I Have Arrived

After trying from the inception of this blog to sign into Blogger without success; I'm glad to say I'm finally in! I realized the problem was that I was trying to sign in to the site using Opera as my browser. So then I logged in using Safari and success! So I hope to be posting regularly.

Today's News:

Took a Latin Midterm.

Chatted with fellow UST students about Catholicism & Politics.

Signed up with a new cell phone provider: Cricket. (I am pleased so far)

Had dinner with my sister @ Hollywood Vietnamese and Chinese Cuisine. (It was pretty good)

Thats all for today

Finding "THE" Wedding dress....

One of the things I was dreading about the whole wedding planning was searching for the wedding dress. I've always had trouble looking for formal dresses and the thought of looking for a wedding dress was scary. So on Oct 25th I decided to go to some stores, look at dress styles, check prices, accessories and such.

My mom, Brenda and Dave's mom went with me. First we went to the reception hall so they could see what the place looks like, the location, setting. After that we went to Alfred Angelo and began looking at dresses. I had looked online and wrote down a few style numbers. I showed the consultant and she brought me some of the dresses I had on my list. I tried on about 5 or 6 dresses and liked a couple of them but I didn't want to make a decision since that was the first place we'd been to.

So then we went to David's Bridal, I registered to have a consultant help me, they gave me a catalog to choose some dresses I liked so the consultant could bring them out and after a while she brought a couple of dresses. I tried them on and didn't really like them. She brought a few others I had marked and then she brought one that at first I didn't like much. It wasn't like the styles I had seen or had wanted to try.

I tried it on and I wasn't too convinced at first, it felt kind of tight, it wasn't the style I thought I wanted. Then she brought me another size, a veil and I put on the slip and it looked better I was starting to like it a bit more. She kept fixing it, she lifted the train and it looked much prettier. I was actually loving it. It was THE dress! We were the last ones to leave the store but I came out with a dress!


These are some of the dress styles I liked, the ones I tried on were not these but looked similar :




I liked something not too fluffy.


Lace looks really pretty. I liked something like this.


Or something light and flowy like this one.


(No, none of these are my dress! mine's even prettier. ha!)

Wedding plans have begun

Yes it has begun. It all started one day last month...hahaha. Well, let's see...when does all the planning actually begin. The day you get engaged, when you first talk to the priest, when you set the date for the ceremony?

We got engaged on Jan 25th 2008. We talked to Fr. Vicente in April. Before that we had talked to Fr. Dan first so I guess he was one of the first persons to know. We set the date for Feb 14, 2009. I felt it was too rushed, there might be conflict with people being able to attend since it is Valentine's day, so it was decided to change the date for May 30, 2009. Just one day before our third anniversary since we began going out.

I had not idea what we were supposed to do next. I was fearing having to start looking for places for the receptions, vendors, invitations, decorations, dress...etc, etc. June passed, then July, August, September...time was flying by and we hadn't even started. I guess we also waited because we changed the date and had to make sure we were going to have that date before doing everything else.

So in October I began looking at venues for the reception. I thought "hotels have reception halls, so maybe I should look there first" and sure enough they have ballrooms but waaaay too expensive for our needs. I went to a ballroom not to far from St. Cecilia and what are the odds that just the exact same day I went to get info, there's a person already there talking about renting the hall for May 30th!!! horror!!! I'm getting a little freaked out that we won't have a place for the reception. So I look online and find a hall North of I-10, I go over and it is excellent! just what we needed, they give me a good price, I take Dave over to take a look at it and decide we'll take the place.

We signed the contract on Oct 24. We got a church, we got a reception hall.
Now the planning can begin!