22 Superfriends (Part 1 of 2) – W@W Chat

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about this episode: Individually, our guests are known names in the wedding industry: Paul Vincent Photography, Jayson & Jo Anne Arquiza, Phoeben Teocson Cinema, and Chug Cadiogan Cinema.  But collectively, they’re one tight barkada of husbands & wives working in the same industry.

(This is just Part 1 of our looong but fun afternoon chat with them which lasted ’til early evening.  Continuation will be posted next week.)

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21 Gretchen Pichay – W@W Chat

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photo by: Ian Santillan

about this episode: Gretchen Pichay is a gown designer who looks more like a bridesmaid with her soft-spokeness and youthful demeanor.  She chatted with us about her beginnings, her design aesthetics, and dispenses a few tips for the brides. 🙂

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20 Angono Boys – W@W Chat

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L to R: Dan, Bob, Lette, Benz, Shyla, Marvi & Ian

about this episode:  in wedding circles, Angono Boys collectively refer to the talented wedding filmmakers based east of the Metro. Bob Nicolas, John Marvi de Guzman, Ian Cruz, and Dan Mendiola are sons of this town reputed as the “Arts Capital of the Philippines.”  Tall order?  Maybe not with these guys. 😉

PS: the ladies you’d hear in this episode are Lette Nicolas and Shyla Cruz, significant others of Bob and Ian. 🙂

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Holy Sheaths! Another designer bagged the Supplier of the Year award!

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In 2005, Veluz brought home the Supplier of the Year award.  Cecilio Abad did the same SOTY feat in 2008.

In last Friday’s celebration, designer Boy Kastner Santos of Sheaths Couture has been named Supplier of the Year in the 2011 W@Wie Awards!

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(photo by Paul Vincent Photography)

Get to know more about him and the company in this previous W@W Chat episode.

Tito Boy landed on top among the Top 10 suppliers as voted by this year’s batch of W@Wies.  Here’s our Top 10 again as presented by Phoeben Teocson Cinema during our awards night . . .

Our Top 10 (eleven actually!) gamely dressed up for the shoot.  The stills used as panels in this comics-style video is now posted in this storyboard photo blog by Paul Vincent.   And in case you missed it, listen to this special podcast episode featuring our Top 10 suppliers recoded the same day of the shoot. 🙂

But who among them joined Tito Boy in our Top 5?  Read more

19 Top 10 – W@W Chat

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about this episode: this compilation of mini Q&As with the 2011 W@W Top 10 wedding suppliers were recorded off-studio during their AVP shoot as conceptualized by Phoeben Teocson Cinema.  Said video will be part of the awarding ceremonies to be held this Friday within the W@W Christmas Party at 1Esplanade.

Best of luck to our Top 10! 🙂

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18 The Rockin’ Duo – W@W Chat

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about this episode: The Rockin’ Duo is the shooting tandem of brothers, Vinz (photo) and VJ (video) Matias.  Vinz was inspired to become a wedding photographer around the time of his own wedding.  VJ, the younger brother, created the Clay-mactic video for our 2011 AVP Week. 🙂

But this is not just a story of two brothers who are promising rookies in the wedding industry.  It’s also a story of one man who lost his wife in an accident and how his life turned out after that.

(This episode is lovingly dedicated to our best friend, Bong Sare of Threelogy, who lost his wife to cancer just five days ago.)

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17 Sheaths Couture – W@W Chat

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about this episode: about this episode: Boy Kastner (designer) and Reji Tolentino (a former W@Wie) are partners in Beatrice by Sheaths Couture. The atelier is included as one of the Top 10 Wedding Suppliers for 2011.

