Well, you’re not really invited, but you might as well feel like you were there merely by watching this onsite video.
Fact is, this is one of the few times an SDE (same-day edit) captured ample live audio snippets where viewers get a glimpse of the personality of the couple. Their sense of humor shines through every clip in a familair Pinoy candor. To me, it felt like they were somebody I know personally. The ceremony presided by a judge in Makati City Hall felt very relaxed, a refreshing departure from the ’sobfest’ we typically expect in a solemn church ceremony.
I know this is not a typical ‘get-it-over-and-done-with’ kinda civil wedding. But who ever said that a civil ceremony should be plain non-event?
I’ve been told the couple wore a Randy Ortiz during the ceremony, after which, the bride slipped into a Paul Cabral creation in time for their Blue Leaf reception. Add the fact that they got Jason Magbanua to do their video speaks that this is no ordinary civil ceremony. Despite these, the video didn’t come off as trying to show off; on the contrary, it felt very spontaneous and unrestrained. Unpretentious is the word.
Props to David & Jorene for proving that a simple civil wedding ceremony can be equally beautiful!
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(via inquirer.net) BEVERLY HILLS —“I’m still awestruck. I feel like I’m in a dream,”Oliver Tolentino admitted after he and eight other designers were about to be introduced to the fashion and entertainment press as the finalists in the Oscars Designer Challenge 2010.
The Filipino designer said, “I, a province boy who grew up in little Orani, Bataan, am at the Academy headquarters before the international press for the presentation of my gown that might be worn on the stage of the Oscars? Someone should pinch me!” Oliver stood beside his gown entry, draped on a hanger, which is an ivory piña (pineapple fabric) and abaca fiber mermaid gown with freshwater pearl detail.
Reporters and photographers admired Oliver’s exquisite creation. We heard Oliver extol the beauty and quality of our piña and abaca fabrics to every journalist who interviewed him. TV star, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy’s Carson Kressley (host of Oscar’s exclusive web series, ‘Behind the Dress’ which premieres March 3rd) couldn’t help but admire the black abaca blazer that Oliver wore (his own creation). “I want one!” said Carson.
The winning gown, to be determined by online voting, will be worn by one of the awards escorts onstage at the Academy Awards on March 7, while its designer and his guest will get to attend the prestigious show. [READ MORE…]
*Click the image above to vote for Oliver’s gown. One vote per person per day. Voting open until March 1st.
• Mich Dulce
(via philstar.com) LONDON – From a tropical country where few people wear hats, a Filipino fashion designer and milliner, actress and musician has won the British Council’s Young Fashion Entrepreneur (YFE) Award for 2010.
Mich Dulce bested 10 competitors from Bangladesh, India, Libya, Lithuania, Russia, Sri Lanka, Syria and Turkey to become the first Filipino to be honored with the prize.
Judges and the public raved not only about her designs, but about her use of indigenous materials, including sinamay and abaca, the latter a material the British associate with rope, said Leslie Stokes, chairman of the British Council Philippines, which sponsored the local search for the YFE.
Dulce’s fashion business, which started out on eccentric frocks and dresses, has now expanded to hats, headpieces, corsetry and bridal wear. Her unique style has been featured on “Young Asian Fashion Designers” published by Daab Publishing in Germany.
Along with her title, Mich gets a £5,000 grant for a collaborative project with the British Council. [READ MORE…]
Rajo’s impeccable fashion sense extends to other things — such as sheets, cakes, and mattresses. Now, he turns his eye for the exquisite to jewelry, partnering with Iloilo-based F&C Jewelry to create ten wedding bands that are almost works of art. “We sell love, just like him,” said F&C’s Marissa Florete Gorriceta.
Wedding rings symbolize eternity and commitment. The practice of wearing one’s wedding ring on the fourth finger of the left hand stems from the Greek belief that the vena amoris or “vein of love” ran from the heart to the tip of the ring finger. Today, couples exchange rings to signify their eternal commitment to each other. In the Philippines, classic, traditional designs are still favored while white gold is becoming the trend.
“Designing jewelry is something natural to me,” said Laurel, whose grandmother taught him how to design jewelry when she would let him play with her loose stones as a child. “What was difficult was designing something that would last a lifetime.”
But Laurel succeeded, coming up with designs like Triad, 14-karat tri-color gold rings that, according to a feng shui master, is auspicious this year of the Tiger. Then there’s Code, which is inspired by the Morse Code. Rouched, on the other hand, takes inspiration from rouching, a sewing technique where fabric is gathered in a repeating pattern. There are also white gold rings with diamonds that spell out a message of love.
