Monthly Archives: July 2008

On Getting Married

Before getting married, it is important to decide once and for all if the person you are going to marry is the One. It is a fact that many marriages have ended in divorce or annulment. Well, we really can’t say for sure if a marriage is going to last forever or not, but it…

Conga Lines and Other Surprises

Don’t Be That Bride! is now a Mrs., and she has some surprising reflections on her big day: 1. CONGA LINES = SO NOT CHEESY. So, if anyone told me I’d have a conga line at my wedding, I would have told them they were insane. I had this grand vision of this really elegant…

Left or Right Finger?

I have been intrigued on where to put the ring, whether an engagement or wedding ring. I see most married couples wear their rings on the left ring finger while some on the right. At first I thought maybe it depends on the culture, religion or traditional customs couples believe or follow. I was watching…

celebrity weddings and destinations

when we are all too focussed in choosing the spot where we will spend our days after the wedding, we may be guided by the celebrities’ top exotic wedding destinations in selecting the best place to go : 1. Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner – Turks and Caicos 2. Kenny Chesney and Renee Zellweger –…

A Wedding Against All Odds

Everything was perfectly planned. A beautiful entourage, their designer dresses and barongs perfectly fitted. The wedding giveaways of white wines for the primary sponsors, red wines for the secondary sponsors and unique mugs for other guests are all prepared. Sumptuous meal for the reception. The romantic old church was beautifully adorned with white laces and…

romantic marriage proposals

1)My fiancé surprised me at lunch! He had been talking about going out to a really fancy restaurant that night for dinner, so I thought that he would do it then. On his way to work, he passes by mine, so that day he asked if we could have lunch together. He had me pick…

Common Wedding Gifts on a Budget

I’m sure that most of us had attend a wedding ceremony so I guess most of us had bought wedding gifts as well. When we are invited into a wedding we always think of what good present to give the newly wed couples. Although we want to give them the best possible gifts that is…

A Very International Proposal

An interesting “proposal” here, a hilarious twist on the fairly-common proposal in a nice restaurant: Don Fransisco came around and asked us how we’d met each other, where we were from, and what we were doing in Beijing, and so forth. He spoke to Hugo in Spanish, but to the rest of us in English,…