Cake Tasting with Chef Kiko (Again!)

As promised, we had another cake tasting with Chef Kiko but this time I am with my w@wie friends. Nana is doing the laundry so he was not able to join us.

Our group picture 

As usual, we are late lol! Good thing that someone had dessert tasting that morning and did not take home the excess so there are desserts left for us yey!

Let's get started.. Chef served the following (our cake tasting was turned into dessert tasting) yey!

set-up is nice, this is making me droll

 Banana Walnut, Vanilla & Red Velvet

Dark Chocolate

Panna Cotta: Kitkat, Mango & Strawberry and Maltesers

Fruit Tart & Chocolate Truffles

mini banana walnut

sorry I forgot the name of the outer one but middle is Lemon cupcake

Verdict:

Like my previous post, I still love the cupcakes (^_^) moist, not airy type and not that sweet. I was able to try Red velvet with cream cheese and it was heavenly! Dark chocolate is really good too.. Lemon cupcake is good but I think it lacks the lemon flavor. 

Panna Cotta is rich and the consistency is perfect. taste? I love it! not that sweet the Kitkat balances the flavor.

I was not able to try the fruit tart but based on my friends it is also good

What I loved the most is the Chocolate Truffles as in Heaven! If only I was allowed to take home some I would love to get the truffles (I was just shy to ask for take home). I would love to add truffles to my desserts.. (just the memories of truffles makes me droll). If ever I'll get the dessert bar I would put this on top of my list.

Thank you Chef for the time he gaved us.. We love you.. (^_^)

9th Booked Supplier: Florist

Being a non traditional bride that I am you all know that I will not settle for beautiful flowers. Yes, I admit at first fresh flowers is what I wanted specially after seeing how pretty Peonies are! love love..

see how pretty this bouquet is...

What made me changed my mind?

1. I do not know if Peonies are in season during mg wedding day (I knew Peonies are in season during december).

2. I wanted to keep my bouquet. Yes, this can be preserved but not as beautiful as it was so I opted for a non-floral one.

I had several pegs from felt flowers to wooden flowers to fabric flowers with brooch until I finally decided to get a Full Brooch Bouquet. Why? I fell in love with the brooch bouquet that I saw on facebook.

Isn't this a cutie? And this is so ME! 

My other pegs for Bride's Bouquet

Pretty right? Now I am torn..

My Pegs for MOH, SS & BM

Peg for Mothers & Female Sponsor

of course, not in black in Pastel colors

Note: All pictures were taken from web (thru google)

I can't take my eyes off the first bouquet so what I did if to send a message to the page owner to ask for a quotation. After several weeks, I already booked my florist. The Unique Bouquet. She gave me a very reasonable rate considering my choices of non-floral bouquets.

The Package I got from Ms. Lorraine of The Unique Bouquet

1 Full Brooch Bouquet (Bride)

1 MOH Bouquet (Fabric w/ brooch)

3 SS Bouquet (Fabric w/ brooch)

4 BM bouquet (fabric w/ brooch)

6 Female Sponsor Fan (feather fan)

2 Mothers Fan (feather fan)

as freebie she gave us the following:

1 Throw Bouquet

1 Matching Groom's Boutonniere

1 personalized hanger

I am thinking of doing the FG's basket and male boutonniere by myself. I believe I can do this.. (^_^)

You can contact Ms. Lorraine thru the following:

Email: the.unique.bouquet@gmail.com

Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/theuniquebouquet

W@W EB 2013

July 7, 2013 (yes again that long ago) is the date that all w@wies are waiting for.. Our Grand EB yey! now is the chance to meet the faces behind the names..

The invite is so cute (made bu OJ of pretty pallete by OJ)

The hardest part is we have to wear red! I do not have lots of red clothes and do not have time to buy one fortunately, I found an old red dress that still fits me yey!

Look at our event pins again made my pretty pallete by OJ

it is actually Richelle & Ernie and vice versa (I just requested this as soft copy)

What made W@W EB special? The event is organized by w@wies for w@wies of course with the help of the ever supportive suppliers that is what we called "w@wlove"

There are different committees but kudos to the hard working decor committee and they provided us these different photo stations (we love all the stations) see our pictures below.

They are all cutie right? and my favorite photo wall is this (I am making this for our wedding) yes! that id how I love this..

I love the color (^_^)

The night was filled with laughters. The games were fun and superb (kudos to Program Committee). Food was good c/o Richgold. I also love chit-chatting with co-w@wies and some supplier friends. Another highlight of the event is the talk made by mimma, she gaved us advices that is truely worth remembering.

Thank you Mimma & Didda for the opportunity you gave us to meet our co-w@wies and to make new friends..

