Sweet surprise

My husband booked a room in the hotel near our reception venue for the night of our Church wedding, the plan was we will spend the night in the hotel like you know...like normal newly weds ;). We booked our honeymoon like a few days more after our wedding so for the meantime an overnight stay will do :D

What surprised me was when we arrived we entered not just in a standard room but my man was so generous enough and got the only executive suite in that hotel, and not only that he even decorated it with rose petals, from the door until our bed and even the jacuzzi. :D How sweet was that? My tipsiness was gone after seeing it...haha... *giggles*

our bed

our jacuzzi

Not only that, when I woke up the next morning he surprised me with a bouquet of pink roses ... I almost fainted lol. Hmmm now why I am posting this? well it's because I wanna document it and when I feel like looking back, It's just a click away :D

my bouquet of pink roses

So much inlove- ANNA ;-)

We said " I do " again

At first I thought staying here in Mex will let me post more stories ( because of the new culture and environment) and even shed some pounds ( because I will not be eating rice in a daily basis) but omg!What happened to me? I was like 98.99% gone here and gained like 10 more pounds (loser much! lol).
My bad! I'm so sorry folks but I really dunno what's in here that made me too lazy while the wifi connection is in full bar...What happened in the passed 8 months of laziness? Well....

I arrived, met Alan's family and friends,enjoyed Mexican foods,drank tequila and corona until my liver was about to scream, got tanned by the hell-like summer in Sonoran desert, got frozen by the 1 digit something degree celsius temperature during the winter, etc.....etc....

But you know what's the best part of what happened here?

These.... :D *giggles*

PS. I will keep you hanging for a while if you are waiting for a more detailed stories about our weddings ... Yup! until we are done with our fourth, so please just watch out for that ;) .

our Civil Wedding

our Church Wedding

One more wedding to go folks! ;-)

ANNA

Save the Date! :D

This is so "US"! This is LOVE! *giggles*

lovin' 21,

Today is first day of my spanish class so that means my it's my first time to try commuting here in Hermosillo too.Congratulate me for not being lost...Lol Everything went well! Mister bus driver dropped me in the right stop, I crossed the right pedestrian, and arrived 10 minutes before our class...Great! Our class room still got lots of oxygen available for the 5 students and a teacher.....haha...yup we are only 5 aspiring spanish speakers there, 3 Chinese, 1 German and 1 Filipina (of course yours truly).

And do you why I am loving today's date more!? It's because it's our 4th wedding monthsary (civil) and my thoughtful and sweet hubby surprised me with lovely flowers when I came back home.(giggles).

DIY days = LOVE

Despite of the super rush 15 days preparation for our Church wedding here in Mexico we still managed to do some DIY projects ....

So here are some of them....

invitation

neck ties for the wedding party

mini veils for the party

mandil for the party too

bride and groom car sign & just married sign

wedding favors

It's more fun when you are together!

 somebody can cook for you something when you're starving :p

And surprises you in the mid of it! :D

Missing in action Me......

Hola folks!I'm back!
Pardon me for being MIA  for a long time....It's just so difficult for me to update while adjusting in this land with different zip code..I dunno why actually ..Maybe because it's like a 360 degrees turn of my life....A lot of changes, a lot of stories to tell.....For more than 3 months it's kind of difficult to update....But lemme try...
Will use bullets so it would be easier to enumerate....

These are the highlights of my life here in Mex.......

• Mexico says Bienvenidos - a warm welcome for me :D
• 15 days of wedding preps (Church Wedding) - we're the wedding preps expert I must say
• DIY Days with HUB- DIY is more fun when you are with Mister
• Wedding details
• Cacti-ish Prenup - My dream Prenup location
• Church Wedding - Full of laughter
• Wedding invaders/spies!- Loser never win :P
• Fiesta ala Mexicana- Fun. Fun.
• Romantic Groom- Hubby surprised me with a romantic wedding night
• Honeymoon Train Adventure -a peek of Chihuahua, Mexico
• I'm an Immigrant! - Yup! i just changed my address 
• Beach Wedding in PH...Moved! - Good or Bad?
• Understanding Suppliers is LOVE
• FELIZ NAVIDAD- Our Xmas tree is UP! 

So  far that's the stories I wanna tell....Please give me a lil more time to narrate... one by one :D

Hopefully soon...very very soon....Let me just dig up my brain to recall all the details....OK? 

Thanks for bearing with me! Bye for now! 

love,

ANNA

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Muchisimo gracias folks!

PS. I'm in Mexico now...I will update soon! Proomise! *besos*

our super cute Sailor couple note holder

click the photo for better viewing :D

i super love them to bits!

officially w@w

got our w@w tags finally :D

First Fitting (Mexico wedding gown)

Yup yup! i'm already done with my 1st fitting for my gown in  Mexico last July 7...Funny! but I feel so nervous before I tried it......hahaha.... But hey! I so love it.. I so love the drapings and the flow of the fabric....the only thing that I hate was.....Errrrrrrrr I gained extra pounds! whooooooah that made the gown a little bit tigher than it should be..... So I asked Jef if he can wait for me until I somehow lose some flabs! (asa pa talaga ako)! Glad Jef let me....Hmmmmm ....At the moment I doubt I lose some...huhu but I'm still hoping!*wish me luck*..... If not He don't have any choice but to adjust it! :(

I have some pictures taken during the fitting (courtesy of sis Irene) .... but since Alan has this belief about seeing his bride with the wedding dress on before the wedding  day is a bad luck.... so I decided not to share it until our wedding is over! :) yeah so Pinoy lang ang peg! :P

I just can't wait until it's done :D wiiiiihhhh hapiness <3

from google

My DIY cord - Nautical inspired

Hola!! As promised, I will now share my DIY nautical inspired wedding cord.... :D

Sorry but I don't have a step by step instructions on how I made it because it's just a piece of cake..I just did some tying and sewing....hahaha

I wanna create something with a nautical feel for this one to match our Nautical/Chevron theme for our wedding in Mexico....so here's what I came up with.....

