Ang Pulot-Gata sa Palawan

Honeymoon... Honeymoon... Honeymoon... Eto daw ang pinakahihintay ng bagong kasal right after the wedding... time to rest and time to baby dance... :)

Kinabukasan, June 3, eto ang schedule namin ni hubby papuntang Palawan. 'Yun kase ang napili naming lugar para sa honeymoon. So months before, nagsearch n ko sa net ng mga hotels and itinerary. Napili kong magstay sa Audissie Pension House, very affordable at hindi nmn kami binigo. Tahimik ang lugar, malinis at higit sa lahat mabait ang staff. Personal pa kaming sinundo sa airport ng anak ng may-ari. Masarap ang kanilang pagkain at talaga namang abot kaya. For 5 days 4 nights stay with Tour Packages for two (Underground River, City Tour, and Honda Bay Island Hopping) and daily breakfast, we paid Php10,600 only. Ang room namin maganda, maayos ang airconditioning, with own cabinet at may daily room cleaning pa with change of bedding and towels (oh db???).

Audissie Pension House:

31 Malvar Street, Puerto Princesa City 5300
Palawan, Philippines


Telephone Numbers:

(6348) 434-6430
(6348) 723-2899

Mobile Numbers:

+63917-568-8564
+63928-673-3110
+63929-466-3838

Email Address:

info@audissiepension.com



Ang location nila walking distance din sa palengke, park and church. Pwede kang magpasyal pasyal sa gabi kase super safe. According sa research namin at sa info from locals ang city daw nila ay may mga CCTV cameras kaya ang mga tricycle dun may body number sa bubong.

Super saya ng experience namin dito at nasakto pang Baragatan (Food Festival) parang banchetto lang sa metro manila. hehehehe...  Aside from safety, superb ang mga pagkain nila dito. First resto stop namin ang "Badjao Seafront Restaurant." From the Pension, sumakay kami ng tricycle Php50 isang biyahe at mas okay kung magpapahintay ka sa driver kase bihira ang tricycle sa lugar na un, all you need to do is pay Php150 at hihintayin k n ng driver. The best and bagoong rice nila and adobong Kangkong. We also had Grilled Tanigue and sinigang na hipon. Expenses??? Php715.00 ... super sulit!!!!

We also tried Itoy's Coffee Haus, ang mga kakaibang pangalan at timpla ng kape. Ito ang kanilang local Starbucks... :)  Another must try in Palawan.

Kung ang hanap mo naman ay Crispy Pata, KINABUCH Grill and Bar ang puntahan. The best ang crispy pata nila parang crispy but something that melts in the mouth. We also had gising gising at ang famous na kanin ni 04. Sayang nga lang at wala silang tamilok that time which we planned to try.

Ang pinaka the best sa lahat... "Kalui Restaurant" .... Sa lahat ng masasarap na kinain namin, ito ang pinaka the best experience. Ambiance??? Big 10... iiwan mo ang sapatos or slippers mo sa labas... yes, nakapaa ka pagpasok pero super linis ng sahig, pati staff nakapaa din lahat. Food??? they will get 10 from us! We ordered the set for the day for only Php395 good for two na yan. From appetizer to dessert...  I tried to check the restroom, sinulit ko ang pagpunta ko sa lugar na yun... my way to the washroom, nakita ko pa ang ibang part ng resto... super talaga ang paghanga ko, interior???? Big 11 out of 10... and the washroom??? Big 10 as well, malinis at mabango. Pinacheck ko nga kay hubby ung sa lalaki at wala din syang masabi kundi ang ganda talaga ng lugar. A super must try place in Palawan.

