{ weddings by vatel manila }: March 2006

Friday, March 03, 2006

1ST PHILIPPINE WEDDING CONGRESS

28-30 JULY 2006
1st Philippine Wedding Congress
Megatrade Hall, SM Megamall
Project of Visions and Ideas

Honestly, I don't know how this would be any different from the dime-a-dozen fairs happening around Manila during the entire year but yet, we're willing to give it a try and see how we'd fare in this - wow - 1st Philippine Wedding Congress. The name of the event just gives me the creeps.

At any rate, we're working on something Turkish for the booth, just so to show that The Mango Farm can be transformed into anything you wish it to be.

PERFECT BEGINNINGS, YEAR 3

10-11 JUNE 2006

Perfect Beginnings 3

Megatrade Hall, SM Megamall

Vatel Manila will be at the Perfect Beginnings this June! This will be our first project for this 3-years-old bridal fair. I am sure we will be encountering old friends again (the same companies seem to crop up all the time in many fairs) and meeting new suppliers.

We will be working around a Mediterannean look this time for the booth. Something that has a nice, loungey feel to it. Let's see.

THANK YOU!

WEDDINGS AND DEBUTS 2006
February 17-19
Weddings and Debuts 2006
Megatrade Hall, SM Megamall
Project of The Wedding Library

Once again, we were seen at Megatrade Hall at SM Megamall with our booth for The Mango Farm. This year, the order being something Filipino, we came up with an idea of using an all-capiz ensemble to surround our 2X3-meters booth. The rest of the ideas like the banig-wrapped, multi-layered platform came from Mike Santos of the Farm.

Vatel Manila wishes to thank Ate Letty Yanga of Quiapo's famous Ils de Tules (ilalim ng tulay, for those not in the know) for discounts and speedy delivery on the capiz curtains. Henry, as well, for taking time to make the long walks to and from Quiapo. Tony of the Farm for the amazing (and erstwhile secret) artistry. To SB, for always being so supportive of my work. And to Mike, for the chance to make these ideas come to life!(Why is this sounding like a thank-you speech for the Oscars?!)

Here's to more booths for the Farm!

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OUR GUIDING PRINCIPLES FOR DESIGN

REFINED SIMPLICITY. This is something we work hard to perfect. While we may have differing views on what is "elegant", we humbly present here our guiding principles in design.

1.) Simple and tasteful. The Filipino's current penchant for the "production number-act" is something we have discussed and studied thoroughly among ourselves.

This may be something we have acquired from television and from our increasing buying power. In the end, our homes end up being filled - to every crook and cranny - with things: huge aparadors and dividers go side by side with knick-knacks from our travels, as well as with our seeming fetish for souvenirs from just about any event and place. In short, horror vacui. However, Filipino design as gleaned from our history and traditions, hardly border on the loud and boorish.

The work of our indigineous peoples and local weavers attest to the beauty of our artwork. This concept - simple and tasteful - is at the core our design sensibility.

2.) Conversation-friendly and comfortable arrangements. Although the aim to make our designs conversation pieces in themselves is already a given, VATEL MANILA draws the line on the theatricality that pervades the current design concepts of many catering and event firms in Manila.

In our review of current practices, many design firms resort to the "shock policy" - that is, they capitalize on their ability to shock guests with venues teeming with flowers, lights and other pompous what-nots like employing yards upon yards of fabric, supposedly to make it "an event like no other" or "an event to be remembered".

Sometimes, even tables - from the main sponsors to the guests tables in a wedding setting, for example - are filled to the brim with flowers designed to block guests from seeing each other thus impeding conversation; tables are bathed in silk or organza, apparently designed to astound the visitor BUT without consideration of their comfort or safety.

The end result: uncomfortable and crampy arrangements. While we only suggest and can provide suggestions as to how to put life into your own concepts, the overall idea, really, is to effortlessly evoke images of the grand and the sophisticated without being distracting and obstrusive.

In the end, the true winners will be you and your guests - with the reward of pleasant memories arising from the things your ideas and our guidance / expertise can do together.