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Philippine Wedding Invitations
Posted by: | CommentsWhen it comes to planning your dream wedding, there are few things more important than the look of your wedding invitations. While some brides spend a lot of time choosing the wedding gowns and the location, often times the invitations are one of the last things that are even considered.
When you consider your wedding stationery, there are essentially three types of wedding invitations:
- Factory Printed Wedding Invitations
- Boutique or Custom Wedding Invitations
- DIY (Do It Yourself) Wedding Invitations
Known Philippine wedding invitations:
Filipino wedding invitations often contain 2-3 attached insert pages for the invitation-reception, and entourage. Also, they’re sent in exotic, natural fiber covers made of abaca, buri, pandan leaf, or raffia. Pinoys both local and abroad love these invitations to accent their events with a taste of culture.
Classic & Formal Invitations For a truly formal event, classic or formal wedding invitations are for you. With a combination of ecru or white paper boards and formal writing of text, these simple yet elegant invitations best suites for your wedding.
Modern & Unique Invitations Non-Traditional, Unique and Modern, These invitations suites couples who want to surprise their guest at the same time leave a memorable impression that will certainly set the theme for their wedding.
There are several different ways to create invitations for your wedding. For instance, using offset printing is the way that you normally see wedding invitations displayed. This is where typical, everyday fonts are used. Here are some writing styles to choose for your wedding invitation:
Blind Embossing: Neither stamped nor imprinted, the raised and embossed image is the same color as the paper it is printed on. This uses a raised kind of print which is very expensive to create.
Calligraphy: A perfected art of handwriting using a calligraphy pen, which comes in many different styles. Calligraphy transforms ordinary writing into an artistic expression. Calligraphy invitations tends to be the most expensive kind customized wedding invitation. These are done by highly skilled and trained artists, so it takes time and money to purchase these kinds of invitations.
Embossing: One of the more expensive types of wedding invitations would be the embossed version. The process of creating a three-dimensional image in paper, using a combination of heat and pressure
Engraving: The letters appear slightly raised, while also indented on the opposite side of the paper. Engraved wedding invitations are coveted among brides and grooms. They are normally used at more sophisticated and formal weddings. People who enjoy a traditional style will likely choose an engraved invitation to make their announcement. This kind of invitation does take longer to manufacture so you need to make sure to order them several weeks in advance.
Letterpress: Creates the effect that the letters and images are stamped into the paper, creating precise characters that are rich in color.
Offset Printing: A type of printing that is used everyday on letterhead, newspapers, brochures, etc. Offset printing is not always the best choice for invitations, but does work great for extremely textured papers.
Thermography: Ink and powder are fused together for a raised lettering effect that compares to engraving, however the letters appear shiny. This type of style is typically used for a more casual atmosphere at your wedding. The print has the illusion of being raised because ink is heated and resin is combined to make it appear as though the text is raised up.
There are many wedding invitation ideas to choose from but it is most important to come up with your budget in advance so that you do not get carried away in the excitement of your upcoming dream wedding. It is very easy to get overwhelmed at the options and make a rash decision which could cost you a lot more than you had planned.
Top 5 Superb Wedding Destinations
Posted by: | CommentsThe City of Tagaytay is identified as one of the priority areas for tourism development of the Department of Tourism. Likewise, the city has been identified in the CALABARZON as a tourist center and also it is one of the wedding destination capital in the Philippines.
Town’s Delight introduces the Top 5 wedding destinations and all time favorite venues. Here are the lists that Town’s Delight hand picked and customers, past-future clients all time favorite.
5. Tagaytay clubhouse and suites
Let’s start with Tagaytay Clubhouse and suites in our TOP 5
Tagaytay Clubhouse and Suites offers something that few places can give you: PRIVACY.
No more hassles in finding a place to park, or lining up to use the rest room. At Tagaytay Clubhouse, you are our ONLY GUEST!
Designed to cater to only ONE group at a time, Tagaytay Clubhouse can provide for a small party of ten to a large event for more than 200 people. Whatever the number, you can be assured that our staff has only one thing in mind: YOUR COMPLETE SATISFACTION.
Enjoy all the facilities Tagaytay Clubhouse has to offer, from basketball, volleyball, tennis, badminton, swimming, billiards, Jacuzzi, football, board games, mahjong, meeting and training rooms.
Tagaytay Clubhouse can work with you to come up with the best value for your budget for your occasions. For birthdays, baptisms, weddings, seminars, meeting, presentations and parties, our staff can help plan all the details that you will need to make your event a SUCCESS!!!
4. Tagaytay Sanctuary Garden
Tagaytay Sanctuary Garden consists of a large hall and a pavilion for events like weddings and debuts.
Tagaytay Sanctuary Garden boasts large pavilion that can cater to large guests
3. Sylvina’s Garden Tagaytay
Now let’s move on to the third in our list, Sylvina’s Garden Tagaytay
Sylvina’s Wedding Pavilion is Tagaytay’s only “True” Full Service Wedding Ceremony and Reception Facility.
The magnificent classic architecture, warm ambience, sophistication and air of romance in our wedding facility make The Wedding Pavilion the leading destination for Tagaytay weddings and banquets.
