{ weddings by vatel manila }: December 2011

Saturday, December 31, 2011

SLIDESHOW: IAN + JOHANN

Here's Ian & Johann's slideshow by their photographer, J Lucas Reyes. As J wrote, it was "Simple, beautiful, and heartfelt." We totally agree. ^_^
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Hann and Ian Onsite from J on Vimeo.

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J Lucas Reyes | Fine Art Weddings + Lifestyle Photography
Email: photography@jlucasreyes.com
Mobile: (+63).919.836.3620

Here's the SDE of Ian & Johann, whose lovely Old Manila / rustic-inspired wedding was our last in Manila for 2011. Loving the choice of track! ^_^
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THIS MARRY MONTH OF DECEMBER!

Here's posting teasers from a few of our December 2011 weddings as taken by the amazing photographers we've worked with this month. Enjoy! :-)

December is truly the wedding month in the Philippines. There's just the right amount of chirpy weather (albeit it's rainy this time of the year), but there's no way that's going to stop us from doing what we do best - help make weddings beautiful!
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Photo by Redfox
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Photo by Marvin Dungao of 12 Masters Photography
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Photo by Ryan Ortega
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Photo by Jenn Piñon
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Photo by Paul Vincent
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Photo by Redsheep
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Photo by J Lucas Reyes
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Photo by Ryan Ortega

Friday, December 30, 2011

REAL WEDDING: JOJO + MONICA

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Here's a Winter-inspired wedding - in April. Of course one need not interpret that theme literally, but we did the best we could to make this wedding warm and cozy despite the conflicting warm summer sun and the cold wedding theme.

Here's sharing Jojo & Monica's really heart-felt wedding. Up until now, I can still hear Monica's loud laughter as she walked past us on her way to the altar. Yep, she's happy like that. ^_^

Oh, watch their SDE here. Hair flip + slow motion FTW! ^_^
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SUPPLIERS//

Preps: MMLDC, Antipolo City
Ceremony: Avenida, The Mango Farm
Cocktails & Dinner: The Mango Farm
Photographer: Daniel Lei Studio
Videographer: Daniel Lei Studio
Food: K. by Cunanan Catering
Ceremony Setup: Vatel Manila
Entourage Flowers: Dylan Gozum for Vatel Manila

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

E-SESSION: MARK + KRISSY

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Here's a simple but fun, fun, fun engagement shoot that was UP-inspired and yet remained fresh and new despite the theme having been done so many times before. Don't you just adore the dogs? We just loooove dogs! Shot at The Mango Farm by our friends, the MyPhotato brothers! ^_^
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Location Guide: The Mango Farm, Antipolo City
Props: UP house, couple's own. Penny Farthing bikes, Vatel Manila
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Photos by MyPhotato
by Kel & Mar Laquindanum
Numbers:09172416485; 7767242
Email: myphotato@yahoo.com
Office: Moonwalk, Paranaque

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.