Wedding flashback

Exactly a month ago, I was blessed to have been part of an intimate, beautiful and heartfelt wedding. Last 9-10-11, Mona's sister, Lanny, got married to Gibby, and the entire event - from the ceremony to reception - was filled with love, laughter, song, and tears of joy. (There was a lot of that, especially from the groom.)

It was my first time to organize a wedding at MMLDC, and I was delightfully surprised at how nice the place was. The function room where we had the reception was very cozy, with a lot of natural light coming in. Their furnishings were all made of hard wood, and this gave it an old world feel.



The theme of the wedding was "modern Filipiniana," and we wanted to carry it all throughout the event. So, in lieu of table numbers, we thought of giving the tables a local feel as well. And we did that by naming them after flowers in the Philippines.



There were 14 tables, so we racked our brains thinking of 14 different local flowers. It's a good thing we're a tropical country with rich flora. Coming up with different table names was easy.





There was one table name that we wish we could use, but didn't make the cut. It was "Chicharong Bulaklak."

It's little details like these that make a wedding so beautiful and memorable. Another wonderful detail was the "song mob" that Mona and her siblings did for Lanny. And of course, Lanny's heartfelt rendition of "You Changed my Life" that left Gibby in tears. (I looked around and there were a lot of misty eyes during that part, too.)

It was really a joyous celebration of love, and this is one of the reasons why I love being part of weddings.