My Little World by Mommy Rackell: souvenirs

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DIY: Couple's Gallery

Monday, October 01, 2012

It’s been two months since our wedding and I’m not finish with our wedding suppliers review and other stuffs. Sorry busy mode ang lola nyo sa pag aayos ng bahay.. Hehe.. #certifiedwife. Anyway, this is my 3^rd to the last review for our DIY Stuffs, and I promise to finished the last 2 this week (yun eh kung sipagin ako ulit ha.) Hehe.

Anyway, being so OC bride and sentimental girl, I want to share our memorabilia’s with our guest by putting a small gallery section at the reception area. I coordinate with Angel (our coordinator at Ibarra’s Garden) if it is possible to put a small table near entrance for our gallery, Thank God because she is so nice and very accommodating. I also informed Rookie (our coordinator) about our idea on putting these small stuffs at Ibarra’s.

Our wedding gallery includes the following: Our Movie Tickets, Scrap book, Tissue Papers, The Questionnaires Notebook, Love letters and our Plane Tickets. This is our personal collections since the day we met, Yes! Kahit yung ballot ng MC DO French Fries na pinabili ko sa kanya the day nung nagkilala kami, makikita nyo sa Scrapbook namin.

Thank You Mercy!

Like what I've said before, our wedding is so much “Labor of Love”, I have lots of friend who helped us in preparing our gallery. Presenting to you our wedding gallery.

Tarpaulin with Frame from Ibarra's Garden

Edible Rose Pastillas Candies from Sweet Blossoms

We also change some place card in the reception area. Instead of "Registration Area" we change it to "Check-In Counter"

"Welcome to Lumberio - Villareal's Wedding" TO " You are now boarding at Villareal - Lumberio's Flight Towards Forever"

Our Registration Area :)
Say hello to May :)

"Wedding Gifts" TO "Terminal Gifts Counter"

We also added Flight Rules and Regulations, you can see this post besides registration area. Wala lang dagdag sa pagka unique ng wedding namin.. Hehe.

Our guests really enjoy looking our gallery, there are some guests who texted me and congratulate us for having such a unique wedding reception, from table name, souvenirs and up to the small things they found in their respective table. Here are some text messages I received after our wedding:

Aloida Rivera – “Super congrats, so successful. I love your wedding so inspiring” Super enjoy ako!

CJ Ricafort - “We had a great time yesterday and now we know na may hidden talent kayo on dancing”

Mike Camiling – “Ang ganda ng preparation and the food, nakakatuwa talaga the whole concept”

Sir Jorge Buenaventura – “Among others, you had a good band yesterday”

Henry Bobadilla – “Okay si father ah, magaling sya mag sermon”

MJ Aguilar – “Very organized, colorful, busog much and napaka ganda and gwapo nyo”

Camille Sablan – “Sobrang okay ng wedding nyo, parang gusto ko narin pakasal. Ramdam un love nyo for each other and nakakatuwa yung mga small details like un sa table at syempre yung food okay. Magaling yung singers, kukunin ko sila at type ko gown mo and damit ni Ian.”

Roan Lazo – “ Bongga ng wedding. Galing nung mini gallery nyo ha antagal nga namin ni norman dun eh.. Kaaliw yung mga naipon nyo na memorable items together tska galing nung wedding videos, astig!”

Mercy Valledor – “Be proud! Ang ganda ng wedding!”

Olyn Valencia – “Masaya, sweet and touching yung buong thing. Walang dull moments sa program. Ang galing nung live singers! Nakakaaliw at magaling yung mga video presentations! Sobrang daming effort sa table-setting kaya nakaka please lalo at feeling VIP kahit guests lang because of the name tags. Masarap ang food! “

Ola Arevalo – "Maganda and Organize compared sa iba, yung food and venue, okay.. Overall, Okay na okay!”

Macey Beniopa – “The wedding is awesome!”

Gen Arong – “Alagang alaga kami sa kasal nyo.. Masarap yung food, ganda ng venue pati give aways, nakakainspire kayong 2”

Overwhelming! All our efforts and sleepless nights are all worth it! Now, I really miss planning our wedding! Sana pwede every month kinakasal noh! Haha.

DIY , souvenirs , Wedding

DIY: Guest and Principal Sponsors Name Holder

Rackell

Wednesday, September 12, 2012 6

I love being a meticulous bride; I want our wedding to be perfect that’s why I am very strict when it comes in inviting guests who will witness our special day. Honestly, choosing more or less 200 guests is very hard for both of us. We need to meet halfway; we need to double check if those listed names on our guest list are special to us. There are times that Ian and I debate about our guest list; of course we need to consider our budget before inviting them on our wedding day. Finally, one month before our big day, we decided to cut our invited guests from 200 down to 150.

I had been attended weddings since I was a kid and one of the things that I really hate is that when we don’t have any seats. Meaning, bahala kayo kung saan kayo umupo! Yes! I will not mention the names of the couple, but this incident makes me feel uncomfortable. Here is their story: Ian and I are invited in their wedding few years ago, this couple is a good friend of mine, the ceremony was really solemn, I saw lots of guests inside the church, the reception rites held on the lower ground of the church meaning we don’t need to travel to get at the reception. Our group was the last to leave the church because we took pictures of the newly wed couple, so as soon as we arrived at the reception I saw that all tables were already occupied. I’m so bothered and asked my friend “San tayo uupo?” then she replied, “Magdadagdag pa naman ata sila ng table”, we waited for about 20 minutes but no coordinator came to assist us. Can you imagine we were about 20 people standing in the entrance door waiting for the table that the couple requested.

