{ weddings by vatel manila }: AVAILABILITY & SCHEDULE

AVAILABILITY & SCHEDULE

Photo credit: Orange Studio by Kent Lazzaraga
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To all our readers & to first-time visitors, please be informed that Vatel Manila is currently attending to a huge demand in customized costings and may have some delay in replying to your emails and requests. Since we hardly repeat bridal bouquet designs, the creative process takes a lot longer than the usual, so please bear with us.

Thank you for your patience, and our sincerest apologies for the inconvenience and delay. We'll be getting back to you very, very soon.
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2013 SLOTS Availability (as of June 4, 2013)
January: Fully Booked
February: Fully Booked
March: Fully Booked
April: Fully Booked
May: Fully Booked
June: Fully Booked
July: 9 slots available
August: 14 slots available
September: 9 slots available
October: 8 slots available
November: Fully Booked
December: Fully Booked
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2014 SLOTS Availability (as of June 4, 2013)
January: Fully Booked

February: 12 slots available

March: 15 slots available

April: 16 slots available

May: 18 slots available

June: 18 slots available

July: 19 slots available

August: available

September: available

October: available

November: available

December: 18 slots available
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2015 SLOTS Availability (as of June 4, 2013)

January: 19 slots available

Thank you for your support! We look forward to be of service as soon as we are able! :-)

Photo Credit: Really Awesome Weddings (R.A.W.)

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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.