#DaleRiaWedding

One of the crucial things on the wedding planning is counting the guests to invite. Having too many friends from different parts of my life made ​​listing guests too hard! On Dale's side, he was closer to His family meaning he wanted to invite lots. Hahaha! This map from Pinterest helped us in Considering people to invite: Guest count so far reached 200 + from my, Dale's and mom's side. We are expecting 10% of those will not come, mostly on mom's side. Hahahaha! So we are expecting 180 guests to come to the wedding. I'm actually the kind of person that I want the people in my wedding to be somebody I still talk to after leaving the comfort zones I have not used to those I have not talked to for years. These people are the one I want to witness this victory of us, the people who loved us, stayed and cared for. :) It's a tough decision who to invite. But I suggest that invite people closest to your heart, especially if you're working on a budget! It

The biggest piece of them all, where we say "I Do". Dale and I were both Thomasians. So of course, we wanted to get Married and the UST Church. There was no second thoughts at first, we dropped by as early as September 2013 to book the Church. But admin people told us that they'll start reservations for November 2013 after the semestral break. So we waited.

As we started to plan for the wedding, I thought I needed to start somewhere. I am not an event planner (quite the opposite actually haha!) but it's my wedding so yeah, plan. Haha! So here are some of the tools that helped me a lot:

Dale's proposal video he showed me when we were at Cowrie Island and Puerto Princesa, July 2013. :) I wanted to share this to everyone and have it here on our wedding blog. ;) <3

The first thing we needed was the wedding date. Since I gave birth to Chloe on 11/11/11 I would like a special date as well. When my mom reminded me about 12/13/14 (are priority falls into a perfect Saturday), I immediately panicked and started to look for our Church because I know people would book as early as October for this! We started looking by the 2nd week of October but to my demise, Churches were booked on that day. : (  We wanted to book the wedding to a date that we would have ample time to prepare (and most importantly save!) so we really wanted to have it on the 4th quarter of 2014.  We looked for Churches and fell in love with one. When we inquired, we found out that the only available date was on November 15th. But a friend of mine already booked their wedding on that date. Fortunately (or fate interfered) a Chinese couple were booked on November 29 But they have not submitted requirements and were given the deadline. If they did not submit within the week, we'll

I guess if this is a wedding blog I need to have a sort of timeline here. Haha! So Here's a Planning Timeline from my Pinterest . I'll be posting how Eventually these things are checked off the list. Here's to a masipag Ria on planning! : P Since he proposed , of course some of things were already booked. But I'd still like to share the things we have done and researched for. :) Hope this helps the bride-to-be's!