October 31, 2008 - 11:17 pm
Venue: North Greenhills Clubhouse
Maraiye Francine is the youngest daughter of our lovely secretary, Ate Mot. We arrived at the venue earlier and everybody, including the party suppliers, were setting up the balloons, decors and booths. From what I saw that day, that party was going to be BIG.
First Clue: Check out Francine’s Cake…
Second Clue: The goodie cupcakes…yumm
Meet Francine with her lovely parents Ate Mot and Richard. Joel at the left and Aaron at the right.
The lovely ladies: Joel, Aaron and Jesy.
When the kids arrived at the party, the booths were all up and running. Look how busy the hair salon was.
(L) Matthew won a mirror and I decided to play with it. (R) Sabrina here was competing with the boys on building the plastic cup pyramid.
And then I found JB, “Smile-y”…while the other kids were playing with the bubbles at the stage.
One of the program’s highlights was the Magic tricks and all the kids were awed with the show.
(L) You can see how the kids really wanted to take home the appearing stuffs from the Magician’s Hat. (R) And at this point, the famous unicyclist of the Philippines came in and performed their tricks as well.
It was fun watching them that it was tempting enough to just drop my gears and pay attention to their tricks. But “work comes first”.
While shooting the crowd, I saw some familiar faces. My co-photographer Mike Tan and his lovely wife, Tin, together with their beautiful daughter, Mika.
Instead of the usual pukpok palayok, the “IN” thing today is the balloon-popping and all the goodie candies are still awaited for.
Lastly, here is Ninong Erron and Jesy with the birthday girl, Maraiye Francine.
I had the funnest birthday shoot that day because there were freeflowing gellato ice cream. Also, I got to take home a limited “Francine Turns 1″ bean bag and took home some balloons. Woohoo… Not only does God make beautiful weddings, but Birthdays as well.
Thanks Ate Mot!
17 years to go and it’s your debut Francine. =) I think I can still hold a camera by that time. =P
October 30, 2008 - 3:57 am
Preps: SEARCA Hotel Los Banos Laguna
Church: Shrine of San Antonio de Padua
Reception: Linas Orchard
It was an early morning call time and we had to go to Los Banos from Sta Mesa. I was very excited to shoot because its out of town. Gracielle, my co-photographer, was the one who took Ian & Aizel’s prenup and she told me that these couple were really game and up for pictorials. When we arrived and started shooting them, I asked the couple if they underwent some modelling school cause they really knew how to pose and smile. Ian let out a secret that it was one of Aizel’s frustrations. Ooops.. FYI, Ian is a chef while Aizel is a doctor.
Arrived early at the hotel preps so we stayed at the lobby. You can’t imagine how hot the weather was at LB. (R-L) Toto, Noel, Tomas, Gracielle, Jiggs, Kim, Ipe
Ian doing his thing. =)
At the veranda, we found ourselves textured backgrounds and it was sweet. Bamboos and red walls.
Aizel did really great job during that day. Imagine a scorching hot weather and she can keep that smile all the way.
Patterns, lines and the stairs. wooot..
Thank God for these kind of moments…
(L) Waiting for the door to open (R) Ian, with a big smile on his face while putting on the ring.
Its always the couple’s closest friends that make you go wacky. =P Texture Love.
We were trying to make the doves kiss but Aizel was really forcing them to do it so we had to make her relax. Thus the big laugh.
I just love their church venue because you’d never run out of background for Ian and Aizel.
You can see how relaxed both Ian and Aizel were when we were already doing the pictorials. The sun was down and we arrived at the reception venue to shoot some more.
It’d be fun going back and shooting again at Los Banos next time around as I really enjoyed looking for great spots. As for Ian & Aizel, I hope you guys enjoyed our shoot as much as we enjoyed shooting you.
God Bless you guys and Hope to see you again one day.
October 27, 2008 - 5:46 pm
Preps: Greenhills Elan Hotel
Church: Sanctuario de Santo Cristo
Reception: Oasis
The moment I stepped in Eynna’s room at her hotel, she gave us a very lively greeting. That was a good sign for a great shoot. But God unfolds a lot of blessings and as she was almost done with her make-up, she was ready doing lots of funny faces. That’s another sign that this will be a really fun wedding.
You can check how fun Eynna was to shoot because she was really up for anything and the mood during preps was very light. I remember how God helped us find a way to make that manuequin stand with her dress on it. (FYI, that stand was wearing orange tie-dye and was standing 3 ft tall before we fixed it. Eynna is about 5 ft 8-9 in?). With a great team and God on our side, It was really a success.
I just love these shots. =P
Carlo, on the other hand, was doing great as well. I loved his room because it was so big and it gave me more ideas for creative shooting. Carlo, you look really good here.. =P
Prepping up for the ceremony…
Eynna’s veil and ring shots…
Eynna’s mom and dad…
The weather was so perfect God gave us blue skies and a bright sun. Aquinas church was such cool venue for in-betweens.
Sunny love.. one of my fave shots that day…
At Oasis for another layout…
During the couple’s first dance, the fan blew bubbles around the couple and created a whirlwind effect… Love it.
Everything was such a blessing for me including Carlo and Eynna. I thank God for letting me be a part of this wonderful wedding. As our tagline goes, God makes beautiful weddings, we simply capture them…
God Bless Carlo & Eynna! Have a wonderful relationship. Sorry for the late post.