Aside sa mga resto, marami din night life sa Palawan and you must try crocodile sisig, kakaiba pero masarap, a bit pricey like Php320 pero sulit naman... :) And ofcourse do not forget the street foods, marami din silang kakaibang mga pagkain at masarap. :)  This 5 days experience in Palawan is always be the best... and because this is the first 5 days of our marriage life. :)

Iba Pang Larawan ng Aming Kasal

-= PASASALAMAT =-

Maraming tao ang gusto naming pasalamatan na nagbahagi ng oras, panahon, idea, at pinansyal. Sa lahat ng dumalo, sa lahat ng miyembro ng aming entourage at sa mga taga Matipunso San Antonio Quezon na nagtulong tulong sa paghahanda ng pagkain at pag aasikaso sa mga bisita namin.... Maraming salamat po sa inyong lahat.... At syempre, hindi namin maaaring makalimutang pasalamatan ang mga sumusunod:

Nanay Pury - gumawa ng aking bridal gown at kasuotan ng aking mga abay/flower girls
Ivan Maverick Oreste - soundtrack music... kahit last minute notice, ginawa p din nya... :)
Christina Oquendo - sa magandang boses... salamat sa pagkanta sa wedding ceremony
Art Biescas at Ma'am Belet - sa pangunguna sa programa
Aris Esguerra and the Band - live band sa reception
Eljay Montallana - ang aking personal coordinator
Inday and Ayie - shuttle coordinators
Tita Eya - catering at decoration ng venue
Tere Oliveros - for assisting me on everything :)
Roger and company - photography
Rostum - hair and make-up

At syempre, taos pusong pasasalamat sa Dakilang Lumikha sa pagbibigay sa amin ng ganitong pagkakataon, sa aming mga magulang na naggugol ng panahon at tulong pinansyal.

Maraming maraming salamat sa pagiging parte ng isa sa pinakamahalagang kabanata ng aming buhay. :)

Picture ... Picture ... (Ang Aming Wedding Photographer... Si Roger)

For our photos and video, my friend kumare Tere recommended her friend Roger. She said Roger is new in the business but has great outputs with reasonable price. She gave me Roger's number, I texted him and he gave me the details for their photo and video service. We opted to have the pre-nuptial pictorial because of the hectic schedule and that time, we needed to go to the province every week for the preparation, though I really love to do it. Roger is a shy type of person based on my first impression. He speaks so soft but he's very nice and approachable. We got the package for Php21,500. We had 3 photographers and three for video and all of them are nice and funny. I really had fun when we had our early morning photo-shoot during preparation. I know they were lack of sleep, a bit tired but still they managed to smile and did a good job. I enjoyed when we shot our video 'coz i felt like a celebrity posing for a magazine with several cameras capturing my every pose. Cameras are around me, and all I needed to do was face them with a smile every time they called my name. It was tiring but I really enjoyed it especially working with those professionals. They did a good job from the hotel, church, reception until the final pictorial. How I wished it wasn't raining, maybe we had so much shots in the resort. I won't forget this team. I even requested Roger to take care of my eyebags in the photos hehehe... I wasn't able to sleep for 2 days!!! After one month Roger, told us that the pictures, video, album and the portrait are ready so we met him at Market Market to claim the pictures. Tere was right, Roger's group gives nice outputs. I love the photos, I love the album and the portrait?? it wasn't what I expected. I thought it was the normal wedding picture after the ceremony in front of the altar, but I was wrong; Roger surprised us on the portrait picture. It's unique. That's all I can say. Great Job Roger and Team!!!

***You can search Roger from my facebook (Mitchie Canimo-Cobero)

- Roger Sembrano -

Marriage License - Ang Pinaka-Importanteng Papel ^-^

Fee (s):

P 130.00 - application form and filing fee

P 100.00 - counseling and Family Planning Certificate

Procedure:

1. Register at Window 6 (5 minutes)

2. Pay at Window B – Miscellaneous and Taxes Division (20 minutes)

3. Attend Pre-Marriage Counseling at the Makati Social Welfare Department, 5th Flr., new Makati City Hall, (3 hours) Civil Registry Info-dissemination (30 minutes) and Family Planning Seminar at the Health Department, 7th Flr., new Makati City Hall. (3 hours)

