Today, we’re featuring the beautiful wedding of Kit and Maryan. It is with them that I have had my most unforgettable experience ever as a photographer.

Each and every time I meet, shoot, and hangout with any of my couples, it is always certain that the experience will be pleasurable. Each somehow different, but all of them adds up to all the great things that makes appreciate what life is all about. In fact, with Metrophoto we don’t simply provide them a great set of photos, but we provide an entire experience that makes looking at the photos even better. Now, there will be times that some experiences just stand out and be one of the most memorable of them all and this is true when we shot the e-session of Kit and Maryan in San Francisco.

I won’t dig in much into the detail but it was that time when Maryan’s car that used to carpool to the shoot location in the Palace of the Fine Arts, was smashed open in parking lot and the thieves took away everything that we left inside – and it was ALOT. It was a bit traumatic, but we have learned from it and have moved on. It is something that shouldn’t happen to anyone but if there is a bright side to it, it makes you grateful with what you have even more and had made my bond with Kit and Maryan even stronger.

I’m not posting the photos from that shoot here, we are fast forwarding to the photos from their wedding where everything was wonderful, everything was fun, everything was splendid and the unfortunate incident seemed like a distant past. Enjoy the photos and let’s enjoy everything else that this great gift of life has to offer all of us :)

Supplier Line-up:
Make-up: Madge Landrito-Lejano
Coordination: Ernest Pascual of Bespoke Manila
Videography: Threelogy
Wedding Gown: Veluz Reyes
Catering: K by Cunanan
Emcee: Tetta Canada

One of the reasons I just love what I do are priceless encounters I experience with a lot of people, more particularly couples that get me for their weddings. It’s just really a delight to genuinely know them and the stories about them. It’s always about happy and fascinating anecdotes that just keep you positive and grateful for everything about life. Now, before I cry writing this, let’s get to today’s feature wedding and the story of Winston and Melanie’s wedding preparation which I’m happy to share because aside from the couple, I’m the protagonist. hahaha.

A couple of years back, Winston and Melanie started to plan their wedding. They wanted something really small and simple – after all they were already married in civil rights and just wanted to have the church’s blessing. It was suppose to be at the humble St. Paul parish in Quezon City with about less than a hundred people. Then Winston chanced upon a newspaper feature of my photos from LJ Moreno’s wedding and after much thought he closed his eyes reached inside his pockets and decided he must have Metrophoto to cover his wedding. hahaha.

Thinking that having me wouldn’t be worth it if they will have a wedding in a simple venue, the big decision was made to move their wedding to Manila Peninsula instead. This way, he said I’ll be able to use my talents more given a grander venue. Of course I begged to disagree, it would still have been awesome it we sticked to the original venue, yet I learned all of this after the fact already so no point raising the issue. hehehe.

He also thought that the Manila Peninsula venue wouldn’t be worth it if he’s not going to have the impeccable details and planning to go with their wedding. So enter Ernest Pascual – and to further take it to another level, they got Veluz Reyes to design Melanie’s gown and Madge Lejano to doll her up. It seemed like an endless upgrade – including getting Bim to do the videos, but after about multiplying their budget maybe seven times, they were finally set and intensely happy. :) And as my current favorite quote says “Nobody who gave their best effort regretted it” which makes more sense to something that happens only once in a lifetime like your wedding day. :) And for me to be a part of it is something I’m deeply grateful about.

Enjoy the photos and check out the awesome WM logo that Ernest created and then embellished in a lot of the details including Melanie’s fabulous gown :)

Supplier Line-up:
Videographer: Phoeben Teocson
Make-up: Madge: Landrito-Lejano
Bride’s Gown: Veluz Reyes
Groom’s/TJ’s Suit: JC Buendia
Coordination: Ernest Pascual of Bespoke Manila
Emcee: Tetta Canada