinners (consisting normally of crispy fried food, salads and Knorr soup) and afterwards finding the next couple of hours splurged on serious relaxation and “cushy planning” is as dead as the Kiwi bird and Milli Vanilli.  Competing events, obligations and preparations for work, wedding and post-nuptial life have been chewing at our sanities and ripping apart our schedules the past few weeks; We are juggling our work and wedding dues/payments, with regular meetings with the contractor working out an “affordable” but suave design for our condo.  Each day, we chance upon a fantastic interior design, an accent piece, or a room worth having, and we remind ourselves most of them are eye-candy.  Just eye-candy that we can imitate with a far smaller budget. Hehe!  Its financial overkill, but we’re looking to survive everything with a smile

• It’s a healthy dose of insanity and a necessary mind-bending process we suppose…but surely, there are times we miss our less-than-haggard days, and our spend-foolish ways.

• Last year, in view of our need to save up for significant wedding expenses, we reluctantly gave up luxurious dinners that used to be bi-weekly affairs for us during our first 6 months together (we’ve only been together for about 16 ½ months).  Despite the evidence plastered all over Facebook or on this site throughout 2010, yes, a hella LOT of restraint went into our practical ban of 5-course dinners, 8oz-Wagyus and stellar gastronomic delights wherever we could find them…

• .…this year, Debbie Downer meets Patrick Ality (um, practicality).  For an engaged couple taking pride in our self-styled ChocFrappe alias, we’ve “lessened” our propensity to down that Sexy, Mighty Frappe.  That is, we don’t spend as much time at Starbucks (and other well-lit brands) as we used to/want to – even if either of us are a couple of minutes away from a branch.  It’s among the colder, more implacable realities we’ve had to contend with since 2011 decided to come around in its full, unclothed and very costly glory. We’ve vacillated about the “Decision” several times over, and vacillate about it still.  Albeit a silly compromise allows us to “sit, sip and talk for a while” at any Starbucks on a Friday, Saturday and a Sunday.  And of course, to helpings of bread and cheesecake.  Ha-ha, take that, pragmatism!!!
 

In our element, with our ever-favorite green siren :)

• We’ve never viewed Starbucks as just a “coffee shop,” or a decidedly expensive gourmet café for gourmands like many others like us; Starbucks is that third place closest to home, inasmuch that a Chuck Taylor or Levi’s is for sneakers and jeans. The brand has accomplished this: made the feeling of “home” – or some resolved nostalgia – equidistant to anybody and everybody who’s been situated near a similarly-styled café.  You maybe drinking a hazelnut latte at an international airport, around the bend, across the subway, outdoors on a sunny day, indoors on a rainy afternoon, while sharing gossip/ridicules with friends and officemates, or with a book, I-Pad or your fiancée on a dormant evening – that unmistakable green Siren-with-flowing-locks will for us always imbue that familiar calm.  Watch the lights of buses and trains and cars flicker from a window seat, or casually leaf through a high-gloss, urban-flavored magazine as fellow customers pass-in and out of your peripheries like an adagio rolling over a Vivaldi overture. Its all the same: Starbucks will have a space for you, one cup at a time. 

• I couldn’t imagine spending more than an hour in McDonalds when I’m gaining nothing but a circuitous, insoluble fixation with Grimace, his specie, sex, and origin.  Quite the opposite, we once spent 5-hours at Starbucks in Camp John Hay, sharing a single Frappuccino. Grande-sized.  We hardly lifted our asses from a cool window seat that stared at the still-beauty of towering pine trees.  And that ranks as among the most lucid and magnifico moments during the Baguio trip.

• We never posed to be coffee critics, especially as we share a distaste for dark-as-sin brewed coffee; but we do embrace today’s inflated coffee-culture in the same way we’ve always enjoyed our cups of iced latte and mocha frappes coated in chocolate drizzle and a thick layer of whipped cream over the past 10 years.  Gourmet cafes such as Starbucks, CBTL (The Ultimate Mocha) and Gloria Jeans (Macadamia and Irish Crème chillers) deserve their fanfare because they offer the best-tasting chilled coffee-based drinks out there. Simply put. 

with Gabby's favorite, self-styled iced tall latte w/three squirts of Hazelnut syrup, whipped cream, chocolate drizzle and cocoa powder-- slightly stirred not blended.. whew!!!!

•     Might it be time to look for pet civets in the black market, and accordingly purchase a parcel of coffee-bearing land in Benguet?? Civets – locally called “Alamid” –  are weasel/mongoose-like tree-loving critters, and they’ve earned this winning reputation of having coffee fruits in their day-to-day diet.  Then their stomachs ferment the coffee, which they later dispel (defecate) out in gooey, beany filaments.  Farmers and local foragers in upland areas collect these civet crap from the forest floor and through a process are able to extract among the “most expensive coffee beans” in Asia.  We saw civet coffee once being sold at Sonya’s Garden, a 300g bag sold for nearly a thousand pesos!! We want our civet farm too!!!

•     Speaking of the mountainous provinces, Cordillera Coffee in UP Diliman, and the Riverbanks, we hear, serves great coffee as well.

2011 IS WHEN EVERYSECOND COMPLETES OUR MIRACLE

Hello 2011, first and foremost.  Its barely over a month into our sparkling new year – the first of the new decade – and we already love you!! 2009: you were amazing, 2010 you took a million of our breaths away; 2011, you shall be our everysecond gift. Already, the seven remaining months loom – to be defined by both the gentle and powerful rise and recession of tides, recollections and revisitations, dreams and miracles. Our hearts overflow with honey-sweet anxiety and excitement as if drawing nectar from the gods!