“It’s based on the way I make dresses,” Laurel explained. “I like this ring because it’s masculine and feminine at the same time.”
According to Marjorie Florete of F&C, “Jewelry is still viewed as an investment, one that can be passed on to the next generation.”
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Yesterday, W@W has been invited as The Wedding Lounge (TWL) — a full-service wedding boutique — celebrated its moved to a new location right at the heart of Ortigas Center. The new place is spacious yet homey, classy but welcoming, not intimidating at all. Before the ribbon-cutting ceremony, Chiw Bailon (one of TWL’s founders) credited Jackie Mitra (of Plum Gifts) for doing a fine job in the cozy interiors of the shop.
Here’s another shoutout, this time from Michelle Katigbak-Alejandro, editor-in-chief of Metro Weddings: “Please grab a copy of the new Metro Weddings out on stands now featuring the beautiful Kelly Misa on the cover!” 🙂
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(via the Philippine News Agency) Several lawmakers on Tuesday expressed disapproval on a proposal that would mandate a 10-year limit on the validity of marriage contract.
Women’s party list group Isa-Ako Babaeng Astig Aasenso (1-ABAA), which is gunning for a seat in the May party-list elections in May, plans to put forth a measure requiring couples to renew marriage every 10 years so that it would not be voided.
Speaker Prospero Nograles said he was not in favor of the proposal as it was against his Catholic beliefs.
Nueva Ecija Rep. Eduardo Nonato Joson also junked the proposal, saying couples who want to get out of the marriage can resort to annulment.
“Okay na yung legal or de facto separation and civil annulment of marriages ngayon,” he said.
Manila Rep. Bienvenido Abante, a pastor, said making marriage renewable reduces it to a “mere legal contract” instead of a relationship.
“What is happening to our values? That’s what happens when people don’t believe in absolutes anymore,” he said.
Muntinlupa Rep. Rufino Biazon said the proposed marriage contract expiration should be opposed “because it will endanger the integrity of the ties that bind Philippine Society.”
“The Filipino family is acknowledged as the basic unit of society and it cannot be denied that marriage is the foundation of most Filipino families. Marriage and families cannot be treated separately and impose policies on one and not consider the other,” he said.
Biazon said the Philippine Constitution guarantees the protection of the family’s integrity and states that marriage is an inviolable social institution.
“The non-expiring marriage contract is not a violation of any human right because entering into a marriage is an option where those engaging in it are well aware of the terms,” he said.
“To give marriage an expiration is also to give families an expiration. It will be dangerous to open Philippine Society to the mindset that marriages and families have a pre-determined end,” he said.
While proponents may argue that the contract is renewable, Biazon said, “the fact that when you enter into marriage you already know it will expire at a certain date, it already affects the way society will look at marital unions.”
“While I will fight for the rights of women, I put more premium in protecting the integrity of the Filipino Family. I will oppose marriage contract expiration,” he said.
On the other hand, Marikina Rep. Marcelino Teodoro said the sanctity of marriage “should not be treated as merely a contract that has an expiry date.”
“We should respect the vows that the couple have exchanged and not give a deadline to it. This proposal bastardizes not only the sanctity of marriage but as well as the Constitution which dictates that marriage is a special contract of permanent union between a man and a woman. This only obscures the inviolability of the family system which is only built upon by marriage,” he said. (by Lilibeth G. Ison / PNA)
(excerpted from GMA News) The proposal of the women’s party list group 1-Ako Babaeng Astig Aasenso (1-ABAA) to place expiration dates on marriage contracts raised a ruckus. The controversial proposition was brought to light at the Daungan ng Balita news forum held at the Danarra Hotel in Quezon City last Thursday, January 7, 2009.
1-ABAA, which represents separated and abandoned women, proposed the enactment of a law that would mandate a 10-year limit on the validity of a marriage contract. Its purpose is “to spare incompatible couples the expense of lengthy legal proceedings before their marriages are annulled.”
After all, the marriage license, which the couple obtains before they can get married, has a “built-in” expiration date. Article 20 of the Family Code of the Philippines stipulates that a marriage license is only valid “for a period of one hundred twenty days from the date of issue” and is deemed automatically canceled if the contracting parties have not made use of it by the end of the mandated period.
