FEB-IBIG : 16 is the New Valentine's Day and Pastel is the New Red

"So, I love you  because the universe conspired to help me find you." 

- Paulo Coelho

Exactly a year ago since I got to marry by best friend. Yeah, that explains today's blog's title. True, it's been a year now, how swift time flies yet I still haven't shared to you guys the photos of our wedding. Not even the planning was told. It's been a year, yet I only uploaded a few  of our wedding pictures in Facebook.  So to let you see a little snippet of it, here's our SDE Picture-Clip (Same-Day-Edit) by the very talented Foto Crime Lab Photography and Videography.

                                  

So for today, since the wedding anniversary celebration is yet to be published for the sole reason that the husband has not arrived yet, will be spilling to you some of the back stories of our wedding, the planning, the people involved, and of course the photographs. :)

But before I'll have to pour out myself into expeditious story telling , I want to express my heartfelt gratitude to the people who have helped "the husband"  and I brought to life the wedding that was only born in our minds, for giving life to what we only have as just plain concept. See post here. 

As I was growing, I never really had any idea as to wast my "dream wedding" would be. What I dreamed was to be married happily to the one God has prepared to be with me. I guess having no ideal and dream wedding in mind helped me a lot as when we were in the preparation part, what my personality and the things I love were integrated in to the  kind of theme the husband and I pictured out.

Being able to read most of my posts, you can right away say by now that I am very much fond of books an vintage-gy kinds of things, add to it the husband's love to travel, we , actually love to travels , thus explains our prenuptial shoot, see here. 

Hence, we ended up with a vintage-travel-with-a-touch-of-pastel-colors-garnished-with-the-love-of-books themed wedding. hahahah!  And because we were married a couple of days after theValentine's day, so you got to know by now the reason of our title for this post.


So here are the wedding details:

The Travel-Themed Invites + The Pastel Bouquet

My Shoes + The Invites + my Bouquet + Cord + Boutonniere

The Rings

The Coins

Yours truly before heading to the church :

. . . with the very talented Sir Nokie of FCL and my beautiful HMUA, Thirdi

. . . and of course the handsome husband :)

. . . with our parents

. . . with the best men and maids-of-honor

. . . our colorful entourage :)

. . . @ Immaculate Conception Cathedral Church

. . . the first official and public kiss of Mr. & Mrs. Q :)

. . . contract signing 

. . . with our celebrant, Fr. Sandy Cometa

. . . with our Ninongs and Ninangs

. . . with the maids-of-honor and best men

. . . the beautiful bridesmaids and handsome groomsmen 

. . . with our secondary sponsors :)

. . . with my tutees, my Junior Bridesmaids

. . . my spiritual mentor, Sister Marites Cabrera

Semblante - Zanoria Family

Gonzaga-Zanoria Family 

Gonzaga Family 

. . . with Nanay Tepen and Auntie Carlota

Buhawe Family 

My OCNHS Family 

Dela Pena Family 

MUHS Family 

. . . wit my babies-no-more

with Elouise

. . . College / LSU Family 

. . . our beautiful Ninang Mona :)

Buhawe Family 

. . . my the best Nanay and Tatay, Barrios Family 

. . . with the sibs 

. . . HS Bff, Cacas 

. . . @ Royal Garden Hotel

Vintage + Bookish + Pastel 

. . . the entrance

(sorry we failed to document the individual table with the travel theme decors)

. . . the travel theme cake and wedding souvenirs

. . . Sweet Corner

. . . freeing the dove, a wedding tradition

. . . the first official dance - wedding dance, another wedding tradition,

. . .  cake and wine wedding tradition  

. . . sweet messages from very close friends and family :) 

with Dennis, a very good friend from my college years 

Allan, Aries' childhood friend

. . . a mentor and a very close ate from another mom, Ms. Mae

. . . Mommy Daylind 

. . . a very rare sight, seeing them gathered in one place :) 

. . . mommy Ychenn and Chenna

. . . the single ladies 

. . . the most enjoyable wedding tradition, finding the next bride and groom :)

Emily and Glenn

Emily and Glenn

. . . the big babies 

. . . our Junior Bridesmaids and Groomsmen 

. . . our Chines family 

. . . our emcees, Melanie and Emily 

 Happy Valentine's Day Everyone, and to us Happy First Anniversary Pawpaw and a lifetime more to go! :)