Supplier Ratings

Almost 4 months have passed since our “Beary Special Day”. :)  Our wedding have been successful with the support and help of the Lord, our family, and suppliers.  Many thanks to all our friends, family and loved ones who came to celebrate with us!

I have always wanted to write a Supplier Ratings after our wedding so I can share it with my co-W@W brides, but unfortunately I didn’t have enough time for it.  And also partly because I don’t want to dwell on the negative stuff that were encountered during our wedding anymore..  So I’ll just do it like this—

If Pierre and I were to get married again, we will not have second thoughts in getting the following suppliers again:

1.  HMUA: Ms. Victoria Gonzalez

2.  OTD Coordinator: Events Management Services

3.  Gown: Carmen Lazaro / VonCar Couture

4.  Entourage Gowns: Rene Belinario

5.  Music: Libante Strings

6.  Venue: Sonya’s Garden

7.  Lodging: Taal Vista

8.  Invitations: Printed Matter

9.  Photobooth: Pose and Print

10.  Wedding Rings: Mandy Castro

11.  Lights and Sounds: JS Mina

12.  Projector and Screen: Metrotech

13.  Candy Buffet: Andrew Toledo

14.  Wedding Cord: Project Dream Wedding

15.  Ate Jen and the kuyas for paving the dirt road going to Caleruega

To all of them, thank you very much for making our wedding such a wonderful event!

To the soon-to-be brides and grooms out there, remember that not all weddings will turn out perfectly as what you’ve planned, but don’t stress too much about it.  Everything happens for a reason and is intended by God.    Just, enjoy the moment and smile!  Happy preps and stay in love!  Just send me a message if you want to learn more about our suppliers. :)

P.S. We haven’t gotten the output of our videographer yet.  We will give an update as soon as we have it (but only if it turned out okay). :)

Our Prenup Pictorial

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.

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.

Thank you very much to all of you! :)

Here's a sneak preview of our prenup photos from Luminosi:

Realship Corp website: http://www.realshipcorp.com/

Our HMUA

Whew!  We thought we would no longer be able to find a good hair and makeup artist that's still available on our wedding day.. but luckily we found her during the June 2011 Themes and Motifs Wedding Expo at PICC Forum. :)

Meet Ms. Victoria Gonzalez--

She's very sweet and we felt very at ease with her.  We got a good deal from her as well. :)

Many thanks to Anna Liza's team and Princess Misa for referring us to her! ;)

Victoria Gonzalez website: http://www.victoriagonzalez.multiply.com/