Jeff and Lisa Photography

Preps: The Bellevue Manila
Ceremony: Notre Dame de Vie Chapel
Reception: Fernbrook Gardens
Videographer: Phoeben Teocson
Bridal Gown: Niko for Veluz

This wedding is definitely one of the most fun weddings we’ve ever covered. These two, their families and friends… they have what the French call joie de vivre in spades. When I say fun, I don’t ever mean that lightly. Fun is serious business for us wedding folks. Fun means emotions and personalities galore, and us photographers basically having what you might call a field day. I always say I love my job, because heaven knows I do, but these people made me appreciate it even more. There’s nothing like being surrounded by so much love and happiness. It’s very inspiring. Phoeben Teocson’s onsite video of this wedding is one of my favorite wedding videos of all time.

Jeremy and Mimi, it’s been awhile and this blog post may be a tad late, but I’m glad to be posting it at such a wonderful time in your lives. We saw Mimi’s Facebook update yesterday announcing that you’re having a baby boy. Congratulations! We’re so incredibly happy for you guys! And we’ve thanked you already before, but we’ll thank you once more for having us at your wedding. Going through your photos for the blog had me grinning from ear to ear all over again. Much, much love, always.

Preps: The Peninsula Manila
Ceremony: Santuario de San Jose
Reception: Rigodon Ballroom, The Peninsula Manila
Bridal Gown: Veluz
Hair and Makeup: Gela Laurel

Jeff and I had a difficult time saying goodbye at this wedding. See, Gary and Janah are cousins, and Marie is their good friend. They all got married within months of each other, and all three with their now spouses just happen to be our clients. Gary and Aileen’s wedding was the last of the three, and I’ve gotten a bit attached to all of them even before then. There are no words for much we love these couples.

We’ve have been shooting weddings for almost two years now but we haven’t made an onsite slideshow ’till that day because it’s a bit stressful, making a slideshow on the spot, and I’d rather shoot more. But I wanted to make a little surprise for them so I thought to heck with it, why not. We finished burning the DVD literally 5 minutes before it had to show. 5 minutes! When they started showing it, the stress finally lifted and the realization that all their weddings were over hit me, and I may have teared up a bit. I’m such a big crybaby. (In other news, I’m so much faster at making onsite slideshows now and get quite the adrenaline rush from it. Woot!)

Gary and Aileen, thank you for having us at your wedding, for your engagement shoot that we very much adore, the wine, the email and postcard you sent us from your honeymoon in Maldives, and above all, the friendship. You make it so easy to be around you guys, and we consider ourselves very lucky to have been there with you during this part of your lives. Hope you guys are doing great in Bahrain. And as always, we miss you.