Wearing a Kimono, the first time

When I went to Kyoto and then later to Osaka with my friends, we mulled on donning on kimonos and walk around the old town wearing our kimonos and of course take lots of pictures of us in kimonos. But what stopped us from renting is that these kimonos-for-rent comes with an exorbitant price, some at 50,000yen for a couple hours or so. Hence, in the last 9 years that I came and went in Japan, I never really had the chance to wear a kimono.

But it was a good thing I didn’t take on the chances I had previously. Because a chance presented itself to me when I visited Hubbie’s hometown, and this time, my “first time” was made even more special – i’d be wearing Okasan’s kimono, which she wore when she was almost about my age. Heirloom, ne? hehe.

me in curlers

me trying to fit my feet into the dainty Japanese slippers

"let's try it out shall we?"

tada!

 The dressing up is actually for our family portrait. Will post the official pictures once they’re out.

Anyways, I’m thankful to Otosan for having captured this tender moment that passed between me and Hubbie.

yiihii ^_^. Admit it again Hubbie, you were so in love with me that day, ne? =D

And of course, I am very thankful to Otosan, Okasan, Obachan, Ojichan and Mayumi for making my stay in Takamatsu a wonderful one. Of course, it goes to say I’m truly thankful to Hubbie as well. =)

dreaming of my gown

If all goes as planned, my gown fitting’s supposed to be within the next couple of weeks. I must have been real apprehensive about my gown already in that I dreamt about it last night.

In that dream, my couturier, Richie Ortega Torres came up to me and told me that my gown will have to have a foam on the torso part. I clarified if she meant the boobs part. But she reiterated that no, it’s all of the torso part. I chose the gown A design wherein the creeping lace applique will be the one holding the back of the gown so, as Richie explained, the foam is required to hold the gown up. And then she showed me the dress where she incorporated our wedding colors even when it shouldn’t have any colors in it. Worse was that the shades were all off and ugly. The dream ended with us looking for swatches bearing the right shade of our wedding colors.

In retrospect, I think it was more of a nightmare than a dream. brrrr.

30 days!

Flight booking, Japan: Check!

Flight booking, Davao: Check!

Tagum hotel, Golden Palace Hotel: Check!

Davao hotel, The Marco Polo Hotel: Check!

Flight booking, Boracay: Check!

Boracay hotel, Red Coconut Hotel: Check!

Flight booking, Manila: Check!

Manila Hotel, City Garden Hotel: Check!

Tagaytay Hotel, Sonya’s or the Boutique: TBC

Now, I will just have to remind myself again and again: it pays to wait.

bridal shoes inspiration

Hubbie and I looked for bridal shoes a couple of weeks back. After browsing the web for some time, we finally zeroed in on one style – Paris Hilton’s Belina. Totally fell for it.

But I got frantic this afternoon when I revisited the site and the site wasn’t working anymore!! Good thing I found a site or two which featured Paris Hilton’s bridal shoes launch which showed pictures of some shoes albeit it doesn’t show the color I wanted. =(

Lessons learned: get a screen-capture of your wedding detail inspirations!! I did  just now. =)

screen-captured from sassisamblog.com

I’m keeping the metallic-pewter and change the ivory parts to orange to have our color motif. Ah, excited! Can’t wait to show this to Richie and have Solea craft it. ^_^