My Cousin's Wedding

My cousin is soon to wed next year and since she is an overseas bride, I have been asked to help her with her wedding preps...oh well...here is a design which I made for her gift tags...hers would be a beach themed wedding...

Design study 1: Table Numbers

Design Study #2: Gift Tags

Well, yesterday we got the gift tags printed already....I guess I should make this a business soon!

Awesome Cakes

Pull away cakes Php380.00/ set

How I wish I have known them during the wedding preps....I am referring Majesto Cakes. My husband came across Majesto when we were driving along Aguirre Ave. in Pilar Village. I thought they were just a newly put-up business but when I tried searching for it, they had been in the business for quite some time laready. In fact they have been joining wedding and debut expos....sigh...

Anyway, I ordered my pull away cakes from them...and they were too cute!

Here's a link to their Multiply site:

http://cupcakesbymajesto.multiply.com/

NO BAKE CHEESECAKE

I am a big fan of Cheescakes. In particular, I like Sbarro's, Italianis, Cheesecake Etc. and Starbucks.

So here's my take of my favorite cheescake...and oh, did I tell you its a no-bake one?

Ingredients:

2 American Heritage cream cheese (softened)
1 Alaska Cream tetra pack

3 tablespoon sugar

1 cup Oreo cookies (vanilla cream scraped off, crushed)

1 pouch MY San crushed graham crackers

6 tablespoons melted butter
1 tablespoon vanilla

Procedure:

In a large mixing bowl, mix 1 large pouch of crushed MY san grahams with 6 tablespoons melted butter til it forms into lumps.
Line a 6" inches aluminum pan with graham crust. Using your fingers, press firmly so they will stick into the pan.
In a separate bowl, mix cream cheese,sugar, Alaska crema and vanilla. Whip it until thick.

Pour in the cream cheese mixture atop of the graham crust.

Top with crushed Oreo cookies.

Refrigirate it for about an hour.

Serve.

Guestbook Tree

from: My DIY Weddings

Coffe Scrub: DIY Cellulite Treatment

Bonus points if you actually get to drink the coffee!

DIY Coffee Grounds Body Scrub
5 tsp. ground coffee (used coffee grounds are fine)
1 tsp. sugar or salt
2 tsp. essential oil (avocado works well)
Mix ingredients together and using loofah rub in a circular motion all over your body. Leave on five minutes and then wash off.

Next DIY Project: Ring Pillow

Im up for my next DIY-a cute ring pillow...well I'll be readying myself for this as I am yet to get my ring pillows from Ms. Mia by next week (hopefully!)I'll be doing something like this, only instead of Magnolias, I'll be using --SUNFLOWER!

Image from: http://eleen.com/

Am I An OC Bride?

Now, am I an OC?
Oh well, I just can’t let time pass me by doing nothing. I blame it to my vocation as a highschool adviser/teacher. My day is usually packed with tons of paperworks—5 English classes (each an hour and a half), seatworks, quizzes, conferences with parents, faculty meetings and what have you. So now that we are on our summer vacation, I seem to miss those busy moments.
And instead of bumming around, after I just finished the place cards for our principal sponsors, I made the payment envelopes for our suppliers.
I used the left over papers that I used in making the labels for our invites and the extra seals (monograms) to make it more personalized. The outcome looks similar to gift check envelopes that you usually see around malls.

PlaceCards for our PS

I hate it when Im bored coz boredom pushes me to do some DIYs...and so I came up with our PS place cards for the VIP table.I used the comon elements in our design to make everything cohesive...I am planning to have them in 1"x3" so we can insert them in our Butterfly(female sponsors) & Dragonfly (male sponsors) placecards that my cousin bought for us from Beau-Coupe.

Here's a sample.....

DIY CHOCONUT LABEL

Another DIY label for choconut

DIY Choconut Label

Anyway,I thought of giving away personalized chocolates to our guests. The idea is sweet, but it is costly.When I made ani inquiry with Choclit, they gave the bitesize chocolates for Php10/each inclusive of the customized wrapper. Since (I think) we still have time, I might DIY it with local Chocnut since I got this idea from MyFilipinoWedding.

I will be printing them in 2"x3" sizes in glossy paper as per the instructions given by Gail (of myfilipinowedding).For now, I tried having them on bond paper for the trial print...

Here are the pics of the design I made...
Why Choconut? Everyone is familiar with Choconut... and its cheap (Php30.00/pack of 24's) we have two designs so we'll have 75 pcs in the first design and another 75 pcs for the other.

Click here to download template.

DIY Design for Photobooth

I made some designs for our Fotobrew photobooth whch I sent to Alvin for the background and lay out design...The pic here is in low-res file

DIY Photobooth Stub

I had been saving my creative juices for this remembering wanting to have an onsite photobooth during our wedding reception and now that it finally came true (Fotobrew), I must let my DIY prowess to work. Here is the design I came up with...I'm planning to have them printed at Touch Art (where I had our table numbers printed)

Our Wine Stickers Are Here

We got our wine labels na and Im so proud of the quality! We sent them the design last Friday made some last minute revisions last night and Sir Goldwyn sent them this morning.Here are our wine labels..

Design: DIY by The Bride

Printed By: Mr. Goldwyn Laluna