Wedding Kwento (Part 2 - Our Big Day!!!)

Hiyaaaahhh!!! This is the second part of our wedding kwento... after the tiring and pressured preparations, we are now starting packing our things, getting ready to go back to Manila... we're booked on 13th January 2006 (scary friday the 13th), A straight 8 hrs. direct flight, Dubai - Manila (wo-oohh, pretty tiring), we arrived in manila around 4:30 PM, my family fetch us at NAIA, it was a rainy afternoon... we drove directly to Baclaran (at kuya boy's house) where the whole family of my hubby is waiting, they've prepared a small merienda for us (wow, dinuguan with matching puto, atbp.) of course konting tsismisan while enjoying our food... wow, iba pala ang pakiramdam if both of your families get along... it was a exhausting but a happy day!!! everybody was so glad that we're back, actually they can't stop smiling on us (kakatuwa talaga!!!)... to go on with the story, past 6:00 pm we decided to go home, so my hubby drove us to Pasig, he will not stay with me over the night, we agreed that it's better for him to spend the night with his family... it's good to be home...

Woke up early morning of January 14, 2006 --- i have to fix myself before my hubby comes... we have to attend the Seminar at the Church at 9:00 AM... no rush at all since the Church is quite close, but the thing is i still feel sleepy, gosh i have to keep myself awake... at 8:30 AM we're ready to go... the seminar makes me more sleepy though, but to be fair, it's really informative... after few breaks in between, after 2 different group discussions finally we received our certificate... :-) 5:00 PM we have a scheduled appointment with Tita Ella, since we don't have much time to travel from Pasig to Taytay to fit my gown, we requested her to meet us at our house in Pasig, she was so kind that she agreed to carry my gown with her together with the other gowns (parents and entourage gowns)... when we reached home, she's already there waiting for us, my hubby's mom & auntie was there too and the rest of the members of the entire entourage are coming by batch... well, it's my turn to fit my gown, yup i did fit it... actually i did ask them before doing it so, they told us that it's OK since we're already married (Civil)... my gown was simple and i am satisfied with it... at last we're finish with only few adjustments on my gown... but the day didn't end yet... my cousins really missed us, they're pushing us to go out for a gimmik >>> ok fine, we can go<<<... we also invited 2 cousins of my hubby who are very close to us (girlie & dada --- ate glady's hope you can make it next time)... at first they want to go to Bay Walk, we tried but the place was too crowded and there's no place to park our car... then we went to Pier One, it's a cozy place... so we end up eating their delicious Crispy Pata and Calamares and of course with over flowing San Miguel Light!!! While all of us are enjoying and I am busy eating and chatting with Girlie, the group began to sing a Happy Birthday Song... Oh my, i almost forgot it's already my birthday... Now i know why they keep on pushing me to go out!!! Thanks to you guys, we did enjoy that night!!!

January 15, 2006 (Happy Birthday to me!!!) yup, it's my 28th Birthday!!! No excuses, still have plenty of things to catch up... in the morning we did finalize the flowers that we'll be using... in the afternoon, we place the deposit for the butterflies then we went to Queensland for the the final food tasting... it was raining that afternoon and traffic was so horrible, we need to be home by 6:00PM, my relatives are already waiting for us... my mom decided to at least have a small celebration on my B-day!!! we reached home by 7:00 PM, have few chit-chats with everybody >>> uhhhh, i'm really tired and i want to sleep...

The days goes on and on... thanks to Gerlie, she did booked the hotel for us, and it was a good choice, we picked Astoria Plaza at Ortigas Center... >>>we went to Batangas to personally hand the invitations to our guest as well as to meet our Principal Sponsors from my husby's side >>>After staying for 2 days with my in laws, we went back to manila to finish our invitation distribution and there's a whole lot more of pending things which requires our attention...


January 27, 2006, we did check-in at the hotel at 2:00 PM, we brought most of the stuffs with us... we booked a 2 bedroom Suite at Astoria 'coz my mother in law and her sister will occupy the other room... flowers and butterflies arrived at 12 midnight (thanks to you bro!!!), we did find time to rest at 1:00 AM, we badly needed sleep...

January 28, 2006 (Our Big Day!!!) The make-up artist will be coming by 4:00 AM, they have to start early since they have to do the make-ups of the entire entourage... 8:00 AM, the photographer and videographer arrived... by 9:00 AM we left the hotel, by 9:30 AM we are already at the church... The solemn mass started at exactly 10:00 AM, it was officiated by Rev. Father Alfred Ramos (family friend) he's so fantastic, he directed us to give each other our personal vows (as in impromptu), thank god it went well... after few pictorials and chit-chats, everybody proceeded to Villa Monica Club House, to enjoy the tasty meals... we're glad that most of our guests loved the foods that we chose... after the brilliant program, again another pictorial (feeling celebrity)... @ 3:30 PM we reached home... our house was a bit crowded, some of our guests decided to drop by and for some who were not able to make it at the reception, they manage to personally convey their warm wishes to us... After a while, it's time to refresh ourselves and change our clothes for our next stop we will be at Tagaytay City... we have to stay over night in a hotel in tagaytay for the next day there will be a post wedding celebration in Tuy Batangas which is the home town of my hubby...

It was really tiring but that was the happiest moment of our lives... In front of God and our loving families we're finally and officially united as one...