Meet Feliz Diestro — an engagement stylist. A what?! Well, it’s kinda like an image consultant cum personal shopper for soon-to-weds planning a prenup pictorial.

(Feliz at work with W@Wie, Lon (ni Rey) | photo by Jayjay Lucas)

Aside from Feliz, we don’t know if there are anybody out there who does the same professionally.  But there seems to be a market for this new career.  She started last year by tagging along with her boyfriend who happens to be wedding photographer (that’s Jayjay Lucas of ImagineNation Photography) helping him with his client’s clothing for the shoot. She enjoyed doing it, so he encouraged her to do it professionally.  Nowadays, she works with other photographers as well. 🙂

Although, we urge soon-to-weds to conceptualize their prenup session themselves in consultation with their chosen photographers and make do without this additional expense, there simply are couples who do not have the time nor network to scour for props and backdrops for a concept shoot.  Some doesn’t even have a concept to begin with. This is where help comes in.

Feliz says, most of her clients so far are “fly-ins”– overseas Pinoy brides/couples who been away from the Manila for some time who needs assistance styling their engagement sessions.  She has already put together concepts for prenup shoots with a 20s era feel to rockstars theme.

Her rates are posted in this page.

ATTENTION W@WIES!

If you’re going to be in the Wedding Congress  at the Megatrade Hall (5th floor of Megamall) anytime this weekend (Fri to Sun | July 24, 25 & 26), kindly proceed to the booth of FotoLoco / Konsepto to claim your personalized W@Wie button pin and wear it with pride!  Mind you, it is NOT a badge to ask for discounts to participating suppliers in the event, but simply an ‘insignia’ for other W@Wies to identify you!

Konsepto — the company which specialized in onsite souvenirs for weddings — gamely agreed to do the for us.  Why?  Because it’s owned and managed by Meme & Marvin who are W@Wies-turned-suppliers and they’ve been very supportive of W@W ever since. 🙂

So how is the button personalized?  Your pin will be done onsite while you wait.  On the 3rd yellow bar will be your name & your fiance’s {e.g. Benz (ni John)} instead of the W@W url as seen in the sample layout here.  By the way, the button was designed by Pauline Aprieto, a W@Wie who also happens to be a very talented layout designer based in Singapore. You may see her portfolio here.

Do note there’s a minimal fee of P30. to cover the cost of each button pin.  The only thing you need to show our friends from Konsepto is a printout of the email which Benz sent today in the W@W eGroup so they could verify you’re indeed a W@Wie. 🙂

Kitakits!

If you search on YouTube, you will find various clips of newlyweds groovin’ to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” as their first dance.  Clearly, it’s popularity was inspired by this scene from the movie “13 going on 30”.

But arguably the most famous video of a Thriller wedding dance is the clip below which shows the entire wedding party doing the zombie jigs with 9M+ views (well, maybe not as much views as compared with the Cebu prison inmates which now has 27M+ view).  Clearly, the groom knows the right moves. The video has been featured in CBS’ The Early Show and the “Real Life Wedding” issue of People Magazine.  Check it out.

But of course, it’s probably Madonna who’s the first-ever to dance to a Michael Jackson tune while wearing a wedding dress when she did it on “The Virgin Tour” back in the 80s. Truly, an homage to a great music era!  The gloved one who thrilled the world has gone too soon.

Oly Ruiz of Metrophoto gave us a heads up of his review of this new Canon camera.  Metrophoto has been one of the W@Wie favorites since they first appeared and participated in the free prenup sessions during last year’s W@W Christmas Party.

Here’s Oly talking about the general conditions when Metrophoto tried the new toy.

“Metrophoto was very blessed to get the chance to use and review the Canon 5D Mark 2 in just only a few weeks after its announcement. Thanks to John Chua and JayR Romero, we are the very first wedding photographers here in the Philippines (probably just second in the world after Steve and Jen Bebb’s review) to be able to get a hand on the only existing 5D Mark II in the country. 🙂 Isn’t that just pure awesomeness? 😀 We had the camera the entire Saturday for our very magnificent engagement session with Migs and Denise where we shot on the sailboat in the murky waters of Manila Bay and then continued on to Nasugbu in Batangas where rain caught up on us and ruined (well, more of enchanted) our supposed-to-be sunset setting.”

See & hear the review in the video below.  The clips were taken by Shierdan Pamintuan (another guy who also had a taste of being a W@Wie favorite!) and his wife Jen.  Dan came along for the shoot to also check the video capabilities (full 1080p HD movie recording) of the new camera.  We’ll link his review here as soon as it’s up.

For the resulting images from this prenup shoot and additional tech review about Canon 5D Mark II, read Oly’s blog entrty.