Mark and Ros

We now have an ongoing discussion on when the wedding will actually take place. Initially, we talked about having it on Mark’s birthday, September 5, 2009 which works since it’s a Saturday.

Now since we are trying to keep the budget low on this thing, I floated the idea of having it on September 9, a Wednesday. Venue rates are cheaper on weekdays plus some vendors are giving more freebies on weekday bookings. And it being 2009, it has a nice 09.09.09 = once in a lifetime feel to it.

When MIL got wind of the dates we are considering, she put forth the idea of having it on September 8, Mama Mary’s birthday. My concern with this date is that the parish we’re eying has special masses for the schools in the vicinity and might not agree to the time that we want for the ceremony.

Mark is not much help since his reply is always, “Kahit ano, ok lang.

So, instead of the firm answer of September 5 that we used to give, we now have to check with the church what their availability is.

We were supposed to go to Quiapo to look at vendors for invites, souvenirs, giveaways and other stuff. The main agenda though is to go to Arranque Market to look at the wedding rings that are available there. Mark’s friend, Eleo, was to accompany us since Eleo was the one who mentioned this to Mark in the first place. However, late Saturday night, Eleo texted Mark that she’s not available to come with. So I told Mark that we’ll just go ahead for the other stuff.

Now, Mark dislikes going to Quiapo and Divisoria when the throng is already there. So we prefer to leave QC for Recto by 8am. But on Sunday, we both overslept and by the time Mark got to QC it was past 10am. So change of plans.

We decided to visit Casa Camba in New Manila and Mark was insistent to go to Oasis afterwards. When we got to Casa Camba, the Robert Camba venue in New Manila, the only staff there was a guy cleaning and waxing the Mercedes Benz cars. But we got a good idea of the capacity of the place although we swore that we’ll go back the next time there is an event.
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We were kinda busy last weekend going around for our preparations. Even though we were registered for the bridal fair at Blue Leaf, we decided to give it a pass to finish the agenda we have been going over for the past few weeks.

Saturday found us heading to Robert Camba’s office a couple of blocks from our house in Project 4. We got there in time to see the food being laid out for the food tasting that they conduct at the office every weekend.

We got to talking with Ms. Neneng who has fans within the w@wie ranks and she was very helpful in deatiling and explaining the packages to us. Right off, we were served iced tea by the waiter preparing the food and althroughout our stay at the office, he was very solicitous and was constantly refilling our glasses.
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