Pre-nup with Kuya Jed

A great gift from our cousin.

Thanks to Kuya Jed for sacrificing your shoes for us. Hehe. We love you!

Thanks to Bernard for being Kuya Jed's slave / partner.

Thanks to Ate Princess for being our production designer.

Thanks to Chesca for being my "make up artist." Haha!

Watch out for more of our pre-nup shots.

Meet the entourage

Dear entourage members,

Please don't kill me cos of your photos.  I just got them from your profile photos.  Haha.  If you wanna change them, send one.  

Our list is not yet complete.  Will update it soon once we've finalized everything.  For the meantime, let me introduce you guys to some of our wedding party.

  Matron of Honor - Fatima Uy

She's my oldest best friend, not that I had a choice. We're the only girls out of 12 cousins.  As if making us wear matching outfits were enough to humiliate us when we were kids, they had to give us the same name.

Maid of Honor - Felli Gaddi

I've known her since she was 11.  I love her like she was my own baby sister.  Mainly because she's the only person who laughs at my corny jokes. 

Secondary Sponsors - JC and Jenny Destreza

Being an only child, I've always wanted to have siblings. Thank God, He gave me Kuya JC and Ate Jen - the perfect older siblings I could ever have without having to share the shopping money I get from my mom.  Hehe.

 Secondary Sponsor - Chesca Brilliantes

Thank to our golden paypays in third grade, I have someone who understands all my craziness without having to explain anything.  The hypothesis of us being sisters and separated at a playground when we were 3 is yet to be proven.  No to ketchup stains and receipts!

Secondary Sponsor - Bernard Lopez

From sharing Choco Butternut Munchkins while watching the Simpsons back in the early 90s to drinking our asses off, I've gone from being a babysitting cousin to a drinking buddy / confidant.  God, I'm old.

 Secondary Sponsor - Elaine dela Cruz

From being blockmates to officemates to traveling buddies, we've done so much crazy things together - eating ice cream as we freeze our butts of on a curb, being chased by a 6-foot mummy at Universal, being hit on by a couple of Black Americans while eating donuts at the Atlantic City boardwalk, eating Baconators while scaring ourselves shitless while watching movies at the office and a whole lot more.

 Bridesmaid - San Asistio 

We spend our weekends pigging out, sharing tons of secrets, watching movies, shopping, etc.  She's the girlfriend of Kuya Allan, Jof's brother, whom I drag along to almost all our wedding prep trips.

Bridesmaid - Valerie Nazario

Once you've been kicked out of a retreat in a convent together, you know you'll be friends forever.  That and other adventures together (like driving around La Vista), are proof that I will never have a dull moment with this girl.

Groomsman - Niko Omaga-Diaz

Koks is our baby brother.  We spend our weekends playing poker, drinking 'til breakfast, laughing at corny jokes and doing other crazy things.  He has a girlfriend but we think he's going to end up with my cousin, Bernard.  (Refer to photo above)

Groomsman - Philip Paguio

I've only hung out with this cousin of Jof a couple of times since he lives in the States.  But I can assure you that there is never a dull moment with this guy.  Wait 'til the wedding, you'll see that they really know how to party.

 Groomsman - Benedict Lopez

He's my baby out of all the cousins. From "trying" to change his diapers to bringing him to VTRs,  I am saddened to confirm that I am a stage Ate.  Yes, I know Bene, eew.  Haha.

 Flower girl - Jayden Destreza

The first niece in the family, daughter of Kuya JC and Ate Jen.  Super adorable and possibly will take over Mommy Luv's singing career.

Flower girl - Amia Uy

Our toy princess in the family.  She likes to dance and sing with Uncle Jof.  And at her young age, she only wants to be carried by men.  Oh no.

Our dream invite? Not quite.

At first, Jof and I decided to make use of the concept of movie posters as our invite.  We wanted to make use a pre-nup shot of us to immediately convey our theme - Venetian Carnivale.  The entourage will be the "credits" part of the poster.

But after racking our brains if all the lolos and lolas will be able to read the small print cos of our big entourage, incorporating the map fitting almost the whole metro (San Juan to Roxas Boulevard) and the nightmare of shipping all of it within Metro Manila and to the U.S., we finally decided to forego the poster idea.  Sad.

Now, we're using letterpress invites.  We're still thinking of how to inject some creativity to this formal execution.  I fell inlove with some samples while browsing through the Martha Stewart Weddings magazine.  Sadly, all the suppliers are U.S. based.  It's kinda hard not seeing everything in person if we have the invites printed there.


Good thing I stumbled upon Twenty O Four, a letterpress printing company in Cebu.  They have fantastic and elegant patterns.  The owner even went through the hassle of having samples sent cos I asked if I could see the printing and the gsm of the paper.  Soo nice!  Highly recommended supplier.  You can check out their stuff in twentyofour.multiply.com.

100 days to go (or not)

Was supposed to start blogging last Friday to mark the 100-day countdown.  I even made kulit Chesca to fix the background just to make abot pero fail!  Now, I'm starting my 100-day countdown blog on day 98.  Boo.

Well, I have a very good excuse not being able to start my countdown blog last Friday.  Excuses, rather.  Jof didn't have work cos it was Pasig Day.  Ako, self-declared holiday.  Weekends aren't enough for the wedding prep!

July 02:

Went to QC City Hall to file our marriage license.  Hassle.  Good thing our coordinator knows someone so we just gave the form and documents to the person in the Civil Registry office.


Brought Fuzzy to the casa at Fort.  We didn't bring another car cos hassle so we took a cab to Greenbelt. 

Took a break and shopped at the Topshop/Topman Private Sale.  Nakakatamad magsukat cos ang haba ng line so I ended up buying only 3 items.  Good.

Had dimsum and hot and sour soup in Good Earth.  Yum!  No rice.  Woohoo!

Looked for a decent cord and veil.  Gawd.  Everything ready-made is sooo fugly.  It's either flanked with tons of tinsel or lousy designs.  I ended up buying 15 yards of the plain cord.  Thank God for Chesca, I don't have to live with panget stuff for the ceremony.


We were super tired and ready to go home.  We rode the MRT.  Woohoo!  I've been looking forward to that since the morning cos the last time I rode the MRT, I was in my MC highschool uniform.  Jof ended up reprimanding me to ride the MRT forever cos I asked too much questions and got off balanced a couple of times.  He told me that we're going to get mugged cos I looked like a first-timer.  Malay ko ba.  Bakit sa Hong Kong MTR or sa San Francisco BART ang dami daming sumasakay pero hindi ganun ka-sikip and ka-gulo?! I haven't even seen the MRT rush hour scene.  Bakit parang hindi efficient talaga pag sa Pilipinas? Okay, off topic.

Next, we went to the wedding library to buy an arrhae set.  More panget stuff.  We ended up buying a set of unity coins - a new twist in the old tradition of presenting the bride coins as a promise of the groom to provide for the family.  Ehem, Jof.  The coins symbolize more than the groom's promise of being the breadwinner.  Each coin represents a principle or belief that the couple should hold onto.


Whew.  What a day. We went home and ate dinner while watching TV and fell asleep right after.  We're such a baboy couple.  I love it.