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Friday, December 7, 2012

Poptastic Bride on Rebellious Brides: Bring-Your-Own-Awesome

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How awesome is a wedding theme that revolves around awesomeness? That's right. This blog post will literally use that word a lot. So brace yourselves. 

For this month's Poptastic Bride on Rebellious Brides feature, we are taking inspiration from this awesome wedding theme coined by the awesome couple Jax & Michael called The 'BYOA'  (Bring-Your-Own-Awesome).

So let's start!

  Jax & Michael’s Eclectic 
Bring-Your-Own-Awesome Wedding
Photography: Kira Friedman of Harper Point Photography

Cynthia of PB writes: Please meet the super cool duo. According to the lovely bride, she and Mike are a “fun loving couple of crazies”. Jax is an artist and Mike is project manager for a woodworking company. They found each other on “MySpace” of all places.  (Oh the internet, what a wonderful thing!) Three short years later as they sat on the side of a hill watching Ol’ Faithful erupt, Mike proposed. Their wedding theme? It was BYOA (Bring Your Own Awesome) filled with DIY/vintage loveliness/art  and of course awesome!
What is awesome to you? In the case of Jax & Michael, having an awesome wedding meant: taking their entourage to an amusement park for a fun photo session, the bride walking down the aisle to the tune of Journey's "Don't Stop Believing", serving burgers, giving away homemade jalapeno jellies, DIY napkins, and a whole lot of crazy.



Here are some tips on how to create your own BYOA wedding:

1. Opt for awesome eats - There's nothing wrong with getting a caterer but what if you are just hiring one because we've been boxed to hire one during weddings? What if you served your favorite awesome dishes instead? Quality over quantity! For a budget of P500 per head, you could mix and match dishes that you and your groom TRULY like. Here's an example of an awesome menu:

L-R: Photo Sources: weese.tumblr.com / www.clickthecity.com / ajulybride.blogspot.com
In my own imagination of a cool BYOA foodie menu, I'd go for: Crema di Zucca (Squash Soup) by Cibo (P185) +  Charlie's Fili Cheese Steak (P220) with an alternative of Shroom Sandwich (P250)  for vegetarian guests + Vanilla Sunshine by Cupcakes by Sonja (P55) = P460.00/head! That's soooo affordable compared to catered weddings where some guests even secretly complain about not liking the food. I can already smell your comments now---the oldies will complain about this unusual-so-not-classy-uncatered-menu or that this is such a hassle cuz you have to order from 3 sources. But the theme is "Bring-Your-Own-Awesome" so... 'nuff said! :)  

2.  Instant craftiness - not everyone has the time to DIY things. Sometimes, when you are not innately crafty it even becomes more expensive to buy materials when you are still on the "trial-and-error" stage. So why not buy into the whole crafty details by literally buying in Landmark? You want paper napkins just like how Jax & Michael had it? Landmark has printed polka dot paper napkins for only P40.00 per pack! 

I even got this chalkbaord organizer for P1,000 which you can use for your registration! No need to pay a crafter, you just have to buy it in Landmark and use it for your new home after the wedding!

3. Make time for a fun e-session PRIOR to the wedding - Jax & Michael did a quick detour and had a photo session in an amusement park prior to the wedding. We also did this for our second wedding where we had a brunch session with our friends at Cafe 1771. So why not do the same? Lest you think that you will run out of time or that it's not important, relaxing and having fun actually helps calm down the nerves! Sometimes we all get caught up in the crazy wedding preps that we forget to just take in the moment. MAKE time for this. If you make it an integral part of the wedding schedule, then you shouldn't run out of time.  And here's our suggestion on where to do it! Tentenenen!!! The very awesome.....Magnolia Flavor House! Woot! :)


The Magnolia Flavor House, Robinson's Magnolia Photo Source: itsberyllicious.com

4. An Enchanted Kingdom Wedding - One of the suggestions of RB Mica on how to have a BYOA wedding is to literally bring the wedding in Enchanted Kingdom. And why not? I researched on this very subject and found a 2009 Pat Dy EK Wedding! It's 3 years ago but I reckon this one definitely deserves a spot here in RB! :)


Photography by Pat Dy Circa 2009



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 5. Find your inner awesomeness - Finally, the best way to create this theme locally is to bring out your inner awesomeness. At the end of the day, it's all about what YOU find awesome without copying someone elses mojo. 

