Jay Jay Lucas- Spunky Wedding Photography http://jayjaylucas.com/blog wedding photography with a spunk of class and fun Sat, 21 Apr 2012 01:53:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Carlo and Heidi-Hacienda Moreno/ Stilts Calatagan Batangas http://jayjaylucas.com/blog/2012/04/20/carlo-and-heidi-hacienda-moreno-stilts-calatagan-batangas/ http://jayjaylucas.com/blog/2012/04/20/carlo-and-heidi-hacienda-moreno-stilts-calatagan-batangas/#comments Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:52:36 +0000 jayjay http://jayjaylucas.com/blog/?p=5541 Seeing two friends that you have been shooting dozens of weddings with through the years finally get married still leaves a surreal experience. :) Two  photographers who’s passion for the Lord and photography just overflows. They always had my back in numerous weddings.. now it was their turn to sit back and be the main subjects! :D Carlo and Heidi has been the best of friends and the worst of enemies at the same time and they ended up together! How amazing is that.. hehe. :D These two take the cake for all the preparations that they did to pull of such a personalized wedding. Set in picturesque Stilts Calatagan and one of the most gorgeous churches I’ve ever seen..inside hacienda Moreno.

Since we were a bunch of photographers that day, I was assigned to Carlo’s preparations and their in between portraits. :D But of course I couldn’t help but of course take snaps during the touching ceremony! :D Can’t wait for the others to blog too! So you could see this fab wedding through the eyes of my talented co-photographers and friends! :D

Gown: Cecilio Abad

Bridal Make up: Madge Landrito

Groom and family Make up: Jesy Alto

Hair: Steve Pagsanjan

Photographers: shot with Erron Ocampo, Toto Villaruel, Dominic Barrios, Derrick Lim, and Imagine Nation Photography

Videography: Wang and Film Factory

Flowers and Event Styling: Teddy Manuel

Coordination: Christine Ong Te Events

 

The wedding was set at around 1pm..and you can guess that it was mighty hot that day! :D

Arriving at Carlo’s cabana, he was still doing some last minute stuff and was a bit tense..but we managed to sit him down and start to relax him a bit. :D Being a photographer also, we get rattled too during our own big day! :D

Stilts had some beautiful rock formations near the shore and we took advantage of them!

Meet Chanel and Armani.. the lovely dogs of Toto and Nicole, fellow wedding photographers also. I wish we brought Coffee and Trooper! But I think they would have plopped out with the extreme heat that day.

Facial expression test… Carlo style. :D

Meet Carlo’s lovely family! He’s the first to get married among the siblings and his dad even kidded me that it was looooong overdue as he got married at the age of 20! Now Carlo got married at the age of…. secret… :D

Carlo’s suit was made by Cecilio Abad and his team.  Carlo and Heidi searched for the fabric in Divisoria and Tito Cecil did his magic with it. :D

We now travel to the ceremony venue which was about 15min away! Tucked away in the beauuuutiful Hacienda Moreno! Imagine a chapel on a hill overlooking a lush estate. I heard the owner built that chapel for his daughter’s wedding.

You might be familiar with the following faces below…. :D

Spotted this very pretty lady roaming around…. :D

And finally I see Heidi for the first time! And wow was she blooming that day! Her gorgeous gown was made by Cecilio Abad also and her make up was done by no other than Madge Landrito.

And now it was time for the ceremony to begin! :D

 

Gotcha Noel and Rae! Having a moment under the tree! Your next to get married harhar!

Carlo prepares to deliver the first kiss! :D And many more to come that afternoon! :D

I love my Imagine Nation Family :D

Dried leaves were thrown during the recessional. :D

Ok now back to work! :D I was one of the assigned together with Erron, Toto, and Jamie to do Heidi and Carlo’s in-between portraits. :D

This spot was wayyyyyy too spectacular! :D Gorgeous light seeping through the leaves… magic! :D

You needed not to pose these two anymore… they were naturals.. :D

 

Come reception time I managed to get some shots in. :D But then I let those assigned to cover the program capture such a chill reception. :D Wonderful set up done by Teddy Manuel! Imagine a bed for the couple’s area! :D  I then just chilled with my wife. :D Congrats again Carlo and Heidi!

 

]]> http://jayjaylucas.com/blog/2012/04/20/carlo-and-heidi-hacienda-moreno-stilts-calatagan-batangas/feed/ 7 Our baby is a ……..!!! http://jayjaylucas.com/blog/2012/04/10/our-baby-is-a/ http://jayjaylucas.com/blog/2012/04/10/our-baby-is-a/#comments Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:47:19 +0000 jayjay http://jayjaylucas.com/blog/?p=5516 After waiting for 5 months.. we finally found out the gender of our baby last April 9 in the morning. :D With excited news my wife and I decided to throw an impromptu baby gender revelation dinner for the family! :D We wanted to let them guess whether our baby was a boy or girl! We asked them to wear something blue if they think it was a boy and wear something pink if they think  it’s a girl. :D We madly rushed around the metro to get some stuff so my wife could decorate our studio a bit. It was pretty fun organizing such a last minute event! :D We had some games too like a watermelon relay race and a pictionary game!

So are you eager to find out the gender?? Browse through the photos below!! :D

It’s amazing what my wife can do in a rush moment! :D Styling I think now comes naturally for her. :D Of course I helped put some of the stuff together. :D

Juice for everyone! :D

Our baby boy/girl area was made of diapers, baby socks, candies and toys. :D

We had our families write their name suggestions on our wall. :D

These were donuts specially designed by team LSF :D

Our watermelon relay game! :D Gotta feel how it is to pregnant.. even for a few seconds :D

A competitive pictionary game! :D Balloons needed to be popped and in them were words of symptoms/ things related to pregnancy. They had to act them out! :D

Before dinner we planned to reveal the gender of our baby in a big decorated box! :D Here we go……

TADAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!

Thank you Lord for  a baby GIRL!!! :D

Having a baby is indeed quite an adventure in it’s own! :D Happy to celebrate it with our family! :D

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For now just want to share a beautiful wedding in tagaytay! Pat and Tiff were certainly not your ordinary couple! :D With a relaxed vibe we just had so much fun covering this wedding. :D Kudo’s to my team Jc and Vince who captured ammmazzing-ness with me. :D

I still remember their wedding cake that was made of different kinds of CHEESE!! Yummyy! :D

For the full set troop over Chestknots Studio’s page: http://chestknots.com/gallery/weddings/pat-and-tiffs-wedding-san-antonio-de-padua-antonios-restaurant

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Hi everyone! Apologies if you haven’t heard anything from me lately. The latter part of 2011 has been very very very busy…. But in the midst of all the hustle and bustle…. a miracle happened and it’s probably the greatest Christmas gift that we ever received!

We’re expecting. :) 8 weeks to be exact as of today. :) Will blog about this wonderful experience very soon! :D

Merry Christmas everyone and a blessed New Year ahead!!!

* To take a peak at the latest shoots that I have been doing.. hop over at our Chestknots Facebook page and the official Chestknots website

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