our invitation & souvenir

we're almost done distributing our invites kaya i was able to find a time na to update our blogs.

just want to share with you our invitation. it was designed by my h2b and my whole family and howell's family helped in assembling it.

sobrang tagal pinag isipan ni howell yung design ng invitations namin. sobrang dami nya kseng idea. yung mga nauna nyang design, sobrang hirap kse gusto nyang gumawa ng 3D ng minas tirith (yung castle ni aragorn sa LOTR kung saan sila kinasal). sabi ko 200 na ganun ang gagawin namin and sabi ko sa kanya hindi namin kaya yun.

tapos one day noong nasa mall kami, may nakita kami sa isang computer shop na isang promo material ng hp printer and yun ang ginaya ni howell.

so eto yung front & back ng invitation namin:

The back side acts as an envelope and dito namin ilagay yung mga inserts namin. Here is how our inserts look like:

you can browse our webshots for more pictures of our invitation.

as for our souvenir, si howell pa din ang nag design. mahilig kse syang mag collect ng mga coins sa iba't ibang country na napuntahan namin. tapos, may nakita syang souvenir coins na tinitinda sa souvenir shop sa office nila and yun ang ginaya nya.

my uncle has an officemate na ganun ang businesss so doon namin pinagawa. we submitted our final design, and after i think 2 weeks nagbigay sila sa amin ng sample. wala kami sa philippines during that time kaya hindi na namin nakita yung sample nila. yung uncle ko na lang ang nag check.

here's the front side of our souvenir. the front part bears the image of manila cathedral plus our name and the date of our weddding.

and here is the back part. the back part naman bears the image of baluarte de san diego with our name and date of our wedding din.

since wala nga kami sa philippines noon nagbigay ng sample yung supplier, merong maliit na error yung back part. yung name ko instead na abigail, naging abegail. medyo nainis ako noong una ko tong nakita. naiyak pa nga ako sa inis eh. and i even wanted to look for another supplier and magpapagawa ulit kami ng 200 na coins. pero syempre naisip ko din sayang yung money and na convince naman ako ng mga mommy ko, tita and pinsan ko na ok na yun since maganda naman and hindi na yun ma notice ng mga tao, kaya i decided to let go na lang.

in fairness, maganda yung pagkakagawa ng supplier ng coins. nakuha talaga nila yung image ng manila cathedral and baluarte.