Cakes and Chocolate Fountain

One of the things that make weddings sweeter is the wedding cake and the chocolate fountain. Wedding cakes vary from styles and designs. Before, the most common style of wedding cakes are the ones that have 3 layers with a miniature of the bride and groom placed on the top layer. Cakes may be just plain chiffon, pure moist chocolate or depends on the couple's preference.

A new addition to weddings nowadays is the chocolate fountain. It's an overflowing chocolate that looks like a water fountain. I guess that's why it's called a chocolate fountain. Chocolate fountains usually ranged from PHP1000-2000 depending on how many kilos of chocolate you prefer.

For our wedding, the chocolate fountain was already packaged with the wedding cake. Our wedding cake was a mixed of chiffon, moist chocolate, and melon. The center cake was 2 layes with a little water fountain at the bottom of the 2-layered cake and then there were 7 islets of cakes surrounding it. There's also a miniature of a wedding couple on the top most layer. And the islets were decorated with fresh flowers on top. (See picture on the left)

And they don't just look delicious on the picture, they really are delicious! yummy!!!

Well, that's all for now. Ciao!

The Bridal Gown

One of the most important details in a wedding that should be given more time and consideration is the Bridal Gown and the Groom’s attire. For practicality’s sake, most Bride and Groom nowadays prefer to rent their wedding attires from local gown stores in town as first users while some people, those who have more budget, wanted to have their attires kept as a remembrance or a token of this special event that will only come once in their life.

Looking for designs for my wedding gown was quite a challenge for me. Yes, there were lots of wonderful designs over the Internet but the question is, does the design look good on me when I wear it? Can the modist do the job? Can he exactly make the design that I want? Is it feasible and affordable? I keep on asking myself those questions and then finally, gave up on the idea. All I wanted was the gown to be simple but would look good on me, a long white gown with a lot of bead works, tube-type and a long veil. I suddenly started browsing through shops on their ready made gowns, thinking of buying the gown for my own remembrance. 

Sweet and Personalized Wedding Favors

This time we will be talking about the wedding favors or commonly called as wedding souvenirs. As I was doing a research online for unique ideas on wedding favors, I stumbled into this certain website where a bride shared all about her wedding experience from the wedding planning to the wedding expenses. It was on this site that I got the perfect idea for a wedding favor. But first, let’s define what’s the difference and similarity between a wedding favor and a wedding souvenir. Actually, they serve the same role in weddings. They are wedding tokens given to guests as a symbol of the couple’s appreciation for their presence on this special occasion of the couple’s lives. Yet the difference is a wedding favor is something sweet and edible like a chocolate that is placed on the guests’ table for them to eat. A wedding souvenir is something that is given to the guests to remind them of the couple’s wedding. These are carefully designed souvenirs with a Thank You note and the guests can bring it at home and decorate/use it in their homes. Examples of these are scented candles, lamps, picture frames and more. You can search for it online to get a variety of wedding souvenir ideas.

The Wedding Preparations

This is where all the tension and stress comes in. We don't know where to start off with all the preparation and we want to make sure that everything is PERFECT on the day of the wedding.
Jeff and I browsed through a lot of online sites and read about how other couples prepared their wedding. At first, we wanted the wedding to be simple with only a 100 guests. But how could it be a simple wedding when we have 14 bridesmaids, 12 groomsmen, 2 maid of honors, 2 bestmen and 17 pairs of Ninongs and Ninangs. From that alone, we already have 47 guests, almost 50 guests excluding our friends and relatives. So we can't help but make it a big wedding. The only mistake that we had during the planning was we planned first before having the budget. We should have had a budget first then plan the wedding. One tip for those couples getting married, "Have a Budget first and then Plan". We only had a few savings on our joint account but its what helped us in starting off with the preparations.