Mark and Ros

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.

Oasis was our next stop on our venue tour and we were lucky enough to see Hizon’s setting up for a wedding reception later that afternoon. (I still have beef against them that I’ve already told our Hizon’s AE Camille to stop bugging me about their events after that Gazebo Royale fiasco. But that’s another story.) Despite any ill feelings I have about Hizon’s, their set up gave us a wonderful image of what it could be like for our wedding reception. Mark was very enamored of the place that I can tell that Oasis was bumping of some of our other options from the shortlist that wouldn’t stay short.

Ms Maan of Oasis was very helpful and she sent me an email of their packages already. I was already mentally crossing off Oasis from my list because of previous perceptions and I’m glad we made this trip.

From Oasis, we took another ride to Gateway to run an errand for Mark’s friend who’s also getting married to his long-time sweetheart who is currently based in South Korea. He’s planing in from Saudi Arabia then he’ll be off to Seoul to get civilly married. The PH wedding will be next year, if I remember right.

So from talking to the travel agencies, ideas for the honeymoon got stuck in my head. Thanks to Ms. Arlene of Roundtrip Travels who was very patient through all our inquiries.

We decided to drop by Suarez Wedding Rings again to look at the available designs. We found another possible design, similar to what we asked about earlier although it’s for a higher price. We’ll see if we’re finally going to commit to a Suarez wedding ring after that oft-postponed trip to Quiapo gets underway.

Overall, we were able to accomplish much from our weekend jaunts. We have a clearer picture of what we want to happen on the big day as well as what is available out there for couples on our budget.