Let the Planning Begin

Months before Jon proposed, I was already browsing fora, blogs and whatnots. Most of the time it took me until the wee hours of the morning just reading through stuff and marveling at someone else's wedding. It was no joke.

Wedding preparation tip: talk to your fiance first about the concept or theme you wanted for your wedding... as detailed as possible. There are tons of ideas for each theme and you don't want to be overwhelmed by it. The theme of the wedding should fit the personality of both the bride and the groom.

Jon and I like traveling so we decided on a destination wedding. In 2009, I bought a lot with a wonderful cove (clubhouse) in Laiya, Batangas. We go to this clubhouse (pictured below) so often that we did not even think of finding more options for our destination wedding.

So Kota Keluarga it is! Hmm... pero magkano?

The Proposal

I might as well start the blog with how IT happened.

It was the day of his birthday celebration. Usually, the preparation starts with us doing grocery in the morning, tapos magluluto kami, we wait for visitors and kakain na. Nothing really extraordinary. I didn't notice anything weird until he blew his cake and his brother told everyone that he made a video for him. Naks. Naisip ko pa, ang sweet naman ni Lafoy.

After several pictures of him were shown, nag-iba ang video. Puro text... parang message. Pero not from one brother to another. Then I get it. And my mind went blank. I see letters, I see words, but I barely understood any of it.

I looked at him. Made a face (a failed attempt to lighten things up). Ngumiti lang siya. Then I looked and watched again. I may not remember exactly what he said but I know it was the sweetest thing... and I couldn't stop smiling.

- Den