4. Submit requirements and get application form at Window 6 (10 minutes)

5. Fill-up application forms for Marriage License (1 hour)

6. Pay at Window B – Miscellaneous and Taxes Division (20 minutes)

7. Initial interview by the Division Head (20 minutes)

8. Review, Interview and Administration of Oath by the City Civil Registrar

9. Typing of notice, registration on registry book (1 hour)

10. Posting (10 days)

11. Issuance of Marriage License (10 minutes)

Requirements:

1. Certified Copy of Birth /Baptismal Certificate. Bring original for authentication. (We requested this though NSO online. Papers were delivered after three days…. So convenient  :) )

2. Residence Certificates (We got this from our Barangay hall)

3. Parental Advice (21 yrs. – 25 yrs. old) – (My husband needed this since he’s just 25 when we got married… :) )

4. Pre-Marriage Counseling (from DSWD and MHD) – (We needed to attend a pre-marriage counseling together with several couples. A happily married couple for 50 yrs I guess conducted the seminar. They discussed common problems of husband and wife and how to handle every issue. I found this very helpful and interesting since they shared real life stories. The seminar started at 8AM until 11:30AM. We were too sleepy since we came from work that day, and we were thinking if we can still attend the family planning seminar since we would be hearing the same thing as discussed when we had our pre-Cana seminar. Well ofcourse we know it would be kinda different since pre-Cana seminar is more on natural family planning. What we did, we talked to the OIC of the seminar and asked what would be the best thing to do. We told her that we came from work and we already attended some family planning seminar. Our goal was to convince her that we no longer need the seminar. But ofcourse it’s part of the requirements for us to get our marriage license. Seminar will start at 1PM; before that we took our chance and went to the seminar area to talk to the OIC and luckily, she allowed us not to attend the seminar but what she did was she had a one on one seminar with us. It took us 20 minutes (which is better and favorable for us :) ) before she gave our clearance. Then finally, we brought our clearances and requirements to the third floor of city hall for the application of our license. After they checked our requirements, we filled out the form and they gave us the date of release then went home and rest… :)

5. Barangay Certificate (for Makati residents) – (We bought this from our barangay hall)

6. NSO Certificate of No Record of Marriage for both parties - (We requested this though NSO online together with our birth certificates)

 

Applying for our marriage license was not that easy since our work is at night and we needed to sacrifice our sleeping moment just to get the most important requirement for our wedding. Marriage license expires after 120 days so we needed to fix this three weeks before the wedding. This was the last requirement on our list. Weeks before we applied to our marriage license, I did some research on the requirements and where to go, because I made sure that it would be a one time big time application and the only time we will go back is on the release date. Exactly ten days after we applied, we got our marriage license and we needed to bring it to San Antonio, Quezon the next weekend.

***Requirements done, but still we had so much to do. 2 weeks left…

Pre-Cana Seminar

It's been a while since the last time I wrote on this blog. I never had time for real time updates, hehe. Anyway, our month of April was dedicated for our pre-Cana seminars. We needed to go to Quezon every weekend to attend mass and seminars. It was tiring but we had fun. The first time we met other couples included in the seminar, we noticed that we are the oldest couple. Most of them are on their early twenties and few couples are still nineteen. I couldn’t imagine how they decided to get married at an early age… Or I just decided late???? :D   In our pre-cana seminar, they discussed about marriage, how to keep your marriage, how to take care of each other, how ready you are to get married, couple’s responsibilities, parenthood, parent’s responsibilities to children, and as always… the natural family planning. You need to listen carefully so you can give answer to their on the spot questions… J  Our last day of seminar took us whole day, so we had our lunch there; “delicious ginataang isda with talong.” (Yummy) After hearing the final reminder from Father Arnel, we went back to Manila. Another achievement for our wedding preparation.:)

