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

Bridal Caravan Singapore Freebies

Once again, I would like to thank Bridal Caravan Singapore 2013 for these freebies! Button pin and a very cute notepad. Congratulations to the organizers for a successful event here in Singapore!

button pin and notepad :)

With my friend Donna during the event. :)

Bridal Caravan 2013 Badge

I would like to thank Bridal Caravan 2013 Singapore for this cute badge!

The bridal fair will be on August 18, 2013 at Traders Hotel in Orchard from 9:00 am to 8:00 pm. 

See you there future brides!

Bridal Fair: Bridal Caravan 2013 -Singapore

Hello everyone, just a quick update! :) Since I'm currently based in Singapore, I'm so excited to know that there will be a bridal fair here on August 18, 2013 at Traders Hotel in Orchard from 9:00 am to 8:00 pm. The event will feature some of the awesome wedding suppliers from the Philippines. In case, this will be my very first time to attend a bridal fair. But, i will attend alone because h2b is currently in PH :) To all SG brides, here are some of the details:

I would like to thank my friend Donna, for inviting me to this event. I'm pretty excited now. See you there! :)

Wedding Invitation: Unique Design

I'm always a fan of minimalist design, at first i was thinking of a travel theme invitation but since we will no longer have a theme and will just stick with the color motifs, I prefer now to have a  unique minimalist invitation with eye catching typography. Great typography adds elegance and uniqueness to the invitation. I should be keen in choosing the right font to make it look sophisticated. As a UI designer, It is really hard to choose fonts for every creatives. Fonts style speaks the overall look of the design.

Here are some examples. Credits to the owners of these great invitations!  :)

I will update again if i see some more. Enjoy! :)

Just a Rant: On Wedding Plans

Still can't sleep. Been busy in the past days feelin like i needed a long break where i could sleep, relax, enjoy, have fun, smile, laugh, think nothing and shout "stress lets break up!" I'm already used with my everyday routine: wake up, eat, work, sleep, repeat. On weekends, i just do household chores, sleep, watch movies or series and sometimes go out with friends but mostly i will just stay at home, rest and prepare myself for another challenging week.

Lately i've neen busy searching on the wedding plans. After work and during weekends i just browse the net and happily looking with a lots of inspiration and share it here. I have so many ideas in my mind. How i wish we could execute everything into reality. It's not that far but I'm hoping. Sometimes im feelin sad and frustrated. I don't know if it's only me (BTB: bride to be) who feels it. Maybe because i'm too far from home that's why i can't move forward and everything is still in drawing phase. Maybe we should not feel too excited? coz it will only make us expect. But being excited is just normal especially for girls. I think we can hope but don't expect. Another thing, the budget. Well, it will be base on what you and your partner agreed with. I know everyone wishes to have unlimited budget so everything will run smoothly because it's so frustrating when you badly want something then suddenly you have to choose for another option and then another option and another one and search an option again and in the end it's none of the above and everything you've ever wanted is on the "x" mode. You will feel the disappointment, frustration and stress.

The wedding is only a one day event, but that one day will happen only ONCE. No turning back. No repeat. No next time but the memories will last for a LIFETIME. It should be SPECIAL and MEMORABLE. It's not just an ordinary party day just for the sake of saying you already got hitched. But of course we should bear in our mind that marriage is important than the wedding. You know what i mean? I will hope and pray that the plan will be according to God's will and  everything will fall into place. I believe God will always provide. Soon, I'm ready for my big basket.

Wedding Motif: Black

Black Motif. Is it fab or not? Well most of us like pastel colors or bright colors as color motifs. How about black? They say black means sorrow and sadness so only few people chooses this color. But wait I found these interesting inspirations and it's looks elegant!

Credits to the owner of these photos! 

Wedding Hairstyle Inspiration: Fierce

Fab or Not? For me, It's fab!

This hairstyle is perfect for long hair. You can put fresh flowers too. Love it!

Wedding Gown Inspiration: The Sweetheart Cut

I'm loving now the sweetheart cut wedding gowns! Thanks to my friend for sending me this photo. I think this cut suits my body type coz I'm always thinking which type of cut (neckline) to choose that will look good on me. I am very particular with this gown stuff, i don't want to be a bridezilla lol. Well, I still have time to think. For now, this is my favorite!

http://tradisiwedding.com/

Wedding Invitation: Passport

Since I super love to travel, I'm thinking for a travel theme wedding! I love the passport style invitation and that's my idea while the save the date cards as "boarding pass". So cute isn't it? but wait I don't wanna splurge on invitation, if i can do DIY why not or i'm going to dig the cyberspace to find budgeted but quality supplier! I also want minimalist design, i find it classy and elegant. I also prefer designing my own invitation. btw, I found some creative and cool stuff from etsy. <3

My Favorite so cute!