As 1-ABAA president Margie Tajon put it, “[A marriage contract] should be just like a passport or driver’s license. If we are not interested to renew it, then it expires.” This, of course, seems like a pragmatic solution to toxic unions. These days, as Tajon pointed out, “Those who can’t afford an annulment just suffer forever.”
Bottom line: 1-ABAA wants to amend the Family Code so that marriage will no longer be treated as a special contract. To date, the marriage contract, is defined by the Family Code as “a special contract of permanent union between a man and a woman entered into in accordance with law for the establishment of conjugal and family life.”
When it comes to the legal definition of marriage in the Philippines, you have to pay attention to two crucial words: “special” and “permanent.” It is “special” because, unlike in other types of contracts, the parties involved cannot stipulate on whatever pleases them. The word, “permanent,” is self-explanatory. As such, a Pinoy marriage is pretty much built to last—at least in legal terms.
It goes without saying that the Catholic Church would be at the forefront of parties opposing the 1-ABAA proposal. “Bago naming napag-isipan yan, alam na naming na Church ang number one [na mag-po-protesta],” stated Tajon.
Though the Philippine Constitution mandates the separation of Church and State, the Church’s pronouncements still hold sway over many Filipinos. The 1-ABAA proposal, by the way, would not affect Muslim marriages, since they’re already allowed to divorce and governed by the stipulations of the Islamic religion. [READ MORE…]
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[via CBCP News] The head of Manila’s Roman Catholic Church has banned wedding rites from being held outside the churches.
Gaudencio Cardinal Rosales said that for a couple to get married outside a parish church was contrary to the meaning of Christian marriage.
“All Catholic marriages within the Archdiocese of Manila should be held within the parish churches,” Rosales said in a circular issued to his clergy recently.
Rosales said he was acting to prevent the sacrament of marriage being ridiculed and to press the observance of “all ecclesiastical laws.”
“I have to ensure that abuses do not creep into ecclesiastical discipline, especially concerning the celebration of the sacrament of marriage,” he said.
But the cardinal took exception for those “in periculo mortis” cases.
The religious term is a marriage that is performed when either the groom or bride is in danger of death.
Canon law does require that weddings take place within a church building but each bishop may particularize the policy in his diocese.
Hence, like in Manila, there are other dioceses that do not allow outdoor weddings without a dispensation from the bishop.
Rosales is known for his moves to ensure the solemnity of the sacrament of matrimony within his pastoral jurisdiction.
The church official earlier called the attention of soon-to-wed couples not to forget the solemnity of their marriage ceremony.
He noted that couples focus too much their attention on the wedding details like invitations, attires, among other things, and their attention towards the solemnity of the ceremony is diminished.
Rosales also stated that more couples are now opting to have a civil wedding rather than a church wedding because of the increasing cost involved in holding the latter.
He likewise appealed to bridal parties to wear proper attire during wedding ceremonies. Certain clothing can distract fellow churchgoers from prayer, he said.
Greetings! I hope you guys can make it to the launch of my newest humor book “I Do or I Die! RJ Ledesma’s Imaginary to Getting Married and other Man-made Disasters (As Told to him by his Yaya)” this coming THURSDAY (October 22) 6pm at National Bookstore, Glorietta 5 in Makati City. Please feel free to bring friends, buy a couple of signed copies to help me pay for my baby’s diapers. I’ll see you guys there!
BTW, if you are abroad and would like to order a copy of the book, you can pick it up from here.
I would really appreciate the support and I look forward to seeing you there!
Cheers,
RJ Ledesma
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(via Manila Bulletin) Known for her hits “Everyday” and “Sa Isip Ko,” Agot Isidro takes on a new role as a ‘wedding singer’ as she returns to the music scene via “White Lace and Promises,” a collection of well-loved wedding songs.
Released under PolyEast Records, Agot said the concept of “White Lace and Promises” is just right for the ‘ber’ months.
“Contrary to popular notion that June is the wedding month, it is actually during the ‘ber’ months that more Filipino couples walk down the aisle. The nights are longer during this time and people anticipate receiving their Christmas bonus,” she said during the press conference for the album held at Discovery Suites on Oct. 14.
She shared that choosing songs for the album was a challenge “because there are so many good wedding songs.”
Nevertheless, Agot and PolyEast were able to come up with an album they could be proud of—one that features versions of OPM classics and international standards that can be used for both intimate and big weddings.
