April 2013. H2b's sister, Jovy's wedding. My little baby girl, who was then three years young, was chosen as the "little bride". We arrived at the place where the wedding preparations were done at around a quarter to three PM. My baby girl was immediately dressed up with a white silk gown. It was a very hot summer afternoon and, unfortunately, my baby hadn't taken her noon time nap. So, with the very hot summer weather plus the sleepy little girl, my baby's first wedding participation was cancelled. And so was my attendance at the wedding. We left even before the whole event began, all because my baby threw some tantrums.
June 2015. My high school friend's wedding. It was a very intimate and beautiful union. The wedding coordination was very good. The guests were well managed and attended to. The wedding reception decoration was gorgeous and the food was delicious. Another standout was the wedding coverage. The photography and videography was (in my taste) perfect.
During the reception, the lively host presented the highlights of the newlyweds entire relationship. From the flashback AVP, Prenuptial Video, and the Same Day Edit (SDE) video. It was (in my opinion) the best part of the wedding (next to the newlyweds first kiss, of course).
I fell in love with the idea of having an onsite video. I even began to imagine what the songs I'd pick to be played as background music for my own wedding SDE. It was actually my first time to witness a wedding SDE, which explained how obsessed I became.
When the wedding reception came to a close, I have decided, from that day forward, I would have my own wedding SDE, whatever it may take.
September 2015. H2b's friend, (let's keep him Anonymous), invited us to his wedding. The ceremony was simple and solemn. After the picture taking, we head straight to their house for the reception. I didn't mind that they held an in-house reception. It was totally fine. However, everything went downhill when we arrived at their house. It was (sorry for being harsh) little. They had monoblock chairs arranged outside their house, along the street. It would have been okay if the street was cemented/paved, but it wasn't. The very bad news of all was that it rained the night prior to the wedding. So you could just imagine how muddy the whole place was. Another thing that added to the disaster was that they didn't have a fenced yard. So, the reception was like open for all (even those who aren't invited). Also, the front yard was really small. It was very crowded and there was really no room to move, what more to dance.
The food was great. I actually had a sumptuous lunch. However, after the principal sponsors and other guests finished their meals, the onlookers and some neighbors began filling in the vacated seats. So the newlyweds never really got the chance to hold the reception program. The groom, h2b's friend, was greatly disappointed that he was not able to do the "newlywed's first dance" with his wife.
Right after we left the reception, I told h2b that we would never get married like that. It was really a harsh thing to say, but I had my standards too, you know. I wanted a simple yet elegant and intimate wedding. As they always say, time and time again, "You only get married once. Make it memorable." and I intended that to happen.
So, just before the month of September ended, h2b and I agreed to start saving up for our big day. We deliberated and finally agreed that we would get married on June 12, 2017 (reason why we picked this date later in the post). We also agreed to invite only 100 guests (including our principal sponsors) and that our ceremony would be a garden wedding. Being the supportive husband to be, he told me to handle everything as he had no clue how to plan a wedding. Funny because I actually wanted to do exactly that.
So anyway, how did I come up with our wedding date, you ask? Well, I told h2b that I wanted the number 8 to have a significance in our wedding. I also wanted us to get married on our anniversary, which was on June 12. So where was the number 8 in June 12? Actually, the first option was for us to get married on June 12, 2018. There, you got an 8. It was actually a great idea. We'd have more than two years to save for our wedding budget and plan a beautiful wedding. However, h2b disagreed. He didn't want to wait that long. I totally understood him. We've been engaged for four long years already, even I couldn't wait any longer to get married.
So after we deliberated and debated, we had decided to get married on June 12, 2017. You might think there would be no number 8 in that date but you're wrong. Actually 6/12/17 would be our 8th year anniversary as a couple (remember in my first post, we became official on 6/12/09).
Now that the date was set, everything else would be just so easy. Maybe.
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