Monday, January 12, 2015

Wedding Photos by Bliss and Berries

Here are some of the photos captured by our official photographer, Bliss and Berries.

Wedding Date: November 30, 2014
Preparation Venue: Eastwood Richmonde Hotel
Ceremony and Reception Venue: The Dome, Antipolo City














Monday, January 5, 2015

Our Wedding SDE by Bliss and Berries

This is my favorite part, the review! During my preps day, Reviews from other brides helped me a lot in choosing our suppliers. So now, It's my turn to share :D

Nowadays, Getting a same day edit (SDE) video is a must and there are lots of photo and video suppliers around. You can get a package together with wedding photos or a separate "video only" suppliers. It will depend on your taste and budget. For us we get the package from Bliss and Berries, A sister company of Blacktieproject. Photo and Video is one of the major and important supplier in a wedding event. They will capture everything from the preparation up to the last part of the reception program.

I'm happy that we booked Bliss and Berries as our official photographer and videographer. They are fun to work with. They arrived very early in the hotel (great!) to capture every details.Their camera gadgets are high ends and I envy them, haha because I used to shoot on events few years back. I don't know why but during the preparation I'm stressed, there are lots of people in my room, don't know how can i attend to their needs. My coordinators are not yet around. I need to tell a lot of things to them but they are late, I texted my groom and asked him to call them (oops another story). I remember one of the photographers keeps telling me to smile and he said "mam, parang lalim ng iniisip mo, enjoy lang po :)" Back to the topic, I enjoyed the shoot even if I'm stressed. but I think if im not? nag fashion show at bonggang bonggang pose ako sa kanila yung magsasawa  na sila at sasabihin "mam, tama na po! wag kayong feeling! haha!" at dapat wag pa apekto sa stress (kung kaya, kayanin!). To our future brides, Kung meron nakakainis na pangyayari on the day, deadmahin! Enjoy lang dahil once lang hindi na pwedeng ulitin yung moment na yun. nagsisi ako kase nagpa apekto ako e. ulitin ang kasal. lol

I also enjoyed our "before the dress" shoot. arte artehan galore! haha! Thanks to Toni Aviles for making me the most beautiful girl that time, pang pageant! Later ang bonggang review, pasasalamat at papuri ko sayo :D

Anyway,  I want to share with you the Same Day Edit (SDE) that they did. For us, It was fabulous and perfect! We love it to the moon and back. Thank you so much Bliss and Berries team for your talent and creative mind. My relatives and friends loves it too. We received a lot of good feedback about the video.

Hope my readers (if meron, please comment. choz!) will love it too. Enjoy watching!


FRANZ / ANJELLA [sde video] from blacktieproject on Vimeo.

Link: http://vimeo.com/blacktieproject/franzandanjella
Website: www.blissandberries.com

Supplier rating: 9/10

As of now, we're just waiting for the 20-30 minutes video highlights. Once we got it, I will write again the review.

Check out their wedding photos on this link:
Wedding Photos by Bliss and Berries

The Wedding in Antipolo

After 48 years, I'm back and finally, We were done with the preparations and the wedding! I'm now married for 1 month and 5 days and this blog deserves a major update! Yes, I will share with you all the suppliers rating and honest reviews on a separate post, I know this is very helpful with all brides to be.

Let me share with you first the list of our wedding suppliers!

Preparation Venue: Eastwood Richmonde Hotel
Ceremony & Reception: The Dome Venue Antipolo City
Photo and Video: Bliss and Berries
Hair and Make Up: Toni Aviles The Make-up Artist and her team
Gown: Ivory & White Bridal Store
Caterer and Stylist: Ma Del's Cuisine c/o Ms.Anj
Lights and Sounds: RejectKrew
Event Host: Mr. Richard Agtarap
Musician: Infinite Soul Acoustic
Coordination: Antipolo Wedding Belles
Photobooth: Hepburn Prints
Entourage Flowers: Clieo's Wedding Flowers
Cake: Heart and Belles

Special thanks to Juris for the surprise!
To Pastor Ado Bernardo for officiating the wedding and to Pastor Dennis Aquino of Victory Church for all the help and guidance and to all the people who became part of our special event! We are forever grateful and happy :)

Friday, July 4, 2014

My Wedding Checklist

It's been a while since the last time I wrote here in my wedding blog! So many things happened these pasts months and I'm a bit lazy to blog. I wrote all of my posts in my cozy room in Singapore and now I'm back in Manila! :)

