OLD HOLLYWOOD on a STARRY NIGHT

                                My bridesmaids will look like this at my wedding.


                                                 Roni as Elizabeth Taylor

                                                  Mika as Marilyn Monroe

                                               Paula as Katherine Hepburn

                                                                                Monique (my sister-in-law) as Judy Garland


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And because I give good face...

                                       I will channel Rita Hayworth (f*ck yeah)


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The theme/motif:

                                                Van Gogh's Starry Night


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According to my bridalbook account... I have 82 weeks and 1 day until my wedding date. (It's funny when I think about it... or that I actually have an account ---it was Pao's idea, seriously--- since I'm already married. And I'm happy. Weird. I think I just like the fact that I'm planning an awesome ass "party" that actually getting married... again. Not exactly a devout catholic, obviously though I do hope God doesn't hold that against me. I'm happy being civilly married. Finally got my new signature down. Breezing through the day to day. Doing very homey-homebody things with my husband and our kid. Doing the normal stuff. The fulfilling stuff. The stuff dreams are made of.

But still, there's a wedding I have to plan and I might as well make it frikkin' amazing. Practical but amazing. =P

Now I'd only come to finalize this theme just after I'd gotten engaged last Christmas and had to choose what I really wanted lest me and my fickle-mind accidentally steal my little sister's own wedding theme. (She'd have killed me. =) I know weddings and brides in general want to tend to look like their most natural but there's something so classically and beautifully enchanting about the old hollywood era that even though it may not look like the no-makeup-makeup-look... it's definitely one look we secretly wish we looked like the moment we got out of bed. And it was more than just a look... it was an air. A grace. A subdued elegance. Quiet yet powerful femininity. And to think there was no photoshop back then. They just looked... INCREDIBLE... with their false lashes and their finger-curled wavy hair and their deep set eyes.

Man these old hollywood girls could "smeyes" the shit of Tyra.

Of course the men will look old hollywood DAPPER. Clark Gable, James Dean. Exuding cool without even trying.

I chose Starry Night because it was honestly and incredibly, the first image that popped into my head as I tried to desperately describe and clearly articulate the colors I wanted ----- deep, dark blues, gold and silver, like a wedding in the midnight sky type wedding. And since me and my husband's more memorable encounters always occurred some time after midnight.

I thought it would be fitting.


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Now I need me some money so I can turn this sh*t into a frikkin' reality. =P

On that note, I better get back to work.

(Psst, Mika? These are my final plans, k? Hahahahaha! Don't forget I get dibbs on that Pronovias grecian dress at your wedding. Just figure out how you're gonna channel Marilyn Monroe cuz she's my favorite. =)

WHAT IT FEELS LIKE FOR A GIRL

Girls can wear jeans, cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots, 'cause it's okay to be a boy. But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading. But secretly you’d love to know what it’s like, wouldn’t you? What it feels like for a girl. - Charlotte Gainsbourg



HERE'S TO INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S MONTH and to all of the beautiful women I know, admire, and love.

BRING YOUR KID TO WORK DAY

My daughter's nanny took her leave today to catch her kids' graduation... so I had to bring Psyche along for the day. (Tomorrow is Paolo's turn... I'd like to see how he fairs. =)

Right now, she is at the park with our new editorial assistant, Mary Rose (yes, I can wield that kind of power MUAHAHAHAHAHA!) But before that, she was doing this:



It's from my MADONNA: Celebration DVD (that features ALL of Madonna's videos). She likes the videos "like a prayer," "open your heart," "cherish," and disturbingly, "justify my love."

I have five more hours til we go home. *gulps*

Hair is Memory

                                                                    Three years worth


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Here's to long hair and remembering.

WHAT I WANT FOR MY 28TH

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A place I don't have to clean up after, a fridge full of alkie, my crazy sisters, my down-to-get-smashed friends (ruth and dianna, I have yet to have the pleasure =), with the addition of my official drinking buddy, my husband... and that party jenga drinking game.

Lest I forget. But it's been a while since I've had one of those crazy house parties... except you don't have it at your house. =)

You're All I Need

My husband and I (well, before he became my husband) once played this little game when we were soaking it up in Boracay. See, the bar we chose to hangout at played nothing but straight up old school Rnb all throughout the afternoon... so he and I thought we'd name the songs that used them as samples whilst drinking our beers and vegging on our beach beds.

And that was just another example of music bringing people together. Music and alcohol and the beach.

(F*ck I can't wait til April.)

Anyhow...

In case y'all missed it...

This was my absolute favorite Motown rendition:



(And if you notice, there's a part where J.Lo wanted to go off but she got the lyrics wrong. =)

Also since it was sampled in one of my favorite hip-hop throwbacks:

We Will Not Grow Old

Been watching a lot of wedding videos lately.

*shrugs*

I find myself wanting to cry in each one of them. Seriously. They're all so moving especially when the bride or groom starts choking on their words in the middle of their vows, voices cracking from all the emotion causing a bottleneck in their throats. I start getting the vapors and thinking about how my own vows will go and what song I'd want my video to have... except they keep playing that "Marry Me" song out by that dude who sang "Hey Soul Sister" and it's getting to be real annoying. (Waffle, I know you dedicated this song to me in one of our daily youtube link exchange emails and I found it real nice at first but the whole "if I ever get the nerve to say hello in this cafe" part is just so... What. The...?)

But I don't think there's such an example of a bad wedding video. There are just a lot of really great ones. And I think it has a lot to do with the song. But that's just me.


So this was one song used in one of the videos I saw and I thought it was nice. =)



Oh, we've got a long, long way to go
To get there
We'll get there
But oh, if there's one thing that we know
It's that we will not grow old


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Here's to 1 year and 5 months.