THE MOON REPRESENTS MY HEART BY AUGUSTINE MUSIC AND EVENTS WITH VOCALS BY MARIO LUPATO
ni wen wo ai ni you duo shenwo ai ni you ji fenwo de qing ye zhenwo de ai ye zhenyue liang dai biao wo de xin ni wen wo ai ni you duo shenwo ai ni you ji fenwo de qing bu yiwo de ai bu bianyue liang dai biao wo de xin qing qing de yi ge wenyi jin da dong wo de xinshen shen de yi duan qingjiao wo si nian dao ru jin ni wen wo ai ni you duo shenwo ai ni you ji fen ni qu xiang yi xiangni qu kan yi kanyue liang dai biao wo de xin Rough Translation:You ask me how deep my love is for you,How much I really love you...My affection is real.My love is real.The moon represents my heart. You ask me how deep my love is for you,How much I really love you...My affection does not waver,My love will not change.The moon represents my heart. Just one soft kissis enough to move my heart.A period of time when our affection was deep,Until now makes me miss you. You ask me how deep my love is for you,How much I really love you Go and think about it.Go and have a look,The moon represents my heart
The fun of being a wedding coordinator is the chance to see places you only read or see on print or heard. Specially, if it is your first chance to see the place. More so when you are involved, then the curiosity rises. It was a privilege doing the work for a couple where we organized details of their wedding plan a week before the big day.
Our head coordinator did the rundown of everything to be done from where they were booked to the reception. Details were listed from small to the big ones where concerns are called for. Even the couple was given some sort of assignment to help out in making their wedding day something to remember by.
Hours before the ceremony, the coordinators were around where the bride and groom to be are to bring important materials to church. Of course, we have the wedding planning checklist not to forget anything.
Two hours before the ceremony, we are around to assist guests who came, especially the bridal entourage where they were to be assembled ready for the walk. We do this to make things unhurried. Rushing gives the nerves, as you know.
There is part where offerings are readied, so 10 minutes before that, it is set. And when the ceremony is done, two coordinators assist for the pictorials where a protocol is called. Two others will collect the paraphernalia used during the ceremony.
Before the couple walked through the church door, they were greeted with loose flower throwing and a burst of party popper creating sound and flying colors. Well, a photo of this is amazing with a video that hovered into a scene.
Reaching the reception venue, guests were attended by the wedding coordinators where they are supposed to sit following the seating arrangements prepared by the couple for us to implement. We see to it that everybody had their seats before commencing the wedding reception program approved by them to run.
As the program went, the wedding emcee or master of ceremonies was assisted by the head coordinator to get the timing for what was next to ready what was needed for the program flow while the rest of the coordinators were having their assigned tasks fulfilled.
We had such an experience at the Secret Garden, Philippines where we as wedding planners had fun at the same time easing a wedding burden as a great concern.
WE DON’T INTEGRATE ALL WEDDING SERVICES IN ONE PACKAGE BUT CONCENTRATE WHAT WE DO BEST AND PREPARING A WEDDING IS A TASK NEEDS INOLVEMENT AND TIME. TOGETHER WITH FRIENDS IN THE FIELD OF MUSIC WE COMBINE THE PACKAGE WITH WEDDING MUSICIANS AROUND TO EASE A LITTLE BURDEN FROM THE COUPLE’S PREPARATIONS. AND MANAGES THE WEDDING RECEPTION PROGRAM FOR WE ARE A GROUP BEING COMFORTABLE WITH EACH OTHER.
WORKING HAND-IN-HAND WITH PEOPLE YOU KNOW MAKES THE REALIZATION THAT THERE WE ARE DOING WHAT WAS TALKED AND DISCUSSED AS SHARED IDEAS GATHERED FOR A FINALITY OF WHAT IS THE BEST THING DONE. STILL, WE KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN AS WE GO ON WITH OUR ASSIGNED TASK.
