Picture ... Picture ... (Ang Aming Wedding Photographer... Si Roger)

For our photos and video, my friend kumare Tere recommended her friend Roger. She said Roger is new in the business but has great outputs with reasonable price. She gave me Roger's number, I texted him and he gave me the details for their photo and video service. We opted to have the pre-nuptial pictorial because of the hectic schedule and that time, we needed to go to the province every week for the preparation, though I really love to do it. Roger is a shy type of person based on my first impression. He speaks so soft but he's very nice and approachable. We got the package for Php21,500. We had 3 photographers and three for video and all of them are nice and funny. I really had fun when we had our early morning photo-shoot during preparation. I know they were lack of sleep, a bit tired but still they managed to smile and did a good job. I enjoyed when we shot our video 'coz i felt like a celebrity posing for a magazine with several cameras capturing my every pose. Cameras are around me, and all I needed to do was face them with a smile every time they called my name. It was tiring but I really enjoyed it especially working with those professionals. They did a good job from the hotel, church, reception until the final pictorial. How I wished it wasn't raining, maybe we had so much shots in the resort. I won't forget this team. I even requested Roger to take care of my eyebags in the photos hehehe... I wasn't able to sleep for 2 days!!! After one month Roger, told us that the pictures, video, album and the portrait are ready so we met him at Market Market to claim the pictures. Tere was right, Roger's group gives nice outputs. I love the photos, I love the album and the portrait?? it wasn't what I expected. I thought it was the normal wedding picture after the ceremony in front of the altar, but I was wrong; Roger surprised us on the portrait picture. It's unique. That's all I can say. Great Job Roger and Team!!!

***You can search Roger from my facebook (Mitchie Canimo-Cobero)

- Roger Sembrano -

Marriage License - Ang Pinaka-Importanteng Papel ^-^

Fee (s):

P 130.00 - application form and filing fee

P 100.00 - counseling and Family Planning Certificate

Procedure:

1. Register at Window 6 (5 minutes)

2. Pay at Window B – Miscellaneous and Taxes Division (20 minutes)

3. Attend Pre-Marriage Counseling at the Makati Social Welfare Department, 5th Flr., new Makati City Hall, (3 hours) Civil Registry Info-dissemination (30 minutes) and Family Planning Seminar at the Health Department, 7th Flr., new Makati City Hall. (3 hours)

4. Submit requirements and get application form at Window 6 (10 minutes)

5. Fill-up application forms for Marriage License (1 hour)

6. Pay at Window B – Miscellaneous and Taxes Division (20 minutes)

7. Initial interview by the Division Head (20 minutes)

8. Review, Interview and Administration of Oath by the City Civil Registrar

9. Typing of notice, registration on registry book (1 hour)

10. Posting (10 days)

11. Issuance of Marriage License (10 minutes)

Requirements:

1. Certified Copy of Birth /Baptismal Certificate. Bring original for authentication. (We requested this though NSO online. Papers were delivered after three days…. So convenient  :) )

2. Residence Certificates (We got this from our Barangay hall)

3. Parental Advice (21 yrs. – 25 yrs. old) – (My husband needed this since he’s just 25 when we got married… :) )

4. Pre-Marriage Counseling (from DSWD and MHD) – (We needed to attend a pre-marriage counseling together with several couples. A happily married couple for 50 yrs I guess conducted the seminar. They discussed common problems of husband and wife and how to handle every issue. I found this very helpful and interesting since they shared real life stories. The seminar started at 8AM until 11:30AM. We were too sleepy since we came from work that day, and we were thinking if we can still attend the family planning seminar since we would be hearing the same thing as discussed when we had our pre-Cana seminar. Well ofcourse we know it would be kinda different since pre-Cana seminar is more on natural family planning. What we did, we talked to the OIC of the seminar and asked what would be the best thing to do. We told her that we came from work and we already attended some family planning seminar. Our goal was to convince her that we no longer need the seminar. But ofcourse it’s part of the requirements for us to get our marriage license. Seminar will start at 1PM; before that we took our chance and went to the seminar area to talk to the OIC and luckily, she allowed us not to attend the seminar but what she did was she had a one on one seminar with us. It took us 20 minutes (which is better and favorable for us :) ) before she gave our clearance. Then finally, we brought our clearances and requirements to the third floor of city hall for the application of our license. After they checked our requirements, we filled out the form and they gave us the date of release then went home and rest… :)

5. Barangay Certificate (for Makati residents) – (We bought this from our barangay hall)

6. NSO Certificate of No Record of Marriage for both parties - (We requested this though NSO online together with our birth certificates)

 

Applying for our marriage license was not that easy since our work is at night and we needed to sacrifice our sleeping moment just to get the most important requirement for our wedding. Marriage license expires after 120 days so we needed to fix this three weeks before the wedding. This was the last requirement on our list. Weeks before we applied to our marriage license, I did some research on the requirements and where to go, because I made sure that it would be a one time big time application and the only time we will go back is on the release date. Exactly ten days after we applied, we got our marriage license and we needed to bring it to San Antonio, Quezon the next weekend.

***Requirements done, but still we had so much to do. 2 weeks left…