A glimpse of future Sundays

We attended Ali and Ana's wedding last Saturday in Pampanga. Ana was praying for rains to pass up on her Big Day, but it seemed that heavy rains were really destined to come anyway. Contrary to what she most feared, their simple yet very solemn wedding ceremony turned out to be a well-organized event. It was an inspiration to us, actually. Originally, they scheduled their wedding month same time as ours (December). Our pamanhikan happened a week before theirs. However, it was their grandparents' wish at their pamanhikan for it to be rescheduled three months earlier. Their reason: why wait any longer?

We couldn't wait for our own wedding day, if you were to ask us. But because we are wedding dummies, we have to take our time. No regrets there. Again, if you were to ask us, we are very excited for that day!

Sometimes, we would imagine how our ordinary days would be like when we're already married. On weekday mornings, Vincent would cook breakfast while I go pack our lunch boxes. We'll see each other at the end of the day and again, he will cook dinner while I will do the dishes right after (you can tell who the food critic in the making will be). On Sunday evenings, he tunes in to lite rock radio while cooking (na naman!) and I would be doing the laundry...

That will happen in just less than three months from now.

Ali and Ana's Wedding Day

Saturday, 22 September 2007, 10AM
Bible Christian Church of Pampanga (BCCP)

Simpsonized

I don't know if Vincent will change his mind in marrying me after seeing this (patay!).

Been experimenting with Emang's Simpsonizer and tried it out with our banner picture. I just Simpsonized our faces, minus the background, although I'm not sure if that can also be done. I swear, this is the closest resemblance I could "assemble". We look like aging parents of ten children with ADHD here! Hahaha!

Original photo

Simpsonized us!

Almost there!

As Tracy Turnblad (Hairspray) would sing, "I can hear the bells!"

Not that there are bells at the CRL Sanctuary, because there's none, yet we can hear them just the same!

Just three months to go...three months to go...

No matter what you weigh, I'll surrender happily

We caught Hairspray last week, just in time before it totally disappeared in cinemas. When we looked up the Internet for screening schedules, we had to choose between the Gateway Mall and SM City Iloilo (in case you're not from the Philippines, Iloilo is in the Visayas, another big island off Manila)! Tsk, tsk. You have no idea how unimaginable our dilemma was (eyes rolling). And since it's too late to catch the next plane to Iloilo, we just settled for Gateway instead. Hay (of course, you wouldn't bite that. Hahaha!).

HAIRSPRAY's official movie trailer.

The cinema was quite box empty when we took our reserved seats. That left us with more room to stretch out our tummies after downing each a tub of rice bowl toppings for dinner. We secretly belched in between gags of laughter as we enjoy the movie all the way. Well, Hairspray is a musical comedy. But for us, it was more fun than music. There were scenes where we were the only ones laughing -- like we're the only ones who saw humor in certain scenes that our fellow moviegoers didn't see coming, and then the crowd just laughs off right after. Apparently, they were laughing at the way we laugh, not at the scene. How embarrassing! Thank goodness for cinema lighting, they wouldn't see clearly who the clowns were.

Without Love stood out as one of our favorites in this 60s' era music repertoire. Listen to the song HERE and sing along (lyrics from the movie).



WITHOUT LOVE
Artists: Zac Efron (Link), Nikki Blonsky (Tracy), Amanda Bynes (Penny), Elijah Kelley (Seaweed)
Source: http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/hairspray/withoutlove.htm


LINK
Once I was a selfish fool
Who never understood
I never looked inside myself
Though on the outside, I looked good!

Then we met and you made me
The man I am today
Tracy, I'm in love with you
No matter what you weigh
'Cause...

LINK (& ENSEMBLE)
Without love
Life is like the seasons with no summer
Without love
Life is rock 'n' roll without a drummer

Tracy, I'll be yours forever
'Cause I never wanna be
Without love
Tracy, never set me free
No, I ain't lyin'
Never set me free, Tracy,
No, no, no!!

SEAWEED
Living in the ghetto
Black is everywhere you go
Who'd have thought I'd love a girl
Whose skin as white as winter's snow

PENNY
In my ivory tower
Life was just a hostess snack
But now I've tasted chocolate
And I'm never going back

PENNY & SEAWEED & ENSEMBLE
'Cause without love

SEAWEED
Life is like a beat that you can't follow

PENNY & SEAWEED & ENSEMBLE
Without love

PENNY
Life is Doris Day at the Apollo

PENNY & SEAWEED & ENSEMBLE
Darling, I'll be yours forever
'Cause I never wanna be
Without love

SEAWEED
So darling, never set me free
No!

PENNY & SEAWEED
I'm yours forever
Never set me free

ENSEMBLE
No, no, no!

LINK
If I'm left without my baby doll
I don't know what I'll do

TRACY
Link, I've got to break out
So that I can get my hands on you

SEAWEED
And girl, if I can't touch you
Now I'm gonna lose control

PENNY
Seaweed, you're my black white knight
I've found my blue-eyed soul

SEAWEED & ENSEMBLE
Sweet freedom is our goal

LINK
Trace, I wanna kiss ya!

TRACY
Let me out at the next toll!

ALL
Without love

SEAWEED
Life is like a prom
that won't invite us

ALL
Without love

LINK
Life's getting my big break
and laryngitis

ALL
Without love

PENNY
Life's a '45'
when you can't buy it

ALL
Without love

TRACY
Life is like my mother
on a diet

ALL
Like a week that's only Mondays
Only ice cream, never sundaes
Like a circle with no center
Like a door marked "do not enter!"

Darling, I'll be yours forever
'Cause I never wanna be...

Without love

PENNY & LINK
Yes now you've captured me

ENSEMBLE
Without love

SEAWEED & TRACY
I surrender happily

ENSEMBLE
Without love

PENNY
Oh seaweed
Never set me free

PENNY & SEAWEED
No, no, no

TRACY & LINK
No, I ain't lyin'

PENNY & SEAWEED
Never set me free

ALL
No, no, no
No, I dont wanna live without

PENNY
Love, love, love

LINK
Yeah, yeah, yeah

ALL
Darling, you had best believe me,
Never leave me
without love!

Who's Who on the Red Carpet

We are going to RSVP our guests by October and like what we've mentioned a couple of times before, our invites will carry minimal content, just the way we want it to be. It is going to be The Invitation, plain and simple. No more classic curly fonts, no doves, no bells, and no scents -- you know, those traditional elements that Glen, one of our Best Men, misses. Sorry dude, but we have to skip on those...or save them on your wedding day, maybe? Hehehe. Just kidding :-)

This entourage page wouldn't even be inserted to the final invite, but this doesn't necessarily mean that these special people are not at all important. Of course they are that's why we're putting them up here...in curly Edwardian script font! By the way, 97% of our red carpet royals are family members.

THE ENTOURAGE


Parents
Joel and Fe Abrigo
Conrado and Rosita Manglal-lan


Principal Sponsors
Alberto S. Abrigo
Ruben S. Abrigo
Eric A. Francisco
Elmer R. Manglal-lan

Jasmin M. Acode
Nida A. Cruz
Agnes A. De Guia
Virginia R. Eala
Helen N. Francisco
Lolita J. Macadaan
Rosa A. Miranda
Crizalda A. Peralta


Best Men
Glen R. Dedicatoria
Edmundo Y. Mallari, Jr.


Ring Bearer
Carlos N. Navales


Bible Bearer
Joberth R. Navarro


Maids of Honors
Sheryl M. Manglal-lan
Marlene M. Navarro


Flower Girls
Mariel N. Francisco
Bless Ann N. Uy