Even when we knew what we had to do, things seemed hopeless.
The confirmation certificate:
Come Tuesday, December 15, we called Mount Carmel, and the verdict was out on my confirmation certificate: the Diocese said we had to get a copy of the original from Abu Dhabi, or at least some sort of certification stating that the confirmation had indeed taken place on the date and at the place we claimed in the original certificate we presented.
Great. How were we supposed to do that? There was an address for the Vicar Apostolic of Arabia on my certificate, but it was just a PO Box. All seemed bleak. Continue Reading…
Some of you know by now the trials and tribulations we suffered in December in our attempts to prepare our documents for the wedding. Some of you have no idea what we’ve been up to. Well, here’s the long blog post.
When we reserved the St. Francis of Assisi Chapel at Fernwood Gardens, we had to go to the Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish in Project 6, since the chapel was under their care/authority (“Tyranny” would be more appropriate. But I get ahead of myself.) So we booked the chapel for our date, and the parish office gave us a list of requirements. It was a pretty long list, but it didn’t seem that bad when we first saw it. Hah, unbeknownst to us, we were about to embark on a journey that would take us to many City Halls and churches . (And I just wanted to use the word “unbeknownst”.)
Just so we’re all on the same page, boys and girls, here’s the list of requirements they asked of the bride and the groom: Continue Reading…
Donation to the GMA Kapuso Foundation, September 2008, SM Marikina
As you may have noticed, we update the wedsite sporadically, but when we do, we post a lot of stuff! I usually write the long entries, and Oneal fiddles around with the code.
This time, we’ve added links to the websites of our suppliers, removed some clutter, and changed a few settings. Please feel free to leave a comment or two (or more)!
Also, please check out our other pages, as we’ve posted some updates:
– rej
the wed-site or wed-blog (yes, those are actual terms used) is up and running, we’ve updated some of the pages with details about us. we’ll be posting more information about our wedding plans right here, so keep checking back for more news.
for the past few months we’ve been attending bridal fairs in different places, food tasting by different caterers, we’ve also checked out most of the recommended event venues around Metro Manila, we have our preferred suppliers & places but we also want to get our families opinion, as well as their support for our decisions.
as you probably have guessed, we will be having a Star Wars themed wedding, which means its not just the bride & groom who will be in costume, the entourage will also have costumes appropriate to the ceremony. everything will be tasteful and done up to 501st Legion standards, and that means it will be movie-quality if not screen-accurate. NO we will not be wearing our armor to the wedding.
some good friends have already agreed to help with parts of the ceremony, the reception & the preparations, thank you so much, we will post more information on who are going to be involved soon, this is the reason why we are allocating more than a year for preparations. its not going to be easy, but it will definitely be memorable.
– oneal
For months we had been trying to figure out how to tell our parents about our plans to get married, we couldn’t very well tell our friends too soon, news has a tendency to leak rather quickly. So on November 16, 2008 we tricked our respective families into going all the way to Makati for dinner, they did not know what we were all meeting up in my friend’s restaurant Solihiya in Greenbelt 5.
Good thing more stores opened up in the new Greenbelt 5, Rej got stuck in bad traffic along C5 due to the Rhianna concert in the Fort, while i had to stall while my parents kept wanting to go to the resto for dinner already.
as soon as Rej arrived with her family, we had sat down to order food, everyone still thinking there was a special new menu we were invited to try so nobody ordered a full meal. we sprung the news on them to much surprise, but everyone figured it was inevitable.
speeches & tears all around
– oneal