Super major thank you to Jovan De Ocampo for designing the invitations, and to Ian Roxas for taking these photos.

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well, at least the priorities are done. we’ve given downpayments for the venue, caterer, ceremony and reception flowers, photographer and videographer.
just today we signed the contract with the Manila String Machine.

the funny thing is that we never tell any of them about the theme of the wedding when we initially meet. we only inform them about what we have planned right after we sign the contract and give them the check. fortunately, none of them reacted violently when we tell them what we have planned. they all seem to get really excited when they find out it will be a Star Wars wedding.

they can’t wait to be a part of it because it is something different from what they usually have to do, which can get tiring after a while.

the best part is that they can play the Imperial March!

5 months to go and we are ahead of schedule.

- oneal

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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:

• The 501st Legion
• Punkin
• Hunny Bunny
• Ceremony
• Reception
• Charity

– rej

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I owe so, so, so much to Tita Peachy, my mom’s friend from college, for finding us our priest, Fr. Clod Bagabaldo. We met him last Tuesday, and the meeting went so well!

We met at Bizu in Greenhills at 8PM, since he said Mass at 7pm. He seemed a little lost as to why we needed a meeting in the first place. He said that for most couples he’s marrying, he doesn’t meet them till the wedding day itself.

So we explained that we wanted to get to know him, and for him to get to know us, so that we were all on the same page about the wedding. We wanted to know if there were any rites we were forgetting about. I also wanted to consult him on the matter of my confirmation certificate, and the bridal march.

Most important of all, we wanted to tell him we were having a Star Wars wedding, because we wanted him to understand how important Star Wars is to us. We wanted to show him pictures of the costumes the entourage were wearing, because we’d heard stories of other priests refusing to proceed because the bridesmaids wore strappy dresses, of the hemlines weren’t low enough, or some other objection. If Fr. Clod had any objections, we wanted to hear them early on, so we could address them.

Well, it turns out we needn’t have worried at all.

Fr. Clod is very open-minded, and he says whatever we want is fine. All other things associated with weddings are just fluff, traditions that aren’t crucial to the marriage rite. If all we wanted to do was get married, the rites would only take 15 minutes! He even said that since everyone was there already, and we had prepared so long for the big day, then it was just as well that we have a full Mass and have the parents and the principal sponsors play a part in the ceremony.

We asked him about the entourage attire, and the bridal march, and he just waved our worries away, and said those aren’t really important. The bridal march isn’t part of the marriage rite, so why should he mess with that? When we showed him the pictures of the attire, he admired them and said they really were different, and that was that!

In short, I should have known that Tita Peachy knew me and Oneal well enough to recommend for us a priest who was not conservative. Tita Peachy, thank you so much!

And Fr. Clod, thank you for agreeing to officiate our wedding. God bless you indeed!

– rej

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Other people keep telling us we have everything worked out for our wedding, but it still feels like there’s so much to do!

For instance, we have yet to meet our priest, Fr. Clod Bagabaldo. We’re finally meeting him for the first time tomorrow night. I hope our ideas aren’t too outlandish for him!

Second, we have booked neither videographer nor musicians! We have some shortlisted, but nothing final yet. Eek!

– rej

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… But you don’t know what to wear? Never fear!

The Star Wars universe provides many wardrobe options, especially the Prequel Trilogy! You can dress up as a Jedi, Royalty, a member of the Galactic Senate, an Imperial officer, a bounty hunter… the possibilities are endless! If you don’t know where to start, maybe we can point you in the right direction. It’s a good idea to check out the following sites:

• Padawan’s Guide
• Vader’s Fist: The 501st Legion of Stormtroopers
• Rebel Legion

Not only are there many ideas and pictures, but often you’ll also get tutorials, construction tips, suggestions, and links to fan-made costumes. <recruitment pitch> If you’re making a Star Wars costume, make it screen-accurate, and once it’s done, you can register for membership with either the 501st or the RL! </recruitment hahaha>

We’ll post more links and ideas as we find them. Already many people are saying, “Ooh, I’ll wear this!” and “Is it okay if I make that costume?” Hala, agawan na!

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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

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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

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