Church & Reception Venue

Church:
Our Lady of Mount Carmel Shrine Parish in New Manila, Quezon City

Venue:
Fr. Horan Hall, Our Lady of Mount Carmel Shrine Parish

**It was the church and reception venue that we were able to book first. We have visited San Sebastian, Manila Cathedral and San Agustin. San Agustin is sooo beautiful... grabe... but way too expensive. We were not really planning to have our wedding at the Manila Cathedral because of this notion I have that most couples who got married there eventually went their separate ways =( (until now, I don't know if that was ever true) but we still visited the cathedral because I wanted to see how it looked like. We also visited San Sebastian, it was very beautiful and not as expensive as San Agustin. So ayan mukhang we have a church na! We were even thinking of having our reception at the Villa Immaculada (of Tamayo's) which we saw on our way to Manila Cathedral. Kaya lang we thought that having our reception in a church's function hall will come out cheaper so we decided to check the function hall of San Sebastian. Sadly, it was just small and we don't like the shape of the room. But we are still thinking at that time to book San Sebastian and just look for a different venue. We decided to check out Mt. Carmel Shrine because we heard they also have a function hall. Grabe... ang ganda rin pala niya and super haba ng lalakaran ko hehehe =) and super tahimik ng place... and their function hall is just the right size for our guests with high ceiling so this is it! We were actually (I think) the first one to book Mt. Carmel Shrine for December 2006 so we were able to get the date we want... yipeeey!! So the wedding is finally set on Saturday, sixteenth of December two thousand and six.

... and off we are to look for a caterer....