On Marriage License Application, Invitations, Caterer and Mobile Bar

09.24.10 (Friday)

The day started with Kit picking me up from Marikina at 6am.  I know, Ortigas to Marikina to Parañaque, what a long drive! Buti na lang, Kit really loves me! Hahaha. Cheesy! :-)  Anyway, since it was early, we were at Parañaque City Hall by 7:30am. When we got there, some of the employees were doing their morning exercise/dance.  It really helped in passing time.  How can you not subtly dance ('subtly' being the operative word) to the tune of "Let's Get Loud", "Shake Body Body Dancer", "Chiquita" etc?!  :-p

By 8am, we were the first in line.  We were given 3 copies of Application Forms to fill up then they asked us to have it notarized at the nearby Sta. Lucia Building.  They asked if we were already done with our pre-cana seminar and we showed them our Discovery Weekend Certificate.  They accepted it so no need for us to attend their family planning seminar.  Yey! The last step was to pay P200.00 marriage license fee and we're done! We'll get our marriage license on October 5, 2010.  All that for less than 30 minutes! What a good way to start the day! :-)

Kit filling up his side of the form. 

Our filled up Marriage License Application Form!  Nakakakilig pala makita 'to! Hahaha!

 We then went to Kit's house in Parañaque for breakfast and lunch.  We didn't really anticipate that we'll be done in 30 minutes so we had a lot of morning free time.

Around 1 pm, we went to Print Divas in Shaw Boulevard to finalize our invitation.  We were quite disappointed that we won't be able to have the letterpress invites that we really want.  Why? Well, because apparently we lack time.  Letterpress invites requires 1 month printing, and we're still in the revision stage.  We still had comments/corrections on the second draft they gave us.  Hopefully, after Friday's meeting, the next draft they send us will be the final one...  

To the other couples who haven't done their invitations yet, just want to give you an idea how long it usually takes.  We met with Print Divas last week of August, submitted our wedding details and entourage list on Sept. 1, got the 1st draft on Sept. 17, submitted revisions on Sept. 19, got the 2nd draft last Sept. 23, submitted 2nd draft revision during our meeting with them last Friday, Sept. 24.  We are now awaiting the 3rd, hopefully the final draft anytime soon.  We just didn't anticipate the time it would took for all the revisions and printing.  We thought more than 2 months is enough time for a letterpress invitation... Oh well...

In fairness to Print Divas, they are not saying outright that we can't, they are just presenting us with a possible scenario that we might  not have enough time to distribute it to our guests.  Letterpress invitation takes a month or 28 working days to print, and even though we still have roughly 2 months before our wedding,  Kit and I decided not to risk it.  We don't want it to be a cause of additional stress.  Assuming we  receive and approve the final draft by Sept. 28 (this coming Tuesday, which is the day promised by Print Divas), printing would start on Sept 29 and end on Nov. 8! Our wedding is on Nov. 27 so that means less than 20 days to distribute the invites.  We are both working on weekdays so that means we only have 2 weekends to distribute it.  So NO, we don't want to stress over it that close to our wedding day! Good decision, right? We think so...

Afterwards, we planned to go to Hizon's main office in Quezon City for our 3rd payment.  But with the traffic in Ortigas Avenue (we were infront of Meralco for more than 30 minutes, barely moving!), we decided not to push through with it.  Afterall, it's still a long way from Ortigas to Visayas Avenue in Quezon City.  So we decided to go home, have dinner and wait for F1 to start.  

9.25.10 (Saturday)

The day started with us attending the christening of my new inaanak, France Theodore Boco, at Christ the King.  Congratulations again Jayrom and Chesca! God bless you always Baby France! =)

We then proceeded to Hizon's office and completed 75% of our payment.  Mayette wasn't there but Bing, was really nice to accommodate us even without an appointment. 

We were planning to go to the SMX fair to book a mobile bar.  But Kit was already tired driving and I so wanted to watch the ADMU-FEU game.  So we decided to forego the fair and just rest and watch the UAAP game.  The game was great, mainly because Ateneo won!!! Woohoo!!! Go Ateneo, One Big Fight! 

Now, we still have a problem. Who to book for the mobile bar? Any suggestions?