and i never win anything

Yesterday, Crave 95.3fm called me and said I won 2 tickets to the premiere of "August Rush" tonight. Last week while I was bored at work, I decided to enter every single radio show contest and lookee here, I actually won something! The only downside is I have to drive out to Ditchmond to see it.
Oh well. Free movie. Can't complain.

wedding date

Finally, our wedding date has been finalized now - September 27, 2008!
The church (St. Augustine's) has finally been confirmed so the next big thing we need to confirm is the reception venue. We've visited a few venues such as, Hotel Vancouver Fairmont, Renaissance, Terminal City Club, Coast Plaza Hotel and none of them are as professional as the Four Seasons. What a fabulous room. Fabulous hotel. Fabulous wedding coordinator. He knows exactly what he's doing. At the other places, they just showed us the room and said, "have any questions?" but this guy at the Four Seasons took time to chat with us about what we would like, what services are available at no charge and what hidden costs are. Loved it!! Here's a photo of the room:

Unlike the other rooms we've seen, this one is not a basic square/rectangle shape. It's got 3 entrances/exits and is a diamond shape goes diagonally. Also, how lovely that the dance floor isn't in the middle of the dining area. It is off to the side near the bar so dining will be much more enjoyable without this empty vast space in the middle of the floor. We also won't be having our head table at the forefront, as if we are preciding over the whole reception. Instead we'll have an oval shaped table in the middle of the dining area so no one is sitting in a line, but just like all the other guests. Who wants to just talk to the person to your left and right? BORING. This way too, I can turn around and talk to guests at a table behind us.

I also finally have my bridal party picked out (Jason is still deciding his):
Melissa is my MOH and Sandy and my cousin Jackie will be my bridesmaids!
We are making great progress here folks. After we book the reception venue, we don't have to worry about the nitty gritty till next year!!

dancing at my desk

Whitney Houston's "How Will I Know" is on the radio right now and i'm shimmeying down at my desk.
WHOOPAH

mine eyes! mine eyes!

hmm, so i'm a bit worried about my left eye. last friday i wore my glasses, to give my eyes a break from the contact lens. saturday morning, my left eye wouldn't open up completely. it wasn't all that noticeable, but i felt that my eye wasn't opening up as much as my right. so i wore my glasses on saturday. sunday, it felt a lot better. it was opened up fully, didn't feel like there was something on the top of my eyeball. i figured it's probably a sty.
this morning, i woke up and put on my glasses like i usually do, to help navigate from the bedroom to the washroom. my left eye was a bit blurry, it wasn't completely focused which i thought was weird. i had my glasses on. i should have perfect vision. that's never happened before.
so of course the hypochondriac in me has woken up and is now worrying me to no end. i could go to my optamolo...eye doctor, but i think i visited him already earlier this year which means my insurance won't cover another visit within the same year.
o, what to do. i can't seem to diagnose myself with the nurse book or by researching the internet.
boo. what to do.

done deal

the wedding coordinator at st augustine's called this morning and said they're available September 27 @ 1 p.m. for our wedding ceremony. so i called back and left a message minutes ago saying we want to book! hopefully that's all she needs to confirm for now and it's a done deal!

yay! one more thing to cross off the list!

Happy Halloween!

hello ghouls and beasts,

just an update, i found THE dress (not the one pictured below, i actually went shopping and bought one) and sorry i won't be posting up a photo as i want it to be a surprise! lovely simple dress, raw silk and strapless. it's fabulous and i look fabulous in it!

feel sorry for mum though because she wanted to drag on the search for months, but i won't have any of that. i can't possible be bothered to try on dress after dress, especially when i found THE dress anyway! wedding dress shopping is a hassle. you need to make an appointment to come in, and then they ooh and aww over the ugliest meringue dress you've ever seen.

anyway, gonna get my bangs trimmed and then having company for a horror flickfest and pizza pigout.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYBODY!!

THE dress

sandy and i went gown shopping last weekend, but it wasn't as successful as we thought. since i still can't get my head around the fact that i'm getting married, i thought, let's go somewhere where i won't be too overwhelmed (by the salespeople mostly) so we went to the Bay Bridal Shop downtown. Pure Crap! I found out the Bay doesn't have a bridal shop, the space is rented out by a retailer, whose stock consisted of meringues and gowns that were popular in the 80s. so we left and decided that was the end of our gown excursion and we ended up barhopping the rest of the day till it was time to go to bed.

Anyway, flipping through a few bridal mags, i found THE gown - who knows if it will look nice on me, but i think it's just dreamy.......

i'm a big fan of the lace cap sleeves, the victorian, romantic sort of stuff. i'm not into the tiered-wedding cake dresses or the ones with all the baubles on it. beads, fake jewels, OTT embellishments, it's just not me.

ireland trip

wow 2 posts in 1 day

i got an interim raise today.
big whoopeedoodoo
4%
wow!
now i can have that dream over the top wedding i always wanted

wedding bells

so jason asked me, i said yes and now what?

a lot of planning that's what.

this just may end up being a bridezilla blog from here till next fall since I don't want to be "one of those" where my end of the conversation with friends is mostly about wedding stuff. so i guess this will be my arena to blah blah blah about w day topics.

Ceremony venue:
SO! today I got a reply back from St. Augustine's Church, and although the wedding coordinator is out of office till the end of the month, the Parish Secretary thinks that the dates we have in mind won't be a problem since we've requested 12 mos ahead. However, we still need to get the dates confirmed with the coordinator when she gets back. I also registered myself as an official member of the parish - who knew it would so easy as a click and send? I didn't. Why didn't my parents ever register our family at their parish? how weird. i didn't know till recently that the reason people get envelopes for their donation at Mass is because they are official members of the parish! what a dits. thanks mum & dad.
it would be my absolute dream to have our ceremony at St Augie's since I went to school there and i remember my time there being a blast. i loved all my classmates and the teachers and going to school was actually fun. so my memories of St Augustine's are very happy ones.

Reception venue:
i originally wanted our reception to be at the vancouver art gallery, but those dreams were crushed when i saw how much they charge. for the space. $4000 deposit for the space only. doesn't include any food or anything. plus they want 10% of the total spent to be given as a donation to the gallery. well fuck that.
so we checked out a few places. ones i like are:

• Cecil Green House at UBC (ubc alumni get dibs on booking) - it's a gorgeous heritage home by the museum of anthropology. the only problem is the capacity.
• Hotel Vancouver Fairmont - they have these fabulous wedding packages that seem affordable; however, how much to rent the ballroom space? I don't know! we will have to see
• Pan Pacific - if mum and dad will foot the bill hoo ha ha
• Sutton Place - nice hotel, i hear of great service from ppl who have had their wedding receptions there. but again, how much?
• Bayshore - coal harbour, nice view, need i say more?

and so far, those are the places we've thought of so far. since we're aiming for a fall wedding, we've eliminated venues with a nice garden etc because chances are it will rain and no one will care to look outside and appreciate the grounds. so long as it's nice inside (no plastic chairs, proper tabletops, cloths and chair covers) that's fine by me.

if we can at least get the venues down, we can relax and perhaps not worry about wedding stuff until the next year :o) i can only hope......