WHOA! {WE}’s Beautiful Weddings 2008 has 30 different covers!
The day we had to fly to Boracay for the three-day wedding event of Karl & Mimi, was the same day as the launch of Wedding Essential’s {WE} Beautiful Weddings 2008. We regret we had to miss it, especially when we learned what the {WE} team has got up their sleeves for this latest edition. Read on….
(PRESS RELEASE) Who doesn’t like a beautiful wedding? Whether you’re planning one, or are already married, few can resist the allure of looking at photographs of lovely wedding details and reading the stories of how these lovely weddings were put together.
People read wedding magazines for inspiration, and Beautiful Weddings, from the same team that is responsible for elegant Wedding Essentials {WE}, the bestselling wedding magazine, and Wedding Essentials: Destination Weddings presents the 2008 edition of Beautiful Weddings.
Beautiful Weddings features tips on styling the wedding entourage, menus to savor, real bride makeovers, and even advice for plus-size brides using real plus-size brides to be.
But the heart of Beautiful Weddings are the wedding stories. Over 200 wonderful entries were submitted for consideration, and with difficulty, the {WE} team, headed by quintessential editor Marbee Shing-Go and talented art director Cynthia Bauzon-Arre, finally chose the 30 weddings which best embodied the spirit of Beautiful Weddings. With touching stories, inspiring ideas, and lovely details, each wedding story was unique in itself.
An additional surprise, a first in the history of Philippine publishing, were the 30 individual covers of Beautiful Weddings (in addition to the regular cover), each featuring one of the 30 weddings. Talk about a memento you can’t get anywhere else! Couples featured in Beautiful Weddings 2008 each received their own copy of their customized covers; as a special service to each couple, their relatives and friends can order these covers through the couple themselves.
As soon as we read that, we knew we wanted to display all of them here. We immediately asked Kitten Zapata (the mag’s managing editor) if she could email us a soft copy of all the 30 covers. As soon as she did, we realized that the next concern is how to display all of them all without cluttering this post.
We honestly don’t know if this would display properly in all browsers but it’s the best solution we could find. And so here they are, presenting the 30 different covers of Beautiful Weddings 2008!
(click a thumbnail for a larger view of a particular cover)
Here are the names of the newlyweds featured. (*indicates the bride is a W@Wie)
- Andrew Parker & Julie Abad
- Vince Rodriguez & Nina Corpuz
- James Lee & Sarah Magtibay
- Jiggy Manicad & Marnie Palumbarit
- Nico Isberto & Ching dela Cruz
- Jed Santos & Lesley Aquino
- Sigfrid Castos & Rhea Lio
- Wilbert Lee & Ann Cabiltes
- Marco Alcantara & Katrina Kuhn
- Herbie Pastoral & Michelle Dumlao
- Stan Ong & Jenny Ong*
- Tutti Caringal & Ria Sausa
- Michael Spence & Ruth Tubon
- Gary Felix & Luzel Lapid*
- Pao Chikiamco & Shaps Lim*
- Lloyd Tan & Christine Go
- Gabby Dizon & Mench Viduya
- Derek Sotto & Trina Yap*
- Marc Navarro & Ruth Puno*
- Ed Wong & Cheryl Chan*
- Rowel Filio & Cheryl Endozo
- Glenn Pamplona & Janice Benavidez*
- Alex Ochoa & Jade De Leon*
- Rommel Reyes & Jenny Platon*
- Raymond Mendoza & Tammy Alipio*
- Art Eustaquio & Mariben Tan*
- Art Samaniego & Michelle Go
- Archie Yabut & Marlene Sunga
- Tristan Yu & Cristina Yu
Real couples, real weddings… REAL LUCKY! For how many newlyweds could get the chance to be featured in a glossy magazine; more so, have their faces landing on a limited edition cover! Truly, the ultimate payoff for all the sweat and tears in realizing the wedding of their dreams.
Our congratulations to the entire {WE} team for this milestone in Philippine publishing!
(Beautiful Weddings 2008 is packed with 224 pages for only P 200. It hit newsstands and your favorite bookstores beginning October 12, 2008.)