Destinations Bridal Fair at Jardin De Miramar

It's been 2 years since I got married and I miss the days of planning. One thing that I enjoyed the most was going to different bridal fairs. I remember attending bridal caravan in Singapore (I'm based in Singapore during that time) and bridal fair in Manila. I booked my cake, invitation and my wedding gown there. There are benefits of attending the bridal fair like meeting the best suppliers,getting more discounts and freebies.

Last Saturday, I had a chance to attend the Destinations Bridal fair at Jardin De Miramar in Antipolo City, Rizal. It's a two-day weekend event (Feb 4 -5, 2017). It was held at their newest venue, the Isla Palma, an open air pavilion which can accommodate up to 300 pax of capacity. Good quality wedding suppliers were gathered together offering their services, great deals and discounts! You can take advantage of this and get the best deals out there. Suppliers' includes food caterer (that offers on the spot food tasting), photo and video coverage, invitation cards, bridal hair and make-up, lights and sounds, wedding and entourage gowns, live bands and more. I enjoyed checking out each supplier's work and portfolio and i feel that I want to get married again :)

I have also explored the different venues of Jardin De Miramar. My favorite part was their Ylang Ylang a filipiana-inspired venue in a mini forest setting. It is perfect for rustic and backyard themed reception that can accommodate up to 200 pax for your reception and programs. Alongside, there is a flat-type garden that you can rent if you want to have a christian wedding ceremony at the same time. In that area, I can feel the fresh and cold air that are coming from the nature that surrounds the venue. You can also do your pre-wedding photoshoot inside the compound of Jardin, if you book them for your event. They have huge parking space located at the compound with guards roving around so you don't have to worry about security of the vehicles of your guests.

I'm sharing here the photo highlights of the bridal fair event and some beautiful photos of the venue. Check it out below. Enjoy!







































For more information you Jardin De Miramar, You can visit their website:click here

The Wedding in Antipolo

After 48 years, I'm back and finally, We were done with the preparations and the wedding! I'm now married for 1 month and 5 days and this blog deserves a major update! Yes, I will share with you all the suppliers rating and honest reviews on a separate post, I know this is very helpful with all brides to be.

Let me share with you first the list of our wedding suppliers!

Preparation Venue: Eastwood Richmonde Hotel
Ceremony & Reception: The Dome Venue Antipolo City
Photo and Video: Bliss and Berries
Hair and Make Up: Toni Aviles The Make-up Artist and her team
Gown: Ivory & White Bridal Store
Caterer and Stylist: Ma Del's Cuisine c/o Ms.Anj
Lights and Sounds: RejectKrew
Event Host: Mr. Richard Agtarap
Musician: Infinite Soul Acoustic
Coordination: Antipolo Wedding Belles
Photobooth: Hepburn Prints
Entourage Flowers: Clieo's Wedding Flowers
Cake: Heart and Belles

Special thanks to Juris for the surprise!
To Pastor Ado Bernardo for officiating the wedding and to Pastor Dennis Aquino of Victory Church for all the help and guidance and to all the people who became part of our special event! We are forever grateful and happy :)

Venue Hunting #3: The Dome Antipolo

Hello! I owe a lot of stories here in my blog (lazy to blog recently hehe) guess what? we already booked some of our wedding suppliers, I will post it one by one soon so watch out. For now i will feature the 3rd venue. This time i was able to join the occular with h2b. Yep i went back home for a short holiday :)

The venue is located inside Valley Golf subdivision in Antipolo City. It has 3 divisions- outdoor area and indoor area with 1st level and 2nd level (overlooking Antipolo). I like the view nakakarefresh seeing trees and mountains at mukhang malamig din sa gabi, parang Tagaytay lang yung ambiance.  But i think it can only fill out 150 guests same with the 1st level and the outdoor area can fill out up to 300-400 guest. The price is 55k but without corkage for any supplier like photo/video and catering. The place is quiet and i think it is good for intimate occasion. If you want quiet na mafifeel mo na nasa "destination wedding" ka talaga, you can consider this venue. Good choice for a 7 hours rental, perfect for your ceremony and reception. Yes we like this place! <3

I took some photos of the venue. Here you go :)

1. 2nd level overlooking area (top) 2. 2nd level indoor (can be ceremony area) 

3.The Dome indoor and outdoor area 4.1st level indoor area (bottom photo)

More venues here: Antipolo Garden Wedding Venues, Antipolo Wedding Venues

Venue Hunting #2: LeBlanc Exclusive Resort

Thanks to my good friend for sending me the website of our next venue: LeBlanc Exclusive Resort in Antipolo. I  find the venue elegant and classy because it is all white! So again, i asked h2b to see the place and I thank him  for being so patient with me :)

Here are the photos that he took, when he went to LeBlanc last July.

The place looks good and elegant in the photos but I'm wondering if all of our guests can fit inside the hall. They said it can fill out upto 150 guests. I'm contemplating because i need to count also the number of suppliers that will go in and out of the hall, plus a space for the caterer, for our band, picture taking and performance area.. (yeah you read it performance! haha) and i find the ceiling very low. I wanted pa naman drapes on the ceiling! haha! 

Well, The garden part looks clean and good too. They suggested to put glass platform on top of the swimming pool to have more space for our garden ceremony. For the whole area they quoted us 40,000php originally it is 45,000php but since h2b attended the bridal fair in SM Masinag they give us 5,000php discount. Not bad, but there are add ons like if we want the platform and a tent outside, there will be an additional costs of 8,000php each. So venue + platform = 48,000php plus 10% corkage fee for outside caterer. They also offer lights and sounds and photo booths of course with additional costs. 

Well, I need to check this place personally, before we decide. I will go back for a holiday in PH next month. wheeew! Happy venue hunting to us! :)

More venues here: Antipolo Garden Wedding Venues

Venue Hunting #1: Sweet Harmony Gardens

One of the important part in wedding preparation is finding the good venue for your special day. We chose Antipolo / Rizal area as our wedding location because we wanted a garden wedding and a place that is close to the city. Since I'm here in Singapore, I only search venues online and h2b is the one who do the occular.

The first venue that we checked is Sweet Harmony Garden, It is located in Taytay, Rizal. I fell in love with rooftop venue which they call it "Amazing Haven Above" I'm thinking that we can hold the ceremony on that area with overlooking views and a perfect sunset. Then the reception will follow at one of their indoor venues. For this venues, they quoted me: 12,500 php for Amazing Haven and 25,000php for Worship Garden. Total will be 37,500php. I asked h2b to see the venue.

This is the photo that he sent me when he checked the place last June

The top left photo and right photo is the Amazing Haven Above

while below photo is the Majestic Upper Room. 

The venue is good for 150 pax

H2b talked to the person in charge about the place and since I only want the venue there will be a corkage fee for the caterer that 15,000php which i find expensive plus 2,000php for the photographer. The corkage fees were almost half the price of the venue! and another thing, they do simultaneous events, As much as possible i wanted a place that holds one event per day. 

So next please :P

More venues here: Antipolo Garden Wedding Venues