Dear Bride, Smile :D

OMG! I had gotten so busy I have not updated the Twisted Wedding Planner in almost 2 months!

BUT!

I've actually been to two weddings and the biggest wedding expo at the PICC Forum and add Cebu and Jakarta to that. So enough about explaining my absence.

There's one thing that I noticed among brides - some of them DON'T SMILE! And methinks that's really bad and I noticed that this happens whenever the bride handles all of the wedding preparations. It happens you-know especially when the hubby-to-be works abroad.

And I think that's the value of getting a wedding coordinator or getting your friends more involved in planning your wedding. Brides get all stressed whenever they take care of everything for the wedding. I can just imagine the worry and anxiety that something bad might happen during the ceremony and reception. And I thought the best solution for that is getting someone to help you (if the groom isn't around or not much into the preparations).

So dear bride, don't forget to smile on your wedding day!

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A Spidey Proposal

The best planned proposals more often than not don't happen as scripted.

One of my friends just came back from a vacation... and got engaged in THE most romantic way. More often than not it's my girl friends who gush and rush to tell the story and we always end up giggling and kilig over the latest romantic drama special. But this time it was the groom-to-be who related to me how he got engaged.

So off he went to vacay at the Maldives with his girl friend. His girl friend had no idea what he was up to. He knew he wanted to propose in the most romantic way, but the moment just never came up. He tried to get her to go out to the sunset, but she wanted to take a shower instead. The next day it rained. The right time just wasn't coming up! So he just kept bringing the ring wherever they went.

And then Spiderman 3 came up on HBO, one of their favorite movies. My friend's GF loves the movie and started re-enacting the part where Aunt May was describing how Uncle Ben proposed to her and as Aunt May said, "He had me close my eyes, and when I opened them, there was the ring." She closed her eyes as well and when she opened them... there was the ring and my friend on one knee!

It was the perfect moment!

Congratulations Erik and Claudia! =)

Getting Married Online

Huh? No I don't mean doing the ceremonies online, but planning your wedding online.

The Official Google Blog gave a great rundown on an example on how a couple used Google tools in planning their wedding.

We all know that planning a wedding is such a daunting task. When I planned weddings for my friends all these tools weren't available yet, but I've been using it myself and I covered Gmail, Gtalk, Google Docs, Google Notebook, Blogger and Google Apps for Your Domain in a previous post.

There's a new collaborative tool though that I've been trying out the past few weeks and it's quite exciting since you can build a site all about your wedding in it and easily share photos, videos, documents, maps etc. in the page. This tool is called Google Sites and you can utilize this just simply by getting a Google Account (your Gmail account would do).

My tutorial about how to use Google Sites is over at YouGotTech.com.

Make-up

Brides have a certain glow on their wedding day and they're even made more beautiful by make-up artists.

I recently had a make-over done courtesy of Mona Borromeo, a make-up artist who does commercial projects and weddings. While she was putting make-up on me I asked her to give some tips about bridal make-up and here's a couple she gave me:

1. Having clear skin is very important. Hydrate! Hydrate! Hydrate!

2. Get a spa treatment and a facial at least 2 weeks before the wedding, so that if ever your skin breaks-out it'll have time to go back to normal before the wedding.

3. Sleep! You don't want to look like a panda on your wedding day.

4. Eat! Bride's usually do crash diets and this makes them look sullen. Lose the pounds gradually!

5. Do a pre-nup trial make-up. This is very important since this is where you'll see how you want to look on your wedding day. This also allows the make-up artist to get to know the structure of your face for practice.

I liked the glowing look that Mona did for me.


What do you think?

You might want to give Mona a try, here's her contact info:
Mona Borromeo
Professional Make-up Artist
0915-9042707
anom_2425 @ hotmail.com
anom_050177 @ yahoo.com

St. Alphonsus Mary de Liguori Chapel, Magallanes

Better known as the Magallanes Church. The St. Alphonsus Mary de Liguori Chapel has undergone a major facelift. This church sits across the building where I previously worked and since it's just across where I sit, I normally face the church every morning while drinking my coffee. When things got crazy at work I'd just peer over the window and meditate.

From the highway you'd see the chapel... just the side of it that is. I've always been curious on how it's facade looks like already and was happy to have gotten the chance to see its "face" last week while visiting the area. Here's how it looks:


I wasn't able to go inside and check how it looks like now, but I'm sure that the interiors must be better lighted now and would probably be a great place to hold one's wedding.

Here's the contact info I managed to get when I did a Google search -

Address: Humabon Place, Magallanes Village, Makati City, PHilippines
Telephone number: +632-852-8228/2750