Gary and Aileen’s Wedding

Saturday, May 22, 2010 Posted in Weddings

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.

by Lisa

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Just Because

Thursday, May 20, 2010 Posted in Random Personal Things

It’s 5:30pm, I’m answering emails and trying to put together a wedding blog post for tomorrow. Jeff’s sleeping next to me. It’s been a long day of running errands for the both of us, and Jeff going everywhere from Quezon City to Makati looking for decent rabbit food. Marbles, our four year old rabbit, is stretched out on his belly, blissfully unaware. The National’s High Violet is playing on my laptop’s speakers. Midway through, I stop in the realization that in this moment, I am completely, utterly happy. Jeff and I are celebrating our 4th wedding anniversary on June 2. Sometimes it’s still hard to believe we’ve been together this long; it still feels like we’re just kids playing house, only the plastic cups and toy wrenches have been replaced with real ones.

Over the last few months, Jeff and I have taken to shooting with our iPhones daily, just for kicks. Here are some of them, and these are some of the things we’ve been up to lately:

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Eric and Ann’s Engagement Shoot

Thursday, May 13, 2010 Posted in Engagement Portraits

Hello! It’s been awhile. I have to say the number of weddings I’ve yet to blog is ridiculously overwhelming. We’ve been fortunate enough to have joined so many beautiful weddings and I want to share as much as I can without going nuts. So less pressure on myself this time, which should help me update this blog more often and regularly, I’m going to slowly try to blog a few of the older weddings in between posts of our more recent shoots. This way, I won’t forever be just catching up, and it’s less daunting a task for me.

We shot this three weeks ago in Tagaytay. Jeff and I were bracing ourselves for the summer heat. Imagine our surprise when it started raining cats and dogs in the middle of the shoot. Thankfully, Eric and Ann were great sports, we were able to use the rain to our advantage and had an amazing shoot even partly because of it. Jeff and I have always wanted to shoot in the rain, and somehow things just fell into place that afternoon. We had a blast with these two and can’t wait till their wedding on the 29th! They’re so cute together, and I absolutely adore Ann. I could go on but I’ll save the rest for when I blog their wedding. This goes down as one of our favorite engagement shoots ever.

by Lisa

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Javier and Marie’s Bohol Wedding, 12.08.09

Saturday, March 20, 2010 Posted in Engagement Portraits, Weddings

Preps: Bohol Beach Club
Ceremony: Church of Our Lady of Assumption
Reception: Terraza de Mariveles

Jeff and I flew out the day before Javi and Marie’s wedding for their engagement shoot. Our flight was delayed, but we made it in time to catch two more hours of glorious Bohol sun, and shot one of our favorite engagement sessions to date. I’m sharing a few photos from that below. I’ll post more in our galleries soon as I get around to redesigning that.

This Bohol wedding was so much fun. We got to work with videographers (and newlyweds!) Bim and Gen Teocson, and hair and makeup artists Angie and Ogie again, who have become our destination wedding buddies of sorts. We somehow end up working on the same out of town weddings often. We joined them in Baguio shortly after, but that’s another blog post altogether. Dinner before the wedding was incredibly fun, and they had us laughing so hard I felt like my face was going to explode.

We woke up to a beautiful morning and joined the bride and groom at the Bohol Beach Club where we found the gorgeousness that is Veluz‘ work. (You can read her take on the wedding here.) I could take pictures of her gowns forever. Marie looked absolutely stunning in her dress, and Javi looked quite dashing in his Barong Tagalog as well. So many people flew in for their wedding, so much that practically everyone we were with at the airport flying in and out of Bohol was a guest of theirs. The mood was fun and lighthearted that day, and people partied the night away.

There was a flowergirl I absolutely adored. She fell madly in love with her dress; she looked at it and touched it with the kind of great awe only children can muster. She twirled around in it all night long, lost in her own little world. She got a picture of herself wearing her dress and the look on her face was so ‘Wow, I can’t believe this pretty girl is me’ that I just wanted to pick her up and hug her.

Javi and Marie, being a part of your wedding was such a treat for us. Thank you for having us there, and for the lovely emails you sent us when you got your DVDs. They were greatly appreciated, more than you know. We’ve missed you guys, and were happy to see Marie at Gary and Aileen’s wedding a couple of weeks ago. Wish you could’ve been there, Javi. We might be in Singapore this August, maybe we can catch up over coffee again. Much love from me and Jeff!

by Lisa

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