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| Cheers! |
What I’m learning throughout this whole planning process is that you just have to do what’s right for you. We both agreed that we wanted to get married in the States and in the Philippines.
A simple ceremony and reception was done in Boston last June 4, 2016 and a second full ceremony (Chinese Tea Ceremony and wedding ceremony) reception or ‘wedding party’ will be in the Philippines in December. The priority for us is making sure everyone we cared about and is dearest to us could be at our wedding.
Planning both the U.S and Philippines wedding
from Ghana has (on the whole) been easier than expected – the Internet makes
things much more accessible from communicating with suppliers, payment via
online transfer, so don’t feel too daunted by that if you decide to go that
way, but just make sure you plan like a year prior to the wedding date for the
Philippines.
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| Group Picture |
For the U.S wedding we planned a month ahead
of time. A simple ceremony and reception was done in Boston and what’s really making the ceremony even more special was it was Richard’s
good friend Jimmy who is officiating the wedding attended by only close family
members and friends. I was surprised
how simple as possible a wedding can be in the states It’s not that
complicated compare to the Philippines wedding. Enumerating the stuff we did was:
1. We just got Jimmy registered
to be able to officiate or wedding then we went to the city hall to apply for
the marriage license.
2. Pre-wedding shoot. It’s
always up to the couple when it comes to this, we decided to do one
in the US and one in the Philippines. Memorabilia darling!
3. Book a restaurant that
can hold the number of people you want to invite. Do food
tasting a week before the wedding and coordinate setup with their events
manager. We got
Blue Ginger as our venue for the wedding. It was a great venue that can hold up
to 60 or more people.We decided to go for the deluxe four course entree menu which allows us to customise four kinds of appetiser ( Spring Rolls, Beef kebab, Shrimp Wanton and Tuna Poke)and entree selections of either Beef or Fish. Food was really good especially the appetizers.
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| Table Set-up |
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| The Venue |
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| Beef |
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| Butterfish |
4. Reserve some flowers (bouquet
and center piece) like a week before the wedding date. Just got the flowers
from the nearest Flower shop forgot the name lol
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| The Bouquet |
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| Centre Piece |
5. Reserve a cake. We got this beautiful Japanese cake from my
Mother in laws friend at a good price!
6. Set up an online wedding registry, prepare your
invitation (if you can make it yourself much better, I made it myself) and send it out a month before the wedding.
7. Get yourself a white dress. My dress traveled all the way from Philippines to the States lol
8. Prepare wedding favors.
I decided to giveaway some dried mangoes from the Philippines and Macaroons made in Boston and we put it in a small red paper bag.
10. Lastly of course THE RINGS :)
And that’s it you are good to go after
preparing all the above mentioned! I’m just so lucky to
have a mother in law who is as O.C as I am when it comes to planning stuff,
very organize! Thanks Mom for helping me organize things in that States while
I was in Ghana.