2. Clear Water Rest house Tagaytay
Rediscover the wellness within you at Clear Water Rest house, one of the few truly panoramic and breath-taking views of Taal Volcano in the City of Tagaytay.
Clear Water Rest house captures the nostalgic lifestyle of the past amidst the comforts and conveniences of modern – day living. Located an easy one-hour drive south of the Philippine capital of Manila, this ancestral place offers an exceptional positive environment for the body, mind and soul.
A special event place perfect for wedding, corporate team building, birthday, retreat or simple get together with close family and friends.
1. Tagaytay Private Mansion
And for our Top 1 is Tagaytay Private Mansion
Amid the lush greens and the panoramic view of Taal volcano, Casablanca Tagaytay, also known as Casablanca Private Mansion Tagaytay is located at the center of Tagaytay offering you the ideal place for you wedding, corporate meetings, birthday parties, or just a get-together for moment of privacy and serenity.
The Casablanca Mansion offers one of Tagaytay’s finest spaces for weddings / receptions and other special events. The Casablanca Mansion offers an exquisite atmosphere for elegant and intimate gatherings such as wedding ceremonies, receptions, bridesmaids’ luncheons, or rehearsal dinners. This extraordinary space can be further enhanced by outdoor space available for tent and table setups.
Have your wedding ceremony here or at the deck, a short stroll away. Come and experience the cool breeze of The Casablanca Private Mansion’s most unique and sophisticated venue creating the event of your dreams for you and your guests. There is also a luxurious suites located at the second level for the special couple.
2011 Wedding Trends
Posted by: | CommentsStaying ahead of the game is being on the top this means a lot of researching and gathering more information on the latest trends and what’s HOT and what’s NOT in the wonderful world of weddings. Hope this will help you specially, for those who are planning for their wedding this upcoming year, 2011.
Wedding Gown
Ruffles and Frills – For the last few seasons, ruffles have been one of the biggest ways that designers have chosen to add volume and visual interest to their gowns. We’re not talking about all over ruffles, although a ruffled wedding gown is very pretty. Instead, these are the special small details that help a gown come to life. You might look for a wedding gown with subtle ruffles on the sleeve. These kinds of special details can help a gown feel more personal and very lovely.
Color Trends / Combination
Tropical and Bright Colors – Philippines is a tropical country and after all the hurricanes and storms that hit the country be lightened up and brighten in upcoming color trends this 2011. Apple green, mauve, lilac, hot pink, celadon, aged gold, coral, red, violet / purple, mocha / chocolate / brown, navy, emerald / pine green / dark cyan, Clementine orange, and yellow are perfect colors that suites the upcoming 2011 weddings.
Food and Beverage
Simple and Healthy yet Sophisticated in Taste and Texture
Food and drink are considered by some to be the most important part of any event. 2011 weddings we’ll have some twist in some common recipes. Let’s get healthy use fresh local farm meat, seafood catches of the day, to cheese, wine, beer and fruits and vegetables. Filipinos love sweet dishes, let’s make your favorite delicacies healthy by having natural, raw sweeteners added in the recipes.
Pico de Loro at Hamilo Coast: To see everything, to experience all of nature
Posted by: | CommentsBy Tanya T. Lara (The Philippine Star)
What a view!: From the viewing deck of Pico de Loro, one can see the grandeur of nature in this part of Nasugbu, Batangas. SM Land’s Pico de Loro is a 37.5-hectare development within the 5,800-hectare Hamilo Coast.
Manila, Philippines
- From the viewing deck of Pico de Loro, it’s all blue and green as far as the eyes can see. Of lush mountains and hills, valleys and plains, and forests. Above, it’s blue skies and cloud formations; below, it’s a whole universe of marine life.
It’s a view that one will never tire of seeing; a view which, in these times of intense work and busy lifestyles, one will travel far to seek out and enjoy. The Philippines’ far-flung islands offer such a break to tired souls, and if you’re lucky enough, you get to visit them maybe once or even thrice a year during summer or on long weekends.
But what of those weekends when you just have to get away from the city and all flights are booked to that beach destination?
Today, you need not get on a plane or drive the whole day to get to such a place. Hamilo Coast, the 5,800-hectare development of SM Land in Nasugbu, Batangas, offers all this with the first phase of its development, Pico de Loro.
“Hamilo” means “to see everything” in Sanskrit, which is exactly what the development offers as far as nature-based leisure is concerned. Pico de Loro, which means “beak of a parrot,” was named after the shape of a mountain that can be seen from here. It is one of 13 coves within the huge Hamilo Coast property, which gives you an idea of the scale of this development.
In a way, Pico de Loro is an exciting preview of what the SM Group is trying to do in Nasugbu — which is to develop a master-planned township that will provide an escape from the city and a retreat into nature, and give livelihood to the communities surrounding it.
