Wedding Theme & Colours

Initially, prior to engagement, in one of my conversations with J, I told him it would be awesome to have a Carnival-themed party. Since we are both frequent travellers, and anywhere we go becomes a home, it's something that completely depicts us.

However, this has changed when we finally sat down to talk about the real thing. It actually didn't take a long time for us to decide our final theme. Having said that we are both wanderers, there is no doubt we will always be Filipino by heart. We are so proud yet humbled to be born and raised in the Philippines, so there's no other way we would want to celebrate the best time of our lives, than in the most Filipino way.

So, Filipiniana theme it is.

For me, as a designer, once I got the eureka moment of a concept (or the BIG IDEA, as they always say in the Advertising industry), I am already halfway through the whole creative planning process.

Since then, there was never a day I never thought about even the littlest details I would want to put in my own wedding -- whether having my morning coffee, cooking, taking a bath, on-board the bus, or just about anywhere. And whenever I have those moments, I write them down, because while it is exciting to do wedding preparations, women become a "bridezilla" mainly because they tend to be overwhelmed with a lot of thoughts.

I and J have also agreed on some very important aspects that should be our guide for this whole wedding process, so it's easier to decide most especially on things that needs to be given much significance. This also comes in handy especially when there are times we start to argue on certain decisions -- these guidelines put us back to the ground.

One of those guidelines was to use only Filipino suppliers and products in all aspects, though this was quite a challenge most especially we're both based overseas. Secondly, we're both nature lovers and environmentally-conscious, thus, we would make sure that we, and the rest of our guests, would live up to this advocacy even on the most special day of our lives.

Choosing the wedding colour for some may be easy, because a RED will always be red. But for me, it took me days to decide on this. Initially I have decided on Marsala, and then Garnet. Both have deep red colours, however Marsala was on the toned-down side. Working on the computer having diverse CMYK colours, it somehow gave me a confusion as to what I really want. This might be tricky and a big dilemma to designers, I swear.

But in conclusion, we have decided (with the approval of my fiancé), it is Garnet and Gold for this Filipiniana wedding.

Having decided on these two major aspects -- theme and colours, everything will just come in easy and breezy.