http://www.cheesygarcia.com/wedding all about our wedding preparations Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:49:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en although we did get the wedding of our dreams, there are some things that i wish i knew or had done: asked the photographers (or at least one of them) to cover cocktails as well. had the prenup elsewhere. we had our prenup at fernwood (partly because it was too much of ... http://www.cheesygarcia.com/wedding/2008/08/28/lessons-learned/ a couple of my friends had gotten rene gaviola as their wedding photographer. i wanted to get a back-up photographer because i wanted someone to take candid shots during the wedding who wasn't going to be pressured by the "required" shots. we had to pay a little extra so that ... http://www.cheesygarcia.com/wedding/2008/08/28/back-up-photography-by-rene-gaviola/ everyone was raving about the slideshow and onsite avp. no doubt about it john ong takes good pictures. i haven't been able to put the onsite avp on youtube because i'm having trouble decrypting it. anyway once i figure it out i will include it here as well. my only wishes, ... http://www.cheesygarcia.com/wedding/2008/08/28/photography-and-onsite-avp-by-john-mateos-ong/ we chose fernwood gardens because they have a chapel where we can have the ceremony. we did not want to get a separate church because some of our guests were travelling from far places. the venue is really picturesque and it's a bonus that they have glass ceilings. at least ... http://www.cheesygarcia.com/wedding/2008/08/28/reception-venue-at-fernwood-gardens/ i don't really remember much of the music during the reception and we were at the pictorial while cocktails was happening, but people did say that the music was good :) we gave them a list of songs that we wanted and i think they just added some more songs ... http://www.cheesygarcia.com/wedding/2008/08/28/cocktails-and-reception-music-by-sound-salad/ originally we only got 92AD to sing at the ceremony, but after clarice pointed out that it would only cost 5k extra for them to sing at the reception, we decided to get them for the reception as well. i really can't remember much of the music during the ceremony ... http://www.cheesygarcia.com/wedding/2008/08/28/ceremony-and-reception-music-by-92ad/ the church flowers were mainly butch's thing. his only requirement was that there's plenty of flowers and that they're all white. we got an upgraded package from scenta flora cos butch wanted to have flowers along the aisles as well. i remember not paying for the flowers on the rails ... http://www.cheesygarcia.com/wedding/2008/08/28/church-flowers-by-scenta-flora/ i first heard of clarice through a friend's wedding blog. i really liked her wedding so i mostly used the suppliers she had. anyway i googled clarice and found out that she has a lot of experience dealing with overseas-based brides. it actually took her a while to get back ... http://www.cheesygarcia.com/wedding/2008/08/28/full-wedding-coordination-by-an-event-to-remember/ when i saw the invitations that i wanted on printed matter's website i was really excited cos it seemed as though the colours of the exact invites i wanted matched that of our colour scheme. unfortunately though the lighting they used for taking pictures sort of sucked because the pic ... http://www.cheesygarcia.com/wedding/2008/08/27/wedding-invitations-by-printed-matter/ we chose josiah's because out of all the accredited fernwood caterers, they were the ones that i had heard of before. they seemed to cater a lot of showbiz events, so i thought, why not? lol although there were a lot of no show guests there wasn't a lot of leftovers ... http://www.cheesygarcia.com/wedding/2008/08/27/catering-by-josiahs/