Ang Singsing

SA WAKAS!!! This is the 5th time na pumunta kami ng Ongpin to shop for our wedding ring. Yes, limang beses na kaming nagpupunta dito at sa paulit ulit na store lang din naman... The last time we went there, nauwi lang sa foodtrip ang lahat. Past ten na yata ng umaga eh sarado pa rin ang mga stores na pupuntahan namin. At dahil sa hindi naman kasipagan maghintay at maglakad lakad ang h2b ko, we decided to come back na lang. We planned to come back Monday, after lunch daw para sure na bukas na lahat. At sa kainitan ng araw naimagine ko ang paglalakad namin sa kahabaan ng ongpin. Okay lang, para naman to sa singsing... hahaha. Good thing, medyo natagalan kami sa MarketMarket, dun kase nagpagawa ng barong si h2b, kaya almost 3 na ng nakaalis kami papuntang Ongpin. Sakto palubog na ang araw at hindi na ganun kainitan, pero sana abutan pa naming bukas ang mga target naming stores. Pagdating namin sa Ongpin, una naming pinuntahan ang "Wenjen Merchandise" maganda nmn ang review sa kanya at noong una namin itong binisita, maganda ang offer sa amin. Pagpasok namin sa store, busy ang lahat, at mukha nag-iba pa nga ang interior ng store. Dati kc para syang lumang tindahan na konti lang ang alahas na nakadisplay pero ngaun, maliwanag at parang dumami pati ang staff. At dahil walang pumapansin sa 'min, lumabas n lng kami; "x" mark... move tayo sa sunod na store. Next naming target ang "JA Fine Art." Medyo misteryoso sa amin ang store na 'to. Sa apat na beses kase kaming bumalik dito, lagi itong sarado pero magaganda ang feedback sa store na 'to. Affordable but the quality you can trust. "Curiosity" yan ang nagtulak sa amin na pumasok dito... Ngayon lang kase namin naabutan na bukas ang store na 'to. Pagpasok namin, isang tinderang hindi halos nagsasalita at ang pretty na may-ari ang tao dito. Pagtingin namin sa mga wedding rings naexcite si h2b kase nakakita sya ng singsing na saktong sakto sa design na gusto namin noon pa. Halos katulad ito ng bond ring namin. Ironic kase saktong sakto sya sa description na inimagine namin noon. No second thought we asked for our finger sizes and thank God kase meron available sa sizes namin. We tried to haggle at dahil super nice naman ang owner bukod sa pretty pa sya, she gave us 1,200 discount. Not bad for a pair of perfectly two-toned designed rings. At take note... Ito ang design na inimagine namin for our wedding rings... Meant to be... PERFECT!

Thanks to:

JA Fine Art

923 Ongpin Street Binondo, Manila

Ang Aming Entourage

Ang Aming Mga Magulang:                             

                                       G. Evenizer Cobero at Gng. Emma Cobero

                                       G. Joelito Canimo at Gng. Evangeline Laroza

Ang Mga Gabay sa Aming Buhay:

                                        G. Rodolfo Viray at Gng. Marieta Viray

                                        Kon. Nehemis Katigbak at Gng. Merilynda Katigbak

                                        G. Mansueto Lacerna at Kon. Edna Perez

                                        Kapt. Conrado "Bebot" Cruz at Gng. Maria Elena Olet

                                        G. Felipe Baculpo at Gng. Nerita Yabor

Ginang Pandangal at Ang Kanyang Piling Ginoo:

                                        Ann Cheyserr Esguerra at Norberto Ebit Jr.

Binibining Pandangal at Ang Kanyang Piling Ginoo:

                                        Kristine Anne Alvarez at Mark Kevin Lacerna

Mga Natatanging Ginoo, Ginang at Mga Binibini:

                                        Christine Sta. Maria at Dan Renz manaluz

                                        Jeanette Cobero at Christopher De Guzman

                                        Maria Ayesa Cendaña at Junar Samonte

                                        Leilanie Ortiz at Adrian Garcia

                                        Nikkilyn Ayende at Roel Cesar Cabbab

                                        Justine Marie Laroza at Maverick Ivan Oreste

                                        Ma. Teresa Rosal Oliveros at Sonny Ver Soneja

                                        Maria Lynette Domingcil at Levirato Yabor Jr.

