Mid-January Progress Report

So I haven't finalized the bridesmaid dresses as of yet, but I did get contact information to talk to a few dressmakers. We confirmed with about 99% of our vendors. We are making headway with the cake. I am extremely excited talking to Kathy from Aloha Cakery about the design. I'll write another blog about that later. I am having one of my cousins, Elaine, try to research some Filipino folk dancers so that we can have a tinikling performance, a Filipino bamboo dance. Here's a website that you can go on to find out more about it: Tinikling

I talked to Paul about it and it's incredibly hard to describe. Basically,2 people hit 2 long bamboo sticks parallelwise together while dancers dangerously dance in between and around them. I thought that this was so cool the first time I saw it when I was little, and I always thought that I would have someone do tinikling at my party. Especially, since it is part of the Filipino culture, and Paul's family and my friends most likely have never seen that before. I am not sure how much it will cost or even if we can find someone to do it. I am going to cross my fingers that Elaine will be able figure this out and make it happen.

Right now, I am in the middle of scanning my photos. There's a lot of great memories, but some memories, I couldn't find photos for. I am hoping that some Cousin or Auntie will produce a copy of a photograph of something I haven't seen in years. I also found photos of people I love and grew up with who are no longer with us, and I couldn't help but miss them. So a lot of planning and finalizing is underway. I really have to get cracking with my floral ideas...That will be the goal for next week.