In the sad reality of life, or of human nature, there will always be people who will try to cheat, deceive, or abuse others just to get ahead or make money. This is true even in the seemingly all-pleasurable world of the wedding industry. Boo and Jen is a couple I almost never had, this despite Metrophoto being their primary supplier of choice. The initial planner they hired already ‘poisoned the well’ even before they met me by telling them lies upon lies on how bad our service is. But like many other Metrophoto brides, Jen knew what she really wanted that even after meeting several other photographers (forced to her by the said planner), there was no stopping her to see me personally.

Of course to her delight, we didn’t turn to be the beast, or the frog, or the snake that we were wrongfully accused of – we were more of the knight-in-shining-armor (or camera) that would come to rescue them from the evil paws of their slanderous planner. hahaha. We set off to revamp their supplier line-up and gave them, as always, the best service we can provide and a wedding they will never forget.

Boo and Jennifer are both dear to me, I’m grateful for their confidence and appreciate their determination to find out the truth and stand by what they believe and want. I’m also stoked that we were able to have the first ever shoot inside the opulent yet very exclusive Salon de Ning at the Manila Peninsula where they both rocked every shot :) Enjoy the photos :)

Supplier Line-up:
Coordination: Chinkie Uy
Make-up: Ann de Leon-Perez
Videography: Guj Tungpalan of Red Sheep
Emcee: Francis Day

It always makes it easy whenever there is a nice story to tell about a blog post. Because definitely taking beautiful photos are most of the time less difficult than writing something interesting – or at least readable. Today is one of those relatively easy writing days. Featuring Romeo and Jenn’s wedding actually strikes three recent relevant things.

First, although tragic, the wedding of Romeo and Jenn was really more than a year earlier but due to the effects of typhoon Ondoy to their families here in the Philippines (they are based in London, and maybe you remember their wonderful e-session here), the wedding date was moved to more than a year later. Fresh from the onslaught of several massive storms here in Manila, I hope that overall the effects weren’t as bad as two years ago.

Secondly, fresh from the success of the book signing of the Power 7 Wedding Suppliers Book last night, I noticed that this wedding featured 4 of the 7 power wedding suppliers in the book. It not uncommon for this to happen, but the timing of the blog feature itself, that’s pretty amazing :)

Lastly, one of the photos from this wedding will be featured in a Veluz Reyes full-page ad very soon. How awesome is that? Check the photos out to find out :)

Supplier Line-up:
Videography: Threelogy
Coordination: Bespoke by Ernest Pascual
Gown: Veluz Reyes
Make-up: Aaron Lejarde of the Make-up Studio
Flowers: Vatel Manila
Catering: K by Cunanan