The White Dress

I must say that David and I are on the right track with our wedding preparations. Within our two week Manila visit, we were already able to secure a church, pick up the wedding clearance requirements from The Chancery, book the reception venue and caterer, pick a couturier, have my wedding dress #1 made, decided on wedding dress #2's design, narrow down on our photo/video supplier and talk to our priest. Shew. And those were the hardest to get done.

You can totally prepare for a wedding in a month if you are only creative. And if you have a super mom.

Tonight, I was able to see wedding dress #1 on videocam, with my sister modeling it for me. It looks lovely. Lovelier than I expected. I picked the design off different magazine pages - strapless, pick-up skirt made of duchess satin and hints of beads. The veil is made of fine tulle, and the edges have lace. It felt so surreal - I guess more surreal than how my sister was feeling wearing her sister's wedding gown!

There it is, the white dress I will wear when I commit my entire life to David... :) Isn't that pretty intense?

I don't want to be a bridezilla, seriously. I'd like to think I'm not one. Wedding talk tires me sometimes that I want to take a break and just think about life AFTER the wedding... which really is what is more important.

A couple of weeks back, a married friend of mine texted me her congratulations and gave me her unsolicited two-cents, following a lovely wedding - but a failed marriage. She said that no matter how beautiful or not-so-beautiful a wedding turns out to be, never forget that it really won't matter much at the end of the day. It is the marriage that follows after that I should be prepared more for. Your wedding make-up, your 5-tiered fondant cake or your fancy tiffany chairs won't make your marriage last forever anyway. Good point.

Makes me ponder -- what if David and I just head to city hall in jeans and skip through all these wedding costs and save for a big house and a fancy honeymoon? Then, reception will follow at Grimaldi's Pizzeria in Brooklyn? That's barely a $50 wedding! Hmmmm... but then again, there's the white dress effect... hahaha. (I'm kidding okay?)