LATELY, WE HAD A GRAND TIME WITH A COUPLE WHO ARE DOCTORS AND THEY WERE SO NICE TO DEAL WITH. THEY ARE COMFORTABLE TO BE AROUND WITH DESPITE THEIR HECTIC SCHEDULES BEING IN THE MEDICINE FIELD AND WE TRIED TO ADJUST HOW THEY TIMED THEIR NEEDED INFORMATION AND FOR US TO IMPLEMENT AFTER HEARING WHAT WE SUGGESTED. THE HEAD COORDINATOR, CARMELITA LUPATO ACCEPTED THE PLAN FROM BOTH THROUGH THE HELP OF THE THREE OTHER COORDINATORS WHO ARE DEDICATED TO MAKE THINGS EASY FOR EVERYBODY. AND THEY ENJOY WHAT THEY DO, MOST IMPORTANTLY CONSIDERED.
MUSIC FOR US COUNTS AS SPECIAL CONSIDERATION TO MAKE A WEDDING CELEBRATION WORTH THE WHILE. IT IS A SPICE THAT SPELLS MAGIC IN AN UNIMAGINABLE WAY, HARD TO EXPLAIN BUT THERE IT IS MAKING A CELEBRATION SHORT OF A MIRACLE. IT IS AN INGREDIENT TO A WEDDING FOR A FULLER TASTE.
NEVER MISSING TO COMPLETE THE SERVICE IS THE HOSTING OF THE WEDDING RECEPTION PROGRAM FROM A COMPETENT MEMBER MAKING SURE THE PROGRAM RUNS GRACEFULLY, TO BORROW THE WORD FROM SOMEONE. RUNNING IT REQUIRES THE APPROVAL OF THE COUPLE KNOWING WHAT HAPPENS BUT NEVER DIVULGE A PART OF THE PROGRAM WHERE WE ARE TO FIND THE NEXT GROOM AND BRIDE TO BE IN THE FUTURE THROUGH A GAME.
WE ARE NEVER TIRED DOING OUR JOB. IT IS A THERAPY. IT IS A RELAXATION PROCESS. BUT MOST OF ALL, OUR MAIN CONCERN IS PUTTING UP A WEDDING THAT WILL BE REMEMBERED NOT ONLY BY US BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, FROM THE COUPLE’S MEMORIES.
PRAYER BEFORE MEAL "Lord God, Creator of the universe, Father of us all, we have gathered here around this dinner table to celebrate the love and commitment that have united (bride's name) and (groom's name), in a wonderful bond of marriage. Bless, Father, this food that we are about to receive with grateful hearts as a sign of your continuous bounty and providence. May your generous blessing descend also upon these newly married spouses,their families and friends present here at this joyful banquet.We make this prayer in the name of Jesus our Lord and Savior, Who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, on God for ever and ever. Amen"
The cake cutting is a practice that dates back to the olden times. Of course, they did not have cakes yet but instead used unleavened bread which the groom breaks on the bride’s head and after which they share the bread. The bread or cake symbolizes material possessions and the breaking stood for marital responsibilities and sharing in everything. The sharing also means that they have to provide for each other.
Fortunately, man has learned to use the knife instead of the usual head-banging ritual and the first honor will be shared by the man, the head of the family does the first move at all times – the very share of the sweetness of love for his wife. And the honor will be reciprocated by the wife, also sharing the sweetness of love for her love one. Then, they finish it off by sealing it with a kiss.
The bread crumbs symbolize fertility for both and the sweetness of the cake symbolizes blissful lives as they go on living together as husband and wife.
It has been said that the relation between a husband and wife is that independence is equal, dependence is mutual and obligation reciprocal as the ritual speak of, pretty much.
The toasting ceremony is a formal act of expressing good wishes and lasting happiness to the couple. It is also a symbol of perfect health and long life. During the olden times, a man would drink to the health of one of the ladies and a piece of cake and a glass of wine is passed on to every guest receiving each one’s compliment to symbolize health, long life, love everlasting for both.
Let the toast pass drink to the last. Cheers!
Has anyone of you ever wondered why doves were used during weddings? Well, apparently when a male dove becomes mature, it selects and courts a female dove and they stay together for the rest of their lives. It has been said that even if we separate one another they will surely find their home and each other despite the distance. moreover, the female dove lays only two eggs at the time one male and one female and the parent doves take turns in sitting over the eggs until they are hatched. This act symbolizes undying love and faithfulness for one another.
Doves also symbolize purity of love for each other and fortune whoever catches the dove when released.
Let the doves kiss each other and kiss each other, too and in the count of three release the doves. So, we wish the couple undying love and faithfulness as they now release the doves!
