The Road to the Wedding

For the tight-budgeted couples looking for a great bargain on items and services for their upcoming weddings, Divisoria can be a mound of treasure just waiting to be scoured. What you need is a huge dose of patience and a critical eye for quality.

We scheduled a trip to Divisoria to find the material for our female abays. Since it was mama who knows the specific spot at Divisoria to buy tela, she tagged along with us.

It was pretty tough looking for the right shade of our motif but after going through the narrow walks of the place, we eventually were able to find them, and we found them in only one shop!

(Cel) and mama also tried to inquire about potential dressmakers who can offer services at a cheap price. We also tried to find materials for our invitations since we finally decided that we are going to make them ourselves. Jayvee (Vinz’s sister) is a whiz in DIY stuff and she is very much willing to “weave” for us. Jayvee doing our invitations will help us largely with our budget. (Vinz) will be doing the layout of the invitations so we also visited wedding invitation makers at Divisoria and inquired about their rates without them knowing that we’re just in there to gather ideas. Hehe! We too might be getting into the invitation design biz soon. Who knows?

There were also a lot of wedding souvenir items from candles to figurines to goblets… While (Vinz) was having crazy thoughts like Rubik’s cubes in mind since we are both into cubes, (Cel) and mama inquired further and found some good deals (which we won’t disclose yet, we want our souvenirs to be a surprise).

We still plan to go back there. We have only dug halfway.