Photo

Just as with videos, we scoured the worldwide web (and wedding forums) for the best the industry has to offer. Just as with the previous post, we kept telling ourselves that it would be better to pay a little extra than have to feel sorry for ourselves with our second-rate pictures and videos. We managed to contact a lot of the leading photographers, but most have been booked already or has some conditions we couldn’t agree to or lack something in the offered packages. Fortunately, Leah came across an article about a photographer-couple who has won the Supplier of the Year award at last year’s W@W awards – Mimi and Karl. We browsed their blog and reviewed their pictures and decided to email them. When we got their reply with their package and rates, we were once again pleasantly surprised to find out that they are still available for our wedding date. Since we have questions regarding the packages, and Leah felt like we should meet them first before booking (it’s extremely important to us that we can act naturally around them, otherwise we’d look really stiff in the photos), we scheduled a meeting with them on the nearest possible date. We were still afraid somebody might book the date before us.

On the evening of the meeting (we had no choice but to schedule the meeting after office hours); we took a taxi to – Surprise! Surprise! – Quezon City again where their office is located. When we got to the address, we almost thought we got it wrong. The building in front of us was too dark. We were pretty sure no one could be waiting for us there, and we saw no sign announcing their office. We did, however, checked the building’s name one more time and there was no mistake, this really was their building. We asked the security guard we saw standing outside of the open establishments in the ground floor of the building and he pointed us toward a set of stairs in the side of the building. We slowly climbed the stairs, and with every step, became surer that we got the wrong building. It was so quiet. Then we thought, what do we expect, it was actually late and most offices would be close if not totally abandoned. We got to their unit or room and tentatively pressed the door bell attached beside the door.

We were again surprised when another door not too far along the corridor opened and Mimi came out. She led us inside the room with the doorbell and we were pleasantly amazed to see how cozy the room looks from the inside. It was so cozy it didn’t look like it belonged to the same building we just climbed at all. Hehe.. Very soon, Karl joined us and we discussed the packages, all the while looking at some of their finished products. We asked a lot of questions and they tried their best to explain everything. (I was totally clueless.) After sometime, we still couldn’t decide on what package to take so they advised us to just book us for them for our wedding date for just the “labor”, if we really want to, just so that they can block the date for us, then we’ll just talk about the package sometime in the future, when we’ve decided. We agreed and book them there. We also got to talking a bit and I found out they were both from UP, like I am. I also learned that what initially started out as a hobby became a too expensive hobby and they decided to make it pay. And I guess it really worked out well for them (looking at the albums.. WOW!). After all, they did win the Supplier of the Year award, for which I congratulated them, to Leah’s chagrin. He he

We still haven’t decided on the package but very happy that at least, we have another supplier booked for the BIG day.

And we sooo looove their works.. the details, the candid shots, the drama, which will definitely depict the story of our wedding (by leah).

Again, the link to their site is somewhere here, so check them out and you'll surely agree that we made the best decision.

‘Till the next post, guys!