It was awesome to be involved with an affair prepared by the children to put up a remarkable bash celebrating the 50th wedding anniversary of their parents. A golden wedding is a feat to reach and the best has to be offered for the celebrants.
Best weddings involve best wedding music with musicians for a live band or for a more romantic set-up, a string quartet lifts the feel especially during the wedding ceremony complimenting with renditions of a wedding singer.
The wedding songs and music selected by the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lucena speaks of their taste in music. The old standard songs and music still top the wedding music choice list and many longs for the forgotten songs of the past to be heard once again because their unique melodies are felt from the hearts. It is during a golden wedding where romantic music lingers in the air. You can feel what the song or music is telling you especially if wedding musicians come to play and musicians in the Philippines are passionate when it comes to the old classics. It is also the reason why Filipino music is one of the best in the world. Everybody loves music from the Philippines.
The wedding ceremony where the couple renewed their vows is a chapel near the middle of the vast Veteran Memorial Hospital where it sits. It is a small circular chapel ideal for an intimate number of people for a mass celebration and far from noise from the busy street nearby. It is cozy, too because it is an open kind of chapel where air passes through and lots of light making scenes photographic.
Before ceremony began, the Augustine Music performed touching wedding prelude music that captivated the guests around with the solemn rendition of the light classical music which is familiar to many and after the prelude music provided by the wedding musicians, an old beautiful romantic song was rendered for the bridal march timely done even the center aisle is that short for the couple walked slowly to relish the special moment. There was the church choir to do the rest of the wedding songs and music and proceeded to the wedding reception venue where we will manage our instruments to be used as the guests arrived after the wedding ceremony.
It was nearly twelve noon when the guests arrived with reception music the moment guests arrived in droves and to cope up with the time, program started when almost all were in as suggested and let everybody come in from the photo booth section to start the first part of the wedding reception program.
I hosted the golden wedding program and enjoyed the moment with the children with their husbands and wives who did fantastic tribute by singing very relating wedding songs for a golden wedding. Even the grandchildren spiced the bash with their special dance number with the music from the thriller of Michael Jackson. The wedding program was prepared by the children and followed the program flow as it was with some insertions were needed.
The wedding musicians enjoyed their time playing beautiful wedding songs and music which are easy to listen to and observed that the couple were very intent when one of their favorite songs were performed like “Stardust” and “Smile”. And even the guests kept humming as they heard those old familiar music played by the Augustine Music.
A golden wedding is best to be engaged with when it comes to intimacy with the wedding program and wedding music. These are two areas where hearts are called to effectively relish the importance of a celebration with such wonderful contributions. A wedding program host or emcee either makes or breaks the affair and wedding musicians’ share with that splendid list of wedding songs and music add glitter to the party.
Once again, I am so glad having given the opportunity to host and sing for a remarkable golden wedding and my very share is, at least made the wedding day as expected.
It was a turnaround of schedule and a relative’s wedding was set for an afternoon outdoor Christian Wedding on an open field overlooking the famous Taal Lake in Tagaytay. This was a first experience where ceremony was held in huge tract of land and just few trees sprouting a distance afar looking like a safari but breathtaking nonetheless.
It was easy for me to manage the guests and activities for the wedding ceremony and reception of about 70 guests mostly coming from the north. Around 3:30 pm when everything was set and ready for the line-up of the bridal entourage for the wedding procession. Exactly 4 pm when we started. There were no wedding musicians around but a solo guitar player who is a close relative of the bride making do with a simple sound system of two speakers but he sounded good strumming his classical guitar for the piece Canon in D for the procession and for the bridal march, an original composition was rendered by him. Unfortunately, it crossed my mind to ask for the title.
The music during the wedding ceremony was very tame. It was so romantic just hearing a single instrumentalist doing favorite wedding music list from the couple. Everyone felt awed with solemnity of the affair amidst the soft hush of breeze so cool and invigorating as the couple exchanged their wedding vows with faint guitar sound doing the famous Filipino song, “Ikaw.”