Back to my wedding update, Right now, I'm happy that we almost booked all the MAJOR suppliers. I'm excited, happy, worried, anxious. Is it normal for a bride to be? haha! I'm having a mixed emotion while counting the days. 5 months to go! <3 :)

Here are the Wedding Checklist (Suppliers):

Major:

Ceremony Venue
Reception Venue
Catering / Events Styling
Photo and Video
Lights and Sounds
Wedding Gown
Groom Suit - Still looking
Hair and Make Up
Invitations
Wedding Coordinator
Minor:

Wedding Ring
Band/Musician
Cake
Florist - Negotiating with suppliers
Photobooth - c/o bestfriends
Entourage stuffs - buy on August
Officiant (Pastor) - on process
Documents- 3 mo. before big day
Host - still looking
Bridal Car - still looking
Preparation Venue

No highlight means on process :)  I hope this checklist will also help soon to be brides to determine the suppliers that they need to book. That's all for now. I will blog about my 2nd food tasting soon.


Photo taken during our SG shoot

Sunday, March 16, 2014

Lights and Sounds by RejectKrew





We booked our lights and sounds last December. Thanks to GT thread and some bloggers for recommending RejectKrew! Super in demand nila. Magaling at maganda ang setup ng RejectKrew, affordable with high quality gadgets based on the reviews and  photos that i saw online.  I really like his set up on mood lights, very creative! So I searched their contact information and email Mr.Elmer (owner of RejectKrew) to inquire for their rates and thank God it's under our budget range. You can contact Elmer via email too but please be patient  because it will take time for him to reply due to his hectic schedule. After weeks of communication, Finally we booked them and Elmer sent us the contract. Yey!

Sample light setup of RejectKrew (credit to the owner)
Email Address: funkymix08[at]hotmail[dot]com
Website: www.rejectkrew.com

Sunday, March 2, 2014

F & A Prenup Shoot in Singapore

Thank you God for talented friends! Our [Unofficial] Prenup / Pre-Wedding shoot in Singapore.

Photographer: Elbert Pasoy [portfolio]
Monogram: Elbert Pasoy
Hair and Make Up: Donna Torres-Soliva [portfolio]
Theme: Fun and Colorful by F & A
Props: Anjella Valino, Elbert Pasoy, Donna Torres, East Coast Park Bike Rental
Location: East Coast Park / Beach, Singapore


Saturday, March 1, 2014

Food Tasting at Ma Del's Cuisine

Ma Del's is very popular in w@w and GT forums. According to the feed backs, Their styling and setup was beautiful and elegant and the food was great. Yes! We booked our caterer last year and met Ms. Anj last September 2013 for a meeting and on Dec 30, 2013, we had our first food tasting at their place in Pasig. I'm satisfied with their menus and will be having our next FT by July and final detailing of the ceremony and reception styling/setup.

For our first FT, These are the menu:  Fetuccini Italiana, Chicken Flambe, Korean Pork, Chopseuy,
Fish Fillet with Tartar Sauce(i love the sauce), Chopseuy with quail eggs, pumpkin soup, cream of asparagus, Sweet and Sour Fish Fillet, Chicken Empanaditas, Buko Pandal Jello

Verdict: Everything in the plate is good! I like their Fetuccini Italiana and Chicken Flambe more,  For the soup, I like the pumpkin and for the dessert, Buko Pandan Jello. So i put them on my draft menu list.

I'm looking forward for our next FT so we can finalize the menu.

Here are some of the photos, Sorry i forgot to take photo of buko pandan jello!



Tuesday, January 14, 2014

The Make-up Artist: Toni Aviles

Finding your right MUA (make up artist) on your wedding day is another big task. Bride's look on her very special day is important because the make up will stay like forever through photographs and videos. You don't want to look godzilla in front of your guests and on your wedding album and video right?

I booked Toni Aviles as my  fairygod mother on our big day! Haha! Why Toni? I like the make up style, very natural, I love the over all look of the brides as i browse her portfolio online. Toni can really turn her beautiful bride into more more more beautiful bride! (x10 hehe). Apart from her God-given talent, Toni  is very bubbly, approachable and funny. For sure you will feel comfortable and the make up session will never be boring :)  

I already met Toni before. We had our "photoshoot" session with some of my friends (Myra, me, badjo). She did my make up then. We did also a shoot before, I am the hobbyist photographer and she's the MUA, with some of my photographer friends and met her also when I shoot at a wedding gig with my photographer friend (Myra Ho) and soon i will meet her again...my MUA! hehe :)

You may check Toni's FB page and website for portfolio and more details :)