Mission Accomplished!

All of Ron's aunts came today to help us complete our wedding favors. Last night I ended up printing up all the coloring books and tags and cutting ribbons until 4 a.m. I figured since everyone was going to be helping today might as well get everything else done.

Here's Ron and his sis putting together our after ceremony snack bags.

The aunts, cousin, and moms putting the favors.

Tita Yunita, the "scooper". She filled all the candy jars for us. =D

I didn't even know someone took a pic of us. I was quality control..of course. ;D
The result, 300+ candy filled Ikea jars. We all loved how colorful it looked!

Remember how I mentioned about how the moms went behind our back and bought fan favors? Well they turned out really cute. ;D

And my most favorite, the coloring books that I created for the kiddies.
The next following weeks is going to be crazy busy! There's only like 1 month and 2 weeks left til the wedding!

Here's the calendar:

• Saturday, May 30 - Bridal Shower hosted by my Aunt, Maid of Honor, and Mom.
• - Can't wait! Japanese food! My favorite! I heard they ordered boats full of food!!
• Sunday, June 1 - Meet with our music coordinator for our church.
• Saturday, June 7 - Bridal Shower hosted by Ron's Aunts
• Tuesday, June 10 - My parents anniversary
• Thursday, June 12- Open House at School/Work
• Saturday, June 14 - Co-Birthday Celebration with my Maid of Honor at Club 33 in Disneyland
• Tuesday, June 17 - My 27th Birthday
• Friday, June 20 - Bachelorette Party Night? I honestly don't know what my MOH has planned for that evening. She just said to keep that night open.
• Wednesday, June 25 - Last day of School/Work!
• Friday, June 27 - Get marriage license and Bachelor and Bachelorette Party weekend. Ron and his boys will be going to Vegas. I'm so jealous cause they're staying in a nice ass room at the Venetian. My girls (21 and under) and I will be going to San Diego. Once again, I don't know what's planned for that.
  
• Thursday, July 10 - Bridesmaid lunch and Rehearsal/Dinner
• Saturday, July 12 - I'm getting married!!!!
• Monday, July 21 - Off to our two week honeymoon at Maui and Oahu

Luckily after the bachelorette party weekend I'll have a good week and an a half to do whatever since I won't be working. Hopefully I'll get to start moving into our apartment during that time.

Busy busy busy! Hope all is well!

Registry & Favors

Yes, I'm sooo excited, but not scared. Just had to throw in that video. LOL. I was checking our registry today and someone bought us our flutes!!! I'm just hoping that it's a pre-wedding gift, because I was hoping to use it for our reception. Either way, I'm so excited! I wonder who got it for us. I do have an idea who it might be, but that will be confirmed tomorrow. =) It's from the Lenox Bellina collection. Cherry blossoms!

On another note, I just ordered 95 pounds of candy. I can't believe how much candy that is! Crazy! We decided not to go with the M&Ms cause you can imagine how much 95 pounds of M&Ms would cost us. We went with flower shaped Sweet Tarts. At first the bright colors caught my eye, then I realized how much it looked like cherry blossoms and we totally went for it!

Last week I went to Ikea all by myself. We ended up going with the Ikea spice jars instead of the salt-and-pepper shakers because they were bigger, cheaper, and easier to tie the ribbon on. It was a little difficult maneuvering the cart all the way to the checkout stand. ;P

Last but not least, a picture with my parents. =)

Random

I totally didn't do any wedding related things yesterday. I bummed out the whole day and stayed in bed. Last night I had to change my shirt 4 times because I was sweating my butt off. Today I feel 10x better. I'm doing LOADS of laundry which consists of my clothes and ALL my bedsheets. I was also able to eat this morning. Bacon and eggs never tasted better!

Thank you all for your get well wishes. =)

Gotta love my family. My brother for some odd reason started gagging and from downstairs she yells (in Tagalog), "APRIL! Are you having pregnancy symptoms!!!?" and I yell back, "No, but Carlo might be!" She yells back, "CARLO! Are you having pregnancy symptoms?! and my brother yells back, "Yes mom! I'm having twins!" :P

So we're changing our favors. Kind of. We're still going with candy jars, but bigger ones from Ikea. It would just be easier to tie the ribbons. It will also stand as a place "card". One side of the jar will have a thank you and the other side will have our guests' name. Instead of M&Ms, we're going with Jelly Bellys, because they're cheaper, take up more space in the jar, and won't melt. Plus, I won't have to pay for shipping for 20 pounds of Jelly Bellys since my dad works down the street from the Candy Warehouse. Bigger IS better! :P

I feel like getting out of the house, but not really.

Anyways, off to finish laundry. Let's go Lakers let's go!

Random Stuff

We will be ordering our favors this week. These little cute candy jars with orange and pink M&Ms tied with a pink or orange ribbon. The only thing that irks me about these jars is that the heart doesn't line up with the front/back of the jar.

Also order our wedding wands since we can't throw anything after the ceremony at the church.

Oh and look what I found on Etsy! I so want it, but I had already bought my toss/garter!

Did I mention we bought our wedding bands last weekend. =) I can not tell you how happy I am with the jeweler that we have. Ron bought my engagement ring from him and I get non-stop comments at how sparkly my ring is so it was only right to go back to the same jeweler and get more bling. ;D Plus he gave us a good deal. =)

I think I'll work on coloring books today. Still waiting for our postage from zazzle.com. Since they already had the 27 cents postage we decided to go with that for our RSVP stamps and at least our guests will see the full effect of the stamp. We went with our Lakers picture (go figure..something fun of course and it's totally us! And another design created by my brother of Ron and I as a cartoon with him wearing an orange sweater and I a pink sweater). We didn't want to use the stamps as our invitation stamp because one of our friends used zazzle.com for their save the dates and it didn't look very nice with their face stamped with a post office stamp. So I honestly suggest that if you're using your zazzle stamp with a custom photo (not graphic) I would get those babies hand canceled! =)

That is all for now!

Kids' Coloring Book

We decided to make coloring books for our kids at the reception. I just can't decide if I should use a colored version or b/w version for the cover. I wanted to find photo for the cover and thought this would be perfect! It was from the OC Fair last year. Hehe. ;D