Marc & Phoebe Aviles are two award-winning Pinoy photographers and the husband-and-wife tandem who recently setup the Memory Station Studio based in San Jose, California. Both of them are currently featured as Member(s) of the Month in the April edition of the Wedding & Portrait Photographers International (WPPI) newsletter.

Here’s an excerpt from their interview in the article entitled “Two is Company“ written by Margaret Lane detailing the couple’s style as wedding photographers:

“Our signature look is to incorporate landscape or scenery along with the couple and let the colors shout. Marc is a great landscape and nature photographer who has a knack for making the most of these outdoor settings and putting couples at ease,” says Phoebe.

Marc even shared about a new look they’re dabbling in, calling it “an investment in infrared photography.” He elaborates, “Using a Canon 20D, which we converted to an infrared, we take the shot even further to produce surreal or ethereal moods. We added this look after falling in love with the eeriness and mysterious feel of the infrared shots. The trees and leaves become reflected in the sunlight differently and give a different impression, the skin becomes flawless, the brown eyes become blue and it’s atmospheric. Infrared almost defies some basic rules of photography.”

Phoebe still pulls in long hours each day, working in the information technology industry to keep a steady income. She helps Marc with the business during the week by retouching photos at night. They both shoot on weekends.

“With our family and friends’ encouragement we were inspired to start this business,” comments Phoebe. “But that’s not to say we didn’t have some hurdles! While we had a substantial portfolio with glamour, engagement, portrait, landscape, event, documentary, product shot and fine art photography, we lacked a true wedding portfolio. So we highlighted appropriate images and displayed a handful of wedding images to prospective clients.” [READ THE FULL FEATURE…]

Congratulations Marc & Phoebe!

 

Included in Lea Salonga‘s latest album — Inspired — is her official wedding song “Two Words.”

The Broadway star first sung the song in her wedding back in January of 2004 as she serenaded her groom — Robert Chen — just before reciting her vows. Composed by Louie Ocampo and penned by Freddie Santos as a wedding gift to the couple, the album version was arranged by her brother, Gerard Salonga. Inspired is currently available in record bars and can be pre-ordered now via Amazon (release date on Thursday: Feb. 22).

Read its lyrics below. You’d get to hear the song from the YouTube video below which includes clips from their actual wedding.

TWO WORDS
(music by Louie Ocampo, lyrics by Freddie Santos)

 In a while, in a word
Every moment now returns
For a while, seen or heard
How each mem’ry softly burns

 Facing you who brings me new tomorrows
I thank God for yesterdays
How they led me to this very hour
How they led me to this place

 Every touch, every smile you have given me in care
Keeping heart, always I’ll now be treasuring everywhere

And if life should come to just one question
Do I hold each moment true?
No trace of sadness, always with gladness
‘I DO’

 Now a song that speaks of now and ever
Beckons me to someone new
Unexpected, unexplored, unseen
Filled with promise coming through

 In a while, in a word
You and I forever changed
Love so clear, never blurred
Has me feeling wondrous, strange

 And if life should come to just one question
Do I face each moment true?
No trace of sadness, always with gladness
‘I DO’
Never with sadness, always with gladness
‘I DO’