Agot confessed that she initially balked at recording a version of Basil Valdez’s signature song, “Ngayon at Kailanman.”
“I didn’t think I could sing this song. I thought the song was too ‘big’ for me and I knew how popular and well-loved this song is to Filipinos. I hope I gave justice with my version,” she related.
Her version eventually ended up as the album’s promotional song.
The singer-actress also did a duet with Martin Nievera on the Patti Austin-James Ingram song, “True Love.” She said the Concert King had to sing four songs prior to recording “True Love” to enable his vocal cords to stretch because it was arranged in a key higher than he is used to.
Other songs in “White Lace and Promises” are Rico J. Puno’s “Together Forever,” The Carpenters’ “We’ve Only Just Begun” [the second verse of which is where the title of Agot’s album was lifted], Shania Twain’s “From This Moment,” and The Corrs’ “Runaway” (which Agot sang at the Judy Ann Santos- Ryan Agoncillo nuptial on April 28).
Agot said she is reminded of her wedding to businessman Manu Sandejas whenever she listens to her latest album. The two tied the knot on Oct. 7, 2000 at the St. John Bosco Church in Laguna.
“Unlike some people who recall their weddings as blurs, I remember mine very vividly. It was raining while the priest was saying mass, but the rain stopped as soon as we [Agot and Manu] stepped out of the church,” said she.
Incidentally, Manu agreed to be photographed as Agot’s love interest for the album’s inlay. She said that Manu replaced a Brazilian model for the task when negotiations for the latter didn’t fall through.
Agot is choosy in accepting invitations to sing at weddings, preferring to do so only for people whom she knows well..
“Weddings are very intimate occasions, [so] there’s this danger of becoming an ‘unwanted stranger’. It’s important that you discuss with the couple what they want to sing. The music is your connection with them,” she explained.
album tracks:
Ngayon at Kailanman
Here There and Everywhere
Runaway
This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)
Together Forever
I Will
From this Moment
When You Say Nothing at All
We’ve Only just Begun
Fallen
Looking Through the Eyes of Love
True Love (duet with Martin Nievera)
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(via inquirer.net) It will be a scaled down wedding for Liberal Party vice presidential candidate Sen. Mar Roxas and his fiancee, broadcast journalist Korina Sanchez on Oct.27.
On radio and in a statement, Sanchez said on Tuesday that she and Roxas have decided to cancel the reception for the wedding and instead donate the money to charities and helping victims of Tropical Storm “Ondoy” and Typhoon “Pepeng.”
Sanchez and Roxas are set to wed at the Sto. Domingo Church in Quezon City two weeks from now and had planned to hold the wedding reception at the Araneta Coliseum — which is owned by the Roxas and Araneta clan.
“We are hoping that our guests will understand why we are doing this,” Sanchez said in a statement. “It really does not feel right to be celebrating—no matter how important this date is for Mar and I — at a time of calamity and difficulty for a large number of our kababayans.”
In the same statement, Roxas said: “Matagal nga naming pinlano ni Korina at pinaghandaan ang espesyal na araw na ito. Gusto sana namin na marami ang kasalo sa saya. Pero parang hindi tama na malaki ang gagastusin sa selebrasyon sa panahon ng kalamidad. Napakarami nating kababayan ang naghihirap ngayon – lubog sa tubig baha. Pakikiramay at pagtulong na rin namin ito sa kanila.”
Sanchez, meantime, played down a wedding superstition that warns engaged couples against making too many changes in their wedding plans. The superstition considers it a bad omen. She maintained that it is more inappropriate if she and her fiancé push through with the reception at the Araneta Coliseum in the midst of massive devastation wrought by the two tropical storms.
Speaking at dzMM radio, Sanchez said she and Roxas had set aside about P2 million for the reception.
The year was 1973. Ninoy wrote an ode for Cory from within his prison cell in Fort Bonifacio as a political detainee during the Marcos Regime. The original poem is composed of 19 stanzas symbolic of the years of their marriage. It’s a tribute to his wife sacrifices for him and their family as he served his country and fought for freedom. Its theme was both emotional and political.
In 1987, singer/songwriter Jose Mari Chan was commissioned to set the poem into music. The piece adopted the first line of the poem for its title “I Have Fallen in Love (with Same The Woman Three Times)” and was included in Chan’s top-selling album “Constant Change” which has since achieved a Diamond Record status (10 times platinum in terms of sales). The song didn’t get as much airplay on the radio then as much as the big hits from the album (i.e. “Beautiful Girl”, “Please Be Careful With My Heart”). But the paean now serves as one of the theme upon the former president’s demise.
