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- Buddy Gancenia Video Production, wedding video producer and videographer.

If you’re looking for a band for your wedding, this group is highly recommended…

- Buddy Gancenia Video Production, wedding video producer and videographer.

Thank you very much for booking us at the Wedding Expo Philippines 12th Edition last March 8 – 9

1. Theo Sunico and Janelle Layug – August 9, 2008
2. Voltaire Godoy and Sarah Lukban – December 6, 2008
3. Wayne Brayan Yu and Jennifer Co – January 4, 2009
4. Dennis Ivan Anguluan and Jencel Marie Marcial – January 23, 2009
5. John Paul Abanilla and Diana Marie Roldan – February 22, 2009
6. Salvador Domer and Cristina Dichoso
7. Gregorio Adrian Abellon III and Joanna Chan – April 18, 2009

To all soon-to wed couples who visited us at the Wedding Expo, we are extending our FREE ON-SITE VIDEO PROMO up to Sunday, March 16, 2008.

Reality Wedding Video by Buddy Gancenia is a wedding video producer and videographer in the Philippines.

Join us on March 8 – 9, 2008 at the PICC Forum, CCP Complex as Wedding Expo Philippines celebrates its 12th edition of being THE GRANDEST WEDDING FAIR IN THE COUNTRY.

Email or send me a message at my yahoo messenger to get a copy of our Sampler Version 3 and Special Promo Offer.

- Buddy Gancenia Video Production, producer – videographer of corporate video, events coverage, wedding video, how to videos and online videos.

Learn a bit more about how Philippine weddings are conducted…

Pamanhikan or ask the girl’s parents for her hand

Pamanhikan is a tradition where the groom and his parents visit the bride’s family to formally ask for her hand and to discuss plans for the upcoming wedding over lunch or dinner. It is customary that the the visiting family bring a gift (often, the mother’s best home-cooked specialty) for the hosts. Pamanhikan can be a really uneasy situation if it’s the first time for both sets of parents to meet.

The wedding outfits

Brides wear a white wedding dress that has become popular in the last hundred years or so with America’s influence in the Philippines. For men, the barong tagalog is the traditional Filipino formal wear. It is a cool, almost transparent, embroidered shirt, made from silky pina or jusi. It is worn untucked, over black pants, with a white t-shirt underneath.

The ceremony in Philippine weddings

The veil sponsors place a ceremonial veil over the groom’s shoulders and the bride’s head. This symbolizes the unity of the two families into one; it is also a prayer for health and protection during their married life.

The bride cups her hands under the groom’s cupped hands, the priest dribbles thirteen silver coins into the groom’s open palms. The trickling of the arrhae or arrets or arras (from the Spanish word Arras, “earnest money”) is “… a sign of fidelity bestowed irrevocably” and completes the marriage contract.

The Candles lit by the candle sponsors, is a call for enlightenment, a reminder of God’s presence in the ceremony.

A silken cord or coins, which the cord sponsors entwines loosely around the necks of both bride and groom in the form of a figure of eight. The cord symbolizes the infinity of the bond of marriage, a union that lasts a lifetime. The cord ceremony concludes the rituals in Philippine weddings.

- Buddy Gancenia Video Production, wedding video producer and videographer.

No title yet but soon we will be shooting our very first documentary on Philippine Wedding Culture and Tradition. This will be our entry for several international film and documentary festivals.

Wedding Expo Philippines will introduce its first ever WEDDING SUPPLIERS’ CATALOG during its 11th edition at the PICC Forum, CCP Complex, 1-2 September 2007.