The Bride's Thoughts - 32 days to go!

Eeeeeeeek! It's 12:05 am in Manila while it's almost time for my baby to be up and get ready for Sabbath.. So yes, here I am, unable to sleep.. Not because of my body clock, but because I am, yet again, in that moment of panic on some details about the wedding.. Okay, so what is really going on in my mind?

Right now, my thoughts are whirling around the schedule! And I'm not talking about the schedule on the wedding day, but schedule once everyone arrives from abroad and have wedding errands at the same time. How I wish I can divide myself into bits and pieces so I can make sure everyone is attended to and everything wedding related is planned smoothly. My mind keeps asking "Is everyone going to cooperate? Will they understand our requests? Will they think I am being a bridezilla? Will they love the food? Will they gossip about the negative stuff about the wedding?" and so many more..

But at the end of the day, I am reminded that the wedding is just the start of everything. In fact, it may be the simplest and easiest part of this stage in our lives. So amidst all the craziness, worries, rants, ramblings and what nots, I would like to keep reminding myself that it's not all about the wedding and me, but more of our marriage..

Visiting Students and Co-Teachers

For 2 years in my career life, I have worked as a teacher. It was the most rewarding job I've had despite the minimum-wage income I had back then. It was a proof that God provides to those who seek him.

It was in 2006 when I started working in PCST. I remember at the time, I was anxious to teach as the only experience I had was Sunday School teaching kids at church! On my first year, I worked as a teacher assistant to a supervisor. Our class consists of 40 students, ages 6-8. The school I worked at is not the usual teacher-student discussion kind of set up. We follow the Accelerated Christian Education (ACE) curriculum where students sit in their own cubicle, which we call "office" and work on their paces on their own. If a student has a question or needs guidance in a specific item, then they will raise their concerns to us :)

When I was teaching, I earned great friends that I still connect with upto now. One of them was Rhea whom I call Bokbok, while she calls me Poknat.

She is now based in Australia but went to the Philippines for vacation. It's just sayang because they won't make it to the wedding next month! Oh well!

my godson Kyree

Poknat and Bokbok

Rhea, calls her husband "hart" and so that's how I call Ford too! haha!

one of students, Jacob!

Our Administrator, Mrs. Lora Hooge

with two of my smart students Caleb and Nikki

oh Hanna! She, I would say is one of the students I am proud to teach. We had challenges but I was so happy that even when I was no longer with PCST, her mom contacted me still!

My little girls that are no longer little anymore!

With Mae, posing in my learning center!

This is one of my makulit students back then- Amiel! 

Oh who would forget about this smart boy, Nathaniel!

Us with Mrs. B!

housemates!

Standing next to me in that purple uniform is Shiela, who took over my class when I left.

a picture at the school's office!

Meeting with Fernbrook and Aljoe Mix

The wedding is next month! IT.IS.NEXT.MONTH!!!

So after sorting out some details with other suppliers, I decided to pay a visit to our wedding venue as well as meet with our lights and sounds vendor :)

Luckily, on our wedding date, we are the only ones booked! And no one would plan a wedding/birthday that's coming up soon so it's a 99% sure that we will be the only client of Fernbrook by then..

Some items we discussed with Aljoe Mix:
1. I have attended several weddings where sound system was a mess. It's either too loud or too soft or worse, the speaker was right next to our table. So we had to tell Aljoe Mix about it. It's more of an FYI as the set up will be taken cared of our caterer.
2. Playlist! Joebert suggested that we just email them the songs we'd like to played in specific parts of the program and they will be the ones to create the playlist!

I can totally feel it! It's happening real soon!

my wedding planner and her nephew, me, Joebert of Aljoe Mix, my MOH and Kaira of Fernbrook

I just had to take a picture of this view..

Of course, that mandatory selfie!

We also got to check the newly renovated Bridal Room! If you've seen this in the past, it seemed too sad for me, because it was not perfectly lit up and you can tell that the interior was not so modern! But yay, I'm glad it got renovated and have this modern and hotel feel na! :) 

the bed :)

As always, after every wedding errand is a meal.. since we visited the venue 2 days after my birthday, we had our dinner at the nearby spot - Evia!

and they surprised me with a cake! :) yay!