Names. Wishes. Advices.

I was sorting some stuffs in our cabinet when I saw these:

In leiu of guest books or signature frames, what we had in our wedding reception was these DIY (do-it-yourself) guest sheets. Yes, we opted to have such and created them ourselves for certain reasons like:

1.) more guests would be encouraged to sign on their free time throughout the program as these sheets are readily placed with pens on the table.

2.) ease the guests' burden in thinking of what to write aside from the usual congratulations and best wishes greetings since there are questions (more of their forecasts for us) that they have to fill in.

3.) our prenups pics were utilized as we used them to embellish our sheets.

4.) excess papers we used for our DIY invites were not wasted as these paper were used for the guest sheets

5.) signed sheets are supposedly bookbinded afterwards (which until now di pa pala namin nagagawa)

I'm glad we pushed through with these guest sheets kasi sobrang sarap basahin at ulit-uliting basahin. Some are pretty serious and you'd feel their sincerity in their wishes and advices but with our "loko-loko" friends, we'd expected that most are going to be humor-filled forecasts and advices.

For the first forecast, when is the birthday of our firstborn?, 95% answered Sept - Dec 2006. Pwede nga naman 9 months to one year after the wedding. Err, sorry guys, we're halfway through with 2006 but seems like this is not yet the year of our first little bundle of joy's arrival. I know you're all excited for us pero don't worry..as we always psyched ourselves..all in God's time. Incidentally, three of our ninangs naman wanted us to enjoy each other muna and wait for the baby daw until 2007! Hmmm...pwede.

For the 2nd forecast, how many kids will we have?, majority answered 2-3 kids daw. Pero yung iba di ko kinaya ha:
- a dozen
- 4 dozens
- 365
- millions (exag! eba't adan ba?)
- high tide or low tide? (haha! pang ms. universe!)

For the 3rd forecast, names of our kids?, here are their suggestions:

Siyempre, majority yung derivations ng names namin na Pauleen, Paulyn, etc. Why not? (Btw, my nick "Mai" was derived from my real nick "maileen"). Pero siyempre nga dahil sa loko-loko most of our friends, eto yung ibang names na sinulat nila:

Haha! ang kukulit!

As for their advices and wishes, among our favorites are:
- Let Christ be the center of your lives
- Minimize disagreements and be understanding towards each other
- Always count your blessings and love each other for the rest of your lives
- Whenever you have indifferences, never sleep until it's resolved. Give and take always. Set aside pride.
- Keep on holding on to God. Never cease on thanking Him.
- Constant communication
- May you have a union blessed in Heaven, a life rich in happiness and few trials to keep your feet on the ground
- Long and happy marriage with lots of beatiful and handsome kids
- Have a simple but quality family life

At siyempre pa ang mga kalokohan na wishes and advices:
- basta walang manghahalimaw (hassle, halimaw? haha nice term!)
- may the force be with you
- succesful transplant for mai (waahh! gawin ba akong bakla?)
- sana sumikat kayo forever
- make it 4x a day..mai, don't close your eyes, ur kids will be gifted (niyay! aris, ano ito?!!?)
- multiply and add (genil & leia, ang alin?)
- buy "Lover's Guide" DVD..very essential in your married life. (jo and bel, fortunately, may nagbigay sa kin niyan nung bridal shower and masasabi ko lang...may tama kayo!)
- "Paul, wag mong sasaktan si Mai..or else, patay ka jan"
- "Mai, maawa ka kay Paul...wag mo masyadong saktan..onti lang.."

I'm sure with all the kalokohans they wrote, they had fun filling out our guest sheets as much as we had fun reading them. :D