We remember the first time we ever started planning about our wedding.  It was, as it remains today, a hazy, dream-like midday episode right about a year ago in our project office in LWUA.  It was a casual progression of events, but never too casual that you’d be inclined to forget the details underpinning the sweetest happenstance of our lives.  We were working on independent things, side by side on a makeshift mess hall at the office.  Then Gabby raised an innocently playful but inwardly important question: “If we’d get married, who’d form our guest list?” I was taken aback with mild surprise, but it was a caressing, most heartwarming surprise; I was speechless at first, but my eyes and body language betrayed any trace of reserve whatsoever.  That one small question sparked another, gaining voluptuousness, fire and momentum with each swing.  Until exhausted and left to melt unto the singular passion of our discourse, we found ourselves remaining nearly motionless in our seats creating and working on what would be our first and only working copy of our Excel-powered Wedding File. Its first 8 syllables pronounced everything we’ve embraced, worked for the past 15-odd months, and wished to happen like none other before:

“De Vera-Obmina Nuptials,”

I remember US being enthused at and enthralled by the newfound, joyous feeling.  We’d fall further for each other as we meticulously/carefully typed in the names and basic details that would comprise the heart of our wedding celebration.  Tito. Daddy. Tita. Mommy. Kuya, etcetera, etcetera.

Exactly a year since that crazy tidal wave swept away at the casualness of that midday episode, we are still using the very file and the same file name – only the contents are updated with every chance we get.  Its only fitting that the file manages to trace how so far along we’ve come along in terms of planning; how much we’ve learnt, unlearnt and the dozens of awesome people who’ve touched our lives throughout the planning process. 

Now that we’re down to our last 7 months, the body of work and changes has become truly evident:

·         Our guest list, which we had originally set to a ceiling of 180 pax, has soared to 250! It’s admittedly among the hardest items to accomplish because of the considerations that every couple has to make for themselves, their family, friends and extensions (here and abroad). But we’ve more or less agreed and worked out an immovable ceiling of 250.   Sorry for those guests numbered 251 and up, we love y’all still! :-)

·         We’ve managed to haggle and insist our way to create our dream team of wedding suppliers! We can’t stress “haggle” enough, because if you want your dreams realized, a lot of work, PR, and compromise have to fit the equation.  [unless, say, we got a limitless budget?] Some people have asked us if its really worth their time to attend wedding fairs and such, or if the better, less-mainstream suppliers are more likely at their home-based offices clandestinely completing their obra maestras?  To that, we say: YES to BOTH.  What we mean is that, do your homework and fieldwork because we’ve had rewarding and not-so-rewarding encounters with both types of suppliers.  Sometimes, you look hard and often enough, you’ll suddenly realize your preferred design had been staring you at the face all the while.  And sometimes, nothing can be farther from the truth.   One true benefit of having a long planning horizon as we did is that you get to scout every nook and cranny for possible vendors or designs that are within your domain of possibility.  And that has meant a world of difference to us!

·         After 15+ months of real planning, its no secret that the wedding budget we originally estimated was meant to be destroyed! :-D It’s an epic fail, as the budget and timeline we set were revised several hundred times over.  Inevitable changes take place with every other week or month of planning: add a friend or two here, add another cake layer here, pepper the place with a few more lights, enlarge the portraits, upgrade the buffet, rent a snazzier limousine, add a few more Swarovski bits down the train – all of those cost money, money, money!  “Budget today, gone tomorrow!” :) Say it with me…haha!

·         But – just the same, we just can’t believe we’ve nearly completed our “planning,” and will be spending the remaining 7 months executing (or paying for) the things we want to happen.  Seven months is like a hiccup, it’ll come so quick – and we know that as a matter-of-fact.

We’ve spent the last few weeks of January burning out our laptop batteries while going over our wedding sheet timeline and reviewing our most critical next months TO DOs. Allow me to proudly share to you our timeline and some pictures for the first quarter months of 2011 It makes me blush in anticipation…

		REMARKS
2011
JANUARY
29	Measurement (Camille Garcia)	OK
	DP 15,000.00 Camille Garcia	OK
	Compilation of chocfrappe pics	OK
	Finalize SAVE THE DATE design c/o Creative Prints	OK
FEBRUARY
19	Mock fitting (Bridal Gown)
	Book musician
	Meeting w/ Josiahs (Maui) (re: set-ups, food, sched)
	Meeting w/ Fernwood (lala) (re: air cooler, Lights and set ups)
	Finalize Songs (church & reception)
	Meeting w/ Nice Print (re: concept of pre-nup and sched)
	Finalize/book Cake Design
	Reproduction of SAVE THE DATE c/o Creative Prints
MARCH
12	Kat's confirmation
	accomplish CHURCH requirements (birth cert, confirmation cert)
	Distribution of SVD
	Purchasing and Order of wedding Favours (Principals, CF Team)
	Payment - Bleu (5,000)
	Mothers, entourage Measurement ( Camille Garcia)

Seems to me we’re doing pretty well!!!

It cannot be said enough, but this timeline – and the wedding sheet in general – has become such a wonderful and effective guide for keeping track of  our deadlines, arrangements and other obligation. Just going over it is pretty much an inspiration to recall how much we’ve accomplished given the breadth of wants and whims.   We recommend every engaged couple to keep one.

Measurement w/my gown designer Camille

Finalizing details of my  gown  :)

  

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The life we wanted together starts with a commitment to a miracle emanating from an 8-syllable statement.  And that’s why we’re treating every month, every week, every day, every second of 2011 as a communion drawing grace and purpose from that commitment. 

Seven months more.

Seven months more.

That’s all there is to it, before we humbly set aside our Wedding File and work on our Blank, New Excel Sheet