The Marriage Proposal: Steps on How-to

Weddings are not anymore the sole highlight of orchestrated efforts these days. Men are giving more thought on how to propose to their girlfriend - either intimate or with a flash mob, but always wanting to document everything especially using real time video documentation. Soon to wed couples also give more time in their Engagement Shoot frantically conceptualizing their dresses, make up, location, props and costumes. Although it all leads to the wedding day, preparing for it has never been more hectic.










The Marriage Proposal: Asking her to marry you and getting that "Yes" you deserve

The digital age has given everyone power to create their own movies. The help of friends and family make proposals more exciting and emotional at the same time. If you want to make your marriage proposal unforgettable, well recorded and making sure of getting the 'yes', you can opt for the following suggestions:

• Before buying that ring and possibly draining all your savings to it, you must first get to know your girlfriend's thoughts and feelings about marriage. Talk to her in a casual conversation and find out if what she wants for your relationship 5 years from now, ask if she wants to have kids in the future and what kind house she wants. Just because she is very much in love with you and you have been together for quite some time doesn't guarantee that she would want to spend forever with you anytime soon.  Research on her goals and find out if she's ready to settle down. You would know she would want that family when she gives you hints on having a house together, raising a family with you, and anything that signals FOREVER is a good sign.

• After making sure that she is ready for a lifetime with you, then you can scout for an engagement ring. This is the tricky part. You must know her ring finger size. If she is fond with accessories, it can be easy to just get one of her fancy rings, bring it to a jewelry shop and have the jeweler get the size. But if she has no fancy to rings, you can ask help from her best friends, mother, or sister to get her ring size for you. If you want to really do it your own, you will have to risk devising a way to get a hold of her hand and measure it without raising suspicion from her. For engagement ring designs, you can opt for vintage, unique non-diamond or your family heirloom ring. Just make sure you have the right fit and right budget for it. If she is the practical type, the price of the ring would not matter.

• Conceptualize your proposal. Imagine if she would want a flash mob proposal, in front of family and friends or just an intimate marriage proposal between the two of you. 

• Document your marriage proposal. Ask your friends, brother, sister, family to help you with the marriage proposal so that they can be your production staff and camera men. 
• Location, location and location. The location is very important because it determines how she'd respond to your marriage proposal. If there are too many people, she might feel embarrassed. If it's too private, your crew might have a hard time recording the scene unless you hire a professional photography and videography team. 

• When the right day has come, learn to relax if you can. Think of it as just another casual date so you can act as normally as possible. 

• Perfect moment. The perfect moment is when you feel that you have already made her so comfortable that she doesn't have a clue that you are going to bend down on your knees and ask her to marry you!

Most of all, be ready for her "Yes" and make sure that your crew has got it all rolling in the background to capture that perfect moment of pure bliss between the two of you. Enjoy the feeling and enjoy the moment. 

Watch her excitement to start planning for your wedding too. If you are the type who wants to things to be preserved properly, you definitely need a full services wedding planner to assist you in planning and getting the suppliers that will help you achieve your desired goal in having a perfectly well planned and preserved highlight of your story of new beginnings.

Non Traditional Engagement Rings

Diamonds have been so overly commercialized that it has gained a lot of popularity and fame  when it comes to wedding and engagement jewelry. While diamonds are beautiful stones, there are still many non traditional engagement rings that are equally worthy to drool over and fall in love head over heels with especially for women. When you are thinking of a unique engagement ring that's not as expensive and as general as diamond, here are non traditional engagement rings to choose from:





Sapphire Engagement Ring.  This has been widely publicized as Prince William gave her mother's (Princess Diana) heirloom sapphire ring to Kate as their engagement ring. This fabulous and sophisticated pacific blue stone has been known to the Greeks as "The Stone of Destiny" since it has been associated to clarity of the mind and perception.










Amethyst Engagement Ring. This purple beauty is known to protect the wearer from fearful and guilty feelings. It is also associated with wisdom and has healing properties with the problems of the blood and breathing.













Opal Engagement Ring. Often associated as the stone of great achievements, stone of hope and the ring of the gods, this magnificent stone has been formed a million of years ago. It has very powerful healing properties that soothes erratic emotions and gives you courage.

Peridot Engagement Ring. This ring has its first discovery in Egypt thousands of years ago. It has been mentioned in the bible and ancient manuscripts and considered holy. It is associated with purity and morality. It looks like emerald with its green color but it has lighter hue than emerald gemstone.








These are just some of the many ideas for non traditional engagement ring available. There are many more gemstones used to make non-diamond engagement rings. You may also want to give her gemstone of her birth month. With different meanings associated with the gemstone, you can pick out the one that will truly fit her personality. A little research about her will do a great wonder and will make the proposal more meaningful since you put in more effort into making every detail fit. Remember that love is all about your action. The more you show it in your actions, the more love you have for her.

Halloween Themed Wedding Ideas

I know it is still the month of July but I am very much fascinated with Halloween Themed Wedding Ideas. I think it's a very interesting, contradicting and out-of-the-usual theme for a wedding. Halloween is associated with death and the life after death and to incorporate it to a wedding which is associated with new life and new beginnings is a whole new unprecedented way to correlate two seemingly opposite idealogy.


I did a little research on some photos of Halloween themed wedding ideas and found these photos. Would you rock this wedding theme? Most photo inspirations showed black and orange colors as the most popular Halloween theme wedding ideas. I should say BLACK and RED are more "eery" color combination than any other color in the color wheel. Black is strongly related to unknown, darkness, and the other side of goodness while Red is associated with blood, gore and oozing things.

Surprisingly, below are some photos I grabbed from one of the websites that feature local Pinoy celebrity rock singer Jay Contreras and his wife Sarah Abad. Their very unique and quirky pre-nuptial photoshoot took place in a cemetery and they both donned white mermaid wedding dresses!

They incorporated black and red wedding motif that made the whole halloween theme wedding ideas rock on!

The Philippine traditional weddings are still widely preferred by most couples to wed. With the strong influence of religion in the country, not many people would deviate from what is acceptable and normal. Still, I would love to be part of a very wacky, tacky and mind blowing wedding creation.

Halloween themed wedding ideas are unique but I am very sure there are other ideas more far fetch and ingenious than that!

I may be posting more about not your usual wedding ideas here soon.

Tete-a-tete!

First of JULY

It's the first of JULY 2013 and it signals the first day of the second half of the year. It is usually these times that people start booking for their Christmas affairs and other special occasions which will be happening in the - BER months.


So what's up with today is that my blog has a new domain name. It changed from leahjacobeweddings.blogspot.com to my official domain name of  leahjacobeweddings.com.


I have always wanted to have a personal domain name and once more the year 2013 has delivered the dream! I am every eccentric to write more relevant topics about weddings in the Philippines to help more and more couples particularly those who want to have their weddings held in General Santos City, the city of future promises.


This Month of July will be jampacked with lots surprises from yours truly because I just love giving away freebies!


Topics will be more focused on helping people in their budget including tips on how to save on their wedding budget and event planning budget. The influx of people searching for wedding costs in the Philippines have been tremendous so I am writing more about these topics!


Thank you readers for stumbling upon my humble blog. I hope I can be more of help in my blogposts in the coming days and months!

If you have suggestions and comments, feel free to email me anytime at leahjacobe@gmail.com or leave your comments here. I will be prompt in addressing all your concerns!


Cheers to new beginnings!

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