The Road to the Wedding

To both of us, strings would be the most appropriate music for our garden wedding. We’ve seen it in action during Ate Kenne’s wedding in 2006 and were left in awe with how the music carried through the entire ceremony.

We tried making calls, surfed the net and asked for quotations and repertoires from various ensembles until our choices were narrowed down to one last – Beatitudes String Ensemble.

We met with Sir Lito (of Beatitudes) at The Trinoma to discuss further details on their services.  Gladly, we found out that among other ensembles with inquired from, they offered the lowest rate for a quartet to play in our ceremony, not to mention a great list of arrangements and pieces to choose from.  Additionally, with his long-standing experience in the wedding music business, he’s familiar with Christian weddings and its difference from Catholic weddings. Sir Lito handed us a sampler CD of his solo violin performance with a keyboardist that we eagerly listened to when we got home.

Upon hearing the first measure of the sampler, we were smiling ear-to-ear thinking about the quality and type of music that would set the mood of our wedding ceremony.  Here’s one thing to look forward to on D-Day.

For all we know, part of the important preps just a few hours before the ceremony begins happens in a hotel room. Here are a few things we tried to consider in choosing the hotel to make a reservation at:

• Affordable(syempre). It doesn’t have to be 5-star or even 4-star as long as it meets the criteria below. We’re ‘trying’ to be conscious about our budget.
• At least a short drive from the venue itself. Big plus if the route from the hotel to the venue and vice versa is traffic-free.
• Photogenic rooms, particularly the window(s). Wedding photographers love taking shots of the bride looking by the window, available light falling upon the bride’s face, etc. Just ask our photographer, Kuya Jayson of Redefine Weddings. =)
• Spacious. We’ll have a pretty large crew working with us inside the room. Cel and her make-up artists and hairstylists, the parents and bridesmaids to be applied make-up on, our two photographers and their lightmen, Cel’s taga-takbo, etc. It’s going to be one huge party in there!
• Post-wedding ‘alam niyo na’ Hehe! We’d still really want a spot we can enjoy ourselves together after all the wedding fracas. Kahit toxic, we’ll try. =)

Choices:

• Manila Hotel
• Sofitel
• Diamond Hotel
• Bayview Park Hotel
• Traders Hotel
• Century Park Hotel
• Manila Pavillion

And the winner is…

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