our DIY music CD giveaway

YESSSSSSS!

My hands are hurting so much from cutting 70 freakin' pieces of CD covers but it is so worth it! I finally finished packaging our CD giveaway. Whooooo! (haha sorry for the uncontrolled obvious elation)

From the very beginning, we decided that our giveaways/favors would be music CDs. For those who know me (or read my blog about how we met), our first date was the effect of him giving me a mixed CD. 

Tommee and I actually burned (c/o his HP laptop) and toasted (c/o my MacBook) all the CDs this past weekend and I was "stuck" with having the covers printed, cut and placed inside the CD cases. I made the covers (using my photoshop skills - yeah! haha) months ago, but only finalized them this weekend. 

Tommee liked the concept of 2 "views" of the beach - one during the daytime and one at night- to represent us, I guess (haha).  I just added our monogram and the details of the wedding. 

I used the same image inside as background for the list of songs. (ok, it's not totally finished because I still have to make the stickers for the CD itself, but still)

We were supposed to have 10 songs each but since one of "my" songs is really long, I had to delete one of them and we ended up with only 19 songs in total. These are the songs that are part of our wedding playlist and are also the songs that we've "dedicated" to each other. (sorry if the pictures a bit blurred)

Here's the song list (in case you can't read it from the picture):

Tommee

1. Hanging By A Moment by Lifehouse

2. Spin by Lifehouse

3. Take Me Away by Lifehouse

4. You and Me by Lifehouse

5. Sugar by Tonic

6. Far Away by Nickelback

7. Thunder by Boys Like Girls

8. Come On Get Higher by Matt Nathanson

9. Superhuman by Chris Brown feat. Keri Hilson

10. With You by Chris Brown

Suyen

11. Everything by Lifehouse

12. First Time by Lifehouse

13. Dance Inside by The All-American Rejects

14. I'm Yours by Jason Mraz

15. Better Together by Jack Johnson

16. Beautiful Surprise (forgot this back when we had it printed and just remembered it's by Indie Arie)

17. The Way I Am - Ingrid Michaelson

18. Say It Again - Marie Digby

19. One For You (Unplugged) by Studmuffin

As you can see, we're fans of Lifehouse (although Tommee is the ultimate fan) and we definitely don't have the "conventional" love songs. We both love rock/alternative songs and we made sure that this is really presented in our wedding. I'll share our wedding playlist next time, but for now, I want to bask in the great feeling of finishing these up! =)

P.S. I'll let you in a little secret. The song One For You is actually Tommee's song for me. He made this with his band when he first met me and as an early wedding gift, he re-recorded an unplugged version for me. =) awwwwwwwwwwwwwww... haha