When the ceremony was done, there was a cocktail set for everybody timely to do a little rearrangement of tables and chairs for the reception on the same ground. It was 6 pm when the wedding program started. All center tables were adorned with lighted candles and faint light coming from the distant road adding shiny reflections from the sea stream creating a fantastic environ, to me was the most fascinating reception I’ve attended. To my dismay, I wasn’t able to capture anything. Their wedding photographer was a relative of the bride and I guess she wasn’t charged like me because the groom is my close relative. The bride is from Cavite and the groom is an Ilocano from the north.
I didn’t have much time for myself because I hosted the wedding reception program and I was alone doing everything from the wedding planning till the wrap-up job. It took me a week for the preparations and everything turned just right with some help from the bride’s relatives.
It was an unforgettable Philippine wedding and I will always treasure the moments with Mr. and Mrs. Edward Pinto who conceptualized a simple budgeted wedding but turned into what we can call a dream wedding.
Weddings by Augustine Music and Events remain memories for wedding musicians are here to stay compared to entertainers who are free to express their artistry in manners that fit such expertise. Musicians for weddings have vast music list to back them up when performance is called.
Love songs for weddings are most favored. Even the young engaged couple yearns for the old romantic classics and really finds time researching for a compilation of their wedding song and music list for the big day. Although it comes secondary from their vast list of what to dos, still they are given consideration in the final run.
Ceremony wedding music is first thought of to follow church rules. There are choices deem necessary to adhere according to propriety. Catholics have wedding music list corresponding to the liturgy while Christian wedding is almost the same with Catholic wedding when it comes to said sacredness.
Modern treats nowadays don’t call for standard processional or bridal wedding march music. There is no standard bridal march. There is now a vast music wedding songs to choose from and any live band can perform them with their own styles just maintaining a certain sobriety.
What are the best wedding songs? A list is endless because free music song is shared and can be learned at the same time performed with a difference specifically if it is a wedding ceremony performing it not just like entertainer per se but adding a touch of palpable reverence. Musicians in the Philippines and elsewhere have a knock in doing so.
Weddings are akin to youtube music. Best wedding clips are made into youtube music for more exposure and best wedding songs crowd the second largest search engine. It also elevates the standing of a string quartet or wedding musicians as a whole for most popular songs are performed by such artists.
Wedding reception music is treated with the simplicity of a performance. It is more relaxed and entertainers can cross the boundary for self-interpretation doing popular wedding songs and some of the best 100 songs considered but there is THE WEDDING SONG each couple loves as a special treat. It must be the number one from the list and performed the best possible way from gifted wedding music band.
It was a casual wedding celebration with the children doing the rounds that day of August 6 to set a wedding reception party out of the celebrants wish for an orderly event. The guests from far and near came to join the festivity for after 50 years here they were to renew their unending vow of love.
Joeben and Babie, as they are fondly called arrived on time for the 5pm golden wedding mass officiated by two priests from Sanctuario de San Jose though the rite was held at a clubhouse intimate enough to house around 150 guests mostly friends and of course, members of the family with their kids.
Wedding musicians from Augustine Music and Events provided the chosen wedding music the couple found appropriate with a participation of the grandchildren playing the bridal march and a song from a mother and daughter tandem during the vows where they did first the song number then vows were exchanged. It was a touching moment listening to the wonderful and meaningful words from both with soft romantic background music live from Augustine Music.
During the offertory, a classic wedding song was offered then for the communion a classical piece was rendered touching the hearts of both for they love those selections.
When the wedding ceremony was done, a cocktail was prepared for the guests as rearrangement of the venue took place. It took about 30 minutes to finish ready for the wedding reception program prepared by the eldest of the children. It was a simple program with mostly the children and kids doing numbers to the guests’ delight. Well, a program more of showcasing talents and entertainment was evident. It was fun to be involved with even just watching as they did their numbers. Even the audio-visual presentation took longer than expected then repeated for the couple to watch after they had their photo sessions with the guests. And come to think of it that they were the ones moving from table-to-table having pictorials with the guests being at their 80’s but looking years younger than their ages. Their agility simply dictates that they live a healthy lifestyle.
Then rain poured heavily timely for the program to end but it did not take that long ready for the guests to go home with light feelings because they had wonderful moments with the couple on their 50th wedding anniversary party.
Perfection is not required for any celebration but the simple joy being around is called for and weddings in the Philippines are most cherished not on its romanticism but the sheer involvement making an affair worth remembering. Being in the arena of music, wedding musicians of the Philippines add soul to WEDDINGS. And for us artists that is great sharing and if we made clients happy – that is defined as achievement.