If this were our wedding we'd probably incorporate handcrafted beers & wines from Oregon, a whole lot of plants, organic products, calligraphy/graphic art, an afternoon BBQ, MangoRed, and an eclectic dress code that will not limit anyone. So how about you? What's your own awesome wedding story?
 

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Poptastic Bride on Rebellious Brides: The Museum Weddings


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Thursday, October 4, 2012

Poptastic Bride on Rebellious Brides: The Museum Weddings

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In our effort to create extraordinary content for you that goes beyond the usual wedding features, we've teamed up with US-based blog Poptastic Bride. 


How does this work exactly?

We understand that brides look to foreign blogs for wedding ideas. However, except for the usual vintage/ shabby chic ideas from the other parts of the globe, some wedding ideas are perceived to be not as easily adaptable or acceptable in the local scene. But beginning this month, we will occasionally feature one-of-a-kind wedding ideas from Poptastic Bride that we feel can be localized.

Let's start this off with two awesome museum weddings that Poptastic recently featured:



 Justine Bursoni Photography

Cynthia of PB writes: Today’s feature is an eclectic and modern wedding reception in a Chicago art gallery. Pam and Josh had gotten married earlier in the week on a beach in Michigan with only a few close family members in attendance. To celebrate with the rest of their loved ones, they held a dance party among amazing artwork by The Post Family. They served Chicago-style pizza and drinks to keep the tone informal and played killer tunes all night! 



Becca Dilley Photography
Jessica explains: We wanted our wedding to be personal and unique, but we also didn’t want to cross the line from “Wedding at the Science Museum” into “Science-themed wedding.” Having it at the museum let us run around and be silly for pictures, but then we had a fairly traditional Lutheran wedding ceremony. We felt like the party surrounding the wedding could be kind of nerdy and goofy, but we still wanted the ceremony to be meaningful.


Having a wedding in a museum is just absolutely wonderful in so many ways. Apart from the obvious benefit of having your wedding in a non-traditional venue, having a museum wedding creates so much depth, character and beauty. What's more, the venue is already styled which means it saves you extra money that would otherwise be spent on props and a stylist.

Here are some tips on how to have a museum wedding locally:

1. Compromise - If you really want to do it in a museum but your parents are going kill you, compromise by still having the actual ceremony in the church and let them plan it the way they would want it to be. In other words, assign to your parents the church and all the details that go with it (to make them important and part of the wedding), then set some ground rules that your reception is untouchable. 

Vatel Bouquet / Gown by Ralph Lauren  (Photo by MangoRed)
2. The Feminine Touch - While the museum already has a lot of creative details to work with, you would still want to have a wedding-y, soft side to it. Therefore, what you save on styling & props you spend it on beautiful, breathtaking bouquets and a very soft, romantic gown. 

Lifted form HeyShay's Blog/Tumblr
3. The Venue - The Mind Museum offers venue rentals! For an intimate wedding your best bet would be The Mind Pods and for a bigger wedding, you can do it in the The Special Exhibition Hall. 

http://www.themindmuseum.org/


As lifted from Mind Museum's website, "The Mind Pods are two 80 square meter learning rooms. Each one has a seating capacity of 40 guests. The Mind Pod venue rental package comes with tickets to the museum."

"The Special Exhibition Hall located off the Hall of Philippine Science is an area deliberately set apart for travelling exhibits. While not hosing exhibitions, this 300 square meter area may be used for events. It has its own separate entrance and can accommodate up to 250 guests. Venue rental package comes with tickets to the museum."

Apart from the fact that Mind Museum already has venue rentals, the organic backdrops & props that you will see in the area will make for wonderful photo opportunities!  

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Imagine the endless possibilities and all the photo ops that you can do at The Mind Museum!
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Note however that The Mind Museum is not a wedding ceremony/reception venue so you need to be patient if they are not able to accommodate your every request. And that's where your coordinator and caterer will come in! 


Do you have more ideas on how to have a museum wedding in the PH? Did YOU have a museum wedding? Comment away/Submit! :)

Special thanks to Cynthia the Poptastic Bride for making this tie-up possible :) 


XOXO,
Kai

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