Choosing The Date ( 14 - November - 14 )

I have always assumed that prepping for a Wedding is a bit overwhelming, thus sometimes if left out-of-control, can turn out to be a cause of stress.

And now that Fiance and I are starting with the preps, I have never actually imagined that even in choosing "THE DATE", it can already be too overwhelming...

If it was just up to Me and Papa P to decide, it's easy as a pie...We will pick our special day when we officially became a couple, Feb 14. But after consideration of a whole lot of other factors (ie. availability of family members, availability of most guests that we will be inviting, peak/off peak season, weekday/weekend) and also taking into consideration that Me, Papa P and Peers' family are all overseas and that most of our guests are also coming from overseas too...it took us a long time to finally set a date. We needed to prioritize and put the pros and cons for each of our targeted days.

Year will be 2014...this one was easy since 2013 will be too rush for us.

We chose between April and December first...April being a summer season and December since its a holiday. We thought this would be convenient months for the majority since our guests from overseas will have all the reason to go back to the Philippines for vacation or holidays.

When we laid out these two dates, both had more cons rather than pros...For one, budget-wise...April would be too near for us...and Secondly, December (although this was both our top choice - alanganin for Peers' Mom who will not be able to take leave from work since, ika nga Peak Season sya). Apart from these obvious reasons, there was actually a whole lot more "uhmmms" and "ahmmms", so we just thought it would be best to let go of these dates.

So to be safe, we moved one month earlier, hence landing to November...

This looked all right for me and H2B...besides, "11" is his number...and November, I think is a safe month whereby Rainy Season is already over and the weather is just about "perfect" (not raining and yet can still feel the cool breeze of the "ber"-months). Apart from this, November as for most suppliers, is not a Peak Month for weddings...and rates are reasonable compared to when you hold your wedding on a December -- usually the prices shoot up and this is the time most suppliers increase their rates for the coming year. H2B initially thought of 11-3-2014...Because "11" is his number, "3" is my number" and "14" is both our numbers...but then coming to our senses, we realized that this wasn't a good day since it will be right after "All Saints" and "All Souls" Day...Lol! (It actually gave me the creeps...haha!). So we just decided since 14th of November is our Monthsary Date...and Year will be 2014. We just went for 14-11-14. :) Yey!

So there you have it, after carefully taking into consideration a WHOLE LOT OF FACTORS...we finally agreed to our date...still with our fave number as a couple, 14... <3

14-November-14

Cheers! ^_^