Helping the couple bring important things needed during the ceremony is the first thing we will never miss and taking the timeline on schedule hours before the wedding ceremony. We have to attend for the flowers of the entourage making sure all members have theirs and when everything was set gathering all we need, we now proceed to church.
We make it a point that an hour before the ceremony begins wedding coordinators are around attending to the guests especially the bridal entourage, briefing them to just stay put at the back ready for the line-up and normally fifteen minutes before the wedding starts, all members of the entourage are assembled accordingly.
Then, a sign will be given us to begin and one coordinator is in cue as the procession begins making an unhurried flow with the right cadence. If no church attendant is around near the altar to guide wedding entourage on their respective seats, one will be assigned.
For the offertory proceedings, ten minutes before the offering designated ones to bring the gifts are ready for the walk and we have to see to it that the line-up is in accordance to church preference.
From then on, just minutes away wedding coordinators will be on their feet to assist during the pictorial where bridal entourage and guests have their turn during the photo session.
Before the recessional, we make sure that some guests and members of the bridal entourage are gathered on the church entrance with petals on their palms and two tubes of party poppers to be burst simultaneously with petal throwing.
As wedding coordinators, we must be the first to proceed to the reception venue to attend to seat plan devised by the couple and another coordinator assisting guests and bridal entourage to their designated seats. Also, we make it a point to let one wedding coordinator stay at the venue to anticipate guests who proceeded straight to the reception.
And when everybody is around, the wedding reception program commences working hand-in-hand with the program host.
During the meal because the couple has the help, the coordinators will assist during the pictorial for the guests per table to join the couple for souvenir shots before proceeding to the buffet table just to ease congestion and to run things smoothly on the handle.
Wedding souvenirs, on the other hand are given during meal time when everybody is seated and halfway during the program but guest book is passed when guests are around on their seats and feeling comfortably.
And during the climax of the program where a game is done for the bouquet and garter ceremonies, wedding coordinators are on the go to gather single ladies and single gentlemen to participate because for a wedding celebration the more participants, the merrier.
And the final thing to do before coordinators leave is to make sure that everything is turned over to the couple. That will include paraphernalia used during the ceremony, the guest book, extra souvenirs, the food left for taking home, the suppliers’ fee are settled and gifts ready to be brought home by the couple.
But most of all, good memories are brought to last.
The very first thing that caught my awe was the warm accommodation granted by the personnel of Weddings and Beyond during the ingress of suppliers a night prior to the bridal exhibit that began past 9 in the evening. They were distinguishable in their rose color uniforms matching the smiles on their faces that made us comfortable despite the heat felt at the PICC forum. Comparably speaking, the last bridal fair I joined with didn't match a certain character even their name bloats in the air.
Coming in past 10 in the morning, a huge spread of suppliers with resplendent displays made my day. And guests were coming in droves from near and far. Almost all top suppliers were around to show their works of art and expertise to my delight unknowingly that all exhibitors have that gift of creations and vast artistry in any field. Some exhibitors got bigger booths because their extensive materials had to be spread out for guests to appreciate and crave for. More got the ideal sizes for the purpose of being a part of the big affair by Weddings and Beyond.
I had fun handing out my printed materials with genuine smile on my face and able to talk to some guests asking prices for out-of-town-services. Many came from the provinces to explore a wide range of wedding and debut needs. I observed that many will be wed in Tagayatay and others parts of Batangas. Yes, they drove to Manila to discover their needs and they were not dismayed. Everything they wanted was around and for sure they went back home with ease on their minds because they've found what they really wanted and discoveries.
The sad part was exceptional wedding musicians of Augustine Music and Events were not able to showcase their artistry on stage because of previous wedding booking that needed their presence and sadly regretted because Regine of Weddings and Beyond wanted us to perform and if only I had the nerve to perform solo being a vocalist but wanted a back-up musicians to be more effective for such a command performance. Anyway, I enjoyed listening to some but enjoyed the crowd more.
Well, the organizer of the event has other exhibitions in the coming months and I just want to express my delight for that sincere task to help wedding and debut suppliers expand their horizons and I know I can, too. What can I say but the old cliché – CONGRATULATIONS AND MORE POWER!
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