On the day of Cory’s passing, the Joe Mari Chan was interviewed by Arnold Clavio & Vikki Morales for GMA News detailing about how the song came to be. When requested by the news anchors to sing parts of the song, Chan obliged but turned emotional midway. Below is a clip of that 9-minute interview:
A remake by Christian Bautista is due to be released soon and will be included in his new album containing 19 Jose Mari Chan classics. Below is the full lyrics of the song and a YouTube clip as Bautista sang it live for the first time in yesterday’s tribute for Cory in ABS-CBN’s Sunday noontime show, ASAP.
I Have Fallen in Love (with the Same Woman Three Times)
words by Benigno Aquino, Jr.
music by Jose Mari Chan
I have fallen in love
With the same woman three times
In a day spanning 19 years
Of tearful joys and joyful tears
I loved her first when she was young
Enchanting and vibrant, eternally new
She was brilliant, fragrant
And cool as the morning dew
I fell in love with her the second time
When first she bore her child and mine
Always by my side, the source of my strength
Helping to turn the tide
But there were candles to burn
The world was my concern
While our home was her domain
And the people were mine
While the children were hers to maintain
So it was in those eighteen years and a day
‘Til I was detained; forced in prison to stay
Suddenly she’s our sole support
Source of comfort
Our wellspring of hope
On her shoulders felt the burden of life
I fell in love again
With the same woman the third time
Looming from the battle
Her courage will never fade
Amidst the hardships she has remained
Undaunted and unafraid.
She is calm and composed
She is God’s lovely maid
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(via inquirer.net) The city council of Pasay approved a resolution on Friday requesting the National Historical Institute (NHI) to place a marker at the a small church where the late president Corazon ‘Cory’ Aquino and martyred senator Benigno ‘Ninoy’ Aquino were married.
Councilor Noel Bayona, the proponent of the resolution, told the Philippine Daily Inquirer by phone that the place where the couple exchanged their vows was unknown to many.
The resolution said that by placing a historical marker where the Aquinos celebrated important events in their lives, particularly the place where they were married, “their lives are forever remembered by the country.”
“During the dark days of martial rule in the country, the late senator Aquino had carried on the crusade of fighting the dictatorship and the restoration of the democracy which eventually led to his assassination at the international airport,” the resolution said.
The resolution added that the senator did not die in vain as his advocacies were continued by his wife.
On Monday, the city council will send the request and a copy of the resolution to the NHI headquarters.
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Today a wife is brought to her final resting place beside her man in Manila Memorial Park. In a corner so ordinary as everything around them, the only indication they’re even there is if one doesn’t happen to miss two plain epitaphs bearing the couple’s nicknames: “CORY” and “NINOY.”
Ninoy didn’t have the privilege to see his housewife become the first woman president in all of Asia. Their 29 years of marriage has been punctuated by his seven and a half years of incarceration, and cut short by his brutal assassination. His death served as the candle that shed light until his countrymen joined his cause which turned darkness into yellow. Her passing, a reminder never to give in to that gloom that tries to envelope us as a nation.
My wife & I belong to a generation who only knew Cory as a widow, but never a wife. Our blog entries the past couple of days served as our own first time glimpse into her married life. Indeed, Ninoy and his housewife was an ordinary couple who led extra ordinary lives because of their love for the country. May our generation never forget that ‘the good & the beautiful’ is a stark contrast from the simple and ordinary.
This is our final tribute to Ninoy’s bride. Here we celebrate her life & love!
“I’ve been thinking, ‘Would I ever have married anybody else?’ I don’t think so. And not that nobody ever looked at me. Because I am vain enough to think that there were others. But none of them ever measured to my husband’s qualities. And I feel blessed that we found each other…”
– Cory on being married to Ninoy
“He could solve almost any problem. And I also felt whatever problem I had, I could just bring to him, and he would find ways and means of addressing that problem, or the two of us could easily look for solutions. But this time, both of us were powerless to do so. And so the two of us naturally had to turn to God. And while I was prayerful before, I was not as fervently prayerful as I became. Because before, what were my problems? Really nothing. And very inconsequential compared to the enormous problems that were brought to us because of Martial Law.”
