A Beautiful Wedding of My Friend

Wedding is the most extravagant, time consuming and yet the most beautiful celebration a couple will be celebrating. It is a celebration of two people loving and caring each other. It is a public announcement of their unending and unparalleled love for each other.

Last January, a friend of mine had her moment of her life. Rica marries his knight of shining armor. Looking at her wedding pictures, she is stunningly beautiful. Everything is magnificent, the church decoration made her the most beautiful walking down the aisles. The flowers adorned and captivated her elegant wedding gown. She perfectly glows as she walks the red carpet.

The reception is stunningly beautiful too. Everything was laid out, the details are perfectly well planned. The lights made a statement and created a story of the whole event.

However, the preparation is long and tedious and definitely drains your strength. To plan for your wedding here are some tips to have your wedding as elegant as Rica’s wedding day.

1.       Plan and set your date a year in advance. It will give you the whole year to plan and prepare for the big day! It will give you an ample amount of time to buy everything. If you still don’t have the exact date and time make sure that you at least have as to what time or season of the year you want to get marry or even just the month.

2.       Know your Budget. After setting up the date of your wedding the next best thing to do of course is to know your budget. Start first with the budget that both of you have. Do not expect for your siblings and your parents to shell out some money for your wedding day. It is always advisable to at least make sure both (couples) have a savings in place that you can start working on. How much are you both willing to spend for the church decorations, dress, giveaways, venue, and other stuff that you want to have in your wedding day.

3.       Hire your Wedding Planner. If you can afford a wedding planner, it will be a perfect idea. Remember though that a wedding planner will only be there to supervise and plan with you as you go along the whole process of preparation. They will only execute your idea and your plan. You should be the one telling them how your wedding would look like. If a wedding planner insists on his or her designs and idea FIRE YOUR WEDDING PLANNER.

4.       Create a calendar of activities. You should list down all the things that you need to do in getting married. That is why you need a wedding a planner since they will be the one to help you figure out all the things that you need to accomplish. You should work with the wedding planner from the very beginning to lay down your calendar of activities. Here are some of the things you shouldn’t miss: Wedding attire for the whole entourage (fitting, buying, making final adjustment nearer the event), Getting all the documents needed, attending all seminars needed, floral designs, food tasting, scouting for reception, and the list goes.

It’s the preparation that makes your wedding as beautiful as it could be. The planning and sorting out of ideas can make a great deal at the day of your wedding day.

Going back to my friend’s wedding, I felt too bad that I didn’t make it to the celebration. I am dying to see how gorgeous she will be in her wedding gown adorned by the firmness of her Knight and Shinning Armor Gerry. So I ended up stalking on her facebook posts of her wedding day as people are tagging her on the photos they took on her wedding day.

With of course Rica's permission here are some of her photos.

J Events made Rica's wedding design into reality. 

"A wedding planner who listens to a client and making their dream wedding to reality is the best wedding planner!"

Angels Among Us

I was walkin home from school

On a cold winter day

Took a short cut through the woods

And I lost my way

It was getting late, and I was scared and alone

We all want to make sure we get the job done and we want to finish it the quickest possible way. We do it because we either wanted to impress our boss, our parents or even the people around us. We do short cuts most of the time.

Learning knew things and personalizing it and making some brave action to go against the norm to make our life easier is truly commendable. At work most of the time, I am always encourage in finding new ways to make my life easier, better and of course ensuring that by the end of the day though I have taken shortcuts I still produce the same quality.

However, in life, taking shortcuts are not always the best solution. We still of course need to be undergo everything that we need to do to ensure we gather enough knowledge to finish it right.

We commit mistakes almost everyday. Wrong decisions, wrong people to trust to, wrong plans and just like in the song Angels Among Us we get really scared. We feel alone, we feel neglected, we feel unloved.

Then a kind old man took my hand and led me home

Just like in the song, there will always be someone to stand up beside us. Walk with us and cry with every sorrow we undergo. This is life, it is full of mystery and surprises. We pray earnestly and ask for anything and everything. I believe that God listens and answers our prayer not for what we ask but for what we need.

God send someone to be with us. God send someone to help us go through the challenges. God take away things we actually don’t need. Just like in the song, someone will come and take our hand and will lead us home.

Mama couldn’t see him

But he was standing there

And I knew in my heart

He was the answer to my prayer

I always believe God transforms in many other forms to be with us to guide us. The only thing we need to do is to have that faith in us guiding us despite the turbulence of our life. We might not be seeing HIM nor feeling him. The only communication we have with HIM is simply through prayer. I guess that’s life and that’s faith.

God comes in many forms. The little things we have and the tiny tidbits of life during struggling times are those simple things that comes along away. We may simply ignore it but this are gift from God to let us know he is there, that he is walking with us to take the burden away or to ease our self from the pains we feel.

Oh, I believe there are Angels Among Us,

Sent down to us from somewhere up above.

They come to you and me in our darkest hours

To show us how to live

To teach us how to give

To guide us with a light of love.

This made this song somehow something extra special to me. It reminds me of that little something to let me know that God is there with me all the time and all throughout the journey in this what we call life. It is a reminder that there’s that special someone out there watching over us.

When life held troubled times

And had me down on my knees

There’s always been someone

To come along and comfort me

A kind word from a stranger

To lend a helping hand

A phone call from a friend

Just to say I understand

Now ain’t it kind of funny

At the dark end of the road

Someone light the way with just a single ray of hope.

So to encourage people out there who felt that no one is with them all along. That the world seems so rude and so unforgiving. That the people we look up to seems so distant and curse and telling you that you are nothing just remember that there’s always someone who will come along and comfort you. That someone is a gift from God and touched by God to be with you.

They wear so many faces,

Show up in the strangest places

And grace us with their mercies in our time of need.

Sometimes the always come along in our most unexpected way. But every night when you felt alone, look back from the day I am sure there’s always that someone smiled or texted you or send you a message and somehow even for just a minute you smiled, you were at ease. That someone could be a friend or a guard from a mall or a sales lady in a boutique or even a stranger in the street.

To guide us with a light of love