Weddings by Vatel Manila: SNEAK PEEK: { LAID-BACK BLACK & WHITE }

Friday, December 21, 2012

SNEAK PEEK: { LAID-BACK BLACK & WHITE }

We had the chance to style a 160-pax reception a few days back, and boy were we stoked to work on a black and white palette again after a very long time! The thing with this motif is that it allows for several interpretations - from elegant, to laid back, to quirky. Let's say we settle for the first and second, yes?

This set also serves as a nice example on how to populate a small table of 10 seats with a few but well-selected items to achieve an uncluttered yet full look. After all, attending a wedding not only means treating guests to a visual & gustatory experience, but also to allow for conversation among seatmates.

Here's sharing some beautiful detail shots by Ben Lim, who was shooting that day for Jaja Lifestyle Photography. Can't wait to see the rest of the set! ^_^
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Location: The Mango Farm
Catering: Josiah's
Styling: Vatel Manila + {etc} Handmade Goodness

1 comment:

Liza Manahan-Topacio said...: Thank you for this beautiful styling!!! As I have said before, I am not a fan of phalaenopsis... but boy, how grateful I am to trust your judgment (oh, and I just love them so much now)! I can still remember us raving about how beautiful the reception was while we were dancing right after our grand entrance. Every little thing is just perfect! Ah basta, thank you, thank you, and thank you! I hope that you can still do our styling on our silver wedding anniversary! lol ... look forward to seeing more of your fabulous and awesome creations in the future! x; 12:22 AM

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 of 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 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.

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Friday, December 21, 2012

SNEAK PEEK: { LAID-BACK BLACK & WHITE }

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