There are so many things I love about what I do and one I recently noticed to appreciated is on how I get reconnected to people who I’ve met before. Sometimes these people are other suppliers in the industry, maybe guests in a wedding, or one of my beloved couples, which was the case with this post feature we have today of Christian and Mae.

I’ve known Christian since maybe I was 7 or 8 years old. We attended the same grade school but since I was a year older than he is, we never really had the chance to hang out with each other. And its not like children at that age ‘hang out’ already. Fascinatingly, we got reacquainted when he got engaged to his beautiful girlfriend, Mae. Looking for suppliers for what would be their wonderful wedding, he messaged me and then of course easily I remembered who he was. Since then we were able to get in touch more even after their wedding and I’m truly grateful of the chance of getting to know him much more this time around and be friends to both of them.

It’s really incredible how the world works, how strangely true it is when people say ‘what goes around, comes around’. I just really feel blessed that when I get to meet people again, like in this particular instance, it is mostly about one of the most celebrated days of their lives. When this happens, I really treasure it.

Enjoy the photos of both Mae and Christian’s engagement session and wedding. :)

I will be out for a long break this next few days and before I embark on that stationary journey of doing nothing, I’m making sure that I leave my dear blog visitors a feature that is beautiful and fascinating enough to keep them pleased up until I come back. So for my 7th and last post for the month of October, we are sharing with you the photos from the wedding of Emil and Marielle. Frequent visitors of this site, should be familiar with this couple as they are the winners of the Metrofied for Life Contest that we had last year and thus the awesome bearers of the Metrophoto logo tattoos in their bodies – didn’t I tell you it would be an interesting post? :)

Easily one of the most anticipated weddings of the year for Metrophoto, Emil and Marielle are not just a Metrophoto couple but literal brand ambassadors as they carry the tattoos on their forearms. Their personalities and the story of their love for each other are what made them stand out from the other couples who joined the contest. Here is an excerpt from the contest letter that Marielle sent to us:

I deserve to win because I have a very beautiful love story to tell, I deserve to win because I deserve to have my wedding day captured by a very good storyteller Oly Ruiz through his pictures, artistry, and passion. I deserve to win because through my story I will be able to inspire other couples like us, who have endured love and will fight for it until their last breath.

To read the entire entry and to see the wonderful photos from their e-session please click here.

It might sound odd but being in their wedding and covering it is like shooting my own children’s wedding and it was a very proud moment for all of us. It is not usual for someone to do something like this, in fact it has never happened before. There are always things that people will do for love and for the desire of something, and not everyone will understand it, but the most important things is that, these things that greatly inspire us also allow us to create something special and something beautiful that we will treasure all our lives – a true spirit of being part of Metrophoto.

Enjoy the photos, and hopefully when we come back next month, we’ll be able to treat you to more posts than ever before. Marielle, coincidentally being a florist, prepared all the gorgeous flowers for her own wedding, so do check that out as well. :)

Supplier Line-up:
Videographer: Joel Salindong
Make-up: Pong Niu
Bridal Gown: Joe San Antonio
Flower: New Yorker Florals by Marielle Ramos

There are always a lot of things that makes a wedding unforgettable. But in today’s feature wedding there are two very unique things that make it more unforgettable in usual. We are talking about the beautiful wedding of Mike and Anne. For those of you who haven’t seen their e-session photos yet, please click here to see the photos that we shot in Los Angeles that turned out to be a sign of the awesome things to come.

Now for those two things I mentioned. I think this is the first time, albeit already having shot a lot of beautiful and expensive shoes, that one can claim to have the most expensive shoes that they can find. Not that they have to tell everyone, but it’s that I have to tell everyone. hahaha. I think it’s just both so amusing and amazing that while the red-soled Christian Louboutin’s are very popular anne made sure that she had the best one for her wedding. So at the Beverly Hills boutique, they were ushered to a private VIP room where the rare designs of the said brand are stored. There Anne tried and loved the Daffodil Blue Crytal 160 platform pumps – perfect color for her wedding. The price? $6,395 – enough budget for a decent wedding already. That may be too much information for some or just plain too much but who can blame them for having a knack for the best that life has to offer? They loved it, I loved it, everyone loved it. :) She is a Metrophoto Bride after all.

The second unique thing? How about a wedding cake so cool (both literally and figuratively) that it actually emerges from the ceiling and gets lowered down by hydraulics for the cake-cutting ceremony? It was unlike anything i’ve seen before in a wedding and surely everyone was in awe. The cake was like an ‘icing on the cake’ for the reception that was truly done impeccably.

Again, these are just two of the countless things that make this wedding one-of-a-kind (actually, I can include that I’ve never seen a groom cry as much as Mike did) but I’ll skip the writing and lead you to the photos already, I’m sure you’re curious to see what a pair of shoes that is priced like a car looks like. Enjoy the photos of this beautiful and emotion-filled wedding of Mike and Anne. :)

Supplier Line-up:
Make-up: Madge Landrito-Lejano
Videography: Jason Magbanua
Wedding Gown: Edwin Tan
Coordination: Teena Barretto
Flowers and Styling: Teddy Manuel
Lights and Sounds: Juancho Fontevilla
Cake: Joy San Gabriel
Reception Chairs: Windsor Crystal Chairs
Emcee: Gelli Victor

I know I always describe our weddings as ‘fun’. I also know that it is likely to be the most expected adjective to describe a wedding – well that adjective could also be ‘nice’, ‘hot’, ‘long’ – depending on who you ask, but I’d expect that it is still ‘fun’ most of the time because how simply else could it be? :) But there is a spectrum to the degree of ‘funness’ of a wedding and today’s feature will bring us to the funnest side of that.

Everything in life is relative and since this wedding is dearly special to me, I must admit that there is bias and really it was already fun even before it started. Actually if we have to go to the start, we have to go back to August last year when I met Bog and Jade for the first time in New York the night before their e-session. Together with us we’re some really really awesome company and we spent a night of stories and sangrias in the meat-packing district, thus ‘fun’ was redefined and elevated right from there. And it was the start of great experiences together up to the day of their wedding – where the same people that were with us in our unforgettable moments in New York were present. If that weren’t enough, they also booked an awesome supplier line-up that totally rocked everything about the wedding and as a perfect silver lining, two of my lovely metrophoto couples were also there to celebrate (three of the four of them were even part of the entourage).

I felt that I could go on and describe how ‘fun’ it was even more, but I know you already get what I mean and I also know that the photos will tell more of the story so much better than I can try to describe it. So yes, check out the photos and relive this wonderful wedding of Bog and Jade.

Supplier Line-up:
Make-up: Madge Landrito-Lejano
Coordination: Jody Liwanag of Events Experts
Videography: Jason Magbanua
Flowers: Teddy Manuel
Emcee: RJ Ledesma
Thanks to Paul Ticzon for shooting this wedding with us.

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