party favors from Chocolate Lovers!

My little sister will rock on the 28th! So Ate is off to find some rockin' party favors!

I don't like the usual party loot bags with small toys and candies inside. I want something unique, something rock!
Then I read a particular thread in w@w (learning loads eh?) about Chocolate Lover in Cubao.
Since I'm considering chocolates for my wedding favors, i might as well practice for my sister's birthday.
Lezz Go to the Chocolate Castle!

Look at what I bought:

chocote balls

choco marshmallows

It's really cheap eh! 288 pesos for 1kg of chocoballs? Not bad! I counted one pack, it is 315 balls! If you put 10 per favor, you'll make 31! with 5 pieces for tikim! how good is that?! hehe
And 138 pesos for choco marshmallows will make plenty for smores! wow!

Next time I'll come back for some chocolates for cooking. They have lots.
They also have packaging of all classes, and cooking materials!
Heaven for bakers! Soon i'll be one!
I super luurrvvee Chocolate Lovers! :D

Before I do! :D

My 3rd bridal fair, but my first with my girlfriends.
I was super excited for this, I plan to enjoy all the things that I can't do while im tagging D along (read KJ) - those photobooths, trial makeups, cake testers! woohooo!

Photobooth whoring first:

TRIAL MAKEUPS!
Jo Barba

Since Chelai (one of my BMs) wont stay long because of work (yes! on a saturday!), she did the trial makeup first. Nice eh! I wish I've tried this one.

Makeup by Jo Barba

Mitch Escal
Lara of course! We spent almost two hours for this (spell Mitch OC-ness).

Makeup by Mitch Escal

I thought I heard her on w@w, but after reviewing the archives, I think i'm wrong.

Mitch Excal again

what i like:

- I like how Mitch was so OC about eyebrows and the eyes (well she said that a good makeup will depend greatly on eyebrows).

- We have super good rapport (she's super kwela)

what i don't like about her:

- It took us forever to do this trial (super OC specially on the eyebrows! and she openly admitted it)

And as expected my eyes went all red with all those poke and pinch for eye makeups. It's worse because she keeps on repeating every steps!

Hayy I don't know. oh my sensitive eyes. aww

- It also bothers me that she has a day job (i mean night job, call center i guess)

After the trial, i realized that I like Belle better. So i guess I'll stick with her. :)

Anyways, I super enjoyed the event! It is much better with game girlfriends than with KJ boyfriend. hehehe

I'll definitely do this again! :D

Beauty magician search

as per my sisters in w@w, i should also invest on Hair and Make-Up Artist (HMUA) for my big day. oh well. what people will notice nga naman - food, your gown, your face.
hmm so the search is on..
I been hearing a lot of those famous HMUAs, but i cannot afford them. my budget is 15k max (i intend not to pay for my ento makeup, di keri ng budget e). my target is just for me, my groom and our 2 mothers.
i know.. this is going to be a hard chase.

my qualifications are:
1. she has to be a girl - im not really comfortable having my makeup done by gay (i have nothing againsts gays naman). i just felt we (especially D) will be more at ease with girls.
2. she has to be beautiful herself - of course! how can you promise to make me beautiful if you cant fix yourself in the first place. diba? :)
3. value for money

so email. email. email.
so far i super love Mayone Bakunawa. but pricey! :)

bridal fair! weee time for some free makeovers!

Makeup by Belleski
i circled the whole megatrade for like an hour before finally settling on having my trial done by Belle.
imagine D's face, he is really frowning. haha
trial time..

before

during

after

with belle

party after!

after 5 hours

photoshopping! :)

oh well. since i plan to do my monogram, std, table numbers, invites, etc all by myself, i ought to master Photoshop! As in truly learn ha. I used Photoshop mainly just to edit pix (i'm a frustrated photographer btw). But all I know are Levels, crop, brightness & contrast! argh
Good thing Darwin's mom's birthday for this year will be bongga. I can practice! weee
With Lara's help, I learned a lot of tweaking the letters! i badly need that for my monogram!
im still a work in progress. but im quite happy with my outputs.

first try

embossed letters :) better?

and a little color :D

not bad for a first timer eh? :D

my precious

i stared at the package for as long as i can remember.

even without opening i knew what it is. this is my precious.



smudged! :P

the package

 so lo and behold.. i present to you - my precious w@w tag! :)


the tags

backs

hanging

finally! :)

Wedding Gown Inspiration

I was never thin. I sometimes blame my genes, but as years pass by I learned to accept my figure.
That is the exact reason why I find it so hard to choose my wedding gown design.
I surely cannot afford Veluz, so goodbye leave-it-to-me-i-know-what-will-suit-your-body-type designer.
So now i fully depend on my friend Google. sad.
I once considered looking for a couturier in Divi. But after seeing Ate Lani's hardships of dealing with one of them, I was strongly discouraged.

