Here’s our version of one of the most used modern day wedding songs. The whole wedding (from preps to reception) was shot at Monterosa Subd, Hibao-an, Mandurriao, Iloilo City last November 10. We shot the prenups at the old Mandurriao airport and some at the location of the wedding.

We won third at the first ever Sony Wedding Video Competition which was held during the WPPP (Wedding and Portrait Photographers of the Philippines) Photocongress in Manila last October 22-25.
It is truly an honor since there were 36 entries from the best in the industry.
Here’s our entry:

Anyway, would you guys wanna know how we got in?
Here’s the story¦
It was October 17 when we went to Manila to shoot scenes for a corporate AVP of one of our clients in PSSC located in Diliman, Quezon City. We met up with Shierdan Pamintuan a fellow videographer based in Manila as he was the one tasked to cover the event.
During breaks, we tried to view our raw footage of Ruby and Magnus and gathered some ideas for our entry. After the event we headed to our hotel and started selecting scenes but we slept early since we have to leave for Laguna at about 5am the next day to continue shooting at several different locations.

We found ourselves at the middle of Laguna lake shooting a time lapse of the beautiful sunset as the last task of the day for our client.


We then continued editing our entry at the staff house of our client the whole night but we didn’t stay up too late since we have to leave again early morning the next day.
It was already October 19, one day before the deadline of entries when we hasted up the shooting to finish everything up early since we still have to look for a hotel. It was the same day when Glorietta 2 in Makati exploded. We finished shooting at about 3pm and traveled from our present location to Makati to check in at the Charter House located near Glorietta! Haha! We just love danger! When we arrived, people were still in a state of shock and the police were all over the place. When we got to the hotel, we got the suite room since there were three of us (Alvin, Fiel and Rex which was the representative of our client).

The video was done at about 2am in the morning of the 20th of October. After transferring the video file to miniDV at the studio of one of our videographer friends we then proceeded to Cubao to submit our entry at the office of WPPP at we got there at about 12 noontime. After that, we were able to breathe in freely as we were the 34th to submit. After that, we went to Greenhills to buy some cheap stuff for ourselves and went to Glorietta to buy some goodies as pasalubong for our loved ones in Iloilo and find out that Glorietta 2 was closed and there were only a few people roaming the halls of the mall.

It was then a job well done for us since we finished shooting for our client ahead of schedule and we finished editing our entry for Sony on the day of the deadline.


We would like to Congratulate Bob Nicolas for winning 2nd Place and Buddy Gancenia for winning First!
All photos above were taken by Rex Dianala.