#LengTanSpeaks: April 2015

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Our Wedding Cake (and Ice Cream!)

The weekend was an extremely full one.

Last Saturday was spent with my parents, aunt and cousins and we went around the city completing wedding errands. With only five weeks left until the wedding, all the rest of our weekends (and free time) are fully booked.

A few months ago my family and I went around Lipa City scouting for wedding cakes. We visited different shops and asked for designs and rates but we were quite disappointed and astounded with how exorbitantly priced wedding cakes are now! Goldilocks' and Red Ribbon cakes are priced at twelve thousand per 10" cake with only the first layer being edible and the other layers made of Styrofoam. That's too much and too ridiculous! It's a good thing that our favorite baker came highly recommended!

We went to meet with Marilou Maglinao, the owner of MS Rocafort Party Shoppe, who will make our wedding cake. MS Rocafort has always been my family's cake provider, from birthday parties, all the way to weddings and other occasions. Last December, my nieces (who also are my flower girls) celebrated their birthdays and MS Rocafort made their cakes. Check out the photo below and feast your eyes on the "Frozen" themed cakes!

Here's my niece Milcah with the cakes

MS Rocafort cakes not only look delightful, are affordable compared to named establishments, but also taste heavenly. Below are some of the cakes they've made in the past:

Apart from cakes, MS Rocafort also makes the most flavorful ice cream in the world! Kelvin and I are the biggest fans of ice cream and we literally buy ice cream everytime we see (or even hear) an ice cream cart pass by. The first time I tasted MS Rocafort's ice cream a number of years ago, I just fell in love.

Marilou even gave us a taste of their Cheesy Langka ice cream and she just made our day! Mom and I decided to get two flavors - Ube and Cheesy Langka. I can't wait for our big day; I swear I will go to town on those ice cream flavors!

If you're looking for a masterful cake and ice cream provider, I suggest you hit up Mrs. Marilou Maglinao as soon as you can!

Love,

Leng

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Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Guess what is on our rings!

While deciding on what we what to be engraved on our wedding rings, Hon got this cheeky grin on his face. I had a feeling and knew what he was thinking.

So I held up my hand and said, ”Hon, you are not having “To infinity and beyond” engraved on your ring.”

He scoffed and retorded, “Of course not! I want: “In brightest day, in blackest night, No evil shall escape my sight. Let those who worship evil's might, Beware my power, Green Lantern's light!!!””

*facepalm*

A few days later, I came up with my suggestions:

"Kelvin ni Leng 05/30/2015” (Hon’s ring) and “Leng ni Kelvin 05/30/2015” (on mine)
“I can’t keep my eyes off of you” – a line from our theme song

But then Honey made a terrific suggestion!

You see, almost nine years ago, when he was still courting me; he once drove me to work. As I was getting out of the car, I bid him goodbye and thanked him for the ride.

He answered me with, “You’re welcome. Buh-bye. I love you.”

Without thinking, I answered him with, “I lo –“

I abruptly ended what I was saying; I realized I almost said “I love you” back!

So I stopped, screamed, “Ingat ka!” and slammed the car door closed. Eek!

So back to the present time. Hon wanted those words engraved on our rings instead.

On my ring, “I love you.”

And on his ring, “I…(love you) ingat ka.”

Loving the idea, Hon went and contacted our Jeweler, Greg Palpalatoc.

A few days ago we finally got our rings! I was beyond excited when Hon finally showed them to me. The rings were inside a lovely bright red velvet box.

Upon opening it, I was overwhelmed by the lovely sight of our rings, nestled in black velvet.

I took our rings out and took a look at the words engraved in the rings. On Hon’s ring was exactly what I was expecting.

Aww! Lovely! It’s so us!

Next up was my ring, I was excited to see “I love you” engraved on it. I looked at the ring for a few seconds. And then a few seconds more. And then a few seconds more.

I couldn’t read the characters on the ring! I looked at Hon and asked him, “What is on my ring? I told you I want “I love you” on it!”

Hon just smiled his classic cryptic smiled and answered, “It is “I love you”! That’s what you want, right?”

I shot back, “Yeah! But I can’t read it. I don’t understand it!”

And then it hit me.