Fame’s Wedding for Perfect Party and Other Events in Cebu

My sister wanted to have a perfect and hassle-free birthday party for her little boy and discovered Fame’s Wedding Concepts and Events via Internet. Since she was in Belgium still at the time, she asked me to make an arrangement with them. I’m not much for events so what I basically did is to print my sister’s instruction and gave it to Fames as well as pay the necessary dues which was 14,600 pesos to cover the Package B Kiddie Parties plus other additional services such as magician, chocolate fountain, face painting and balloon columns.

Grand Convention Function room Chrysanthemum turn out to be one magical place for a night with a Batman theme (Birthday boy is the batman of course) and it was quite painless on my part that I only have good things to say about this Party team.

I’ve yet to see their other events like weddings and debut but based from what I’ve witnessed with this one event alone, I can say that I would be happy to get their services again for any of our future events and would be proud to recommend Fame’s among friends.

Best Proposal EVER

While talking with friends on topics of men, marriage and family, I suddenly blurted out how I wanted a marriage contract to have an expiry date. Friends looked at me then as if I’ve suddenly grown horns with a tail to match. Nyahaha.

Don’t you think it’s just absolutely ridiculous to be tied to someone for the rest of your life when you don’t even know for sure how your brain will be wired a year from today? I mean, I don’t have the same ideas anymore as when I was still in my 20s. Besides, since most women crave for security in life, wouldn’t it be a true test of trust and your commitment with each other if there’s no legal contract binding you two together? I missed the days when a man’s word is his bond.

Anyway, have you seen the movie 4 Weddings and a Funeral? It’s an old movie and Hugh Grant isn’t that hot yet but his proposal to the woman he loved really struck me deep. I think if you forget the bothersome government red tapes and all the troubles that a wedding ceremony entails, what really matters between couples is CHOOSING to grow old together.

Below is the best proposal EVER:
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(Huge Grant): But first let me ask you one thing.
Do you think, after we’ve dried off,
after we’ve spent lots more time together,
you might agree…
NOT to marry me?
And do you think NOT being married to me
might maybe be something
you could consider doing for the rest of your life?

Do you?

(Me, in my dreams): I do.

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I know! Mom will NOT care about this opinion EVER. She got married TWICE after all – Civil and Church wedding.

Walking the Aisle in Blue

I seriously think I’m too old to be a bridesmaid but blood is thicker than water so after texting my waist, bust and length of waist to feet measurement, I’ve been dreading the day that I’ll finally get to walk down the aisle again.

Renting wedding gowns is a lot cheaper than having it tailor-made for the entire entourage. Last minute walk practice and dress rehearsals are unheard of in most weddings I’ve attended so I didn’t know what my gown looks like until the wedding day. The thing about rental dresses is that they are made of cheap material and is designed to be “free size”. The top is basically just a piece of cloth that covers the front with laces at the back only to close it like that of shoelaces. As for the skirt, it comes with several clips to fit several waistline sizes and I’m glad I brought my sandals with 2-inches of heel or you would think that my gown comes with a train all around.

There were supposed to be 200 guests invited but there were only less than 50 people in total. So if you wanted to have a wedding and avoid gatecrashers, you might want to set it on December 29 and in a place far away from home like in a small town that’s 2 hours away from the city like what my cousin did.

Anyway, pictures below…

Cheaper Way to Wedding Invitation

A white wedding is not only expensive but a good source for headaches. And if you happened to be out of luck, there’s a possibility of being jilted on your wedding day via a text message also like what happened to Karen Cassmond. But like what yahoo said, walking in the aisle in a full white gala is most woman’s dream and its going to be happening soon for my friend.

A wedding invitation in our local shop cost around 150 pesos PER PIECE. If you are planning to send out 80 invitations, this would mean that invitation alone would cost 12,000 pesoses (207 Euro). Who would like to spend money on something that most people will just throw away afterwards?

Enter girlfriends as production workers and carbon market as the source of raw materials and guess what you get? A cheap and unique invitation made of organic materials that cost 87.5 pesos only per piece or 7000 pesos (120.7 Euro) for 80 invitations. Actually, it would have been a lot cheaper than that but got to feed the production workers with lots of food to get them moving.

The wooden invitation opens up like a steno notebook with the first page showing the time and place of the Eucharistic Celebration (this means the church) and the reception that follows.

Succeeding pages shows the list of people and their roles such as the officiating priest, principal sponsors, best man, maid of honor, groomsmen, bridesmaids, flower girls, bible bearer, ring bearer, arrhae bearer and secondary sponsors for candle, veil and cords.

I didn’t know that there are so many roles for a wedding and what the heck is arrhae bearer anyway?

So, what do you think of this invitation? Not only the future married couple saved money but bonding time with girlfriends was priceless too.

BrewPoint Mactan

Located at the ground floor of the GMC Arcade at ML Quezon Ave., Lapulapu City 6015, Philippines, BrewPoint is one of my favorite spot for free Wifi, great friends and delicious drinks and foods.

So when people are trying to think of a venue for a friend’s Bridal Shower, I immediately thought of Brewpoint which is just a few minutes away from Cebu Mactan International Airport and our office.

These are my orders:

 Crispy Chicken with fries for only 130 pesos (2.2 Euro)

 Chocolate Banana Smoothies for only 120 pesos (2 Euro)

 Turon for only 75 pesos only I think (1.3 Euro)

We didn’t exactly order Turon that time but I thought to include its picture here because I love their Turon plating. Turon is one of Filipino dessert which is prepared by wrapping banana (Saba variety I think) with lumpia wrapper. Sprinkle it with water and brown sugar before deep frying it.

Foods came in huge servings so I had a hard time finishing it off. Good thing I have hungry friends who doesn’t trouble themselves with keeping tabs of calorie intake.

About the Bridal Shower, a friend invited a few boys to be our “macho dancers” for the night and we had them answering a few questions like what’s their favorite sex position, ideal honeymoon destination and ideal dating place. Some answers were a bit cheesy like anywhere as long as they are together while others were totally out of this world like Prince Court Hotel because they have adventure rooms. I wonder what kind of room is an “adventure room”.  And helicopter sex position? How is that done? The girl would be on top and will be going around in circles?

Anyway, the lucky macho dancer of the night was the guy in pink, because he likes doggy sex position and apparently, so is the future bride.

Paging future groom, PLEASE TAKE NOTE.

I didn’t see through the event though because while hurrying to take a picture, I fell and broke the lens of my brand new Canon 115 HS. The sad thing about this event is that I haven’t finished paying that stupid camera still. Grrr.

The next 10 months is going to be a painful one as I continue to pay for a product that is no longer of use to me.