Barong Hunt for Ayi and Our Wedding Cake

After waiting for Ayi’s availability for weeks, finally we managed to schedule a time to go to DIVI! At this early, we bought Christmas gifts and some wedding paraphernalia so we wouldn’t have to agonize with the tons of people flooding the place during this merry season. Part of our agenda was to look for gifts for emcees and entourage, packaging for souvenirs, (freebie na kasi ito c/o MIL-to-be) scout for entourage barongs and to look at the possibility of finding “the barong” we wanted (for Ayi of course).

By the way, we visited Angelo’s Barong in QC weeks back and we also visited a stall in Shoppesville, Greenhills. Apparently, we found the same materials in this stall that were a bit cheaper than that of Angelo’s and we were somewhat convinced that this is going to be the place we will revisit next year. But then I happened to see a barong in one of the bridal magazines I have at home and Ayi just loved the style (not the embroidery but the style itself). Hay naku, there’s not much choices lang naman with barongs so why not career-in na lang namin ito. So when we visited Divi, we were scouting for that same kind. We were able to see some similar barongs alright but I am not too happy pa rin. So we just proceeded with our other agenda.

On our way home, we decided to drop by this tailor shop that I’ve been passing by for months just to take a glimpse of what they have to offer. We were surprised to see the style that we were looking for! Galing-galing! They do not have the exact embroidery that we wanted so we have yet to hear from the branch manager for the costs of the embroidery we specified. But more or less we are strongly considering this supplier for Ayi’s barong. Whew! Mas matindi pa ang barong hunt n’ya than my gown! Anyway, I’ll write a separate kwento about my gown.

After visiting this shop, we happened to pass by this cake shop also near my place. It was a newly opened bakeshop. We do not intend to spend so much on this because we know that this cake will only be used for “pictorial’s sake” and of course for the traditional “cake-cutting.” So when we spoke to our caterer we agreed to just simply have what they offer in the wedding package and just upgrade it to fondant as Ayi wanted (for an additional cost of course). Ako kasi hindi particular dito. So anyway, we entered the shop just to see what they have to offer (as in wala lang). The owner of the place who makes the cake herself came to entertain us. So we browsed through her catalogs, Ayi so actively asking and commenting about “gum pastes”, cake types, etc., etc, until we realized we were already selecting what we wanted. I told her that I do not want fresh flowers on the cake but I want it to be decorated with purely flowers (no butterflies, no other décor). So namimili na ako! After verifying some costs, and Ayi haggling for free add-ons, we closed a deal! And it’s a 5-tiered floral fondant cake!!!! Yahoo! At least one of my wishes came true this time.

Well, again, it was worth our time together for the wedding preps. To top it off, we even found a place to buy Ayi’s shoes, purely leather at such reasonable price (factory price actually!). Wow, it was such a fulfilling day for us both. We ended really very happy that we treated ourselves to a hearty dinner after. Super worth the “pagod.”