My DIY cord

I initially wanted to use colored ropes for this but since I'm based in the province it's quite difficult to find materials here....so what I did is just make one out of baker's twine...

here's the materials I've used:

20 yards each of yellow and blue baker's twine - P330.00 ( i ordered online so it goes with the shipping fee)

yellow and deep blue buttons- P20.00 for 60 pieces

assorted stainless/silver charms/pendants - P180.00 (all)

yellow and blue threads- from granny's sewing box :p

mighty bond- from the household 

Total cost : P500.00

Here's a closer view of my DIY cord...

cross in the middle

steering wheel charm in the middle that bind both loops

stainless anchor

girl and boy charm ( for me it's cute) I put it in the end of each loop

another anchor charm (silver)

symbol of LOVE :D

angel with heart charm 

blue buttons I sewed in  yellow loop

yellow buttons I sewed in  blue loop

I so love the combination of our motif :D

That's it pansit!!

I hope you like it! :D

Note: This cord is also inspired by the DIY  bouquet of a w@w sissy (Michelle ni Jay) who is my cheerlearder for this DIY. ;) -Gracias Sis! :D

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

It's more fun to be a bride if you're a member of W@W!

I always forgot to mention here that since we started our wedding preps for our December 23, 2012 wedding I've been a member of some really helpful wedding websites in the country. One of them is the famous.... Weddings at Work aka W@W.

I am a proud w@wie and been a member for more than half year now and I must say this group really helps me a lot with our preps, sometimes even in an out of wedding topics too...:D So for a bride to be and couple who just engaged it's the right place to be.... If only Alan can really understand Tagalog maybe I push him to sign up long time ago LOL!

Speaking of W@W, I've got the chance to attend  a W@W get together organized by an overseas w@w bride (sis Michelle).I can't explain how happy I am in finally meeting them and have a real picture of how they look like in real life and not only by their email address and w@w signatures. :D I promised myself before I'll make sure I'll steal a time to attend at least one EB and after that meet up, I want to attend more Ebs hahaha.

See below how many of us showed up in Cafe Mary Grace in Greenbelt 2..:D

note: w@w sissies and bros planned a surprise advance birthday party (with cake and balloons) to Mimma Benz.... I was surprised too when the waiters started singing Happy Birthday na....haha ( sorry naman po na-late kase akong dumating, di ako na orient plus katabi ko si Mam Benz ).:p

photo from Mimma Benz Rana :D

Here's the photos grabbed  from Sis April (ni Manny) Pulido.

See how w@w dami and w@w saya namin? :D 

And I was so lucky to received a gift token from Ms. Benz (birthday girl) that time...
A very useful and informative gift  I must say... Thank you again Mimma!

here's Mimma's gift to us :)

W@W wedding  primer, Bride's yellow pages and Ten ten te 10 coin 

It's so nice to be a w@wie! So for all the bride-to-be's out there...it's not yet too late to join W@W!

Try it and you'll never regret!Promise!

My gown for our Mex's wedding by Jef is LOVE

Have I told you  that I almost call  our wedding off?
Yes you read it right.....It's because I'm too disappointed after knowing  that my in laws can't come and be with us on our Big Day...At first I don't know the main reason that led me to felt bad but when I finally got the chance to talk to my mother in law I accepted the reason instantly since it' s a  health related  and a totally acceptable reason at all...From there I let it go!

Before , Alan and I got an idea of... Why not get married in a church in Mexico (very simple) so we can just have a renewal of vows instead by the beach here in the Philippines? This thought excites us since it can make our dream of having a beach wedding come true.....

We are undecided about that idea but when in laws confirmed their absence in our wedding here we decide to pursue it and I'm happy they are all excited about it!...So yes, we will have a total of 3 weddings in span of 1 1/2 year, how cool is that?

Well since we can't afford two big weddings, we planned to have a super intimate wedding with maximum of 50 guests. We will invite  close relatives and friends only. We are still in search of suppliers but MIL promised me she will help with all those stuffs.Yey!

And because Mother in law can't come I asked Jef (our designer) if he can make my MIL's gown as my simple wedding dress in Mexico's wedding instead?  And I'm so happy that it's ok with him and even sketched a very nice gown for me.Well it's more simple than the one I'll use for our wedding here but gee I so love it too!!!! I just love Jef  more because of this......

Excited to see it!?

Check his sketch below! :)

click the photo for better viewing....

lovely isn't it? :D
he will make a birdcage veil for it too...

How do you like it?

Don't ask me cause I super love it! And guess what?

He is making it already and I can't wait to see the final output...:D

Spell HAPPINESS! ^_^

Have a happy day y'all! Until next update!