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16 W@Wies (Jen, Tin, & April) – W@W Chat

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from left: Tin, April, Jen & Benz

about this episode: We are featuring brides instead of wedding suppliers this time around.  Jen (ni Mike), Tin (ni Marvin), and April (ni Manny) are active W@Wies.  May this episode give a glimpse of how things work in our private community of brides (and a few brave grooms!). 🙂

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15 Jay Jay & Feliz Lucas – W@W Chat

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Since it’s a Wednesday, we take a break from the regular AVP Week lineup to bring you another episode of our podcast. To keep a daily dose of your video fix, here’s the wedding proposal video of the couple featured in W@W Chat today.  This happened around the same time last year.

about this episode:  Jay Jay & Feliz Lucas are newlyweds and both are wedding suppliers. He’s the main man of Chestknots Studios, while she’s a pioneering Engagement Stylist who brings pizzazz to every photoshoot. Get to know more their tandem. 🙂

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14 Queen David – W@W Chat

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about this episode: Queen David is a wedding planner who heads Just Like Ours events management team with her husband, David (yup, her hubby’s nick is their last name).  She was also a W@Wie before becoming a wedding supplier.  The couple just celebrated their 8th wedding anniversary yesterday.  Cheers to David ? Queen! 🙂

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13 Tracey Heppner – W@W Chat

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about this episode:  Tracey Heppner is an international destination wedding photographer from Canada. In January 1, 2011, she moved to the Philippines with her family so she & husband could work for Gentle Hands (GH) — a ministry founded by her in-laws that rescues abandoned Filipino children and cares for them until each is found a suitable family. She gets to shoot weddings here too!  There’s even one true christmas {wish} philippines where she will give away a FREE wedding photography package to a lucky couple getting hitched in Manila (or elsewhere if travel cost will be covered) in 2012. 🙂

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12 Dylan Gozum – W@W Chat

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about this episode: Dylan is the moving force behind Vatel Manila — a florist specializing in bridal bouquets and entourage flowers. His DIY team of former brides came up with those unique handmade boutonnieres for the groom and the rest of the male entourage.

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11 Veluz – W@W Chat

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about this episode: Here’s our fun and candid chit-chat with gown designer, Veluz!

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10 Dino Lara – W@W Chat

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about this episode: Art + Business + Personality = our Dino Lara episode.  It’s old news now but he just bought his dream watch when we chatted, hence the picture.  By the way, he’s celebrating his birthday this week! Get to know the birthday boy.  🙂

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09 Baich Group – W@W Chat

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about this episode: The brands Baicapture, Printsonalities, Written in Ink are all under the Baich Group setup by husband & wife team, Alvin & Chiw Bailon.  We chatted with them together with Noky Gatmaitan (Chiw’s younger sister and the ‘face’ behind the invites line of the company) who answered this million dollar question: Is it acceptable for couples to indicate their preference to cash gift in the wedding invitation?

Baich Group also manages The Wedding Lounge, a full-service wedding boutique that houses several wedding suppliers under one roof.

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08 Oly Ruiz – W@W Chat (repost)

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FYI: W@W Chat is our wedding podcast. Its first airing was in July 2011; it went on until Episode 79 last October 2013. Yes, we just might bring it back, but for now, enjoy our past episodes. We are randomly posting past episodes weekly, so we asked listeners/ readers/ W@Wies/ Supplier Friends to pick their fave and write an intro. This one is by Photographer Ian Santillan. Let us know which is your fave! ~W@W Team

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FAVE EPISODE – Metrophoto Oly Ruiz

If there’s one thing that separates a photographer from being simply “good” as opposed to being “great”, it’s the drive to be the best. In this day and age, there’s just a handful of photographers who possess this innate desire, and I think, Oly is one of them.
This particular podcast episode gives us a deeper insight on why Metrophoto is considered as one of the top photographers in the wedding industry. Listen, learn, and be inspired.
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8 Oly Ruiz – W@W Chat
posted September 7, 2011

You may listen to the episode by clicking (play) on the embedded audio player above. You may also right-click this link to save the MP3 and transfer it to your phone, ipod, tablet, and the like. If you’d like to download previous episodes of W@W Chat, please go to iTunes and look for W@W Chat or click on the links of previous episodes. 🙂