My Venue

So it's official. Country Discovery Suites.

www.discoverycountrysuites.com.

venue and videographer

the original venue was Peninsula de Punta Fuego for the wedding rites, and Terrazas de Punta Fuego for the reception. (www.puntafuego.com)

(left picture: the chapel in Peninsula de Punta Fuego, bottom left: the gazebo overlooking the sea at Peninsula).

asking about wedding packages was not really easy, we had to call them several times before they finally sent the document (email became snail mail! i swear!). the package at first glance is not that expensive, you can have a reception for as low as PhP75,000 for the first 50 guests. For our number we would spend about PhP120k for reception. Not bad. But looking at their menu, the price is so NOT worth it (though I'm sure you can have the menu tweaked), so my Fiance and I thought of bringing in extra food for the guests, maybe a chocolate fountain and lechon. after taking into consideration the other factors, we crunched numbers and we were surprised that the total amount was so high it reached the ceiling. what we haven't considered were corkage fees and accommodations. Corkage fees suck!

Anyway the new venue is still a little far away but we're kind of sure we're gonna get it this time. It's a small place that can only accommodate 80 guests but it has the best view and the best menu line-up I have seen so far. I am still torn between having a buffet or a sit-down dinner but more or less we're gonna have the latter. although dessert's definitely gonna be buffet (it will rain desserts in MY wedding reception).

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My cousin Raphael put up a videography company in Iloilo called Mayad Studios. Now I have videographer, for free! (di ba raph? :-P).

To check out their latest wedding video, click this:

http://alvin5k.multiply.com/video/item/36

my sister wrote about the engagement dinner

since my sister wrote about the dinner at el cirkulo...i'll just redirect you guys to her blog so you could see that night's pictures:

http://oodlesofgoodles.com/blog/2007/01/06/back-in-the-blogging-loop/

Engagement Dinner...finally!

Whew! Engagement dinner finally came, and we all sat down and talked . Okay, honestly?

Nobody really talked about the wedding, because we were all laughing our hearts out over my two uber-cute nephews who were both running amok around the lounge, chasing each other. Save for the moments when my older nephew would innocently "ruin" the Lao Lianben abstracts, we were all merrily entertained by the two hobbits who had so much energy to spend on replays and replays of boom tarats tarats. It was a night to remember.

My Fiance and I agree that the night was a blast, the food was PERFECT, everybody loved the menu I had lined up for the eve.

Everybody had nice little chits and chats, my Fiance announced our big (bang-ful!) news that the venue is to be moved to another location...(a secret place in the meantime -- i know i know this wedding is still so secret). Theme has been changed because of venue change.

I'll post pictures of the Engagement Dinner soon.

argh!

i don't know where to start! a lot of people tell me to start with the venue, but that's kind of taken care of already. My Fiance and i already have an idea of where we want to hold it, except for the fact that we haven't booked it yet.

requirements for booking:

1 letter of intent
2 letters from endorsers (the venue is a members-only place and we need one endorser per 20 guests)
3 P20k non-refundable, non-rebookable, non-transferable one-time reservation/booking fee.

as to when we're nailing the booking, we haven't decided on that yet. My Fiance is convincing me to do it in January, but 25 out of 31 days in January he'll be out of town. So I guess we'll be doing this in February, hopefully nobody will book the exact same venue on the exact same date. Sigh.

Dec 27

okay, it's lurking around the corner. 27th is coming too fast.

i'm kind of panicking because i'm a seasoned host (i hope you sense the sarcasm), and I'm not sure if everything's in place already. i mean, i want this night to be puuuurrrfect because 'tis the dinner when families from both sides are complete and will finally see each other. The Brother and The Sister-in-Law and The Nephew and The Mom are all flying in.

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i double-checked everything: Cirkulo (www.elcirkulo.com) and the menu, check. Menu cards, check. I ditched the snickers cake from Mocha Blends, called up Delize instead for this scrumptious Pistachio Sansrival (photo source: http://dessertcomesfirst.blogspot.com or to read the article about this yummy dessert, visit this link):

so dessert, check. i hope everything will be okay because i personally organised and arranged everything for this night.

The Theme Part II

My Sister just informed me that she has another brilliant theme idea! I don't know what it is yet, though. I'll keep you posted.