reasons behind our Nautical/Chevron Theme for our wedding in Mex + mood board

Wedding in Mexico is unplanned....we just decided to have it mainly because Alan's Mom can't make it to our December wedding due to some health issues .... so as his Sister, his Sister's BF and  his Grandma since it will fall on Christmas Holidays and  they can't leave MIL celebrating Christmas alone...so there...

It's not planned so that means we don't have budget for this so as much as possible we wanted a super intimate Church wedding with Alan's immediate relatives only....

Budgeted?why with theme??

People say having a thematic wedding will just cost an arm and a leg but I believed it will always depends in the situation....:P In our case we just wanna have a theme to just have a simple touch of the things that we love or let us just say a touch of the things that are special to us..:D Thus, Nautical/Chevron inspired wedding was born. :D

There are 4 main reasons why.....see below~

• We met on board a ship so initially we want it Nautical....but we added the Chevron touch so it will not looks like those normal nautical themed weddings....
• Alan and I studied the same course in College....Bachelor of Science in Marine Transportation.... Yes!My dream profession before is to be a Captain of a ship but since it's quite difficult for a woman like me to  pursue such kind of profession in that kind of field I am currently in the process of  being the Captain of my husband who will pursue my dream profession....LOL -kiddin there:P
• Our first wedding was on board a passenger vessel (Caribbean Fantasy) where we used to work... It was officiated by a ship Captain....from there I guess it's one of the valid reason why Nautical is special to us...
• Like other Marine Officers, Alan is also dreaming of wearing his Black Marine Officer's suit on his wedding day and since he can't wear it on our December wedding , he can finally wear it this time...A happy kid indeed! 

To give you an idea......lemme share you our Nautical/Chevron inspired mood board :)

pics used in the collage is from the web ;)

and this is our motif (deep ocean blue and vibrant yellow)

our motif :)

Don't you think it's a nice theme and motif combination?? Because for us it is! :D

Mood Board : Mexican Beach Theme

 

Last week I shoot monogram hub an email for our monogram order. I'm quite excited how Sis Joy will mix and match the ideas in our mind for our Mexican Beach Theme. She is actually apologetic (side kwento) informing me that she might deliver it late because she will be visiting her hubby over the weekend in La Union to catch up with a couple of months not seeing each other. I am really excited to see our monogram made by her but of course I understand her specially now that me and my Alan is currently in a LDR mode too, I assured her that there is no problem, I am not in a hurry. I know being away from your better half is a big challenge for a relationship.

Okay, going  back to our monogram order, after sending her the deposit receipt of our payment She asked me to send her our mood board that she can use as inspiration in making our monogram as soon as she get back. Shameful I am but I just sent her only few pictures of our inspirations. So I decided to make our moodboard finally...For so many ideas we have I can't put them all together in the board so for the moment this collage will do (hopefully).

We basically have a combination of beach and Mexican ideas like cactuses, margaritas, nachos, papel picado, flip flops, shells, maracas, corona beers, sombreros, and chilies. I am  really looking forward to see the 3 monogram studies soon. For sure it will be difficult for me and Alan to choose.

By the way I just made it on time since Sis Joy will be back on Thursday and she even told me that in case I have some "pahabol" she will gratefully accept it, so in a new email I sent to her I have this moodboard attached and that's my pahabol! :p