– Cory, on being married to Ninoy during his incarceration
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October 11, 1954 – Benigno ‘Ninoy’ Aquino married Corazon ‘Cory” Cojuangco at our Lady of Sorrow Church along F.B. Harrison st. in Pasay City.
Cory’s wedding gown was made by National Artist for Fashion Design, the late, great Ramon Valera. [source]
Having come from political families, then President Ramon Magsaysay (leftmost) stood as a principal sponsor (ninong) in the wedding [source]
During the reception, a dove from the wedding bell landed on Cory’s head. The old folks believed it was an omen of a higher position, power and peace. But due to the bride’s quiet and simple demeanor, the good sign was taken to mean it’s the groom who would be president someday. Cory would later confide that no one knew then the dove landing on her head would mean she, not Ninoy, would be president someday. [source]
1973 – their 19 wedding anniversary. Ninoy wrote a 19-stanza poem for his wife entitled “I have fallen in Love with the Same Woman Thrice“ from his prison cell in Fort Bonifacio. This was later set to music by singer/songwriter Jose Mari Chan.
1979 – their 25th wedding anniversary. Ninoy begged Marcos to allow him to leave prison for the renewal of their marriage vows. Marcos, perhaps calculating that Ninoy was already a spent political force, granted the prisoner a thirty-six-hour furlough to celebrate his silver anniversary. [source]
Ninoy also used the vow renewal occasion to slip a letter to Jaime Cardinal Sin, who led the ceremony. It is said that it was Cory who passed on the letter to the His Eminence. Ninoy said: “Your eminence, only you can lead our exodus through the desert.” [source]
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The Order of National Artists (Orden ng Gawad Pambansang Alagad ng Sining) is the highest national recognition given to Filipino individuals who have made significant contributions to the development of Philippine arts; namely, Music, Dance, Theater, Visual Arts, Literature, Film and Broadcast Arts, and Architecture and Allied Arts. The order is jointly administered by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) and Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) and conferred by the President of the Philippines upon recommendation by both institutions.
President Arroyo has recently signed the proclamation honoring seven individuals who have made substantial contributions to the development of Philippine art. The 2009 National Artists, as announced by the Office of the President, are as follows: Manuel P. Urbano (aka Manuel Conde) for his great contribution in the field of film and broadcast arts (posthumous); Lazaro A. Franscisco for literature (posthumous); Federico Aguilar Alcuaz for visual arts, paintings sculpture and mixed media; Cecilia Guidote-Alvarez for theater; Magno Jose ‘Carlo’ Caparas for visual arts and films; Francisco Bobby Manosa for architecture; and Jose ‘Pitoy’ Moreno for fashion design.
Pitoy Moreno is only the second artist to be recognized in field fashion design, the first being Ramon Valera who was conferred National Artist posthumously in 2006.
Dubbed as the fashion czar of Asia, Pitoy is renowned for his beadwork, embroidery and hand painting embellish the gowns of international celebrities, politicians and royalty in his career spanning 50 years. He introduced jusi, piña, hablon, and accessories like tambourine to the world on international fashion pages of the Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Holiday and Le Figaro.
He was one of the earliest exponents of the Maria Clara. He re-fashioned the Barong Tagalog and made it wearable by women. As a matter of course, the First Ladies of the Philippines have always been dressed by Pitoy, in his trademark ternos. He also did the bridal gown of former president Cory Aquino when she married Ninoy.
“The Filipina bride in a Pitoy Moreno wedding ensemble became the centerspread in the pictorial history of Philippine fashion.”
To this day, Pitoy works the full week, attending to his clients with untiring dedication. He makes it a point to be there for his brides at their weddings so he could supervise every little detail, from putting on the gown and shoes to the cutting of the cake.
“I like doing it, I like to coordinate from day one,” says Pitoy. “Sometimes, I have two weddings in a day so I hop from one place to another.”
Pitoy’s love for Filipino weddings transcends his being a fashion designer having also authored the coffee table book called “Kasalan”. Here’s his take on Filipino weddings and the book:
“A wedding is, for me, the greatest love story ever told. And this book is an attempt to tell that story in words and images.There is romance, folklore, nostalgia, and fashion on these pages of impressions.
Above all, there is magic. That dimension which preserves the wedding in the realm of dreams and drama, myth and memory. That mystique which gives a wedding it’s past, present, and future fascination for us all.
The book is your invitation to the Filipino Wedding. And all the magic it brings.”
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Pitoy Moreno is only the second artist to be recognized in field fashion design, the first being 