Now, I am torn in getting another Divi couturier (someone endorsed in w@w) or someone with established name but not highly priced like Boy Kastner.
I still have time to think and i'll use every single minute of it.

BTW, I super love my friend Baives' wedding gown.

I love the skirt - somewhat frou frou. I might choose a little less crowded on the upper part to avoid making myself much smaller.
And i have to do something to somehow cover a part of my shoulders. Im sure SSA will not allow tube tops.

This is so hard. aww

wow oh w@w!

i am now a certified w@w bride - after all the countless lurks, shares, rants, emotes, praises, etc.
finally! ^_^


i emailed Ms. Benz this morning, spent the whole morning and part of my lunchtime thinking about it.
(btw, i received no response from Ms.Benz from two weeks ago, so i posted more)
and then at 2:52 this afternoon, she replied:
yes you are eligible na.


oh my! imagine my happiness. i almost crushed my officemate in happiness. hehe
at 4pm, i already replied to Ms.Benz email with the attached deposit slip.

who's excited?? ahahaha

account number masked for security

oh i haven't got the actual w@w tags pa pala, so technically i'm still not certified.
will have to wait 14days more. aww
and now we wait...

our colors! :)

This is pretty obvious. :)

Everyone who knows D will expect something yellow as our color motif. It's his favorite color, trademark color as I must say. I will not deny him that liberty.

Besides, I can associate yellow to some of my favorites also - like bananas!

I super love bananas- any variants!

The bottleneck comes with finding the other color. Something that will complement yellow.

Our first choice goes with Black - somewhat like Yellow-Black-White tandem.

But I noticed that it is so popular already, i don't want something like that.

AND it is UST's colors! D is from UST so he really liked the idea.

I like it also, BUT, i'm from PUP. I will not bow down to UST. hehehehehe :P

I thought of Dark Blue.

And Gray.

But this one color caught my attention more - chocolate brown!

Why? I used to tease D about his complexion. He's so dark kasi, he's almost like dark chocolate.

I sometimes make lambing to him, like saying my bitter-sweet dark chocolate! :)

Also, his motorcycle's name is Choco Banana!

We have this hobby of naming his vehicles, his then new Honda CB110 hasn't got plates yet so we named him Choco Banana. nice eh? :P

I just added white for extra touches. So that's it.

Our theme is Choco-Banana.

And our colors are Pure White-Banana Yellow-Dark Chocolate Brown! :D

AFAMA na!

so! it's confirmed! we have another supplier.
finally, after so many heartaches of almost finding and then being declined by some photographers, we have booked ours.
her name came up in w@w, and I checked her works instantly. It was love at first sight.
so one Sunday afternoon, we meet up with her at Starbucks Trinoma.
i love the vids, and I like her albums. it's a pretty good deal actually.
right there and then, we booked her (cant risk losing again).

can't wait to work with Denise Abegail Fama.
i'm sure Afama Photography will give me beautiful wedding photos. :)

http://afamaphotography.multiply.com/

Oh my Sitti :(

I always wanted Sitti Navarro to sing at my wedding - for some sentimental reasons (i discussed this in my earlier posts)
But now, I'm sure we cannot afford her. Sadness.

I received a call from Backroom (her handler) about her rates. My jaw dropped (literally) as she told me Sitti's rate. I have no idea that getting a famous wedding singer will cost us a fortune.

To give you an idea, the price is half our wedding budget. For 10 songs with live band. So we're talking about 6 digits.

We do not have that much budget. Plus we prefer to splurge on other things - like life after marriage?

So as much D and I wanted her, we really cannot afford her.
So it's confirmed - Sitti is only our Nice to Have but will Never Have :(