Wedding Expo Philippines

It's September. Aleq and I have seven months to go before our happy day, and we are really hunkering down into the nitty-gritty of wedding planning. We were incredibly busy with work in August, so we kind of fell behind a bit with the wedding stuff. We're getting back into it though, and today we accomplished a lot.

The Wedding Expo Philippines was the biggest bridal fair we've been to so far. It was held at the SMX Convention Center at the Mall of Asia, so that can give you an idea of the scale of the event. The booths were a lot bigger, and there were a lot more suppliers there than the others we've been to.

Wedding Expo Philippines

By now though, the fiance and I are hustlers when it comes to wedding expos, since we've already been to - and survived - two previous ones. We breezed through today's event, skipping the booths we've seen before, waving away supplier brochures we're not interested in, and making a beeline for the booths we wanted to check out.

Caterer - Check!

The fiance and I went to the Wedding Expo Philippines today (more on that in my next post), and we finally booked our caterer, Josiah's Catering! It was actually our primary reason for going to the expo - we were meeting Karla, our banquet events consultant there.

After the initial food tasting, Aleq and I were pretty much set on Josiah's. We would have booked them then and there, but we had to finalize our contract with our venue first. We had to decide between a venue-only package or an all-in-one package (we decided to go with the former), and we had to inform Josiah's about it before booking. So when we were all set with our venue contract, we set up a meeting with Karla, paid the reservation fee, and now we can cross that off our list!

Our reservation receipt, plus the box of heavenly truffles that they gave us as a gift for booking them - how sweet!