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Wedding Agency: Office Romance Brunch Wedding

Actual invite of the couple

TJ & Ralph were one of our most memorable couples because they were 'challenging'. Challenging in the sense that they pushed us to go out of our comfort zones. Doing this Wedding Agency service for 3 years, we realize that most clients hire us to conceptualize for their weddings but they still go for the more "tamed" ideas that we have, and that's perfectly fine! But having learned that from now, when we worked on TJ & Ralph's wedding ideas, we thought that just like some of our previous couples, they would want us to play on the safe side. But boy we were wrong. They candidly pointed out to us that they wanted more adventurous ideas. So RB Mica threw out a crazy idea to come out with an "Office Romance" theme--which celebrated the love story of the couple that they indeed fell in love in the office. It was a tricky idea because some couples are even shy to admit this. But long and behold this was the concept that the couple loved. And for that we truly admire how rebellious they are to celebrate this otherwise taboo concept. What's even more refreshing was how dead set the couple was to have a brunch wedding. So while we wait for the submission of their official photos, we'd love to share with you some of the boards we created for them from their walkthrough!

SIDENOTE: The wedding budget was to be less than P300k. And we met that budget based on this concept and our proposed suppliers! :)

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How to Create a Rebellious Brunch Wedding

Photography by A DASH OF JAMIE / Jamie Espadilla

HELLO THERE REBELS!!! Let's get all the apologies, disclaimers, and niceties out of the way first, shall we. First of all, if you noticed that blog updates have been kind of slow for the past few weeks, that's really because I'm on vacation (and by that I mean me as in RB Kai) and well--I've been having too much fun--hihi sorry about that! Second of all, if you guys remembered a teaser for this post about 3 months ago, that's because this is a long overdue blog feature..and sorry again for that because we had troubles acquiring the photos of this shoot but thanks to stylist/photographer savior Jamie Espadilla we managed to get our hands on some of the photos that she personally took during this shoot! And so there! Let's get right to the feature then! :)

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The Brunch & Church Wedding #Throwback

Photography by J Lucas Reyes unless labeled otherwise

June 4, 2011 - 10ish in the morning - Cafe 1771

My good friend Nins and I were looking at the fun scene that surrounded us. It was a couple of hours before my church wedding and there we were drinking wine, doing brunch, dressed to the nines a'la Gossip Girl, and having a shoot with Ian Cruz and J Lucas Reyes. I called myself a 'rebellious bride' and Nins said: "Why don't you and Mica make a blog out of that?". "Maybe," I replied. At that time Mica and I didn't think much of it. But then a couple of weeks after June 4, something happened and I told Mica we should go ahead and do it.

Photos by Arnold Camacho

The church wedding that my mother wanted us to do, used to be a sensitive topic. My husband and I actually felt hurt knowing that my parents couldn't accept our Boracay wedding as a real wedding just because it wasn't in a church. We thought this was pretty absurd. The church wedding was actually my mom's wedding. I got frustrated at first but then I realized that I was not a child that can just be 'dealt with'. So instead of moping, I quickly turned this around and positivized it--I created a theme, and I was to have a brunch with my friends 5 hours before the wedding.

So in celebration of our brunch/church wedding's 2-year anniversary, I would like to formally blog about it here in RB, and share some of the rebellious ideas we did on that day.

The Brunch

"We get by with a little help from our friends"--they were our sources of happiness and positive vibes so we wanted to capture this moment in a video that we collaborated with Ian Cruz Films. After Ian shared this video, a lot of his couples asked him if it would be possible to do the same on their wedding day. While this is a great idea, keep in mind that we really prepped for the brunch. It means you'll also have to adjust your schedules to squeeze it in.

The Portraits

When we first met w/ J Lucas Reyes and explained to him about the brunch, he shared with us a story of his Australian couple who wanted their loved ones to be individually photographed during their wedding because it was tradition. We loved this idea so we thought of doing the same for our friends. Souvenir gifts are fleeting---if you can actually share the limelight w/ your loved ones and have them photographed as well, this is a wonderful gift that would be treasured forever.