IMA Design Group Inc. worked on the master plan for the entire Hamilo Coast, which has a 30-year timeline, and Cadiz International/ML Design on the Pico de Loro master plan. What may surprise the ordinary design enthusiast to know is that SM Land also got on board some non-traditional partners as far as the architecture and design development is concerned: WWF (World Wildlife Fund) Philippines on matters of environmental impact and to do an inventory of the marine and terrestrial species that make their home in Hamilo Coast.
So far, 99 reef fish species have been initially identified under the waters, and 45 species of birds above.
Pico de Loro is 37.5 hectares in size and has a 1.5-kilometer-long beach with fine sand (the entire Hamilo Coast has 25 kilometers of shoreline); it is surrounded by lush forests and tree canopies, limestone cliffs, natural rock formations and dive spots. Fronting the beach is a development that was thoughtfully designed to create as low an impact as possible and not to disturb the ecological balance.
Pico de Loro is both leisure and nature-based. As of now, four two-building clusters of mid-rise condominiums — called Myna, Jacana, Carola and Miranda — have been launched, surrounding a four-hectare manmade lagoon. The buildings feature a tropical contemporary style, along with the Pico de Loro Beach Club. The Country Club is targeted for completion by yearend and the 150-room Azurea Hotel will open in 2011.
According to SM Land vice president for marketing May Precilla, Pico de Loro is tailored for the upscale market. The initial phase of Jacana and Myna was launched only in 2007 and 98 percent of the units have been sold to date. The two clusters will be turned over progressively starting in September this year. The latest phase launched in November last year are the Carola and Miranda clusters, which have one- to three-bedroom units and prices ranging from P4 to P17 million.
“Both clusters have a variety of unit spaces,” Precilla says. “Some units come with lofts, most with balconies showcasing majestic views.”
Precilla adds that because these are second or vacation homes, the units are fitted with durable finishes to make maintenance hassle-free. When homeowners buy a unit, they only have to activate their club membership to enjoy the use of the facilities and amenities of the Pico de Loro Beach and Country Club.
Time was when golf and country club shares were all the rage. Today, people seem to be looking more toward nature and outdoor activities they can enjoy.
SM Land vice president and Pico de Loro Beach and Country Club project director Carlos Chikiamco says they recognize that not everybody can buy a piece of property in Pico de Loro — but there is an emerging leisure market that’s looking for such a place, which is why membership to the Beach and Country Club is available.
“The Pico de Loro Beach and Country Club appeals to people looking for value in terms of amenities,” he says. “Shares are available to individuals for P500,000 and to corporations for P850,000. I think we offer more than, say, Boracay at an easy reach.”
“The beach is a very valuable asset, and we want to provide amenities where people can enjoy the beach and the views in a nice, low-level, open structure,” he says. “The activities that are not beach-based are in the Country Club, where people can enjoy indoor sports such as squash, basketball, badminton, bowling, billiards, gym workout, or even read in the library. The whole concept is to offer multi-activity, multi-lifestyle facilities for different kinds of people.”
SM Land spared no expense in the facilities, allotting more than P1 billion for the Beach and Country Club. Designed to embrace the outdoors and to take in the wide vistas, the Beach Club is only two stories high with a viewing deck on the third. It has swimming pools for adults and children overlooking the beach, separate locker rooms for men, women, and even children (the bathroom fixtures are scaled for 12 years old and below), and three dining options. The best place to really enjoy the views is from the Brisa open bar, which has a sundeck where you can nurse your cocktails; the Arribada lounge and function room; and the Sun Coral Café with its Mediterranean-California cuisine and some choices of Pinoy comfort foods. By the time the Beach Club is fully complete a few months from now, it will also have massage huts and a sundry shop.
“The difference with the Pico de Loro Beach and Country Club is you have a whole range of land and sea-based activities that you can do,” Chikiamco says. There is a seven-kilometer bike trail; a hiking trail that will have varying levels of difficulty; planned zip-line and bird watching; and water sports such as snorkeling, scuba diving and kayaking —natural activities that do not use much machinery or fuel, a commitment on the part of Hamilo Coast to keep the entire property environment-friendly even as it provides its homeowners and club members all these adventures and facilities.
He says that out of the 5,800-hectare Hamilo Coast property, only 1,800 hectares are developable— the rest are forests and mountains, and they want to keep the balance this way. After all, they are already fulfilling their role as guardians of the environment with WWF on projects such as reef rehabilitation, pawikan hatchlings and clam seedings.
Because of the grand scale of Hamilo Coast — with 13 coves to boast of! — they can offer a “condo leisure lifestyle” for different market segments, from the upscale to the triple-A who may want to build their own homes and villas (SM Land is considering offering lots only in the later phases of development).
“At Pico de Loro, it’s a lock-and-go lifestyle; you don’t worry about security or grounds maintenance while you’re away,” says Chikiamco. “You can come and go anytime you want, whether on a weekday or weekend.”
He says Pico de Loro, and Hamilo Coast in general, not only provides a leisure option in the real estate market but fulfills a greater role — “to support the communities within and around Hamilo Coast by giving the people employment and weaning them from illegal forms of fishing. The local government is working on declaring the coves of Pico de Loro, Etayo and Santelmo as marine protected areas, and recent pictures show that marine life is flourishing once again.”