We felt funny posing but what the heck, we went for it! I felt very relaxed and calm during the preps though, I was able to get a good night’s sleep earlier and I got to eat breakfast and lunch!=) Seriously that’s an achievement for brides! Of course, I made both my wedding gowns, the entire entourage, our moms and some of ninang’s gowns too. It took an immense amount of painstaking work. To be the designer and bride is challenging, it felt like I did DIY but on a larger scale! It took months and a lot of scrapped out designs that look nothing alike before I finalized my wedding gown. In the end, it’s all worth it!=) I’m happy how our wedding turned out, it seems our guests were happy too.=)
Reception Venue: The Glass Garden/ Catering: K by Cunanan Catering/ Styling, Flowers and Bouquets: Badang Rueda/ LED, Lights and Sounds: Sound Level and JAV/ Hair: Alex Leyson/ Make-up: Kris Bacani/ Photography: Ruffa & Mike with Phases N’ Faces/ Video Coverage and SDE: Megapixels/ Souvenirs: Georgia Chu of Empire Macaron/ Cupcakes: Cay Cuasay of Cupcake Lab/ Desserts: Portia Baluyut of Isabelo’s Garden and Dulcelin/ Sushi: Omakase/ LED Frame: Harrold Carreon/ Music: Something Special and Manila Philharmonic/ Church: Santuario de San Jose
For our first dance, we had our own dance version of “Time of your life.” There was no way we could pull off the lifts in my first wedding gown. So I made this second dress in lace and tulle.=)
This is the very first shoe from my shoe collection.=)
I wanted a unique invite so we had our invite cover door dye cut, our invites were made by our good friends Jun Uy and Yen Uy of Velprint.
Birdacages are one of the recurring themes during the entire wedding. I designed the invite layouts using Illustrator.
It was really awesome that Mike thought of shooting our rings with spools of coral thread and silver beads.
The beadwork upclose for my first wedding gown, embellished fully with Swarovski Crystals.
I actually saw a loose stone and sewed it up myself
I got Martin into art and paintings, as a wedding gift he surprised me with a painting he had commissioned to one of our favorite local artists, Rovi Salegumba =D
My happy family!=D
My three flower girls, my two nieces and Martin’s cousin in the middle
Maxie striking a pose, seriously this little girl looooves the camera!!!
Martin’s sisters wearing Camille Garcia-Cruz designs of course!
I love my beautiful cascading bouquet by my friend Badang Rueda, he also styled the Church and the Reception
I never thought I would be the type of bride who would go for a long train but I’m only getting married once so might as well make it ridiculously long!
The best Macarons EVER by Georgia Rocha Chu of Empire Macarons!=) We also had Macarons as our souvenirs. It was such a big hit that there were reports of stolen Macarons! Haha
Seriously we have a ton of talented friends, Cay Cuasay of Cupcake Lab surprised us with these super adorable cupcake toppers!!!=) Our favorite flavors, Green Tea and Red Velvet. Seriously melts in your mouth!!!
The Glass Garden was transformed into a “Secret Garden” executed by one of my very first friends in the wedding industry, Badang Rueda. =)
Birdcages hanging from the ceiling =)
Instead of seat covers or bows, we had flowers on our chairs.
Details, details, details…
Our emcee friends asked us to do a Crossfit move so I did a push-up! Even my husband was shocked I pulled it off in a wedding gown!
