The Irritating Designers

Choosing for a wedding dress designer is the most exciting and stressful part of wedding planning. This is because most women don't really have experience in having a dress made for them; hence, they take time in choosing the wedding dress designer that they are most comfortable with.

This is very true for me. Since I know what theme I want for my wedding, it was easy for me to decide the wedding church, reception venue, food, drinks, wine and flowers. But it took me awhile to choose a wedding dress designer and I had bad experiences in most of them.

Most wedding designers meet you on appointment basis and I thought it's a good practice because I will be given 100% attention; however, 4 out of the 5 designers I set appointment with did not follow their appointment schedule. Designer A even made wait for 4 hours; luckily they are located a a mall. Designer C made me wait for 1 and half hours and talked to me for only for 20 minutes; and when I agreed to just wait for his email for some designs/drawings it took them 2 months to send something.

I also experienced to be bullied by some of the designers I've talked with. I know what I want and this particular designer kept on insisting to on what designs he wants for me.
Other designers simply cost so high but their designs are not really different from the others.
While some just can't get what I want; probably because they simple recycle their designs or they did reinvent themselves and do research regarding the lastest in fashion.

So it took me 4 to 5 month to look for a perfect designer. Luckily I found the one -- Joel Bautista. In fact, I discussed the fantastic wedding dress he made for me in one of my blogs.

If you want to find tips on how to find perfect wedding dress design for you, go to this site.
http://weddingprep101.com/wedding-dress-designer.html

Yours truly,

Vittoria, The Frustrated Bride

My Unprofessional Florists

As I previously stated, I don't really like flowers: but since a wedding starts and end with flowers, I knew that it I have to have flowers during my big day in one way or another. For a Spanish-themed wedding like ours, I opted for Holland red roses bouquet, red roses and white calla lilies for the altar and aisles and (to limit the flowers) I asked my florist to just adorn the sandal wood fans I bought with few red roses and turquoise ribbons which asked my bridal entourage to carry as they walk on the aisle.

The fans are lovely. But, I didn't like my bridal bouquet as all. I specifically gave the picture below to my florist.

But they didn't deliver as expected.Plus! Instead of putting garden-aisle calla lilies as agreed, the put pots of calla lilies per aisle! That's what I get from trying to minimize my budgets for flowers: I was forced to work with unprofessional people who do not deliver what they committed. Luckily, I didn't ask them to decorate my reception venue.

Thanks,

Vittoria, The Frustrated Bride

Our Classic Ivory Wedding Invite with Red Floral Lace-like Accent

Since the most expensive paper you'll ever spend in life is the paper for your wedding invitation, I took time to choose the color, texture and design of our wedding invites. I opted for the classic matte ivory paper with different thickness. Thick paper (300) for the cover and outer page and slightly thinner for the insert (200).


Then to be aligned in my Spanish wedding theme, I accented the outer and cover page with red floral lace inspired design. This is a lot classier than the typing Spanish fan.
I used this design to our missallete and booklets wedding favor as well.






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Thanks,

Vittoria, The Happy Bride
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Why A Spanish-Themed Wedding?

Hi!

When my husband and I finally proposed to me; I instantly thought of having a Spanish-theme wedding because of the following reasons:

1. I love Antonio Banderas and I really enjoyed watching the movie Mask of Zorro. I love the Spanish details on the film — the costumes, hairstyles, music and the dance.
2. I’m captivated by the grand architecture old Spanish-built churches and cathedrals and I definitely love to walk on a long aisle like theirs.
3. I also like the bold colors of Spain — Red, Gold and Black; which I would like to be our motif if using black in weddings is acceptable here in the Philippines.
4. Spanish Cuisine isgrand, sumptuous and stomach-filling which will surely be enjoyed by our matured relatives and food loving friends alike.
5. Finally, I’m not a fan of flowers and rose is the only flower I know; since weddings start and end with flowers, I don’t want to spend and be surrounded by colorful flowers whose names I don’t even know.

Hence, I researched and canvassed for Spanish inspired wedding invitations, bouquets, wedding cake, and of course --- wedding gowns!

And the best source of elegant and timeless wedding gowns is....



Click the IMAGE above to view different wedding gowns suited for your chosen wedding theme.

Thanks,

Vittoria, The Happy Bride
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