Posts Tagged ‘save-the-date’
Save The Date – The Final One
March 30, 2010
7/365 days of blogging.
So we’ve finally decided on what save-the-date photo to use. I like having her photo in black and white against all the subtle colors around it. This was taken from She’s Full of Scrap‘s kits. (It pays to have sisters in the business. 
My friend decided to have this printed thru Office Depot. She wants it printed on magnetic paper so that the recipients of the cards can just post them on their fridges. I didn’t even know that Office Depot does that now. They would even cut it to specs so that’s one less thing that my friend and I have to do if we did this ourselves.
So what’s new with the preparations? My friend’s mom and dad are going home to the Philippines this month so my friend and I thought that it might be a better idea to get a lot of our materials from the famous Divisoria and Tutuban markets and ask her parents to bring them back to the US. We’ve decided to have her daughter’s gown done by my friend’s former seamstress. We’ve also asked the seamstress to do the table linens and the backdrop for the stage. Nothing really beats the Philippines when it comes to materials for parties. Even the venues back home are actually much better than here. I guess, it stems from the perpetual “fiesta atmosphere” back home.
I’m missing the Philippines again…
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Save The Date
March 10, 2010
6/365 days of blogging.
So my friend’s daughter is turning 18 this September. She and her husband decided to give her a traditional Filipino 18th birthday called a cotillon or a debut. She’s asked me to help her because these parties have a tendency to be big.
We’ve been planning it for about a year now. Since we’re trying to minimize the expenses without sacrificing on the quality of the event, we needed a long time to prepare for it. Picking out the venue is the biggest thing. There’s a lot of venues out here in the Baltimore and metros. But to pick out the one that won’t be a drain on the budget but would still work takes a lot of research and leg work.
Finally, we’ve picked out a venue and have made an arrangement already for our date. Since it’s not a flashy place, it would take a little bit of imagination to make it the perfect venue. A couple of weekends ago, we were able to create a prototype of the centerpiece we are planning to do. We already have some ideas on how to decorate the drabby wood panels of the wall and the “stage” without using up too much set up time.
The color of her daughter’s gown is finalized and a sample of it the clothe was already sent to the Philippines where the dressmaker is. We’re ordering stuff for the souvenirs to be sent here from Divisoria.
I’ll be chronicling the details of the party here so that you guys can also have an idea of what needs to be done to prepare for this kind of event far away from the Philippines.
So just as a teaser, and I will write up a whole entry about the save-the-dates later, here are 2 samples that I made and showed my friend (altho none of these came up to be the final one).
