August 1 (Monday) - We have chosen Manila Yacht Club as the location for our pre-nup, and having a bad weather will not be favorable for all of us. So we have all decided (with our photographer, John Taca, and sytlist, Roko Arceo) to postpone our pre-nup shoot to Wednesday, hoping that super typhoon Kabayan will already go away. Or if it doesn't, at least we should all come prepared.
August 3 (Wednesday) - "Rain or shine" we were determined to push through with our pictorial. :)
The day started very gloomy but luckily at around 11AM, the sun suddenly appeared! Pierre and I got a little excited since we were praying so hard for a good weather.
Our make-up artist, Ms. Victoria Gonzalez, did our make-up at the Themes & Motifs, Makati Shangri-la. She is really so nice. She even volunteered to follow us at the Manila Yacht Club to do our retouch. :)
Around 2:30-3PM (our call time) - Pierre & I, the Luminosi team, Ms. Victoria and her hubby were already at the Manila Yacht Club. Roko, our stylist, who earlier requested to postpone our meeting time from 2 to 2:30, have texted that he would be coming in a bit late.
30 minutes passed, I called Roko up again to check on where he is, but he was not picking up. So we decided to start the shoot without him using the clothes that I was wearing (luckily, I wore a pretty dress that day) and Pierre wore the extra stuff that our stylist asked him to bring. I was so worried and very apologetic to Pierre since he did not like Roko from day 1. I just convinced him that he might really be okay since he was referred to us by gown designer. :( We continued with our shoot, trying our best to not think about Roko anymore since it will just ruin our mood.
After more than 2 1/2 hours, Roko finally showed up. The sky was already dark and it already started to drizzle. The sad part was that the clothes that he brought was not what we expected from a stylist. He failed to capture our style & even our sizes! We could have just brought our own stuff and just saved what we paid him. Even worse, he just sat there all the time and did not even help in directing the shoot.
August 3 (Wednesday) - "Rain or shine" we were determined to push through with our pictorial. :)
The day started very gloomy but luckily at around 11AM, the sun suddenly appeared! Pierre and I got a little excited since we were praying so hard for a good weather.
Our make-up artist, Ms. Victoria Gonzalez, did our make-up at the Themes & Motifs, Makati Shangri-la. She is really so nice. She even volunteered to follow us at the Manila Yacht Club to do our retouch. :)
Around 2:30-3PM (our call time) - Pierre & I, the Luminosi team, Ms. Victoria and her hubby were already at the Manila Yacht Club. Roko, our stylist, who earlier requested to postpone our meeting time from 2 to 2:30, have texted that he would be coming in a bit late.
30 minutes passed, I called Roko up again to check on where he is, but he was not picking up. So we decided to start the shoot without him using the clothes that I was wearing (luckily, I wore a pretty dress that day) and Pierre wore the extra stuff that our stylist asked him to bring. I was so worried and very apologetic to Pierre since he did not like Roko from day 1. I just convinced him that he might really be okay since he was referred to us by gown designer. :( We continued with our shoot, trying our best to not think about Roko anymore since it will just ruin our mood.
After more than 2 1/2 hours, Roko finally showed up. The sky was already dark and it already started to drizzle. The sad part was that the clothes that he brought was not what we expected from a stylist. He failed to capture our style & even our sizes! We could have just brought our own stuff and just saved what we paid him. Even worse, he just sat there all the time and did not even help in directing the shoot.
His excuse for being late? - His morning shoot overrun because the make-up artist did not arrive and they had to buy and do the model's make-up by themselves. If he really cared, he could have asked his driver (or anyone) to just bring the clothes to us. To top it all, he didn't even offer to give back some of our payment considering that he was just there for an hour and his service and was really poor. :(
It was very a sad experience for us. I just hope that all the bad things that could happen on our wedding day have already been concentrated on this incident.
For all the brides-to-be out there, please think twice before getting Roko Arceo as your stylist! I do not want to have negative things written on our blog, but this one deserves to be published. I hope that he will be able to read this and learn from it.. :(
Moving on to the bright side, our other suppliers have shined that day. :)
- Ms. Victoria's service was really exceptional. She has the concern of a mother, we were really touched.
- Luminosi Studios (John Taca) and his other crew members have been a very good sport. I know they were all irritated with Roko, but they were professional to not be so obvious. Also, despite of the lack of sunlight, John's team was able to produce a good output. :)
- Realship Corp (Lyn Laroco) - The yacht's caretaker (Kuya Froilan), did not factor in our very late stylist. So based on his record, we have overstayed for 1.5 hours. Lyn texted me the next day to ask for the payment for overtime, but when I told her about the incident, she did not compel us to pay anymore.