Until my friend saw 4 vacant seats near the bride’s relatives, she immediately grab my hand and told me to sit down para nga naman daw di kami mawalan ng ng pwesto.. OMG! I can’t imagine myself like a gatecrasher na walang upuan.. Huhu. Ian and I together with my dear friend and her husband were seated but unfortunately, some of our big bosses and friends are eating while standing in front of the door, nakakahiya tuloy kumain kasi sila nakatayo kami nakaupo.. I promise myself that if I get married, I will not allow my guests to experience what I suffer that day that’s why on our invitation we included RSVP so that they will confirm if they are coming or not. Lagi kong sinasabi “Please confirm or else pag nagsabi kayo na di kayo pupunta tapos on the day mismo andun kayo, sorry nalang kc wala na kayong upuan since naka individual names yung chairs” Yes! I always told that on our invited guests. Sayang naman yung slots nila db!

Planning a wedding is very easy for me because I was surrounded by a very talented, supportive and lovable family and friends. I received a special gift from Mechelle, my college friend from Abu Dhabi, a very nice guest name holder which she purchased online. Wow! Thank you so much Mec!

For Guests

She sent her package to me one month before our wedding day, Ian and I together with our families assemble it. Bonding moment again! J Presenting to you our guest name holder and holder for principal sponsors.

For our Principal Sponsors

Our guests really amazed when they saw their names place on the holder and keeps on taking pictures holding their name tag. Haha. I remember one friend told me on after our wedding “Grabe gurlash! Ang ganda ng wedding nyo! Ang daming souvenirs for guests and personalized pa lahat! Astig! Sinong nag gupit gupit ng names? ” Hearing that feedback from one of our guest is really overwhelming.

P.S

Thank you Kuya Rey (sa Friendster Guard) for helping me in cutting their names.

DIY , souvenirs , Wedding

DIY Souvenirs: Wedding Bells and Personalized Table Napkin

Rackell

Friday, August 31, 2012

Traditionally, if you want to see the newlywed kissing, the guests need to tap their glasses. Now, in modern time you can use a kissing bell instead. Ian and I decided to have kissing bells on our reception, this makes our wedding reception livelier and unique plus it can be taken home by our guests as token.

Wedding bells symbolizes of a couple's new life together. Historically, the church bells would ring to announce a new union to the world. Superstition also held that wedding bells brought luck and that their ringing would ward off evil spirits intent on ruining the new couple's joy.

Seven months before our big day, I asked my mom to buy us small bells at Divisoria (which is cheaper compare to our prospect suppliers). Together with my dad, they went to 168 mall and purchase 150 pcs of medium bells and ribbon that fits our color motif. Since I have a very supportive family and friends, I requested them to help me in our DIY kissing bell. I printed our official logo and the “Ring for a Kiss” signage and cut the ribbons into pieces.

I asked our wedding coordinator to place it per table per person and I’m so happy upon seeing our guests used the wedding bells and yell “Kiss! Kiss! Kiss”

Note: This is our 2^nd souvenir for our guests.

We also provided our guests a personalized tissue paper. Yes! Tissue paper or table napkin! If you are my consistent reader, you will agree to me that Ian and I really love to eat. We are not just a travel buddies but we are also a food lovers, we collected all the tissue papers from the different restaurant that we ate.

I asked my sister-in law who lives abroad to order me at least 200 pcs of customized table napkin. But surprisingly, when the package arrived last year I received 3 boxes of table napkin (100 pcs/box) wow! So now, presenting to you our customized tissue paper courtesy of Ian’s sister. Super thank you Nikka!

Our customized tissue paper with guest name holder and candies

Note: This is our 3^rd souvenir for our guests.

Will post for the other souvenirs we provided for our invitees. Masyadong love namin lahat ng guests kaya super dami nilang take-home souvenirs from us. Hihi.

DIY , souvenirs , Wedding

DIY Souvenirs: Suitcase with Candies

Rackell

Sunday, August 19, 2012 2

We love to travel, that’s why we decided to have a Travel-Themed Wedding. It’s so easy for us to execute what we want on our wedding day and as I told you on my previous post I’m so meticulous bride, I want everything in detailed. As much as possible I want to do it by myself but of course with the help of my very supportive husband.

For the give aways, I saw in the internet a cute luggage bag which actually suits for our theme, unfortunately it was only available at the US, Oh noh! As I mentioned it to Ian he told me that we buy it as our souvenirs, hhmmm.. pano kaya? Napaisip ako bigla. Then, he said “Paorder natin kay Nikka” (Nikka is his younger sister based in US) Oh Thank God! So I leave a message to Nikka and ask if she can order it for us and we will pay her upon their arrival before Christmas 2011. (Syempre promise ko babayaran namin sa kanya yun, nakakahiya naman db?) But she refused to accept our payment; instead she told us that we consider it as her gift to us. Wow! Instant sponsor kaagad db..

Now, our next problem is what we are going to put inside the suitcase that fits our personalities. Hhhmm.. Again, with the help of my bestfriend Google, I found personalized candies that can be order wholesale. I asked Ian if we could buy for us, but he declined and say “E di gawa nalang tayo nyan, tutal masipag naman tayo sa DIY eh.” Hhhmm.. may point nga naman. So after discussing about our souvenirs we finally decided to use Mentos and Choco Nut. I was assigned for the background pictures to be use in our customized candies while Ian created the layout for the candies cover.

Cover for Mentos (layout created by Hubby)

Cover for Choco Nut (layout created by Hubby)

This DIY is one of my favorite tasks since it give us more time to talk about our future. Anyway, we called it a “labor of love”, why? Because we put all our efforts, hard work and lot of patience just to make our souvenirs more creative, unique and one of a kind.