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St. James Parish

It is now time to book for the church since we already have our wedding date set. We want our church and venue to be in the south area.

I heard that St. James is a nice church so we drove to Alabang one Saturday afternoon  to see for ourselves.

When I saw the church. ..I feel that I already know where we would have our ceremony to be held.

Look at these nics pictures.

The fountain at the center of the garden

Nickyz in the beautiful garden of the church

Another garden view

Inside the church

The aisle

This church is my top choice because it passed all my requirements in choosing our church.With air-con, spacious garden   beautiful structure and not crowded. The cons about this church for me is the location. Since it is located inside Ayala Alabang village, our guest should have their own car because there is a very seldom public vehicle inside the village. As i observed during our ocular, i didn't notice even a cab inside the village. I also don't like much about the ceiling for it's not as high as i wanted. But the rest are absolutely okay. By the way, this is also the top choice of Nickyz for the church.

St. Alphonsus Mary de Liguori Parish

 

Our other choice is the St. Alphonsus Mary de Liguori Parish. When I saw this church, I wasn’t really got attracted ‘cause I find a little bit small. However, H2B like the church’s door (umiikot daw pag binuksan). He said that this is the only church with that style of the main door. I actually didn’t notice that until he said so.

National Shrine of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

4 Sacred Heart St. (formerly Dao St.), San Antonio Village, Makati City

As I looked at the photos of this church in the internet, I found it gorgeous, but when we saw it closely, medyo hindi na (parang luma na kasi yung church). It has aircon, spaces outside for some pictorial (pero hindi masyadong maluwag), not so long aisle pero good location (for me kasi I don’t like crowded area). The altar is nice also pero when we were inside this church, parang me kulang, hindi ako masyadong convince na gusto ko na dito. Hindi ko ramdam na gustong gusto ko na dito magpakasal. H2B’s sister told us that me as a bride, I should feel the vibes of the places we will be going. I-feel ko daw yung mga pupuntahan naming, if I feel na eto na ang gusto ko, then yun na daw un. For this church, hindi ko pa yun naramdaman.

Overall for this church, okay naman pero mas maganda pala sya sa pictures kesa sa personal.. (me ganun)

Eto na pictures na nga for you guys to judge nalang on your own.

St. Andrew the Apostle Parish

N. Garcia and Neptune Sts., Bel-Air II, Makati City.

The church is quite small and for me it’s like a chapel (malaki lang ng konti). Okay naman yung labas and front kasi with space for parking and not so crowded. Inside the church maliit din and circular, hindi ako makapagisip ng magandang angle as I imagine myself walking down the aisle in this church. Pagkatapos kong mag imagine ayaw ko na kasi nga masikip. 

Wedding Date Set

When we decided to get married, I was thinking of having it on the first or second quarter of 2014. I was kind of worried because I feel that I’m getting older and afraid that I might have some regrets in the future. 

At first I wanted our wedding on Valentine’s Day or somewhere on a weekend of March 2014 because I prefer to have it not on a rainy a season that’s why I never thought of being a June bride. We are also considering that the date should match with the vacation period of Nickyz’s relatives and March is however okay with him. When he asked me again if March is already final for our wedding month, I felt that I’m not so sure… I looked again at the 2014 calendar and pick the best date. I looked into the weekends of August, September, October, November…. I really can’t decide. I counted the remaining months that I’ll spend with my family because I know that when I get married I won’t stay with them anymore. I will no longer see my Mamita waiting for me outside our gate whenever I got home from work. I will no longer spend my birthday and Christmas at our house with them..i will not sleep in one bed with my sister anymore…mamita will not prepare coffee for me every morning before I prepare for work.. When all of these came into my mind, I feel really really sad that my tears started to fall down. I am really so close with my family...Maybe this is also the reason why I did not get married early.  Because of these, I decided to have it on December 2014, with this date, we would have enough time to prepare and save for our wedding. 

When I told Nickyz that I want it on December 2014, he asked me to choose from 6, 13, 20 and 27. I found 20 and 27 a bit late as I know that most of the people go to their provinces before Christmas. I also don’t want it in time of the Company’s Christmas Party which is normally 2^nd to 3^rd week. When I looked at December 6, 1^st week of the December, okay for me and I just noticed it lastly that it is also our anniversary date. Then I told myself that I finally chose the date… We’ll have it on our 8^th year anniversary! The date has a meaning and we’ll have it at one celebration. I told Nickyz of the date and he immediately agreed on the date.

And that’s how we got our wedding date... December 6, 2014!

The Engagement Ring

It was last December 15, 2012 when Nickyz asked me to marry him. Of course I was not aware that he’s gonna proposed to me that afternoon.

After the wedding, the newly wedd and the rest of his friends decided to drop by at Leslie’s Restaurant to have some coffee. While chatting with each other, they called the singer waiters to sing on our table. As the singers are singing, I saw Nickyz giving me my ring (yung singsing na gamit ko eh nasa kanya at yun ang binibigay nya sakin na parang nagpoproposed). I kept on smiling kasi it looks like a joke to me kasi nga singsing ko naman ung binibigay nya and then biglang nalaglag yung hawak nya na ring. Napatawa ako kasi I found it clumsy and I even saw the other waiter na napatawa din only to find out na scripted pala yun kasi pagkuha nya eh I saw him na ibang ring na yung hawak nya… I was so distracted that time dahil feeling ko I’m the center of attraction hindi tuloy ako naiyak.. pero deep inside of me sympre I love him most.. I didn’t notice him asking me to marry him… ewan ko kung talagang hindi nya sinabi or d ko lang napansin.

Here’s the ring he gave me.