cheesygarcia is getting married!

although we did get the wedding of our dreams, there are some things that i wish i knew or had done:

1. asked the photographers (or at least one of them) to cover cocktails as well.
2. had the prenup elsewhere. we had our prenup at fernwood (partly because it was too much of a hassle going elsewhere with a baby) so we did not have as many locations for the post-wedding pictorial
3. made sure that the fabfoto photo booth was mandatory. i think some of the guests didn’t know what the booth was about, so didn’t actually make use of it and wasn’t able to take home a souvenir.
4. also if possible i would make the fabfoto postcard just have one photo on it. with 4 photos on the postcard you had to pose four times and only got one printout.
5. i was a bit of a program nazi and had cut some traditional parts out so this is entirely my fault hehe. if i could do it over i would include the parents’ speeches, bouquet and garter throws.
6. got full video coverage. we loved the onsite avp however it would’ve been better if we had a video of the entire event, including audible sound!
7. asked veluz to make my dress breastfeeding-friendly. if i had done this then maybe matt wouldn’t have been so stressed out that day lol.

and lastly… i love my son to death but the wedding day would’ve been so much easier and enjoyable if i didn’t have a son yet lol so if you’re planning a kickass and worry-free wedding, do it before you have a kid! lol

at the end of the day (even if it’s my wedding day)… i am still a mother who needs to change her son’s dirty nappy!

so much has happened since my last post and despite being back in manila for fittings and supplier meetings, i haven’t really had the chance to update this blog and provide any details on what’s happening. i am extremely happy with my suppliers especially my coordinator. needless to say i am not worried about any of our wedding details EXCEPT for matt not wanting to take a bottle. of course i can’t really blame anyone but myself LOL i was too lazy in LA to train him and now there’s only two days to go and he still won’t take a bottle. looks like i will be a breastfeeding bride

i wouldn’t mind breastfeeding at all, i don’t really care if i do it in front of people. the only real hassle is that my dress and bra aren’t really made for breastfeeding. tsk, i should’ve asked veluz to make my gown breastfeeding-friendly LOL too late for that now! balay kandila is coming up with a sort of backstage for me at the venue but i don’t really know if it’ll work. anyway we’ll see. i suppose if push comes to shove then i can always breastfeed matt, i will just need some help with getting my dress off and on again.

hopefully when i go back to australia i can blog about all the details about the wedding preps and give ratings on our suppliers.

when we first started planning for this wedding i was so excited with every little detail that i had even started compiling a list of wedding songs in imeem. however after everything happened (aka having and taking care of a baby) i just really want to get this wedding over and done with. i’ve delegated the wedding playlist to butch, although i still get a say on what gets played or not, just because his taste is a bit iffy lol

for our first dance we’ve chosen frank sinatra’s as time goes by. i wanted to have kenny lattimore’s for you as the first dance song but it wasn’t in sound salad’s list of songs we could choose from.

i’m really lucky i have a wedding coordinator as organised as clarice, otherwise we would probably just postpone the wedding yet again lol my only regret is that we didn’t push the wedding date far back enough to have matt as our ring bearer (with him walking down the aisle and all).

can someone please tell me why i have to get a certificate of single status when i am civilly married already!?!? getting one from victoria is such a hassle too, i will have to get copies of my documents certified by a member of the police. it’s such a waste of money, the “certificate” will say that i am not single and am married to butch. of course it’ll say that, that’s what it says in my marriage certificate!!! DUH

It is just over four months before our wedding and Veluz has asked me to email her my measurements so that they can start working on the dress. I got my mum to take them earlier, and as expected, they are very disappointing! It’s been a month since I gave birth and it doesn’t seem like I’m losing weight (apart from the initial weight loss immediately after giving birth). Veluz said that she will get me to take measurements after a month just to see if I’ve lost any more weight. I hope I do lose weight I haven’t been eating as much and sometimes I even skip meals because of Matt’s constant breastfeeding but still nothing’s happening.

Anyway, in other news I still haven’t heard from Clarice about what we need to do in terms of paying some of the suppliers. I’ve emailed her and texted her twice already, if I still haven’t heard from her by mid-next week I’ll give her a call. I will also need to get in touch with Tita Evelyn so that we can book our tickets. AND I’ll have to take care of Matt’s passport application too.

In other news, Butch and I attended a marriage preparation program at Centacare. We went for two days, the first day was for answering the FOCCUS questionnaire and the second day was for our feedback session with Peter. It was quite helpful, it would’ve been good though if we underwent that program before we actually got married so that we could’ve discussed some of the important things that were raised in the session.