cheesygarcia is getting married!

a couple of my friends had gotten rene gaviola as their wedding photographer. i wanted to get a back-up photographer because i wanted someone to take candid shots during the wedding who wasn’t going to be pressured by the “required” shots. we had to pay a little extra so that he would cover matt’s baptism as well.

anyway, i was really glad rene was there because he was able to take a detailed shot of my train. some of the shots of my train from john ong’s team were a bit bright so the details were not very visible.

rene was also able to take some pictures during cocktails but there wasn’t a lot. i should’ve specifically asked him to take shots during cocktails. anyway, he was really nice to deal with. he was also trying to get all sorts of angles, one time he sat in the tub of the hotel bathroom so he could take pictures of me while my hair was being done.

i give rene a 4.5 out of 5.

everyone was raving about the slideshow and onsite avp. no doubt about it john ong takes good pictures. i haven’t been able to put the onsite avp on youtube because i’m having trouble decrypting it. anyway once i figure it out i will include it here as well.

my only wishes, which i didn’t foresee and he doesn’t offer anyway:

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we chose fernwood gardens because they have a chapel where we can have the ceremony. we did not want to get a separate church because some of our guests were travelling from far places. the venue is really picturesque and it’s a bonus that they have glass ceilings. at least if it rained we could still have the garden reception that we wanted.

we got the glass dance floor and additional a/c because apparently it gets quite warm in the venue. we didn’t want matt to be hot and sweaty so the additional a/c was a priority. they must’ve worked cos i didn’t feel hot inside the reception venue. dealing with them was easy enough, i just emailed or sent lala a message on ym and everything was arranged from there.

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i don’t really remember much of the music during the reception and we were at the pictorial while cocktails was happening, but people did say that the music was good we gave them a list of songs that we wanted and i think they just added some more songs of the same genre.

the guests were dancing so i suppose the music was good! hehe

anyway, i give them a 5 out of 5.

originally we only got 92AD to sing at the ceremony, but after clarice pointed out that it would only cost 5k extra for them to sing at the reception, we decided to get them for the reception as well. i really can’t remember much of the music during the ceremony or the reception, but apparently butch almost teared up when they started humming “after all” for my bridal march.

some people also asked if we had their dresses made cos the colours sort of meshed well with our motif. no we didn’t pay for their gowns lol but they looked great

anyway, people said they were great so i give them a 5 out of 5.