on skylanterns and wedding venue

it was love at first sight for our wedding venue........ we love their gondola (see that pic, that's at the reception venue)..... it's unique and i haven't seen any wedding venue in the philippines that has that.... plus it reminds us of our gondola ride in venice which we truly truly enjoyed! oh! and we love the chapel that they have too.....it's so sophisticated and different.....

anyway, our contract with this venue is to pay Php50K to block our date, then pay 50% of the whole contract price in four payments and the remaining 50% will be paid 3 months before the wedding date....... our contract already includes the caterer, the string quartet, the basic lights and sounds, the florist, the mobile bar (for cocktails/mocktails) and one amenity (we got the gondola) and last june 27 was our last scheduled payment for the first half....... so that's like taking care of half the major wedding stuff already........

it's a challenge being an overseas couple and i get paranoid easily when i don't get the proofs of our payments from suppliers right away,  plus we need those receipts for accounting purposes.......... we've been waiting for our receipt from our venue since june 27 2011 (our last payment for the first half)  and as always my h2b would always try to calm me down, telling me to be patient and telling me that maybe they're busy with other couples with sooner wedding dates...... he's good at pacifying me, lol and somehow that helped......... so we waited for 2 more weeks and then finally, just last night (EST), we got our receipt! i am so relieved! i mean our venue isn't cheap, so the amount of money we have to shell out every time we're due to pay them is no joke, so i want the receipts for peace of mind...... plus i'm a meticulous accountant, i need to document all expenses.....


(i'm really a software engineer by profession but i take budgetting and logging expenses seriously, hehe).......

so anyway,  aside from apologizing and giving us our receipt, they also gave us the contact person for the skylanterns.....

i'm actually, partial to it.... i mean it looks pretty and everything but i don't get excited about it as much as h2b does plus it kinda scares me....... i don't like the thought of burnt dresses or eyebrows or worst nearby houses! but he's been pestering me about it ever since he saw videos and movies that shows skylanterns on wedding scenes....... so ok, ibigay ang hilig, lol........ besides, he agreed to pay for it, so i'm good, lol  (we split most of the wedding expenses) .......  

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