Magbibigay Tanglaw sa Aming Landas:

                                        Ma. ElenitaGarin at Patrick Abunales

Magbibigay-sukob sa Aming Pagmamahalan:

                                        Grace Amion at Ralph Miguel Gruta

Magbibigkis ng Tali ng Katiwasayan:

                                        Bernadeth Alcause at Louie Dacula

Tagapag-saboy ng Tamis at Halimuyak:

                                        Mary Joy Reprado

                                        Edelwies Balawang

                                        Mariaj Jewel De Ramos

                                        Azalia Layla Eowien Esguerra

                                        Lian Andrea Apelado

Tagapag-ingat ng Sagisag ng Kasaganahan:

                                        Christian Andrew Lacerna

Tagapag-ingat ng Sagisag ng Pagmamahalan:

                                        Ian Ruel Balawang

Tagapag-alaga ng Sagisag ng Pananampalataya:

                                        Arl France Adlao

Paring Tagapangasiwa:  Fr. Arnelo Galeon

                                       

                         

Invitations & Souvenirs

Next step, binaybay naman namin ni hubby ang Quiapo para sa second invitations. Hindi lang pala sa Recto maraming gumagawa ng murang invitations, kahit dito sa Quiapo marami din. First stall: wala kaming bet... Maraming magaganda pero wala ang spark at ring ng bell akong narinig... Second Stall: may bet kami ni hubby, cute, simple and elegant kaso medyo mahal at minimum of 100 pieces dapat ang order mo... Sayang but we need to move on... :)  Third stall: KABOOM!!! eto na to. Sabay pa kami magcomment na maganda ang invitation sample na 'yun at bongga! swak sa budget, kahit ilan pa ang ipagawa mo. Mabait nmn at very accommodating si Ate Mary at higit sa lahat madaling tawaran... (HEHEHE) Dito na rin kami nakakita ng third and fourth batch of giveaways para sa mga bisita.. Pati thank you card, dito na din... pati na rin signature frame dito na.. hehehe... Mas madali kaseng tawaran si ate kapag marami. Ewan ko lang kung talagang nakatipid kami, (sana naman.. :) ) Sa total na P9680, meron na kaming 80 pieces embossed style invitations, 150 pcs. personalized 4th set of souvenirs, 26 pcs. 2nd set souvenirs and 216 hard plastic thank you tags. Nakamura kaya ako????? And finally tapos na usapan sa souvenirs, start na ng gawaan but we need to wait for a month bago namin makuha. And for the invitation, kinailangan namin bumalik kinabukasan kase isusulat ko pa ang entourage ko at wala pa ang kanilang complete name. So kinabukasan, balik kami kay Ate Mary, dun na rin kami gumawa ng "anik-anik" na pwede ng ilagay sa invivation. Syempre tagalog ang drama kaya mejo mahirap mag-isip... Naisip namin ni hubby  na maglagay ng words from the bible, at ito ang aming napili:

Hebreo 13:4-7

"4. Ang pag-aasawa ay marangal sa lahat at ang pagsasamahan ng mag-asawa ay walang dungis. Ngunit hahatulan ng Diyos ang mga mapakiapid at mga mangangalunya."

"5. Ang pamumuhay ninyo ay dapat walang pag-ibig sa salapi. Masiyahan na kayo sa mga bagay na taglay ninyo sapagkat sinabi ng Dioys: Kailanman ay hindi kita iiwan at kailanman ay hindi kita pababayaan."

"6. Kaya nga, masasabi natin na may pagtitiwala; Ang Panginoon ang aking katulong. HIndi ako matatakot. Ano ang magagawa ng tao sa akin?"

"7. Alalahanin ninyo ang inyong mga tagapangasiwa na nagpapayahag ng salita ng Diyos sa inyo. At tularan ninyo ang kanilang pananampalataya habang minamasdan ninyo ang hangarin ng kanilang buhay."

Very Nice diba??? Instead na mga kanta or mga sayings, mas maganda kung words of God.