Just take a look how happy we are (^_^)

As the night ended with smiles in our face and all of us had goodies to take home..

see all these goodies? thank you to all sponsors

We also got the W@W Commemorative Coin (happiness!)

another gift! Maldives Fridge Magnet from Joed (so sweet)

This is not just an online community, but a new found family.. Thank you Mimma & Didda for the Love and Support.. (^_^)

I am part of w@w EB prize committee

2013 W@W EB is one of the most awaited event of all w@wies, This is open for the first 100pax only so as soon as the post for the registration for this event was posted I immediately registered making us the 5^th & 6^th attendees (^_^). Yeh!  that excited!

The registration also have a tick box if you wanted to be part of any committee since this event is by w@wies and for w@wies we have to work together for the event’s success and yes, I volunteered but did not specify which committee I like because I am okay with any committee (I won’t be choosy, I just wanted to help)

An email from our head coordinator saying that I am part of the Prize Committee (exciting!) then I looked at the emails of other members and saw familiar email addresses yey! I will be working with my w@wie friends Ren, May, Rachel, Nonna & Joy.

Our task is to provide prizes for games, raffle, sash for peer awards and surprise gift for mimma & didda

Here are the list of Prizes

For Games:
Game1 - 3pcs. Nail Tropics GC worth 500pesos each
Game2 - No Prizes
Game3 - Chocolates worth 1k
Game4 - 5pcs. Yabu GC worth 1k each
Game5 - 3pcs. Bridal Hangers

For Peer Awards
19pcs Sashes
Clay Stuff (serves as trophy) - sponsored by Charmed Clays

For Raffle:
1 Overnight voucher (Tagaytay)
Unity Coins - c/o Mimma
2 E-tickets for SM Cinema - c/o mimma & zoombox
Melafied GC for bridal hanger - c/o Melafied
Spa GC - Massage good for 2pax
500pesos La Senza GC
1 voucher for bridal shoes - c/o Mitch Camaclang
2 voucher for Pre-nup makeup - c/o Jen Gumban
Bridal Hanger - c/o The Unique Bouquet

And lots of other prizes (including naughty stuffs) as in the prizes are overwhelming. (^_^)

Prize committee group picture with Mimma, Didda & Joed

Here's what we gaved Mimma & Didda (personalized pillow cases and plaque)

The experience is so much fun (^_^). Thank you Mimma & Didda and Joed for making me part of this event. All effort is really worth it specially after receiving messages from other w@wies that the prizes were great.

Message from our head coordinator (Joed) after the party:

Uy!!! Share ko lang! Super happy ang mga tao sa mga prizes! Gustong gusto nila ang set ngayon kasi magagamit nila sa wedding!!! Galing!
Maraming salamat sa effort ng pagmakesure na maappreciate ang mga prizesssssss 
Pahinga na muna at magreminsce ng konti  Enjoy enjoy muna! 

This message makes me want to cry.. Hope to do this again (^_^)

I am Back! (Hopefully for good)

I missed blogging.. So many things happened already and I don't know if I can still remember everything but I will try my very best (promise!).

Lappy (my laptop) is still not okay, I decided not to buy a new one so the money will go to our wedding fund (^_^). Yes, It's really depressing that I need to force shutdown my lappy when it hangs but at least slowly but surely I am finishing one post (patience).

Going back, Today I am on vacation actually it started last Monday but due to holidays I am busy with non-wedding related stuff. I promised myself that I am dedicating this day to update my blog and tah dah! I am fulfilling my promise..

I will be listing the things that I will blog (the first 3 came from my previous post)

1. I am part of w@w EB prize committee

2. W@W EB 2013

3. 9th Booked Supplier: Florist

4. Cake Tasting with Chef Kiko (Again!)

5. 10th Booked Supplier: Wedding Shoes

6. 2nd Change of Heart: Church

7. 7th Food Tasting: Purple Dish Catering (Again!)

8. 8th Food tasting: Passion Cooks

9. Designer Meeting #1: Paulo Blanco

10. Trial Make Up#1: Eds Go

11. Trial Make Up #2: CJ Jimenez

12. 9th Food Tasting: Old Swiss Inn

13. Trial Make Up #3: Gold Magtoto

14. 10th Food Tasting: Bridal Book's Tasteful Endings

15. Designer Meeting #2: Gretchen Pichay

16. Designer Meeting #3: Ammon Velasco

17. Initial Sketch from Michelle Camaclang

18. 3rd Change of Heart: Couturier

19. 11th Booked Supplier: Acoustic Band

20. I got Qouted! W@W 2013-2014 Primer
21. W@W 2013 Chistmas Party

This is such a long list.. This is all that I remember (for now) will add more to the list. I need to start right?